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TEXAS BEATS ARCH RIVAL OKLAHOMA, LSU LOSES

From the AP via ESPN:

Frosh QB plays like a vet as Horns handle Sooners

Now, it's the No. 14 Sooners who are finding ways to lose -- like having their best player give up on a loose ball near his end zone with the game still on the line in the fourth quarter.

Adrian Peterson thought the ball bouncing off his hands meant an incomplete pass, not a fumbled lateral. Texas cornerback Aaron Ross wasn't sure, but scooped it up and scored just in case, and wound up with the touchdown that sealed a 28-10 victory Saturday in the 101st edition of the Red River rivalry.

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Ross' first interception with more than seven minutes began an exodus of Oklahoma fans. The rest began heading out when Paul Thompson -- who was 15-of-27 for 209 yards -- was picked off by Ross again, drawing chants of "Poor Sooners" from the Longhorns fans.

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Heh. "Poor Sooners" indeed. God I love this. I just love beating Oklahoma. By the way, here's an old joke: why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks! Ha! And suck is what the Sooners did today at the Cotton Bowl. They sucked in spades. Sucked, sucked, sucked. Well, okay, they played just well enough to make it worth watching for the average football fan--they even had a three point lead at halftime. Other than that, however, they just sucked. I guess it's not going to be Bob Stoops' year to win the national championship. Or the Big 12. Or even the division. Again. Ha! When Peterson dropped that ball that Ross returned for a TD, they all looked like the bunch of big, dumb Okies they are.

And now Texas has the inside track to win the conference. Again.

Hook 'em 'Horns!


Texas coach Mack Brown is dunked after Texas beat Oklahoma 28-10 in their football game, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Meanwhile, in Florida...again from the AP via ESPN:

Tebow, Gators dominate LSU, 6-0 for first time since '96

Backup quarterback Tim Tebow threw two touchdown passes, including one on a play that could have came from basketball coach Billy Donovan's playbook, and ran for a score to give the fifth-ranked Gators a 23-10 win against No. 9 LSU on Saturday.

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LSU's quarterback has had better days. Russell finished 24-of-41 for 228 yards with a touchdown. But he also had four turnovers.

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I'm lucky these two games were on at the same time. Defaulting to my real team, Texas, meant that I didn't have to watch my current school get its clock cleaned by what appears to be an extraordinarily good Florida team. LSU had a total of five turnovers, equaling OU's number in that category, and, like OU, they lost. I'm traditional on interception and fumble philosophy: if you turn the ball over five times, you don't deserve to win. Not that I wanted them to lose, mind you, it's just that losing is the only outcome possible when you can't seem to hold onto the ball.

What really bums me is that the know-it-all sports radio blowhards here in Baton Rouge were already highly critical of LSU coach Les Miles, who I consider to be pretty damned good, in the weeks following the Auburn, loss and I'm sure this loss is going to send them into chattering hysterics. Miles, I think, just needs another couple of years to get it going--remember, former coach Nick Sabin was unable to repeat his disputed National Championship run during his last year here, and lost a couple of big games he was supposed to win; Miles was given a good program, but it was not completely without problems, and he needs some more time to fine tune the Tigers to his own style. Goddamned radio fuckers, fucking calling him out for running the damned ball on first down. "This ain't the Big 12, yuck, yuck," they said. Stupid bayou trash motherfuckers. Got live crawfish infesting their brains, if you ask me.

Anyway, the Tigers need to deal with the turnover issue, for sure, but they'd better not fire Miles after only two seasons. Nothing like disharmony in a college town where they expect you to win the national championship every damned year.

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