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Monday, October 10, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 1 toe mid*), ton Bowl to begii s hoot off Q. In and again ot of noist after UT, SWC roundup Horns, Ponies looking to jump in the ratings itchers iavetk mch arol ing. ll Permian uses to blast No. 4 mystique Central United Press International If (lie Nebraska Comhuskcrs are No. I, then peihajis the Texas Longhorns are 1-A. And, while var ious teams are being affixed wilfr certain num bers, wftal of the SMU Mus tangs? 1 frey finisfred No. 2 in (fie country a year ago and, as surprising as it seems, the Mus tangs might Ire better this year. No matter where the Lon ghorns and Mustangs wind up in the rankings this week, they appear to have turned the Southwest Conference race into a two-team affair — although the Arkansas Ra/.orbacks will have a chance to argue that point next Saturday. In two very convincing out ings Saturday, tfre second- ranked Longhorns brushed aside old rival (Oklahoma and the I2th-rated Mustangs pro duced an overpowering ef f ort to beat a team that traditionally gives them problems. The Texas A&M Aggies, meanwhile, showed some life behind a new quarterback, TCU won its first game for coach Jim Wacker and the Texas Tech Red We can’t worry about the rankings. Check with us in four or five weeks. But I am very, very proud of this football team. We played good defense throughout the game and in the second half our defense was the key.’ — Texas coach Fred Akers Raiders’ up-and-down season experienced a down weekend. Of prime interest, however, will be how much of an impress ion Texas made on those whose ballots decide the No. 1 team in the country. No. 1 Nebraska, which had previously rolled over every body with ease, almost ran afoul of the Oklahoma State Cowboys before finally coming away with a 14-10 win. Texas, meanwhile, was put ting together a third-quarter surge that pushed the Lon ghorns to a 28-16 win over the Sooners. “We can’t worry about the rankings,” said Texas coach Fred Akers. “Check with us in four or five weeks. But I am very, very proud of this football team. We played good defense throughout the game and in the second half our defense was the key.” The Longhorns’ defense held Oklahoma’s Marcus Dupree to just 50 yards on 14 carries and limited the Sooners to only 197 yards. Of that total, 81 yards came on three scrambling runs by quarterback Danny Bradley. “Oklahoma was hoping to win with a big play,” said Texas line backer Tony Edwards. “We came out in the second half just trying to play our kind of ball. When we had to we shut them down.” A few hours after Texas got through with Oklahoma, the SMU Mustangs began cranking out a 42-26 win over Baylor. The Mustangs owned a 42-14 lead at one point, thanks to four touchdown passes from Lance M c 11 h e n n y, who has now thrown 97 consecutive times without an interception. SMU, which has next week of f , will take an unbeaten streak of 21 games into its meeting with Texas Oct. 22. SMU has not lost a game since the Longhorns beat them in Texas Stadium two years ago. In the other Southwest Con ference games over the weekend, TCU bombed the Rice Owls, 34-3, and the Texas A&M Aggies swarmed over Houston, 30-7. Texas Tech, meanwhile, was stunned by New Mexico in Lubbock, 30-10. For the fifth straight week the Frogs scored first, but this time they made it stand up. “This was a very special win,” said Wacker, who had coached two Division 2 national cham pionship teams in a row at Southwest Texas before coming to TCU, but who had endured an 0-3-1 record to start his te nure with the Frogs. United Press International nsnj' (d Ill (he rough-and-tumble Dis chile r ‘ cl 4-AAAAA neighborhood ■Texas high school football, D gOO(i||bssa Permian has in years }asl consistently emerged as the lass of the league. But the district this year has B ps than three teams rated in I United Press International is5ATop 10, with San Ange- Central and Midland Lee at all. icked to finish ahead of Per- icourapiiipH j n t | ie district race. ir ' n f>' 'RNo. 3 Permian and the No. 4 tnt to plai«cats, both sporting 5-0 re- biit we flirds, squared off before 21,000 rongorsiitB an Angelo Friday night, ear. ItUByhen it ended, Permian was over thelijthe bully on the block, 37-21. son we rely or t he Mojo faithful, it was -efer to lk® p errn i an mystique — nur- 7 are pHred by a 31 -1 -3 record the past ■ years — which won the ffiie. For Permian coach John dll.ins, it was a suprisingly ex- Kive offense, a late-jelling de- |nse and a little bit of luck. ■ think the main thing is, we able to stop them,” Wilkins “They had the ball four s in the first half and scored ie times. Then we were able top them and that was the “In the noise, he thought I called for an onside. It caught us by surprise and them by surprise and we got the football.” Permian, unable to move, pinned San Angelo on its 1-yard line with a punt and then inter cepted a Bobcat pass, scoring a short time later to put the game away. The San Angelo-Permian slugfest was one of two contests matching top 10 Class 5A teams, but the similarity ended there. In contrast to the track meet in San Angelo, the struggle be tween No. 6 Plano and No. 10 Lewisville for prominence in District 12-AAAAA was a battle matching strong defenses against conservative offenses. The result: Plano 7, Lewisville 6. The game started out like anything other than the bruising two hours of trench warfare it proved to be. Plano scored on its first possesion, with Monty West running five yards for the score to cap a 58-yard drive. Lewisville immediately re sponded with fullback Rodney Murphy who rushed nine times for 52 yards and scored on a 1- yard dive. John Collette missed the extra point and the scoring was over. But the football was just begin- ning. Lewisville saw a long drive end at the Plano 8-yard line with a fumble. Plano opened the third quarter with its own, methodic 10-minute drive, only to lose the ball at the one-inch line on a fumble. Lewisville then missed a 30- yard field goal early in the fourth period and midway through the final period the Wildcats watched a clinching field goal try go errant. “When you have two out standing teams it is hard to say if there are any losers out there,” said Plano coach Tom Kim brough, whose Wildcats went to 6-0 with the win. “We were for tunate to win. Anytime you beat Lewisville, you’re fortunate.” Lewisville coach Neal Wilson, who saw his team drop to 5-1, lamented the Fighting Farmers’ errors. The Aggieland Yearbook DO YOU HAVE FOUR HOURS TO WASTE? Well, that's how long the lines were last year on the last day for freshmen and sophomores to get their pictures taken. Do yourself a favor get your picture taken today! Pictures being taken at the Pavilion 8:30 a.m.— 4:30 p.m Senior pictures begin Oct.10 ermian actually trailed 21- it halftime. 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