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Football
Forecast
Texas A&M at Rice
TCU at (13) Baylor
(19) Texas at SMU
Houston at (14) Arkansas
(9) Ohio State at (20) Minnesota
Michigan State at Purdue
Georgia Tech at (16) Tennessee
Mississippi State at (6) Auburn
USC at Notre Dame
West Virginia at (3) Penn State
Atlanta at Dallas
Houston at St. Louis
Last Week’s Record
Overall Record
Charean Williams
Asst. Sports Editor
Agsby 9
Bears by 16
’Slangs by 2
Hogs by 10
Gophers by 1
Spartans by 14
Vats by 4
Tigers by 16
Trojans by 3
Nittany Lions by 7
Pokes by 14
Cards by 12
5-7
50-21-1
Ken Sury
Sports Writer
Ags by 17
Bears by 20
Stangs by 13
Hogs by 10
Buckeyes by 5
Boilermakers by 7
Volsby7
Tigers by 21
Irish by 1
Nittany Lions by 6
Pokes by 6
Cards by 10
3-9
49-22-1
Travis Tingle
Sports Editor
Ags by 21
Bears by 25
Stangs by 3
Hogs by 20
Gophers by 6
Spartans by 6
Vais by 10
Tigers by 7
Irish by 1
W. Virginia by 6
Pokes by 17
Oilers by 9
4-6
46-23-1
d.p.
Cartoonist
Ags by 14
Bears by 14
Stangs by 1
Hogs by 7
Buckeyes by 1
Boilermakers by 1
Vais by 1
Tigers by 10
Trojans by 1
Nittany Lions by 2
Pokes by 3
Cards by 1
4-8
47-24-1
Pete Herndon
Sports Writer
Ags by 6
Frogs by 1
'Hornsby 2
Hogs by 12
Buckeyes by 7
Boilermakers by 3
Vols by 10
Tigers by 7
Trojans by 14
Nittany Lions by 1
Pokes by 10
Cards by 6
5-7
42-29-1
Doug Hall
Sports Writer
Ags by 10
Bears by 10
'Horns by 3
Hogs by 7
Gophers by 3
Boilermakers by 7
Vols by 6
Tigers by 3
Trojans by 7
Nittany Lions by 9
Pokes by 10
Oilers by 7
5-7
42-29-1
Time of the essence to SWC
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I Last week was the “Time of Trial”
for the Southwest Conference’s title
contenders. This week could be la-
[beled “Redemption Time” for last
j week’s losers and “Demolition Time”
? for last week’s winners.
The Redeemers — Texas A&M
and Arkansas.
The Demolishers — Baylor and
all of the above.
The Perspirators — SMU and
Texas.
Texas at SMU — Texas Stadium (Ir
ving) — 2 p.m.
Both of these teams are sweating
this week.
For those “Probationary Ponies”
from SMU, the Texas game pro
vides a second chance for respect,
revenge and a Top 20 ranking.
Highly-touted SMU lost all these
things with back-to-back losses to
Arizona and Baylor.
One week ago, most observers
around the SWC claimed the moti
vation-less Mustangs needed to be
put out to stud and out of their mis
ery before the motivated Cotton
I Bowl contenders sent them to the
| glue factory.
What a aifference a week makes.
! SMU dominated the Houston
Cougars last Saturday by strutting
the offensive and defensive stuff
that made them everyone’s presea
son pick to run away with the confer
ence race.
The Texas Longhorns are now
next in line for a “nuclear” team that
[either explodes or fizzles.
And Texas Coach Fred Akers is
worried about it.
Akers is already claiming games
with SMU shouldn’t count in the
SWC standings.
BRANDON BERRY
Sports Analysis
The Texas athletic department
was reportedly the hangman that
tightened the NCAA noose around
the Mustangs’ illegal necks.
And the Longhorns presently
stand 2-0 in the SWC, following an
emotional 15-13 upset win over le
gitimate SWC favorite Arkansas.
Sometime next week, Akers will
be berating officials, schedule-mak
ers, big-mouthed A.D. colleagues
and an offense that will have proved
how much faster horses are than
cows — Mustangs 21, Longhorns
13.
Houston at Arkansas — War Memo
rial Stadium (Little Rock) — noon
At the start of the season, many peo
ple might have believed ‘this game
would be for all the SWC'. marbles.
After all, last season’s Cotton Bowl
representative would be playing this
season’s most eligible bachelors.
Surprise.
T he Razorbacks were everything
everyone expected of them, climb
ing as high as No. 4 in the nation,
until they met up with a Texas de
fense that kicked sand in the face of
Ken Hatfield’s seemingly unphysical
“flexboners.”
Houston, meanwhile, has had
plenty of practice dealing with sand
in the face, as the Cougars have slid
from the Cotton Bowl penthouse
into the SWC’s kitty litter box.
Now, UH fans and boosters are
clamoring for a new coach and a new
team — or, at least, new ones that
coach and play like the old ones.
Here’s a vote for a return to nor
malcy and the best game of the year
from the “Kitty Kougars.”
It’s a shame it will probably be
wasted on a team as good as Arkan
sas — Razorbacks 24, Cougars 20.
TCU at Baylor — Baylor Stadium
(Waco) — 2 p.m.
Baylor isn’t the best team in the
SWC. They’re merely the most expe
rienced, most coordinated and the
smartest.
TCU isn’t the worst team in the
SWC. They are just the least experi
enced, least coordinated and the
dumbest.
And the poorest.
TCU had to come from behind in
dramatic, last-second fashion to beat
less-than-dynastic North Texas State
last weekend.
Baylor, meanwhile, somehow
turned 140 rushing yards from nine
different ball carriers into a 20-15
victory over A&M.
During the season, the Bears have
used 27 different offensive forma
tions and a defense that forces oppo
nents to make mistakes in designing
the conference front-runner.
The results of this game won’t be
pretty or unpredictable — and TCU
will continue giving honesty a bad
name, in this conference — Bears 38,
Horned Frogs 13.
Texas A&M at Rice — Rice Sta
dium (Houston) — 2 p.m.
This game could be one for the re
cord books, right?
The second-best offense in the
SWC meets the worst defense in the
universe.
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A team that unleashed over 300
yards passing and 300 yards rushing
against one team faces a team that
once gave up 80 yards on three rush
ing plays.
A team averaging 31 points per
game against real defenses will be
opposed by a team that gave up 62
points to Air Force, 48 to Miami of
Florida and 44 to Freddy’s “inoffen
sive” Longhorns.
This game promises to be a
laugher, right?
Not so elementary, says dear Wat
son Brown.
The Owls are flying high after
back-to-back wins over TCU and
Texas Tech.
They are 3-3 for the first time
since JFK and flying high.
As a matter of fact, when the Rice
layers heard rumors that three
>wl scouts would be attending the
game, they couldn’t wait to act out
their newfound roles in a meaning
ful scenario.
One big problem — the Aggies
are a good, solid football team and
the Owls are gamblers whose luck
has run out.
Rice quarterback Mark Co-
malander was seriously injured
against Tech and will be sidelined
for the rest of the season.
Freshman Quentis Roper re
placed Comalander and will start
against the Aggies on Saturday.
Rice’s Brown said Roper will do just
fine as long as he doesn’t have to
pass the ball too much.
And then Dorothy woke up and
realized Oz was actually Topeka, the
Aggies were really the Aggies and
that the Owls still possessed the
worst defensive team this side of Al
pha Centauri — Aggies 52, Owls 13.
How much Moore will Tech take?
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Texas Tech football fans can rest
easy this weekend.
For the first time in the Southwest
Conference season, the Red Raiders
are guaranteed of not losing this Sat
urday.
I No, they’re not playing A&M
IConsolidated, although that might
be a close game. Instead they get to
take the week off and watch every
body else slug it out around the
SWC.
The break didn’t come a moment
to soon for Lubbock’s losers. Now
the only slugfest they may he able to
handle is one among their own
head-hunting fans.
And who’s head is on the wanted
list?
Of course, it’s Tech Coach Jerry
[don’t come around here no”
Moore. OK, so that seem to be a
copy of ESPN's Chris Berman’s style
on SportsCenter, but it does seem to
represent what Tech fans think
about Moore right now.
And what brought on these feel
ings?
Well, it started when Tech was
supposed to open the SWC season
against Baylor. Somewhere along
the way to Waco, the team bus must
have broken down because it looked
like the Red Raiders never showed
up to play.
After beating No. 3 USC the week
before, the Baylor Bears laughed
PETE HERNDON
Sports Viewpoint
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their way to a 31-0 won and brought
the previously unbeaten Red Raid
ers (at the time 3-0 in non-confer
ence plav) back down to earth.
But, looking back, losing to the
Bears, even losing badly, was net real
disgrace. The first pill that was hard
est to swallow for Tech fans was
given to them the next week when
Texas A&M came to town.
Tech was able to stay close enough
to Aggies during the game to make a
last minute run at pulling the game
off. Aided by the referees on some
key plays, Tech scored a touchdown
with less than a minute to play and
trailed only 28-27.
Just exactly what happened next
is hard for even a sports writer to de
scribe, much less explain.
Moore couldn’t decide whether to
go for a 1-point or 2-point conver
sion. So he decided to run his of
fense and kicking team on and off
the field until one of the units got
tired and had to stay on the sideline.
The kicking team wore down first,
and Tech was penalized five yards
for delay of game.
So now the decision seemed ob
vious. With the ball on the 8-yard-
line, Tech could kick the extra point
and tie the game. But the Red
Raider place kicker was probably still
on the sideline begging for an oxy
gen mask, so Moore opted to go for
two.
Tech quarterback Aaron Keesee
was on his own, except for the pres
ence of A&M defensive back Ter
rance Brooks. Brooks hurried Kee
see on a blitz, forcing the conversion
pass to skid across the goal line with
no Red Raiders anywhere close.
Boos were heard and bottles were
thrown on the field, and at the Ag
gies, as Tech fans left Jones Sta
dium.
On Tech’s campus, there’s a
statue of humorist Will Rogers on a
horse. The horse’s “rear quarter”
faces directly toward College Sta
tion. After tne A&M game, several
Tech students said Moore gave the
game to the Aggies because his
“portrait” faced College Station.
The Arkansas game wasn’t much
of a disappointment. Everything
went according to schedule — for
the Razorbacks at least.
The Hogs blew the Red Raiders
into the parking lot, 31-14, thus eve
ning Tech’s overall record to 3-3.
T ech fans didn’t get too upset. Af
ter all, next week they would get to
pick on Rice — or so they thought.
Tech never put Rice away and,
with less than 30 seconds in the
game, a 57-yard field goal gave Rice
a 29-27 lead. But this wasn’t bad
enough for Tech fans — the worst
was yet to come.
Rice’s celebration after the FG re
sulted in two delay of game penal
ties, which meant the Owls had to
kick off from their own 20-yard-line.
Tech got the ball around midfield
with 18 seconds left.
The Rice defense wasn’t used to
protecting a lead and it left Tech re
ceiver Lemuel Stinson wide open
and cruising down the sidelines. But
not wanting to break Tech’s streak
of “luck,” Stinson dropped the ball
on the 2-yard-line like it was a car
lease handed to him by WFAA-TV’s
Gerry Oher. Then, to be consistent,
he dropped another pass in the end-
zone on the last play of the game.
So why is Tech, 0-4 in the confer
ence, playing like the bums of the
SWC?
No one knows for sure, but one
thing is just about certain.
All of this leaves Tech students
and alumni thinking that if the Red
Raiders lose any “Moore” this sea
son, it’s going to be Jerry.
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