This week’s game is the big game in the nation, #1 Ohio State vs. #2 Texas. This game will be the ABC Saturday night game, broadcast nation wide from Austin, TX. Ohio State looks for revenge for last year’s 25-22 loss at the horseshoe in Ohio. Texas will of course be without QB Vince Young, who led the longhorns to victory last year, but redshirt freshman Colt McCoy looked impressive in last weeks blowout win over North Texas. The real question for McCoy will be how he will respond to the pressure against a quality program. The supporting cast around McCoy is as good as ever and the stingy longhorn defense should make it difficult for the Buckeyes to score.
Ohio State is coming off a 35-12 win over Northern Illinois. QB Troy Smith and Ted Ginn Jr lead OSU on offense, with Ginn a Heisman hopeful. With the arrest of Texas’ Tarell Brown, who was to cover Ginn, it will be interesting if that changes anyone’s game plan. This game, of course, has national championship implications. I hope Brent Mustburger is up for it.
This matchup will of course bring up the rivalry between Ohio HS football vs. Texas HS football. Of course, the Texas talent is spread out a bit more than the Ohio Talent. Consider this fact: 375 Texas high school players signed national letters of intent for D-I schools compared with 131 in Ohio. The 375 Texans is more than any other state. 31 Texans were taken in the NFL draft this year. This total is second only to California (36).
Now let’s look at last week’s scores:
@ Arkansas 14 USC 50
@ Baylor 7 TCU 17 (104th meeting)
Houston 31 @ Rice 30 (Last Week’s Game of the Week, UH scored the last 17 points of the game to pull out victory.)
SMU 3 @ Texas Tech 35
@ Texas 56 North Texas 7
@ Texas A&M 35 Citadel 3
Standings: Overall: Conference:
Conf. Overall
Team W L W L
Houston 1 0 1 0
TCU 1 0 1 0
Texas Tech 1 0 1 0
Texas 0 0 1 0
Texas A&M 0 0 1 0
Arkansas 0 0 1 0
Baylor 0 1 0 1
Rice 0 1 0 1
SMU 0 1 0 1
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Guess I'll have to root for t.u. this week.....(gasp!)
I would just like to interject here that I really HATE Texas Tech. I just needed to get that off my chest.
You only have to root for texas if they play Al Qaeda, and then I'm not even sure about that.
Hey, HEY! No one in MY family has this much animosity towards the Ags! Better to root for the home state than some Yankee-wanna-bees who claim to have a strangle-hold on the sport of football!
No body loves me. :( ~Sniff~
I wuv you, Katie Lady. And I'll root for your longhorns. But just for this week, ok?
Al Qaeda has a football team??
I'm comin' to ya from enemy territory--Austin. I hate Tech, too, Bubba's Sis. I guess this will be my news source for football this season. That's helpful.
Do you think they "artificially" bumped Texas' ranking to #2 so they can get better ratings for the game this weekend? You know, who wouldn't tune in for a #1 vs. #2 game?
Yes, they might have bumped Texas, but Notre Dame didn't look like #2 vs. Georgia Tech.
I'm excited, it's a big game, chance for the state of Texas to show off a bit. Of course, it's the "longhorns."
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