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David McWilliams sits atop his
throne in Austin, dreaming of na
tional championships. Then there’s
R.C. Slocum, just waiting for re
spect.
The Aggies (8-2-1) are riding a
four-game winning streak as they
head into their two biggest games of
the season: Saturday’s showdown
with No. 5 Texas (9-1) and a Dec. 29
iSea World Holiday Bowl matchup
fwith No. 4 Brigham Young (10-1).
A&M, the preseason favorite to
Iwin the Southwest Conference, is
I trying to rebound from an October
I; slump. After blowing through its
1 first three games (in which the Ag-
gies outscored its opponents 131-
■ 35), A&M ran into a month-long
■ brick wall.
A 17-8 loss to Louisiana State. An
i unimpressive 28-24 win over Texas
I Tech. A 36-31 loss to Houston. A 20-
| 20 tie with Baylor. The Aggies, once
1 No. 11 in The Associated Press Top
I 25 College Football Poll, plum-
I metted out of the national rankings.
A&M was No. 25 before its Oct.
1 20 tie with Baylor. It dropped out of
I the rankings the next week, and
1 hasn’t returned since.
“A lot of it is timing when you get
| beat and where you are at the time
when you get into that top 25,” Slo-
| cum said. “If you’re in there, you
I reach a point where you shuffle a
f place or two, but you hang in there.
I If you don’t lose two or three games
| in a row, you stay in. If you’re not in,
| then it’s hard to get in there.”
The Aggies came in at No. 26 in
Monday’s poll. Ohio St., ranked No.
25, tallied 29 more votes than A&M.
It is the second time in the last three
weeks the Aggies have missed the
Top 25 by one spot.
But the Aggies have the chance to
finish the season ranked high. With
games left against two top five
teams, A&M can make a good im
pression in a hurry. Slocum said a
win over the Longhorns would give
the Aggies the boost they need to
I
1. Colorado (1)41 1,468 10-1-1
2. Georgia Tech (3) 10 1,338 9-0-1
3. Miami, Fla. (2) 2 1,332 8-2-0
4. Brigham Young (4) 3 1,275 10-1-0
5. Texas (6) 3 1,260 9-1-0
6. Florida (5) 1 1,218 9-1-0
7. Notre Dame (7) 1,170 9-2-0
8. Florida St. (8) 1,060 8-2-0
9. Washington (9) 1,051 9-2-0
10. Penn St. (11) 1,026 9-2-0
11. Houston (12) 862 9-1-0
12. Tennessee (14) 856 7-2-2
13. Michigan (15) 793 8-3-0
14. Clemson (16) 707 9-2-0
15. Mississippi (21) 487 9-2-0
16. Illinois (22) 449 8-3-0
17. Louisville (20) 444 9-1-1
18. Iowa (13)
19. Nebraska (10)
20. Auburn (23)
21. Southern Cal (18)
22. Oklahoma (—)
23. Michigan St. (24)
24. Southern Miss. (25)
25. Ohio St. (19)
Other receiving votes: Texas
A&M 165, Virginia 106, San Jose St. ||
27 1 /2, Oregon 23, Alabama 14, Ari
zona 13, California 10, Colorado St.
4, Maryland 2, North Carolina 2,1
HI Temple 2, Virginia Tech 2, Baylor *
1, Central Michigan 1, Louisiana!
Tech 1, Wyoming 1.
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402 8-3-0 MMMMMHNP
397 9-2-0
339 7-2-1
292 8-3-1
259 8-3-0
230 7-3-1
216 8-3-0
194 7-3-1
HUY THANH NGUYEN^The Battalion
Since becoming the starting quarterback, Bucky Richardson has led the Aggies to a 5-1-1 record.
take on BYU and Ty Detmer, a lead
ing Heisman Trophy candidate.
“It could be seven (wins over
Texas) in a row for us,” Slocum said.
“We could finish on a positive note
for our season. That would give us
nine wins. We would move up in the
rankings.
“If you-beat Texas and BYU, then
you have a chance to finish pretty
high. We’d be 10-2-1, and having
won six in a row. We’d get some pre
tty good recognition. There’s a lot of
opportunity for our team.”
On the other side of the coin is
Texas. With a seven-point loss to No.
1 Colorado the only blemish on the
Longhorns’ record, the Cotton Bowl
game against No. 2 Miami might
have national championship implica
tions.
But for that Jan. 1 game to have
national importance, Texas must get
by A&M. The Aggies have won the
last six games against the Long
horns, but Texas head coach McWil
liams isn’t talking about revenge.
“I don’t talk about payback,” Mc
Williams said. “I’m not denying that
certainly we want to beat A&M be
cause they’ve beaten us in the past.
I’m not going to sit here and say it’s
something that’s not important be
cause of that.”
Slocum said playing the Long
horns will be enough motivation to
stay focused, not look ahead to
Detmer and Co.
“We’re sitting here with an 8-2-1
record, and there’s not a whole lot of
teams in the country with a better
one. If we beat Texas and go 9-2-1,
I’d say anyone who doesn’t recog
nize that as a pretty good season, I
don’t know about them.”
McWilliams:
Aggie offense
outshines Buffs
AUSTIN (AP) — Coach David
McWilliams of fifth-ranked Texas
said Monday that the Southwest
Conference championship victory
over Baylor, which clinched a Cotton
Bowl berth, was a game in which “ev
ery yard was a tough yard.”
And this week’s opponent, Texas
A&M, has a better offense than No.
1 Colorado, he said.
Texas’ 23-13 victory over Baylor
may have been costly to the Long
horns, as leading rusher Butch Had-
not injured his ring finger and may
miss the A&M game, set for Satur
day on national television (CBS) with
a 11:07 a.m., CST, kickoff.
McWilliams said Texas, 9-1, won
the SWC title game with great indi
vidual performances by two kickers,
goal line defense, and a 17-play
drive into a wind that gusted as high
as 35 mph, which was climaxed by
Michael Poliak’s 38-yard field goal.
That made the score 23-13 with
4:31 left in the game, and Baylor
could get no closer. Poliak also
kicked field goals of 56 and 43 yards.
Baylor settled for a field goal and
10-0 lead when Texas held after the
Bears had first-and-goal at the 2-
yard-line in the first quarter.
“That was a big turnaround. It
slowed their offense down,” said Mc
Williams, whose contract extension
was announced by UT officials after
Saturday’s game.
“The 17-play drive into the wind
was probably one of the biggest
drives all year. When you talk about
a championship drive, that was
probably it right there,” McWilliams
told his weekly news conference.
The other individual play McWil
liams singled out was by punter Alex
Waits, who dodged a Baylor de
fender and, on the run, kicked 66
yards to the Baylor 15.
Owners say
Astros may be
up for sale
HOUSTON (AP) — The
Houston Sports Association, own
ers of the Houston Astros base
ball team, announced Monday it
would consider selling the team.
Speculation that John McMul
len, majority owner of HSA, has
been planning to sell has been cir
culating for more than a year,
mostly because of McMullen’s ad
vancing age and the increasing
value of the team over the past
two years.
McMullen, 71, said Monday in
a prepared statement, “Having
beep so completely involved over
12 years witn HSA and the As
tros, the time has come for me to
devote more of my time and en
ergies to my family and my many
other interests.”
Sources have said HSA’s cur
rent value could be as high as
$185 million to $200 million. Mc
Mullen, a shipbuilder with offices
in New York and Washington,
D.C., controls more than 80 per
cent of the sports association.
HSA, founded by the late Roy
Hofheinz, owns the Astros and
holds the lease on the Astrodome
and two other buildings in the
same complex, the Astrohail and
Astroarena. It also owns prop
erties in Florida and various cable
television interests.
McMullen said he has notified
the baseball commissioner’s office
of HSA’s intent to sell the Astros.
Major League Baseball must ap
prove any change in ownership of
one of its teams.
Last week, HSA pullet! out of
the Greater Houston Part
nership, an economic devel
opment group, because the part
nership^ chairman, Robert
Onstead, head of Randall’s Food
Markets, speculated on the Astros
sale, saying it should go to local
interests.
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