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showed his potential by torching the Sooners for
191 yards and four touchdowns in the air and 89
yards on 16 carries, to lead the Aggies to their first
ever victory over a No. 1 -ranked opponent.
“I wasn’t surprised (about McNeal),” said
A&M coach Dennis Franchione, who caught the
last minute of the game at his home in Tuscaloosa,
Ala., last year. “When you have an outstanding
athlete like Reggie, you’re not surprised by him
having a nice day early in his career.”
Now, after gaining almost a full year of experi
ence, McNeal is ready to try to duplicate his feat
of a year ago and lead the Aggies to what could be
the biggest upset of the college football season.
This isn’t the same Oklahoma team, though, that
McNeal and the Aggies faced a year ago. These
Sooners are firing on all cylinders, and observers
are hard pressed to find a chink in their armor.
“Any time you make a game plan you try to do
what hurts that defense,” Franchione said. “I’ve
been watching tapes since 6:30 Sunday night and
I haven’t found much they’re susceptible to yet.
They deserve that (ranking); they’re darn good.”
On paper it looks as if this game shouldn’t even
be a contest, and from the looks of all the other
Oklahoma games this season, it won’t be, but the
Aggies have confidence in knowing they’ve
played the best before and won.
Oklahoma knows that too, and the loss from a
year ago that dropped the Sooners from national
title contention still stings.
“(A&M) will definitely have our attention,”
Stoops said. “They beat us a year ago when we
were ranked No. 1 in the country and undefeated,
so that should be warning enough that you should
be on top of your game if you want to win.”
And, McNeal won’t shy away either as he
hopes to create the same magic on the field that he
created a year ago.
“That comes with the position,” McNeal said.
“You can’t go out there scared, you have to go out
their with your head up. I know that they’re going
to be coming after me. That’s just something that
you’ve got to deal with.”
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Florida joined the Big East just
months after the 25-year-old
league lost Miami, Virginia Tech
and Boston College to the ACC.
The new members will begin
competing in the 2005-06 aca
demic year.
Cincinnati, Louisville and
South Florida replace those
three in football to keep the Big
East at eight members for that
sport. DePaul and Marquette
join for all other sports, giving
the Big East 16 members, sever
al of which are the country’s
premier basketball programs.
But in the current financial
climate of college sports, it’s
football that matters, and the
Bowl Championship Series bids
that come with it.
“We’re going to have to step
up in football,” Syracuse athlet
ic director Jake Crouthamel
said. “Maybe we relied a little
too much on Miami in recent
years. We’re all going to have to
step up.”
The remaining football
schools in the Big East are
Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Rutgers
and West Virginia, with
Connecticut becoming a full
time member next season. The
other members are St. John’s,
Villanova, Providence,
Georgetown, Notre Dame and
Seton Hall.
“In 1990, when Miami
joined the league and Big East
football was created, we were
measured on potential,”
Tranghese said. “These presi
dents are looking past today, to
five, 10,15 years down the road
to what this league can be.”
We’re going to have
to step it up in foot
ball. Maybe we relied
a little too much on
Miami in recent
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Conference USA moved
quickly to replace the schools it
lost, adding Marshall, Rice,
SMU, Tulsa and Central Florida.
“While we clearly would
have preferred that no Big East
expansion occur, that expecta
tion was unrealistic given the
actions of the ACC,” Conference
USA commissioner Britton
Banowsky said.
Tranghese was forthright in
his criticism of the ACC during
its expansion for the way it went
about it.
“We had no choice,”
Tranghese said of taking another
league’s members. “The ACC
had a choice and they made it.”
Big East officials hope the
new league will be attractive
enough to keep its automatic
berth in the BCS. The current
BCS contract expires after the
2006 bowls, and negotiations for
the new contract will begin in a
few months.
“We’re still one of the six
strongest football leagues in the
country and we will fulfill our
contractual obligations, and I’m
very confident we’ll be there in
the next go-around,” he said.
Tranghese said there is no
timetable for deciding if divi
sions will be formed and how
the postseason basketball tour
nament will be held, except that
it will be in Madison Square
Garden, which last season com
pleted the second year of an 11-
year deal with the Big East.
Going on recent past per
formances, the new Big East
could send half of its teams —
or more — to the NCAA tour
nament.
“If we were all together this
year, we would have seven of the
top 25 teams in the country,”
Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins
said. “I can’t remember the last
time that happened.”
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