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too conservative
with offense
hrough-
out the
past 12
years, the over
whelming ma
jority of the
American vot
ing public has
continually
concluded that
conservatism is
a good thing.
Today, we'll
find out
whether they
still feel the
same way.
But there is
an ever-shrinking group of people in
Southeast Texas called Houston Oil
ers fans who have already made up
their minds - conservatism stinks. At
least on the football field.
The Oilers' 21-20 loss to Pittsburgh
Sunday did more than make a martyr
out of kicker A1 Del Greco. It showed
that conservative football is bad foot
ball, especially when your offense is
the run-and-shoot.
Why Jack Pardee has suddenly
made a right turn in his offensive
philosophy is anyone's guess. The
run-and-shoot is not an offense that
lends itself to playing things safe. It's
a risky offense that is at its best when
the one who calls the plays takes
what the defense gives him, but then
takes chances to squeeze out a little
more. Pardee should know this,
judging from the offensive output he
was responsible for with the USFL's
Houston Gamblers, as well as the
University of Houston. Those two of
fenses were more liberal than George
McGovern ever thought of being.
Seriously, the final drive of Sun
day's game was a microcosm of what
is quickly turning into a desperate
season for the Oilers. Offensive coor
dinator Kevin Gilbride mixed things
up well for quarterback Cody Carl
son, who filled in admirably for War
ren Moon after Moon'suffered a
third-quarter concussion. A Lorenzo
White draw olav here, a first down
pass to Haywood Jeffries there. The
offense was clicking.
But when the Oilers crossed mid-
field, things turned ugly. They made
no attempt to stop the clock and go
for a touchdown. They simply
drained the last minute and a half,
setting up another heartbreaking
missed field goal and another lost op
portunity.
Although Halloween was over,
there seemed to be an eerie presence
on the field as Del Greek trotted onto
the field. Maybe it was the ghost of
Ian Howfield or Teddy Garcia.
Maybe it was just fear of the in-
See Norwood/ Page 8
DON
NORWOOD
Sports Writer
The Battalion
Page 7
SWC race already
down to A&M, Texas
DARRIN HILL/Fhc Battalion
A&M fullback Doug Carter tries to fight his way through two Baylor defenders
during the Aggies’ 19-13 win Oct. 24. With every team but the Aggies and the
Texas Longhorns having two Southwest Conference losses, A&M and Texas are
on path to clash for the conference championship on Thanksgiving.
By K. LEE DAVIS
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
With four games left in the regular sea
son, the race for the Southwest Confer
ence crown and the Cotton Bowl trip that
goes with it has narrowed down to Texas
A&M and the University of Texas.
Again.
There is nothing unusual about the
two schools facing off against each other
on Thanksgiving Day to decide who goes
to the Cotton Bowl on New Years Day. In
fact, the conference representative to the
Cotton Bowl has come from one of these
two schools 37 times in the 77-year histo
ry of the SWC, and six times in the last
decade.
Such consistency and dominance by
two programs in one state is unusual.
The fifth-ranked Aggies are one of
only four unbeaten and untied teams in
the nation at 8-0, 4-0 in conference play.
The 20th-ranked Longhorns have re
covered from an 0-2 start to post five con
secutive victories and a perfect 3-0 record
in conference play. Texas started the sea
son with losses to now 19th-ranked Mis
sissippi State and lOth-ranked Syracuse.
Every other school in the conference
has two losses or more, and only one
team in the history of the conference has
won the championship with two losses,
so every other team is virtually eliminat
ed from the race, but they could still play
important roles as spoilers.
The road ahead for the Aggies has two
minor speed bumps, coming against
Louisville Saturday and Texas Christian
on Nov. 21, and two teams capable of giv
ing the Aggies a loss, Houston on Nov. 12
and Texas Nov. 26.
For the purposes of the Cotton Bowl,
the Louisville contest is insignificant since
a the outcome does not affect conference
standings.
The Longhorns' four remaining games
are roughly similar in the level of chal
lenge to those of A&M, but all four are
against conference foes, TCU on Nov. 7,
Southern Methodist on Nov. 14, Baylor
on Nov. 21 and the Aggies on Nov. 26.
Senior offensive lineman John Ellisor
said his teammates will not need much to
get excited about the matchup between
the two teams.
"After the TCU game the electricity is
going to start building, like it does every
year, but this year will be extra special,"
Ellisor said. "This is the kind of game you
dream about playing in."
Junior tight end Greg Schorp said that
he expects the game to be extremely
tough given the stakes riding on the out
come.
"It's going to be a hard fought game,
and they will give it their best shot but
hopefully we can just play our game and
come out with a win," Schorp said.
Either team could lose one game be
fore the Thanksgiving Day matchup and
still go to the Cotton Bowl by beating the
other one, but a loss did not hold much
appeal for junior inside linebacker Jason
Atkinson.
"We don't want to lose any games,"
Atkinson said. "We're trying as hard as
we can one game at a time to win every
one of them, but we have to keep in mind
that we can't go out and win all four
games at once, you have to win the next
one."
One scenario that has been the topic of
unfounded rumors has A&M remaining
undefeated for the season but Texas go
ing to the Cotton Bowl.
With the confusion stemming from an
alliance among the major bowls known as
the Bowl Coalition, that promises to put
the best teams, whenever possible,
against one another on New Years Day,
rumors have abounded.
As the theory went, the Aggies would
win all their games including the Texas
matchup, and Miami would lose to Syra
cuse allowing A&M to jump ahead of the
Hurricanes in the standings setting up a
showdown in the Sugar Bowl between
undefeated Alabama and the Aggies,
who would be ranked just behind the
Crimson Tide.
In that scenario the conference runner-
up would go to the Cotton Bowl to repre
sent the SWC, and that, if A&M was un
defeated, would be the Longhorns.
But that will never happen, at least not
according to Don Bernstein, Information
Director of the Bowl Coalition.
"That is absolutely untrue," Bernstein
said. "If the Aggies go undefeated they
will be in the Cotton Bowl."
Bernstein added that he does not see
teams foregoing their home bowls for any
other matchups because of the Bowl
Coalition.
"You can't do it under the rules of the
Bowl Coalition," Bernstein said. "A&M
would have to stay in Dallas, because the
conference champions are never going to
leave their conference bowls."
Vikings crush Bears to extend NFC Central lead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — They called the old Min
nesota Vikings the "Purple People
Eaters."
Jim Harbaugh and the Chicago Bears
must think of the new Vikings as the
"Purple Pass Eaters."
The Vikings beat Harbaugh and the
Bears 38-10 Monday night to take com
mand of the NFC Central race as journey
man linebacker Jack Del Rio turned the
game with an 84-yard interception return
for a touchdown and picked off another
Harbaugh pass to end a Chicago threat
and set up a Minnesota field goal.
Another linebacker, Carlos Jenkins,
added the final insult by returning an in
terception off Peter Tom Willis 19 yards
for a touchdown.
It was the second time this season that
the Bears were done in by Minnesota in
terceptions. The Vikings won the first
meeting 21-20 when Todd Scott's fourth-
quarter return for a TD began a run that
erased a 20-0 Chicago lead. Scott's TD at
the Metrodome a month ago came on an
audible that drove coach Mike Ditka to
verbally assault his quarterback on the
sideline.
The combination of the two wins over
Chicago left Minnesota at 6-2 and effec
tively three games ahead of the Bears (4-
4) in the division. That's because if the
two teams tie, the Vikings get the first
tiebreaker by virtue of the two victories.
The worst home loss in Ditka's 11 sea
sons as coach of the Bears was a career
game for Del Rio, who entered the game
with just three interceptions in 71/2 NFL
seasons with New Orleans, Kansas City,
Dallas and the Vikings. Last week, he just
missed a game-saving interception two
plays before Washington's Chip
Lohmiller kicked the deciding field goal
at Minneapolis.
And it overshadowed three sacks of
Harbaugh by John Randle, who led a pass
rush that dropped Harbaugh four times.
The Vikings led 14-3 at halftime on 1-
yard touchdown runs by Roger Craig and
Terry Allen, the second following a fum
ble by Darren Lewis at the Chicago 32.
On the first play of the second half,
Allen fumbled and Shaun Gayle recov
ered at the Minnesota 21. On the next
play, Harbaugh aimed for Tom Waddle
over the middle.
Waddle was slowed when he ran into
umpire Neil Gereb and Del Rio dove and
grabbed the pass just before it hit the
ground. Then he got up and rumbled
down the left sideline, breaking tackles
before cutting back for the end zone.
So just 20 seconds after Chicago
seemed ready to close the deficit to 14-10
and 36 seconds into the second half, it
was 21-3 and the rout was on.
Later in the third quarter, the Bears
drove methodically to the Minnesota 29
before a motion penalty set them back to
the 34, where they faced a third and 10.
Once again Harbaugh threw, and once
again Del Rio jumped in, returning the
ball eight yards to the 31.
Eleven plays and 58 yards later, Fuad
Reveiz kicked a 28-yard field goal that
made it 24-3.
Then Rich Gannon, who was 7 of 15
for 157 yards, hit Steve Jordan for 60
yards early in the fourth quarter and
Jenkins, a second-year linebacker, iced it
with his first career interception with 8:24
to go in the game.
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