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The Texas
A&M Football
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Big 12) will
take on the
University of
Missouri (4-5,
1-5 Big 12)
Saturday in
Columbia, Mo.
The game is
set to kick-off
at 11:30 a.m. and will be televised regionally as the
Big 12 Game of the Week.
Bowl Bound?
Saturday’s 37-0 loss to Nebraska officially ended
A&M’s hopes of a third consecutive Big 12 South
championship. But with six wins on the season, the
Aggies have already qualified for a bowl appearance.
The Big 12, however, is guaranteed only six bowl
games, so if the Aggies were to lose out and finish at
6-5, a postseason opportunity would not necessarily
await them.
‘‘I don’t think anybody is going to take a team
that’s lost its last three games,” A&M offensive line
man Chris Valletta said. ‘‘Why would they?”
A&M/Missouri Facts
The Aggies lead the all-time series between the
two teams, 5-0. In their five wins, they outscored
the Tigers, 156-27. Three of the victories were
shutouts. Last season at Kyle Field featured the clos
est game played between A&M and Missouri, a con
test in which the Aggies used a late turnover by the
Tigers to kick a field goal and win, 17-14. The most
lopsided game of the series took place in 1993,
when A&M crushed Mizzou, 73-0, at Kyle Field.
Both teams are coming off 37-0 losses on the
road, with A&M losing to Nebraska and the Tigers
being falling to Oklahoma. The Tigers have to win
their last two games to become bowl-eligible.
Lechler Nears Record
Senior punter Shane Lechler’s eight punts against
Nebraska Saturday gave him 253 for his career,
qualifying him to make a run at the NCAA’s career
record punt average (minimum 250 punts). Lechler
currently is averaging 44.5 yards a punt, which
would break former Mississippi punter Bill Smith’s
13-year old record of 44.3.
Lechler also has 35 40-yard plus punt.average
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NOTEBOOK
As the season winds down, so are the
'divisional races in the Big 12 Conference.
: Only a handful of teams are still in the
• conference race. Three games involving
: Big 12 teams will be televised Saturday.
• The Texas A&M-Missouri game at 11:30
; a.m. and the Kansas State-Nebraska game
at 2:30 p.m. will be televised regionally.
The Texas Tech-Texas game at 6 p.m. will
be televised nationally.
Rematch in San Antonio
The two participants in the Big 12
Championship game could be deter
mined this weekend. With wins this
weekend, Texas and Kansas State will
win the South and North divisions, re
spectively.
This would set up a rematch of an earlier
matchup this season in which the Wildcats
defeated the Longhorns in Austin, 35-17.
After leading 17-14, the Longhorns gave up
three straight touchdowns to fall to K-State.
To get there, both teams will have to
beat teams they have not been successful
against in the past.
K-State travels to Lincoln to take on the
seventh-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Despite winning a record 21 straight con
ference games, including a 40-30 win over
the ’Buskers last year in Manhattan,
Kan., the Wildcats have not won a game
in Lincoln since 1968, and K-State coach
Bill Snyder has lost all five games in Lin
coln as Wildcats head coach.
Meanwhile, the lOth-ranked Long
horns host Texas Tech this weekend.
Texas has struggled at home this year,
with both of its losses coming at Memo
rial Stadium.
On top of that, the Longhorns also
have struggled against the Red Raiders in
past seasons. Tech has four of its last six
against Texas, including the last two.
Going Bowling
With their wins last weekend, Okla
homa and Texas Tech inched closer to
reaching the six wins needed to be eligi
ble for a bowl.
The teams need one more win each
to reach the magic mark. Four schools
— Kansas State, Nebraska, Texas and
Texas A&M — already have reached the
six wins needed to participate in a
bowl.
The Big 12 Conference is guaranteed
six spots in the postseason: the Bowl
Championship Series (winner of the Big
12 Championship game), the Southwest
ern Bell Cotton Bowl, the Culligan Holi
day Bowl, the SYLVANIA Alamo Bowl,
the Insight.com Bowl and the Sanford In
dependence Bowl.
Odds and ends
Colorado quarterback Mike Moschetti
went over 2,000 yards passing on the
season Saturday, marking the eighth con
secutive year CU has had a 2,000-yard
passer...Kansas’ 373 yards rushing
against Baylor was the top rushing per
formance by a Jayhawk squad under
head coach Terry Allen.
Nebraska has won 94 straight games
when it rushes for at least 300 yards. The
Cornhuskers outrushed Texas A&M Sat
urday, 335-2.
Texas Tech’s 99-yard drive in the sec
ond quarter against Iowa State Saturday
ties the school record and is the longest
drive of the season for the Red Raiders.
Oklahoma’s sellout home game
against Oklahoma State marks the first
time since 1987 the Sooners have sold
out every home game in a season.
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