Head coach Mack Brown didn’t have to look very far for sage advice that he could give to his team. Comedian Bill Cosby called Brown on Wednesday to tell him one thing he could tell his players. “Is it just too much to ask a team to win a game each week?” Cosby asked.
Texas Advantage Quarterbacks This Saturday’s game, like the Red River Rivalry, will see two of the best quarterbacks in the country face each other. Both Chase Daniel and Colt McCoy are in Heisman contention and have led their teams ably so far this season.
When someone asked offensive coordinator Greg Davis if he wanted quarterback Colt McCoy to start running out of bounds more instead of taking extra hits trying to gain yardage, Davis responded with, “You take a bronco out in the pasture, you want to be able to saddle him up one day.
After the many one-loss teams that have made it to the national title game in past years, Oklahoma isn’t out of the race yet, especially because it is the highest ranked team with one loss at No. 4. Though, if Oklahoma has any hope of staying in the hunt for the national title game, much less making it to the Big 12 Championship game, it must overcome three obstacles this weekend as it kicks off with No.
1. The Longhorns withstood every blow from Oklahoma and were able to outlast the Sooners, claiming the No. 1 ranking in the process. Receiver Jordan Shipley caught 11 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown. He also scored on a 96-yard kickoff return in the second quarter.
Colt for Heisman A Rocky Mountain News poll of Heisman voters listed Texas quarterback Colt McCoy in the lead over Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford and Michigan State running back Javon Ringer. And just this week, Sports Illustrated put the junior from Tuscola on its cover with a headline that reads, “The Heart of Texas.
Chase Daniel, QB Although his Heisman stock dropped following last week’s disappointing 23-28 loss to Oklahoma State, Daniel, the senior quarterback from Southlake, Texas, will look to rebound and lead the visiting Tigers to an upset over the No.
After being spurned by UT, Daniel succeeds with Tigers
For any Texas high-school quarterback the ultimate goal after graduating is to be under center for the Texas Longhorns. So, when the Texas coaching staff whittled down its list of potential quarterbacks of the 2005 class to three, Chase Daniel was ecstatic to be one of them.
Shipley’s father ends Southlake Carroll’s regular-season streak
In a telling sort of result, Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel’s high school team, Southlake Carroll, lost its first regular-season game in six years on Oct. 10. The loss occurred less than 24 hours before Daniel and Mizzou’s upsetting by Oklahoma State, a game in which the Tigers’ quarterback quadrupled his interception total for the season and had his second-lowest completion percentage of the year.
No. 16 Kansas at No. 4 Oklahoma The Sooners’ stay atop college football’s summit didn’t last as long as they would have liked. After only two weeks at No. 1, Oklahoma saw its undefeated start to the season end at the hands of now-No.
No. 7 Texas Tech at Texas A&M With No. 7 Texas Tech — the nation’s second leading offense — heading to Kyle Field this Saturday, Texas A&M, who has given up 100 points in the past two weeks’ losses to Kansas State and Oklahoma State, is hoping for rain to stop the Red Raiders’ high-powered offense.
1. Colt McCoy, Texas QB McCoy led the No. 1 Longhorns to an unexpected yet convincing win over the No. 4 Sooners last weekend. He will be in focus this weekend as well when Texas plays No. 11 Missouri in Austin. McCoy has 1,557 passing yards that have resulted from 131 of 165 attempted passes, and he has 17 touchdown passes and three interceptions in the six games this season.
It wasn’t the 154 yards. It wasn’t the two big plays. It wasn’t really the touchdown. Chris Ogbonnaya did so many other things right in No. 1 Texas’ 45-35 win over Oklahoma on Saturday that he might not be getting enough credit.
And just like that, the national critics are watching Texas football again. All season long, the Longhorns have gone under the radar as much as a team with its reputation can, quietly and unceremoniously creeping up the rankings. But you can’t blame people for sleeping on Texas.
Football purists probably don’t recognize the current air-it-out style of Big 12 play. Going back to their days in the Big Eight or Southwest Conferences, teams in the Big 12 have been known for their smashmouth running styles. Schools in the league boast names like Gale Sayers, Earl Campbell, Billy Sims and Barry Sanders in their record books.
