Texas tops Tech 52-17

From the Austin American-Statesman:

The top-10 showdown Saturday at Royal-Memorial Stadium lived up to the hype — for 1 1/2 quarters.

That's when the Texas Longhorns scored the first of four consecutive touchdowns and began to pull away from previously unbeaten Texas Tech en route to a 52-17 victory.

With Rose Bowl officials watching from the press box, the second-ranked Longhorns (7-0, 4-0 in Big 12) easily won what figures to be their toughest regular-season test in the second half of the season.

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For some years now, I've gotten nervous when the Longhorns play Tech, especially during the current Red Raiders' pass-happy era. Tech is not an incredible team, but they are consistently good, and fully capable, on any given day as they say, of beating the best Division I teams in the nation. They've come close against Texas more times than I can count, and, I think, beating them a couple of times. However, today was not at all one of those days. This is just how I like it, totally lopsided in favor of the 'Horns. None of that nail-biting stuff for me, no way.

It's been a weird season. Texas is doing everything it's supposed to do to make it to the National Championship game, and they're doing it very convincingly. As you probably know if you take the time to read the posts coming from the Real Art sports desk, I'm quite used to losing, or coming up just short of the big win, that sort of thing. But this looks pretty real. Kicking the number ten ranked Red Raiders' ass so dominantly is making me think that maybe this is it. I'm just on the verge of believing that this latest version of the Texas Longhorns might be the best in the nation.

What will it feel like for to be on the side of the national champion? This is uncharted territory here.


Whooping up on Tech, courtesy of the Statesman

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