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AP Top 20
The Top Twenty teams in the Associated Press
college football poll, with first-place votes in
parentheses, 1986 record, total points based
on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-
4-3-2-1 and ranking in last week's poll:
Record
Pts
Pvs
1. Miami, Fla. (54)
10-0-0
1,156
1
2. Penn State (4)
11-0-0
1,090
2
3. Oklahoma
10-1-0
1,056
3
4. Michigan
10-1-0
878
6
5. LSU
8-2-0
862
8
6. Nebraska
9-2-0
834
5
/.Alabama
9-2-0
763
9
8. Arizona St.
9-1-1
723
4
9. Arkansas
9-2-0
670
11
10. Texas A&M
8-2-0
625
13
11. Ohio State
9-3-0
606
7
12. Arizona
8-2-0
589
14
13. Washington
8-2-1
568
12
14. Auburn
8-2-0
416
15
15. UCLA
7-3-1
.346
18
16. Baylor
8-3-0
315
17
17. Southern Cal
7-3-0
168
10
18. Georgia
7-3-0
153
20
19. N. Carolina St.
8-2-1
66
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20. Iowa
8-3-0
63
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Aggies have chance to erase ghosts of past
By Tim Stanfield
Sports Writer
Entering its 1974 game with
Texas one day after Thanksgiving,
Texas A&M had the inside lane to
the Southwest' .
Conference ti- Viewpoint
tie and a berth
in the Cotton Bowl game against
Penn State.
The Aggies had lost only to Kan
sas (28-10) and SMU (18-14) and
had beaten front-runner Baylor 20-
0 in Waco.
The teams moved the game to
noon Friday to accommodate tele
vision instead of the usual Thanks
giving date.
A&M Coach Emory Bellard knew
that his team had to win (because of
its loss to SMU) or else it would miss
out not only on the SWC title, but on
any bowl bid.
Texas Coach Darrell Royal car
ried a 16-1 record against A&M
coming into the game and freshman
fullback Earl Campbell would earn
129 tough yards in the game.
While the day of the game
dawned clear and mild, the weather
turned ferocious by kickoff.
Austin faced a blustery north
wind with gusts up to 40 mph.
Meanwhile, the temperature had
fallen from near 70 degrees to less
than 40 degrees and it was raining.
Then, on national television and
with all the marbles riding on the
outcome, A&M choked it all away in
only 54 seconds.
Texas won the coin toss and took
the wind.
After the kickoff went out of the
end zone, A&M started on its own
20-yard line. But on first down, run
ning back Bubba Bean and quar
terback David Walker collided, re
sulting in a fumble that Texas
recovered.
Texas’ Raymond Clayborn then
scored a touchdown on the Long
horns’ second offensive play.
Another kickoff resulted in the
same situation for A&M.
On first down from the 20, Aggie
fullback Bucky Sams fumbled the
ball into the air and huge Texas de
fensive lineman Lionel Johnson
plucked it in mid-air and rambled
into the end zone.
With 14:06 left to play in the first
quarter, A&M trailed 14-0.
To make matters worse, the Ag
gies lost another fumble three plays
later.
And Bellard’s troops quit on the
field. Texas took a 26-3 halftime
lead and laughed its way to a humil
iating 32-3 win over the Aggies.
Back in Waco, the Baylor Bears
had gathered to pull for the ’Horns
to win so the Bears could go to the
Cotton Bowl.
When the score reached 14-0, the
Bears exploded, running amok in
the Letterman’s Lounge on the Bay
lor campus.
Move forward 12 years, to this
Thanksgiving night in Austin.
A&M again has to win (or tie this
time) over Texas in order to go to
the Cotton Bowl.
Again the opposition’s players are
taunting the Aggies, while another
opponent, Arkansas, is hoping for
an upset.
Anyone who was there in maroon
in 1974 can remember listening to
“Poor Aggies” with 59 minutes left
in a 60-minute game.
As one who was there I will never
forget how pathetic A&M looked
that day.
Though behind from the start,
Bellard refused to open up his of
fense. Thus the nation was treated to
two-and-a-half hours of watching
the Texas players and fans openly
laugh at the Aggies.
In 1986 the Aggies marched into
War Memorial Stadium in Little
Rock, Ark., undefeated in SWC
play.
Unfortunately, for some reason
the A&M offensive coaches chose toT
ignore their fine running back Keith
Woodside’s ability to run the ball. ;
Add in the Razorbacks’ eight and
nine men covering the pass play and
the Aggie defense’s refusal to attack
the Hogs as it did in 1985 and it:
added up to a 14-10 loss.
Now the Hogs can go to the Cot--
ton Bowl if A&M loses to Texas. Ar-.
kansas Coach Ken Hatfield said he
hopes UT recalls its last two losses to
A&M and beats the Aggies.
If the Aggies think they’ve heard ■
enough of “Hey hey ho ho, Arkansas
in the Cotton Bowl” since Nov. 15,
they can’t imagine how bad the
abuse will be if they lose Thursday.
It’s your game, players and
coaches. If you like to hear “Poor
Aggies” plus achieving the “lofty”
status of chokers, just lose this time
and see how bad it gets.
But I hope — and think — that
you will win.
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Hagy unqualified to badmouth Aggies
By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
If you thought Mark White and Bill
I Clements slung the mud during this year’s
I gubernatorial election campaign, then lis
ten to the manure ^
j coming out of Austin Viewpoint
I this week. Partic-
I ularly from one John Hagy, a University
I ofTexas defensive back.
“I knew a lot of people from my high
I school who went to school at A&M,” Hagy
I said. “They were good people. However,
I when they came back they were ignorant.
They went crazy. I don’t know what they
did to them. I hate A&M. I hate their
coach. I hate the town.”
Not exactly the kind of words you win
friends with.
On Monday, Hagy and teammate
Duane Duncum blasted away at the Aggie
team, quarterback Kevin Murray and the
Aggie way of life, most likely trying to
pump some life into the 5-5 Longhorns.
“All I want is one good clean shot at
Murray,” Hagy said. “He has to get his
stats against teams like TCU because he
doesn’t get them against anyone else.
There is no one worse than him.”
Evidently, lipping off at the mouth has
become the thing to do in college football
this season. Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma’s
All-American linebacker and hair-de-
signer expert, has been doing it all year.
But he and his team have been able to sub
stantiate their comments for the most part.
Last week, Michigan quarterback Jim
Harbaugh told a press conference, “I
guarantee we will beat Ohio State and go
to Pasadena (site of the Rose Bowl).” Har
baugh was true to his words.
Harbaugh, however, was trying to moti
vate his team to bounce back from a tough
loss to Minnesota on the previous Satur
day. Bosworth, on the other hand, is just
Bosworth. But who in the world is Hagy
and why is he stirring up a hornet’s nest?
After all, the only thing the Aggies have
riding on Thursday night’s game is a sec-
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ceiver. Hagy was fairly kind to Bernstine.
“Bernstine is a good football player,” he
said. “He seems like a class guy. So does
(tailback Roger) Vick. Those guys just got
fooled into going to the wrong school.”
For years, the Longhorns almost totally
dismissed their rivalry with A&M. Their
real competition, they said, was the
Sooners from Oklahoma, not the Aggies.
They could never understand why A&M
built their bonfire or sold out every UT
game, regardless as to whether the Aggies
were 10-0 or 0-10 at the time.
But since the Aggies have a two-year
winning streak over UT and since the
Longhorns couldn’t hold a candle to the
Sooners this year in Dallas, things must
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