What a great feeling to start conference play. If anyone cares, here's my wrapup of the Big 12 weekend:
Aggies 16/Bears 13
I was present to watch the potent A&M offense get totally manhandled by Baylor. Believe me, it was worse in person. I have to give the Baylor defense credit, though. They played very well. I was surprised how prepared they were for pass defense and containing the option. They were helped, of course, by Reggie's terrible passing. I have never seen Reggie throw the ball so poorly. Glad he put it there when it counted though. The defense played well, especially in the red zone, but they kept giving up big plays. I think they held Baylor to something like 2/10 on third down conversions, which is an improvement. They also hit Shawn Bell (Baylor QB) a lot. You probably couldn't see it on TV, but he was on the ground often, and was slow getting up after many hits.
So we escaped with a W, and have a lot of things to work on before going to Boulder for the Saturday night matchup with Colorado.
Red Raiders 30 /Jayhawks 17
I listened to this one on the way home from College Station. I finally found it on Sirius 147, which is the "Trucker" channel. Sounds like Tech had their biggest challenge of the season, which is no surprise, but they took the ball away enough to stay ahead in the second half. The called back Kansas TD on the INT return would have made it a 6-pt game.... Kansas tried to come back, but they were just in too big of a hole, especially at Jones STD at night.
Undefeated Tech travels to their first game away from home this season to face Nebraska next week.
Colorado 34 /Okie State 0
Wow. A&M's defense better get their act together if they are to have a chance in hell in Boulder. I know Okie Lite is weak this year, but the Buffs really put it to them for their first win over a B12 South team since demolishing Tech in '02.
Nebraska 27 /Iowa State 20
This definitely makes the Red Raiders' trip to Lincoln more interesting. They are now facing an undefeated Nebraska team that is rolling, just knocked the Cyclones out of the rankings, and knocking on the door of the top 25. This will be a great game day in Lincoln.
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Glad "you" escaped with a win and were able to drive back to "Dallas" where you live.
Yes, Blake, I still use the first person when describing Aggie football, even when the performance is below standard. I am with them through thick and thin.
Below standard? Are you kidding? There's no doubt that the Ag performance was much improved from last year.
Unlike last year, this year the Ags actually were able to pull out a win over the "bad team" (good thing this one wasn't at Floyd Casey)
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