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COACH, MENTOR, GUIDETexas head coach Mack Brown experienced an emotional three weeks, capped off by last Saturday’s win.

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GameDay curse heads to MissouriBy Jon Parrett

Daily Texan StaffPicture yourself on a Saturday

morning, strolling — or perhaps stumbling — through a park-ing lot filled with college foot-ball fans and their tailgates. You inhale the stark aroma of some-one smoking a pig a few yards away. You barely feel the emp-ty beer can as you kick it along the ground in front of you; look-ing down, you see dozens more scattered haphazardly across the pavement.

The game hasn’t started yet

— none have actually, it’s still too early — and you notice ev-eryone is huddled underneath their tents and around their tele-visions. You peek over some-one’s shoulders to see a screen showing four men sitting be-hind a desk, with thousands of screaming fans holding signs and throwing cheerleaders in the air behind them. One of the men takes out a mascot’s head and puts it on, and you hear groans from the people standing around you because ESPN’s Col-lege GameDay is almost over.

This Saturday, GameDay travels to Columbia, Mo., to see No. 11 Missouri host No. 1 Oklahoma. This will be the first time in the school’s his-tory that Missouri hosts the GameDay crew.

The Tiger ’s game against the Sooners may be scheduled at the perfect time for Mis-souri. A curse akin to the Mad-den curse or Sports Illustrat-ed cover jinx is gaining trac-tion: The last two No. 1 teams in the country, Ohio State last week and Alabama the week before, both lost when playing on the road with GameDay in town this season. In fact, the home team has won each contest GameDay has visited this season, including Loui-siana State, which was desig-nated as the home team when it played North Carolina at a neutral site in Atlanta. Curse or not, home teams are 47-40 with College GameDay on their campuses since 2003.

Col lege GameDay f irs t aired in 1987 on ESPN, but for the first six years it was only broadcasted from a studio in Bristol, Conn. The show made a drastic change in 1993 when it broadcasted for the first time on the road. On Nov. 13 of that year, GameDay trav-eled to South Bend, Ind., to see No. 2 Notre Dame host No. 1 Florida State. Since 1995 it has become a game-day ritu-

al for the ESPN crew to roll into a new town, as sure as tailgat-ing or BBQ.

According to ESPN publicist Mike Humes, ESPN scans the country for the best team, game or storyline each week, and de-cides where to broadcast the show based on those factors. On Oct. 3, 2009, Gameday traveled to Boston to see Boston College play Flori-da State, but also to pay tribute to Eagles linebacker Mark Herzlich, who had overcome cancer earlier in the year. ESPN doesn’t always pick the “sexiest” game of the week and has mixed it up in other ways as well.

“On average once a year, we may go to a place that’s off the radar, like a Division III game or one of the military academies,” Humes said.

College GameDay has yet to visit one of those ‘off the radar’ games so far this season, as each game has featured at least one team from a BCS conference.

“The show has a known qual-ity that it originates from the day’s best game,” Humes said.

Texas has yet to play in a game visited by College GameDay this season — its last appear-ance on the program was last season’s BCS National Champi-onship Game and GameDay vis-ited Austin on Sept. 19, 2009.

“We don’t worry about [Col-lege GameDay] too much,” said running back Fozzy Whittaker. “We just go out there and play each week. If they come then they come, and if not, we still have to play.”

The program doesn’t have much of an effect on how Texas plays, the Longhorns are 8-5 all-time when playing in a matchup featured by GameDay, but Whit-taker couldn’t hold back a smile when asked if it got him excited for practice during the week.

“They may drop in our prac-tice for a little bit, so that’s pret-ty cool to interact with them,” he said. “But whenever it’s Sat-urday, it’s back to business.”

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Sept. 11 Alabama 24 Penn State 3

Sept. 18 Auburn 27 Clemson 24

Sept. 25 Boise St. 27 Oregon St. 24 (OT)

Oct. 2 Oregon 52 Stanford 31

Oct. 9 S. Carolina 35 Alabama 21

Oct. 16 Wisconsin 31 Ohio State 18


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This week, Texas head coach Mack Brown recalled the jubila-tion and excitement he and his players felt in the locker room af-ter beating Texas Tech in Week 3 in Lubbock.

“We had a team building mo-ment,” he said. “But the momen-tum didn’t carry over to UCLA.”

The Longhorns were upset by UCLA the following week, a shocking 34-12 loss that was the beginning of a slow few weeks. But after last week’s win over Nebraska in Lincoln, Brown felt a buzz in the locker room again.

“We had that building mo-ment again in the dressing room after Nebraska,” he said. “It was very emotional and we’ll see if that will actually carry over to this weekend.”

The biggest question head-ing into Iowa State this week-end for Texas is, “Will they be ready to play?” The Cyclones are a 3-4 football team that had an impressive win over Texas Tech a few weeks ago. They’re also coming off a two-game losing streak, like Texas was last week, and are looking for redemption in Austin.

“Iowa State is coming to our house to try to beat us,” said ju-nior cornerback Aaron Williams. “They’re going to be hungry, they’re going to be mad, they’re going to be pissed, they’re going to have an edge and they’re go-ing to try to come down here and embarrass us.”

Since UCLA, the Longhorns don’t underestimate any oppo-nent. Just like they were follow-ing Tech, the Longhorns have been bragged on all week for their performance in Lincoln. But as the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

“When we played UCLA, we put too much pressure on our-selves,” Williams said. “There was the whole Pac-10/Big 12 conversation being brought up and being a top-ranked team and everybody telling us we should destroy UCLA. The pressure got to us and we made mental mistakes.”

Brown is praying that won’t be the case this week, as the Long-horns have no room for error with a 4-2 record. But now that it’s the midpoint of the year, he’s told the team that the season is starting over and it’s time to fin-ish strong.

“It’s unique for us now be-cause we have six games left and five of them are at home,” he said. “The biggest question now is, the kids have shown they can overcome adversity and beat a top-five team on the road. Will they be able to continue to build on what they did in Lincoln and not get full of themselves?”

Before losing to the Bruins, the Longhorns were rolling on a 16-home game winning streak, as they hadn’t lost at Darrel K Roy-al-Texas Memorial Stadium since Kansas State came to town in 2007. And with the second half of the season starting this week-end, Brown is calling for all Texas fans to come to a game that could jump start a postseason rally.

“We really need our fans to come back and help us get our [home winning] streak started again,” Brown said. “Fans, in my estimation, have the biggest im-pact on this team more than any we’ve had in 13 years. We need our fans. This team needs their fans. I know it’s tougher for stu-dents to get up and get mov-ing on Saturday mornings, but we need people there, we need them attentive and we need them ready to play.”

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Texas running back Tre’ Newton tucks the ball as he runs toward the Nebraska defense last Saturday. Newton ran for 41 yards, and the Longhorns accumulated a season-high 209 yards on the ground.


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Texas head coach Mack Brown was disheveled, emotional and once again, a winner.

The victory over Nebras-ka finally ended his three-week slump, but it was more bitter-sweet than anyone knew. His wife, Sally, wasn’t there for the first time in his career as a head coach because her brother had passed away the day before.

“Sometimes we get so carried away with sports that we for-get what our families are about and what life’s really about and what our priorities should be,” Brown said. “I really wanted to talk to her instead of ABC.”

But as usual, Brown did the post-game interview for the mil-lions at home. Then, he gave an uplifting speech to his team, his honest perspective to the media and his appreciation to bosses, athletics director DeLoss Dodds and University President Wil-liam Powers Jr.

So many people along the way rely on his every word. His un-canny ability to place value on every aspect of football and life has made him so successful as a coach. But until the Nebraska victory, Brown was the captain of a panicking ship.

“I’m spoiled like everybody else and just can’t stand to lose,” Brown said. “Losing stinks. We’ve won so much around here that we’ve gotten used to it.”

On the verge of his first three-game losing streak in more than a decade, Brown confidently did what he has always done — found ways to win. But, ac-

knowledging that this year ’s team doesn’t have as much room for error as his teams of the past, the task wasn’t easy.

“That’s the hardest part — when you’re responsible for something that’s not working, you have to fix it,” Brown said. “And it takes a tremendous amount of energy and effort to figure it out.”

Brown’s Longhorns were col-lapsing around him before Ne-braska. Bandwagon fans started to bolt and diehard fans started to criticize. But there was Brown in the eye of the storm, holding all the faith and answers to a re-turn to glory.

“UCLA jumped out on all of us,” Brown said. “I thought we’d win because I thought we’d play better. Then we go play Okla-homa and they’re playing real-ly well, and we go to Nebraska and they’re playing really well and all of a sudden, we’re in a fight here.”

After the Nebraska game, a middle-aged Texas fan claimed to have had dinner with Brown and the team just outside of Lin-coln the night before the game.

“Mack looked me in the eyes and said, ‘I don’t want you to worry,’” he said. “‘We’ve fig-ured some things out, and we’ve got this.’”

The man admitted he had called for Brown’s head every day since the UCLA loss, but he seemed to be a converted be-liever in Brown that night.

“I told my wife, ‘They’re go-ing to win that game tomor-row,’” he said. “She couldn’t be-lieve I had changed my mind

about them getting their tails whooped, but I believed him.”

Brown has that power and ap-peal with people. The day be-fore the National Championship

in January, an auditorium full of media members cringed at ev-ery answer from Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who was neg-ative, sarcastic and critical of re-porters’ questions. But when

Brown took the stage, beaming a smile with his personable na-ture and calling on reporters by their first names, the room be-came lively. Brown has always

been honest about how much the Longhorns mean to him.

“It’s what you are and it’s who you are,” Brown said. “And when it’s not working, it takes a toll on you.”

With the challenging distrac-tions of his brother-in-law’s passing and his longtime friend and co-worker Cleve Bryant’s leave of absence, Brown faced hard times last week.

“Everything with your busi-ness, you deal with, and every-thing with your family, you deal with,” he said. “But losing is hardest — it takes out a part of your life.”

But when he returned home to his wife after the Nebraska game to give her the game ball that the players insisted she have, every-thing was back to normal again. He had everything figured out and, as always, was optimistic about the future.

“It is amazing that when you win, it picks everything up,” Brown said. “It’s truly amazing how powerful winning can be.”

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Head coach Mack Brown joins his team in reciting “The Eyes of Texas” after the Longhorns’ victory at Nebraska. His brother-in-law passed away the day before but Brown still traveled to Lincoln for the game.

Brown remains upbeat despite difficult times

‘‘When you’re responsible for something that’s not working, you have to fix it.”

— Mack Brown, Texas head coach


Tight end Collin Franklin is the Cyclones’ leading receiver and is a big target with soft hands and a strong rapport with Ar-naud. Malcolm Williams had the only catch by a Texas wideout against Nebras-ka, but the Cornhuskers’ secondary is one of the best in the country while Iowa State ranks 10th in the Big 12 in pass-efficien-cy defense.

Texas QB Garrett Gilbert ran wild against a tough Nebraska defense last week and found the end zone twice on the ground while con-tinuing to struggle in the passing game. Iowa State’s Austen Arnaud is a dual-threat QB with 51 career TDs rushing and passing. Ar-naud looked overmatched against Oklaho-ma in ISU’s last game and was benched in the second half.

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QUARTERBACK RUNNING BACK RECEIVERS OFFENSIVE LINEThe Cyclones’ two primary running backs, se-nior Alexander Robinson and freshman Shon-trelle Johnson, both enjoyed 100-yard plus rushing performances against Texas Tech but have yet to face a defense quite as physical as the Longhorns’. Cody Johnson was huge for Texas in the upset of Nebraska and the return of Tre’ Newton certainly helped the team’s running game.

The Longhorns’ O-line showed up to play against a celebrated Nebraska defense and had its best game of the year by far, opening holes left and right for Gilbert and Johnson as Texas topped 200 yards on the ground. Iowa State’s linemen are giving up more than two sacks per con-test and will have their hands full against a menacing Texas defensive line.

Aaron Williams led the Texas secondary with eight tackles, a forced fumble and a tackle for loss against Nebraska, while a host of young Longhorn defensive backs got a chance to show their stuff last week. Safety David Sims had a career-best 17 tackles a week ago and is the Cyclone’s leader in the secondary and was voted Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year in 2009.

Kheeston Randall was all over the place for the Longhorns last week and disrupt-ed Nebraska’s prolific run game as Tex-as controlled the line of scrimmage for four quarters. In seven games, the Cy-clone linemen have combined for only five sacks. In addition, Iowa State has giv-en up 275 yards rushing on average in the team’s four losses.

Freshman Jordan Hicks showed that Tex-as has depth at linebacker, coming off the bench to lead the Longhorns in tackles af-ter starter Keenan Robinson left with an in-jury and Emmanuel Acho battled through an ankle injury. Iowa State’s A.J. Klein and Jake Knott have three interceptions apiece for a young Cyclone linebacking unit with loads of potential.

Iowa State’s roster is full of dangerous re-turn men as Shontrelle Johnson ranks fifth in the conference in kickoff returns while Leon-ard Johnson has a 300-yard plus kick return performance to his name. The Longhorns’ attempted pooch kick on a fake field goal against Nebraska ended disastrously, although Justin Tucker has been much improved in the place kicking and punting game.

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Alabama, Ohio State and Tex-as were all teams that seeming-ly had college football figured out. Not anymore — each has suffered a loss this season and suffered be-cause of it.

Enter Oklahoma. Sure, this is not Bob Stoops’ best team. The Soon-ers’ defense has been erratic. They barely won against Air Force and Cincinnati. But they have accom-plished something only a few of the other traditional football pow-erhouses have done this season — remain unbeaten.

“I understand that the announce-ment of the poll makes for good conversation among media and fans, but two games into our con-ference season, it’s too early for us to give it any attention,” said head coach Bob Stoops. “At this point, it just speaks to the quality of the schedule we’ve played.”

With a 6-0 record, including wins over two top-25 programs, and an offense averaging 458.3 yards per game, the Sooners are surviving, for which they have been rewarded.

Now third in The Associated Press Poll and No. 1 in the all-im-portant BCS standings, Oklaho-ma’s mix of talent, coaching and experience has largely attributed to

its success.Last season, quarterback Lan-

dry Jones stepped in when for-mer quarterback Sam Bradford suf-fered an injury. Jones threw 14 in-terceptions; this year he has only thrown three.

“The quarterback always gets a lot of credit and a lot of blame,” said offensive coordinator Kev-in Wilson. “I think, maybe, it was our whole group. In short term, our whole group is a lot better and that’s helping him.”

The Sooners have slid up the poll just as they have slipped past some of their most recent opponents by a touchdown or less.

Remember the 31-24 win over Utah and the 27-24 over Air Force? What about the 31-29 nail biting-win over Cincinnati?

While not the prettiest of wins, each time a loss was avoided it qui-etly boosted the Sooners’ resume.

The Sooners’ strong schedule this season undoubtedly gave them a boost in the BCS. The teams they have beaten thus far combine for a 25-14 record.

Linebacker and defensive cap-tain Travis Lewis thought the Soon-ers were not too deserving of the top spot.

“Put someone deserving of it up there,” Lewis said. “Not that I don’t

think we’re one of the best in the country, I [just] don’t think we de-served it yet.”

Dwelling on the past and their most recent ranking in the polls is the last thing Stoops wants his players doing.

“What’s it matter? I don’t re-member anybody talking about a goal that Oct. 15 we want to be No. 1 in the BCS,” Stoops told report-ers. “That doesn’t matter at all.”

According to Stoops, all that matters is Saturday’s show-down against the Tigers in Columbia, Mo.

“We’ve played two conference games, and our whole focus and attitude is on them,” he said.

Since the BCS debuted in 1998, the team that started out No.1 in the rankings has played in the na-tional championship just six times. Of those times, only two teams

have won the national title.Under Stoops, the Sooners

have begun as the top team in the BCS three other times and lost their only national championship appearance.

Continue to win, and the crim-son red carpet will be laid out and waiting for the Sooners. Lose and it will be pulled up faster than it takes the opposing team’s fan to rush the field.

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Sooners look to stay atop BCS standingsOklahoma’s Brennan Clay runs past an Iowa State defender in a game last week. The Sooners crushed ISU 52-0 and are now atop the BCS poll.

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In fall, the stillness that sur-rounds the Saturday dawn hours on the 40 Acres is peaceful. The Texas sky cloaks the campus like a cozy blanket. The faint sounds

of waking birds begin to chime. And Longhorn students are nes-tled comfortably in bed, dreaming about kickoff when they awake.

However, for 500 of Texas’ most faithful, 4:30 a.m. this Saturday will be much more hectic. The tun-ing of the brass instruments will overlap with the pulsating beats of rehearsing drummers, while the twirlers practice their tosses among a crowd of people all try-ing to put together an extravagant

show to be performed later that same day.

“Our rehearsal is at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, and we learn an entire marching show in one and a half hours,” said Dr. Coral Noonan.

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Oklahoma got the nod for first in the BCS poll, though some experts question the computers. But just in case the Sooners needed to make a case for themselves, they dropped 52 points on Iowa State while shutting the Cyclones out last week.

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The Tigers look good — really good. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert threw three touchdowns against the Aggies and the Tiger defense gave up only nine points last Saturday. It was Missouri’s first real test and the team passed with flying colors.

If Missouri is No. 2, Oklahoma State is a close third. The Cowboys have the second-highest scoring offense in the nation, averaging 49.50 points per game. If the ‘Pokes beat Nebraska this week at home, expect them to jump.

Nebraska had a slew of dropped passes, missed blocks and poor tackles that led to defeat against Texas. If the Huskers can weather ranked matchups against OSU and Missouri the rest of their schedule is vanilla.

A mixture of creative play-calling and a monstrous defensive line led to Texas’ most memorable win of the season. The two losses keep them from moving any higher, but look for a possible jump next week depending on how the rest of the conference plays.

The Wildcats shot the Jayhawks out of the air last week. Kansas State rebounded from a big loss to Nebraska by clubbing Kansas 59-7. The win provided KSU with a national audience, being broadcast on FSN, and an outside shot at the North division title.

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The Raiders’ top-10 passing attack hasn’t done much for them so far. They lost to Oklahoma State last week and their remaining schedule isn’t favorable with games against Missouri and Houston and at Oklahoma.

Losers of three straight, the once-promising Aggies are free falling. After getting torched by Missouri’s Blaine Gabbert last week, the Aggies have no hope of a Big 12 title run after dropping to last place in the South division.

Yes, the Cyclone defeated Texas Tech 52-38 on Oct. 2. Yes, they have one of the toughest schedules in the conference. However, they couldn’t manage a single point against Oklahoma last week and previously were blown out by Utah.

The Buffs had a chance to win against Baylor but couldn’t quite seal the deal. Their 102nd-ranked offense won’t help them much, but if their defense can step up, there is always a bowl game possibility on the horizon at 3-3.

Kansas probably wishes it was leaving the Big 12 as well, at least as far as football is concerned. The Jayhawks were pummeled the past two weeks by Baylor and KSU. They do, however, get props for their hyper-stylized YouTube series “The Gridiron.”

Robert Griffin proved why he is one of the Big 12’s best quarterbacks last week. He threw for 234 yards and added 137 on the ground in a 31-25 win against Colorado. One more win and the Bears will be bowl eligible for the first time in 15 years.

Klein is the Cyclones’ lead-ing tackler and is tied for the team lead with three in-terceptions. He’ll need to keep Gilbert from running wild like he did last week

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Above: Linebacker Emmanuel Acho, left, celebrates with quar-terback Garrett Gilbert after the victory. Both had career nights as Acho recorded a game-high five solo tackles and Gilbert ran for 71 yards. Left: Texas running back Cody Johnson is tackled by two Nebraska defenders. Johnson led the team with 73 yards on the ground.

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Section 2: Running

Oct. 2: 28-20 loss vs. OklahomaWith little running game to speak of, Gilbert passes the ball 41 times, complet-ing over 65 percent of his throws for 266 yards. The sophomore is again kept out of the end zone as Texas loses its fi rst game in the Red River Rivalry since 2007.

Sept. 25: 34-12 loss vs. UCLAA bad fi rst half coupled with conservative play-calling in the second doom Gilbert and the Texas off ense. Trailing 13-3 at halftime, the Longhorns try to play catch up through the air but fall short. Gilbert goes 30-of-45 for 265 yards.

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By Jordan GodwinDaily Texan Staff

Garrett Gilbert said the Nebraska game was probably his worst pass-ing performance since Pop Warner.

“I probably had a better percentage and threw for more yards,” Gilbert said, joking about his 4-for-16, 62-yard passing afternoon in Nebraska.

But you’ll have to look back even further than Gilbert’s pee-wee days to � nd a game where the Longhorns had an uglier day of passing — more like his diaper days. Gilbert was four months old the last time Texas threw for fewer yards, when a quarterback named Peter Gardere threw for 51 yards against Texas A&M on Nov. 28, 1991.

“But a win’s a win, and the stats don’t matter to me at all,” Gilbert said.

Right, and Texas has won four of six games this season, mostly because of a staunch defense. The offense is averaging only 345.2 yards per game, the least productive season Texas has had since that dreadful 1991 season when the Longhorns � n-ished 5-6. Their 202.2 passing yards per game is the lowest since 2004, when they rushed for 299.2 yards per game. Even including Gilbert’s 71-yard rushing performance against Nebraska, the Longhorns run for only 143.0 yards per game.

In last Saturday’s matchup, Malcolm Williams was the only receiver to catch the ball, a 5-yard reception. Two running backs hogged the other three completions. What if someone had predicted that lack of production in the Texas locker room before the game?

“I probably wouldn’t have believed you,” Williams said.

“But Nebraska’s pass defense is No. 1 in the country,” Gilbert con-

tended. “And I don’t think that changed over the weekend.”

A couple of Gilbert’s 12 incomple-tions were dropped in the end zone, leading some critics to blame the receivers. Texas fans were spoiled by the stardom of Quan Cosby and Jordan Shipley, but Williams and senior James Kirkendoll haven’t had the breakout seasons they were expected to. Most of the younger receivers have dealt with injuries.

“We’re trying to make plays, but the passing game just isn’t as pro-ductive right now,” Williams said. “But the offense is still getting the points. The chemistry is � ne, but we have to keep working through our funk.”

When Gilbert did attempt to pass, most balls were wobbly, wide, under or overthrown. Basically, he missed every way you can. But Williams stood up for the � rst-year starting quarterback in saying that if a pass is in a receiver’s “area code,” they’re

expected to catch it.Whether his lack of support from

receivers or his own inaccuracy, coaches still believe he’ll develop into the phenomenal quarterback they saw when he played at Lake Travis. He won every award you can think of, including Gatorade National Player of the Year, the � rst Texan to do so. He’s the state of Texas’ all-time leader in passing yards and ranks second in touchdown passes and completions for a high school athlete.

From his high school accomplish-ments, it seemed like his longtime go-to receiver at Lake Travis, Cade McCrary, would get a chance at Texas. McCrary currently serves as the holder on � eld goals and extra points, but if their chemistry was so good in high school, he might be worth a shot. He’s a lanky 6-foot-4, 185 pounds, but surely he could catch more than one-fourth of Gilbert’s passes for seven yards per pass. Because that’s what Gilbert did

on Saturday if you take away Fozzy Whittaker’s 41-yard reception, which spawned from a short pass.

But Texas head coach Mack Brown has faith in Gilbert.

“I’ve told the guys in practice that I would stand and watch Colt [McCoy] and Quan and Jordan, and a ball would never hit the ground,” Brown said. “We’re all spoiled with that — I just thought that’s how it was supposed to be.”

Regardless of the � rst-half num-bers Gilbert put up, he’s bound to improve in the second half of the season. The Longhorns face much weaker pass defenses that they should be able to dominate. So don’t be surprised when Gilbert suddenly starts looking better than ol’ Peter Gardere from ’91.

“We can throw it,” Brown said. “We didn’t Saturday, but if we can continue to run it and pick back up with our passing game, then Garrett can still have a special year.”

� e evolution of a quarterbackGarrett Gilbert has now started six games for Texas and shown his ability throwing the ball (see Section 1) as well as running it (see Section 2). Halfway through his fi rst full season, Gilbert is still a work-in-progress for the Longhorn off ense but has displayed promising progress in a number of categories.

Figure 1.0: Gilbert’s single season evolution

Sept. 4: 34-7 win vs. RiceThe Longhorns, and Gilbert, start 2010 slow versus the Owls but put the game away in the sec-ond half. Even without a touchdown, Gilbert throws for 172 yards on 14 comple-tions in his fi rst full game at quarterback.

Sept. 18: 24-14 win @ Texas TechThe sophomore quarterback completes 21 of 36 passes for a pair of touchdowns as Texas erases memories of Tech games past. However, Gilbert struggles with interceptions, throwing a career-high three to the Red Raiders.

Gilbert completes fewest passes by a UT quarterback since Gardere 19 years ago

Sophomore uses ground game to punish Nebraska for 71 yards, 2 touchdowns

By Laken LitmanDaily Texan Staff

Garrett Gilbert’s legs have been the missing piece to the Longhorns’ offensive identity. Against Nebraska last weekend, he ran 11 times for 71 yards, whereas through his � rst � ve games he had amassed just 14 yards on 24 carries.

Heading into Lincoln, offensive coordinator Greg Davis knew that Gilbert would struggle throw-ing the ball against the nation’s top-ranked pass defense — and he did, completing just four of 16 passes. So Davis thought this game would be the perfect opportunity for Gilbert to tuck the ball in his chest and run.

“Our design was to spread the � eld wide and run the ball inside, to put it in simplistic terms,” Davis said.

On the Longhorns’ � rst offensive series, they faced a third-and-one situation. Texas had trouble con-verting third downs prior to facing Nebraska, but here Gilbert took it

upon himself to rush for 3 yards and move the chains and the drive ultimately resulted in a � eld goal. Before Nebraska, Gilbert might have thrown a lateral pass or an incompletion rather than run.

In that opening series alone, Gilbert rushed three times for 32 yards, one of which was a 25-yard sprint on a � rst down. He looked like a brand new quarterback with poise and determination.

“With his feet, he’s a different athlete on the � eld,” said head coach Mack Brown. “He’s so con-ditioned and so smart. A couple of his runs Saturday were quarter-back draws, but a couple of them, he just saw an opening and saw yards and ran.”

Before Gilbert gained the con� -dence to run, he was essentially a non-factor for defenses. Now oppo-nents have to account for him as another player and worry about him scrambling.

But even though Gilbert did � n-ish second on the team in rushing yards (tailback Cody Johnson had 73 yards on 11 carries), Brown said that Gilbert would not be the team’s leading rusher like Colt McCoy or Vince Young were at Texas.

“He won’t lead the team in rush-ing, but I think he can do a lot of things with his legs,” Brown said. “He’s so much bigger and stron-ger than people give him credit for. And he’s faster. His quickness doesn’t look the same as Colt and nobody runs like Vince, but Garrett is an effective runner and we knew that and I think he � nally put it all together.”

Davis explained that with all the quarterbacks he’s coached in 38 years, there’s usually a learning curve they go through.

“I know Colt at one point in his freshman year, we kept talking to him about running the ball and [quarterbacks] aren’t sure that they can,” Davis said. “The game is so much faster and they see that and then they do run it and have suc-cess and realize that they can make plays with their feet.”

At Lake Travis High School, Gilbert rushed for 1,424 yards and 32 touch-downs, so he knows how to run the ball. But it’s different in college.

“They hit a little bit harder up here,” Gilbert joked.

Now that he’s proven to himself that he can run, Gilbert is comfort-able with being a steady part of the

game plan every week.“I’ll do whatever the coaches ask

and I know that draws are going to be a big part of it,” Gilbert said. “It feels great to be sore after a win.”

Gilbert said he is “obviously not a dual-threat quarterback” and won’t be itching to run every play, but he is excited that he isn’t as lim-ited by the play-calling anymore.

“I’m still going through my pro-gression and I don’t think I’ll tuck the ball down any quicker,” he said. “It’s more not trying to force the ball and keep the play alive.”

Gilbert’s teammates gave him a hard time for his perfor-mance since he’d never played that way in front of a national TV audience before.

“It was nothing too degrading, just teasing like, ‘Oh, we didn’t know you could run that far or that fast,’” said senior left guard Michael Huey. “I knew he could run that way, but just wasn’t used to it.

The offense’s game plan will change every week depending on the opposing defense but with its new accessory of a mobile quarter-back, Texas has the ability to call for more quarterback draws.

Caleb Bryant MillerDaily Texan Staff

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Texas quarter-back Garrett Gilbert escapes the clutches of a Texas Tech defender during this season’s matchup in Lubbock. Gilbert threw for 227 yards that game .

Gilbert grows into starter

Sept. 11: 34-7 win vs. WyomingGilbert outdoes himself with a 22-of-35, 222-yard passing performance, including his fi rst touch-down of the year. Texas doesn’t blow anyone away in its home opener but the off ense seems to gain confi dence.

Oct. 16: 20-13 win @ NebraskaOff ensive coordinator Greg Davis lets Gilbert loose and the quarterback responds with two rushing touchdowns. Despite an ineff ective arm, Gilbert runs for 71 yards and leads Texas to its biggest win of the season.

Illustration by Aron Fernandez| Daily Texan Staff

Section 1: Passing

Through the first five games of the season, Texas coaches and fans searched far and wide for a suit-able running back to start for the Longhorns and carry the team’s rushing workload.

Cody Johnson, for all of his off-season improvement, couldn’t han-dle all the snaps against Rice. Tre’ Newton, so fast and with a nose for the endzone, looked promising un-til he also succumbed to durabili-ty issues. Fozzy Whittaker seems to be the team’s top threat and of-fers a receiving option as well, but his performanc-es have been no more convincing than others’.

But perhaps the secret piece to the rushing puz-zle lay under Greg Davis’ nose the entire time: quar-terback Garrett Gilbert. With the Nebraska defense focused on con-taining Texas’ screen passes, you could see the surprise on the faces of Cornhusker defenders as Gilbert waltzed in for the first touchdown last Saturday.

Recall Texas heading into the 2008 season, with junior Colt Mc-Coy at the helm, similar questions about the rushing game abound-ed following the departure of Ja-maal Charles. McCoy finished as the team’s leading rusher, with 561 yards on 136 carries, and thanks to his feet, Texas finished 12-1 that season.

Will Gilbert pull a McCoy and end up as the team’s leading rush-er this season? Simply put, no. Not a chance. Not only is he at a statis-tical disadvantage (with just 85 net rushing yards so far this season), but his performance last week was simply part of the gameplan against Nebraska, not some previ-ously unrealized talent.

Don’t misconstrue my pre-

diction — Gilbert can run. As a three-year starter in high school he was just as apt to run the ball himself as to chuck it downfield and was well-known for his scrambling outside the pocket.

Remember his first collegiate touchdown? In the fourth quar-ter of last year’s game against the University of Louisiana at Mon-roe, Gilbert took the snap in the shotgun, dropped back, glanced at his receivers then tucked the ball and sprinted up the middle on a designed run play. He ben-efited from a great block down-field by Tray Allen but still had to outrun two Warhawk line-backers and bowl his way over the safety to score.

With a long stride and shifty feet, Gilbert might even be the best first-down run-ner Texas has. As a green sophomore starting as quarter-back, Gilbert still has work to do on his accuracy and pass selection but has shown he’s a natural scram-bler — it would be

foolish for Davis to keep him in the pocket against the Cyclones.

Iowa State gives up 239.3 rush-ing yards per game, third worst in the Big 12. Expect Gilbert to top his track meet in Lincoln by breaking the century mark on the ground this Saturday. The more he runs, the more the passing game will open up as well — ISU con-cedes 276 yards through the airon average.

Gilbert isn’t the long-term solu-tion at running back for Texas but he was the most consistent offen-sive performer against the Corn-huskers last weekend. Despite an abysmal 4-of-16 passing perfor-mance the most important statistic was the two touchdowns he scored on the ground. Head coach Mack Brown promised a downhill rush-ing attack this season but that obvi-ously isn’t working. Luckily, with Gilbert running the ball, it’s back to normal for Texas — and that’s a good thing.

By Will AndersonDaily Texan Columnist

Gilbert provides momentary fix to running woes

Will Gilbert pull a McCoy and end up

as the team’s leading rusher this season?

Simply put, no. Not a chance.

Courtesy of The Associated Press

Courtesy of The Iowa State Daily

The hometown hero from Ames, Iowa, Arnaud is climb-ing the school record books at Iowa State in his senior season. He’s second in career-passing yards, comple-tions and total offense; ranks third in touchdown pass-es and his 59-percent completion percentage is tops in Cyclone history. Arnaud is another speedy quar-terback at the reigns of a spread offense like so many teams in the Big 12. The fifth-year senior is a physical runner who effectively uses his 6-foot-3-inch, 230-pound frame to break tack-les and gain crucial yards after contact. Arnaud is equally effective in the pocket and will find the open receiver no matter who they are — he con-nected with eight different receivers in the season open-er. The Cyclones’ offensive leader had his best game of the season against Texas Tech on Oct. 2, completing a career-high four touch-down passes in Iowa State’s lone conference win. Arnaud can beat defenses with his legs or his arm.

Robinson is another fifth-year player for Iowa State, etching his place in Cyclone history. The talented tailback is approaching 3,000 career-rushing yards and has 10 career 100-yard rushing performances. The shifty back from Minneapolis, Minn., is averaging more than 5 yards per carry while dealing with an ankle issue in recent weeks. Robin-son’s production dipped in the Cyclones’ last two games, mainly be-cause they have been playing catchup while being outscored 130-27 in losses to Utah and Oklahoma. The veteran started his senior cam-paign strong, scoring twice against Northern Illinois — his sixth game with a pair of touchdowns. He is more of a running threat in the Cy-clones’ spread offense but has shown pass-catching ability out of the backfield. Robinson is generously listed at 5-foot-8-inches, but the di-minutive rusher has the strength to break arm tackles and the speed to outrun defenders. He’s shown big-play ability in 2010 with two 60-plus yard runs and gashed Texas Tech for 103 yards on just 12 carries.

Alexander Robinson, RB

Klein has been a force on defense for the Cyclones and is the second-leading tackler in the Big 12. The sopho-more is the enforcer for Iowa State and always seems to get his nose to the ball. He’s averaging a shade under 11 tackles per game but Klein is highly skilled in pass defense as well. Klein had the first interception of his ca-reer in the Big 12 opener against Kansas State, promptly returning it 69 yards for a touchdown. He followed that up with another pick-six in Iowa State’s following game against Northern Iowa, this time from 25 yards out, mak-ing him the first Cyclone to return an interception for a score in consecutive games since 1996. The middle line-backer is coming into his own as a first-year starter for Iowa State and is the leader of an all-sophomore LB corps. Klein will need to be active from sideline to sideline for the Cyclones to stop Texas’ improved ground attack.

A.J. Klein, LB


— By Austin Laymance | Daily Texan StaffPLAYERStoWATCH

Austen Arnaud, QB

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Robinson is another fifth-year player for Iowa State, etching his place in Cyclone history. The talented tailback is approaching 3,000 career-rushing yards and has 10 career 100-yard rushing performances. The shifty back from Minneapolis, Minn., is averaging more than 5 yards per carry while dealing with an ankle issue in recent weeks. Robin-son’s production dipped in the Cyclones’ last two games, mainly be-cause they have been playing catchup while being outscored 130-27 in losses to Utah and Oklahoma. The veteran started his senior cam-paign strong, scoring twice against Northern Illinois — his sixth game with a pair of touchdowns. He is more of a running threat in the Cy-clones’ spread offense but has shown pass-catching ability out of the backfield. Robinson is generously listed at 5-foot-8-inches, but the di-minutive rusher has the strength to break arm tackles and the speed to outrun defenders. He’s shown big-play ability in 2010 with two 60-plus yard runs and gashed Texas Tech for 103 yards on just 12 carries.

Courtesy of The Associated Press

Next issue: Oct. 30

Baylor

Go to MackBrown-TexasFoot-ball.com or check out the full-page ad on page nine and you will find the man with the web-site’s namesake pointing direct-ly at you with a bird’s eye view of DKR-Memorial Stadium in the background.

The headline over Brown’s chest reads “WE NEED YOU For the Iowa State G a m e ( C o m e Early and Be Loud).”

Uh oh. It looks like the athlet-ic department is a little ner-vous that Me-morial Stadium won’t be full for Saturday’s 11 a.m. game against Iowa State.

It is already difficult to get peo-ple excited about an opponent such as Iowa State, a team that has yet to provide any challenge to the Longhorns, losing all sev-en matchups.

But with this year’s Longhorn team not bringing the same ex-citement as previous years, the

athletic department has been working to try to ensure that Memorial Stadium will once again be rocking with more than 100,000 fans in the stands.

In addition to this late plea to get the remaining tickets sold, the athletic department has been pulling out all the stops, most re-cently with Brown’s stern face and a finger pointing directly at you.

The athletic department first offered faculty-discounted tick-ets, something that was a sur-

prise to some of the University staff.

Next, they an-nounced tha t d u r i n g n e x t w e e k ’ s g a m e against Baylor (another low-ly opponent) the team would re-tire Colt McCoy’s number 12.

Whether he deserves to have

his number retired, it is interest-ing that they already chose to put McCoy’s number alongside those of other Texas greats.

Vince Young had his number retired three seasons after fourth-and-five against USC at the Rose Bowl — a game that the Long-horns obviously won.

McCoy didn’t even make it

Early kick-off, poor opponent discourage fans

By Dan HurwitzDaily Texan Columnist

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

Fans watch Texas lose to UCLA on Sept. 25. The athletics department is trying to get more supporters out to the ISU game.

CROWD continues on page 20

It is already dif� cult to get people excited about an opponent such as Iowa State.


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Oklahoma’s secondary has been sus-pect this season and will need to tight-en up to stop Mizzou quarterback Blaine Gabbert. Missouri is in the driver’s seat to the Big 12 Championship game, but a win over Oklahoma will get people talk-ing about the BCS Championship. With ESPN’s College GameDay in town, the Tigers will get their biggest stage yet to make a national statement against Okla-homa and its bigtime playmakers.

Wisconsin is coming off its biggest win of the decade, but following it up against a stout Iowa defense is not something the Badgers were looking for as a reward. The big matchup in this game will be Io-wa’s front seven against Wisconsin’s run-ning attack, led by John Clay and fresh-man James White — the duo tore Ohio State’s defense up for a combined 179 yards and three touchdowns last week.

The Big Ten title is still up for grabs, and this game in Iowa City will surely factor into who has the honor of walking through a parade of roses at the end of the season. Expect a battle between two conservative defenses, but be prepared for occasional fireworks as both sides rank amongst the top 30 in the country in scoring offense.

Who says ESPN loves the SEC? With College GameDay bypassing the only matchup between top-10 teams this week, Lucky Les and the Tigers will look to up-end an Auburn team that’s giving up just more than 24 points a game. LSU has ben-efited from equal parts officiating and fortune this season, but head coach Les Miles shows no signs of taking his foot off the gas pedal.

Auburn quarterback Cam Newton has vaulted himself into the Heisman race, scoring four touchdowns in each of his last two games, single handedly turning the Arkansas game into an offensive slug-fest. This contest will decide who has sole possession of first place in the SEC West, but maybe not for long — both teams still have Alabama on their schedules.

Nebraska is coming off a derailing loss to Texas but still has Big 12 title hopes. The Huskers will look to get their run-ning game going, which stalled last week against the Longhorn defense. Quarter-back Taylor Martinez hopes to rebound from the worst performance of his young career, after rushing for just 21 yards — far short of the 147 he was averaging go-ing into the game.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma State has quiet-ly put together one of the most prolific offenses this season, averaging 361 yards per game and almost 50 points, both good enough for top three in the coun-try. Junior OSU quarterback Brandon Weeden has charged onto the collegiate football scene and is sixth in passing this season with 1,966 yards.

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2009 Wyoming game.

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band: Alumni take field this Saturday as part of traditionthe Longhorn alumni band mem-bers take to the field to perform a halftime show of their own. And for many of the performers, step-ping onto the hallowed grounds of DKR brings back memories from their days as young Long-horn band members.

“Now when I step out there I can’t help but think ‘I can’t be-lieve I once did this,’” Noonan said. “You get nervous like you used to all over again.”

The nerves will take a back seat to the experience though. With one of the largest alumni bands in the country, the more than 500 marchers have an extravagant show planned.

“We will span from end zone to end zone as we play ‘March Grandioso,’ as well as the ‘March of the Longhorns,’” Noonan said. “Then we will pay a special trib-ute to DeLoss Dodds as he is earn-ing a distinguished service award, to thank him for all that he has done for the band. And we will end with a spell-out and the eyes of Texas. It’s huge.”

That is a lot of music and march-ing for the average trumpeter to learn so quickly. But for the dis-tinguished members of the alum-ni band, it is simply a recollection of old habit. Still, the high inten-sity involved with a performance like this requires members’ fit-ness to execute such a task. It may come as surprising, then, how far back some of the members date.

Walter Parks Jr. is the most veter-an marcher. Parks, a trumpet and cornet player, was a Longhorn band member from 1936 to 1939.

What may be even more sur-prising is who is at the helm of all of this.

“Conducting us will be Vincent R. DiNino and he is a really big deal,” Noonan said. “He is kind of like the Darrell Royal of Long-horn band. He made Longhorn band what it is.”

DiNino conducted the Long-horn band from 1955 to 1975 and helped create the alumni band, plus a number of scholarships for the University.

Beyond performing at one home game a year, the alum-ni band is involved with a num-ber of other projects. The band performs at high profile events around campus and on famous Longhorns’ birthdays. The band has even performed at funerals, according to Noonan. But per-haps their most important work, she added, is their scholarship ini-tiatives that are directed to current Longhorn band members.

Noonan, a former president of the Longhorn alumni band and featured twirler in the band, said the group’s Texas pride is as big as its membership — which, at 3,000 total members in 7 different countries, is quite large — and she has no problem wearing it on her burnt orange sleeves.

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Arkansas is coming off of a thrilling shootout last week against Auburn, a 65-43 loss that set the record for the most points scored in an SEC regu-lar season game. But the Razor-backs almost lost much more when starting quarterback Ryan Mallett was injured in the sec-ond quarter. The back of Mal-lett’s head slammed against the turf after he was pulled down by Auburn defensive tackle Nick Farley and the quarterback suffered a minor concussion on the play.

“I didn’t ever black out or not know where I was,” Mallett said. “I was just feeling kind of woozy and talked to the coach-es and trainers and we figured it out and they brought me out. I wanted to go back in. They wouldn’t let me.”

Sophomore quarterback Tyler Wilson replaced Mallett and fin-ished the game with 332 yards and four touchdowns but threw two interceptions during the fourth quarter when the Hogs were trying to mount a come-back.

Mallett did not show any symptoms sustained from the concussion the day after the game and has not missed any practice this week. He should

be ready to play this Saturday against Mississippi.

“I’m 100 percent ready to go,” he said.

Gamecocks lose Lattimore this week to ankle injury

Two weeks ago, South Car-olina upset No. 1 Alabama 35-21 in front of 80,000, pom-pom waving, visor-wearing Game-cock fans. Freshman running back Marcus Lattimore became a household name after he ran for 95 yards and two touch-downs against a stout Crimson Tide defense.

Last week, the Gamecocks went on the road and fell 31-28 to Kentucky. Lattimore totaled a career-best 201 yards from scrimmage and three touch-downs — all in the first half — but suffered an ankle injury ear-ly in the second half, missing the remainder of the game.

“I heard a crack and thought it might be really bad,” Latti-more said, “but they said it was just a sprain.”

Lattimore was limited in prac-tice this week, and sophomore Kenny Miles will start this Sat-urday against Vanderbilt. Miles has carried the ball only nine times for 34 yards this season but was South Carolina’s lead-ing rusher last year, compiling 626 yards on the ground and

one touchdown.“Kenny’s a very good back

who just hasn’t had the oppor-tunity to play much this year,” said head coach Steve Spurri-er. “If Marcus has a miraculous recovery and says he feels fine, we’ll see about getting him in there.”

Lattimore did some light run-ning in Wednesday’s practice, and said his ankle felt 80 to 85 percent healthy.

“It’s feeling way better than it did Saturday night,” Lattimore said.

Former Westlake QB returns during off-week

Arizona quarterback Nick Foles came home to Austin this week. The former Westlake High School standout was in town to have his knee re-exam-ined after suffering a sprain dur-ing last week’s win over Wash-ington State. Foles will miss Sat-urday’s game against Washing-ton, but the injury is not sea-son ending and Arizona head coach Mike Stoops said he would assess Foles on a week-to-week basis.

“I’ll know next Monday what the likelihood of his ear-liest return would be,” Stoops said earlier this week. “We anticipate him back. We’ll know how he reacts to certain

t rea tment throughout the week.”

Foles has been one of the most consistent quarterbacks in the country this season, completing 75 percent of his passes for 1,600 yards and nine touchdowns.

Junior quarterback Matt Scott, who has played in three games this season, will start against the Huskies. Scott started the first three games last season before losing the starting job to Foles.

TCU climbing the polls with tight scoring defense

Some critics wonder wheth-er TCU, with its Mountain West Conference schedule, belongs at No. 5 in the season’s first BCS poll, which was released over the weekend. One thing no one is questioning though is the Horned Frogs’ second-ranked defense. TCU allows about 218 yards per game, 24 fewer than No. 3 LSU.

During the month of October,

the Horned Frogs haven’t allowed a single touchdown. In fact, oppo-nents Colorado State, Wyoming and Brigham Young have com-bined for just three points against TCU since Oct. 2, or an average of one point a game.

“They’re big, they’re extreme-ly quick,” said Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun, whose team faces TCU this weekend. “They’ve dominated every game this year.”

The Horned Frogs lost All-Americans Jerry Hughes, at de-fensive end, and Daryl Washing-ton, at linebacker, to graduation, but have remained dominant on that side of the ball. The team currently ranks atop the Foot-ball Bowl Subdivision in scoring defense, allowing 9.29 points per game.

“I think they’ve started to be-lieve in each other,” TCU head coach Gary Patterson said about his defense. “That’s what we had to do and that’s what we’ve started doing.”

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Missouri hopes to end losing streak versus OU

The message for Missouri this week is “focus.”

One would imagine the Tigers, who take on the Sooners this Sat-urday, would still be scarred from past games against Oklahoma. The two unbeaten teams have met three times since 2007 and the Ti-ger have lost every contest. But the focus head coach Gary Pinkel wants from his team is not dwell-ing on those past losses but instead looking ahead.

“We don’t really go there,” Pin-kel said Monday. “I don’t think that’s something we’ll talk about that much. It’s a new year, new players, different times.”

Pinkel is right. His team is differ-ent and that difference lies main-ly with the defense. The Tigers have one of the nation’s stingiest units, allowing just over 10 points a game. Missouri also ranks tops in the Big 12 in sacks and intercep-tions. Oklahoma, in contrast, ranks sixth in the conference and 71st na-tionally in total defense.

Still, Missouri has yet to play a team as good as the Sooners, and the team’s quick climb in the na-tional rankings left some fans perplexed. But a victory would easily put the Tigers in the top 10 and on the fast track to a Big 12 North title.

“I think the greatest asset that we have on defense is that we really play as a team together well,” Pinkel said. “There’re a lot of guys that believe in each oth-er and play real well together. They’re very realistic about the challenges that you have each and every week. We have some confidence, but, yet, a lot of prep-aration, to play a great game.

Football’s ‘greatest fans’ taunt Huskers after loss

It wasn’t enough for the Nebras-ka fans to be vocally angry at the Longhorns after dropping their first game last week. The fans also decided to vent their frustrations on their own players.

Nebraska’s Niles Paul was ver-bally abused by Cornhusker fans as he walked from Memorial Sta-dium to his car after the 20-13 loss. Paul dropped two would-be touchdowns on an afternoon where nearly all of the Nebras-ka receivers seemed to have a tough time catching the ball. Rex

Burkhead and Brandon Kinnie also dropped likely touchdown passes, and the receiving corps combined for eight drops.

“It hurts that people were yell-ing stuff at me. It’s disrespectful,” Paul said Tuesday. “As an athlete I have to keep my cool and stay focused because I don’t want to do something to put my situation in jeopardy.”

Nebraska fans are highly re-garded for their hospitality to both their team and opponents. Above each stadium entrance reads a sign that says, “Through These Gates Pass the Greatest Fans in College Football.”

But not even Paul could escape “the Greatest Fans.” The anger burned so deep for some faithful fans that they resorted to sending him nasty Facebook messages.

“I can’t deal with that,” he said. “People kind of use me as a scape-goat and say mean things to me on Facebook for making a mistake that receivers make or being hu-man in a game.”

Paul will get a chance to redeem himself against Oklahoma State this weekend, a team that on av-erage gives up 317.5 passing yards per game.

Kansas coaches, players focus on internal goals

Kansas Jayhawk fans want their coach fired and players replaced. Now. The Jayhawk players hear the message loud and clear, but they just try their best to avoid it.

“I usually have a pretty good idea what they’re going to say before I even read [the newspa-per],” said Kansas linebacker Drew Dudley.

Head coach Turner Gill said that his team has a specific set of goals he wants to accomplish internally, even if those goals don’t meet the demands of the fans.

“We talk about that, but I know they’re 18- to 22-year-old men,” Gill said Tuesday. “We just try to keep it within ourselves.”

— By Sameer Bhuchar | Daily Texan Staff

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Fearing a possible loss to Nebraska would make the

stadium even emptier, the athletic department probably wanted to get some more butts in the seats.

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Good luck.Tickets on Craigslist are asking

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Baylor needs another win to get into bowl game

Fifteen years. That’s how long it’s been since Baylor played in a bowl game. But that could all change on Saturday — a win over Kansas State would make the Bears bowl eligibile.

“That’s been our driving force since day one, and that hasn’t changed,” said head coach Art Briles. “We’re in a position to do it. We’re proud of where we’re at. Now we have to finish the job.”

The last year the Bears record-ed a winning season was 1995, only a year after their last bowl appearance at the Alamo Bowl. They are currently 5-2 head-ing into their matchup with the Wildcats.

The Bears’ homecoming game could bring in crowds upwards of 40,000, but the implications for Kansas State are just as high. If the Wildcats win, they also earn bowl eligibility.

It’s the best start ever for Briles in Waco — the Bears fin-ished each of the past two sea-sons with a record of 4-8.

“We know what the situa-tion is,” said senior safety By-ron Landor. “We are going home and we’re going to have a lot of alumni at the game, so many fans that are supporting Baylor. There is no better way to get it than at homecoming.”

Sherman confident with Johnson as starter

Texas A&M quarterback Jer-rod Johnson has struggled late-ly, but head coach Mike Sher-man continually stands by his quarterback.

“I think [Johnson] is the lead-er of our team. He’s averaging 300 yards a game,” Sherman said. “I trust him. I have confi-dence in him.”

But will Johnson start Sat-urday against Kansas? When asked, Sherman remained vague. He declined to comment on whether Johnson would start and also kept mum as to wheth-er backup Ryan Tannehill would take Johnson’s place.

“[Tannehill] will get his reps this week and we’ll continue to play like we normally play in relationship to what happens on Saturday,” Sherman said.

The Aggies have lost three straight and are 3-3 overall.

While Johnson has averaged 300 yards per game, learning how to handle the continual pressure is crucial. He’s thrown nine inter-ceptions to 14 touchdowns.

Saturday’s matchup against the Jayhawks, who are 2-4, could be just what the Aggies, and Johnson, need to turn around their season.

“We don’t feel overmatched. It’s a lack of execution for us,” Johnson said. “I’m going to try to be as perfect as I can be.”

Tech fights to stay afloat in crowded South division

With hopes of winning its first Big 12 Championship erased by a 1-3 start to conference play, Texas Tech is prepared to fight in extending its postseason bowl-game streak to 11.

“I think at this point you have to think about that, and that’s that sense of urgency,” said se-nior running back Baron Batch. “Right now we’re 3-3 and we’re not close to being bowl eligi-ble, and we have a lot of work to do.”

The Red Raiders record speaks for itself, as the squad needs three more wins to even become bowl eligible.

While Tech faces 3-3 Colorado on Saturday, they have a tough schedule ahead with games at Oklahoma, Texas A&M and against Missouri.

“We can win all of them or none of them,” head coach Tom-my Tuberville said of the squad’s six remaining games. “We’ve got to coach better and play better.”

Just two seasons ago Tech fin-ished tied for first in the Big 12 South although Oklahoma ad-vanced to the conference cham-pionship game on a tiebraker. The Red Raiders went on to lose to Ole Miss in the Cotton Bowl.

“We have to worry about get-ting better,” Tuberville said. “We have to coach better and play better.”

— By Alexandra Carreno | Daily Texan Staff

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By Austin LaymanceDaily Texan Staff

The next chance you get, watch Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads’ emotional locker room speech after the Cyclones’ improb-able win against Nebraska last season on YouTube, and you’ll see a man whose passion and heart turned around a program that was a laughingstock in the Big 12 prior to his arrival in 2009.

The video shows Rhoads ad-dressing his team after a hard fought 9-7 road victory over the Cornhuskers for ISU’s first win in Lincoln in 32 years. His voice wa-vering, Rhoads passionately tells his team of the immense pride he feels to be their coach, fighting back tears and showing the kind of emotion worthy of an Oscar.

It was the defining moment of Rhoads’ first season at the reigns of a program that had lost 10 straight games before his arrival in Ames, including a winless con-ference mark in 2008. But he told his players point blank in his first team meeting that they would win a bowl game and he deliv-ered as Iowa State finished 7-6 with a New Year’s Eve victory in the Insight Bowl.

For Texas fans, Rhoads’ pas-sion for the game and the spe-cial bond he shares with his play-ers can be compared to Longhorn defensive coordinator Will Mus-champ. Strangely enough, Rhoads replaced Muschamp at Auburn in 2008 when Muschamp left to take over the defense at Texas.

The two are some of the most respected defensive minds in col-lege football today. Muschamp said Rhoads is one of the best in the game and belongs with Ne-braska’s Bo Pelini and Alabama’s Nick Saban at the top of the defen-sive totem pole.

“I think highly of Paul, every-where he’s been he’s been suc-cessful,” Muschamp said. “He had great defenses at Pittsburgh, he did an outstanding job at Au-burn when he was there. A guy that I know in the defensive cir-cles is very well thought of and obviously he’s done an outstand-ing job at Iowa State.”

Rhoads completely transformed

the culture at Iowa State in his first season and the Cyclones were the most improved team in the BCS conferences, with a five-game im-provement in the win column from 2008 to 2009.

An Iowa native and former linebacker and secondary coach at Iowa State in the 1990s, Rhoads compared his return to the Cy-clones as something out of a Hol-lywood script.

In leading the Cyclones to their first winning season in four years, Rhoads became the first ISU coach to finish with a winning record in his inaugural year since 1931. In addition, his seven victories were the most for a first-year Cyclone head coach since 1907.

Rhoads worked as defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh for eight seasons, with five of his defenses ranked in the top 30 in the nation in scoring. He was named the Big East’s best defensive coordina-tor in 2007 before taking over for Muschamp at Auburn.

Texas Tech head coach Tom-my Tuberville was running the show at Auburn at the time and hired Rhoads after Mus-champ left for Texas. Rhoads led the Tigers to an impressive season as they finished 15th in scoring defense.

The next season, Rhoads was hired as Iowa State’s head coach after the position was vacated when former Texas defensive co-ordinator Gene Chizik, the archi-tect of the Longhorns’ defense that won the national champion-ship in 2005, left the Cyclones to head up Auburn’s program.

Coincidentally, Rhoads was offered the defensive coordina-tor position at Auburn in 2002 by Tuberville, but he passed on the opportunity and re-mained at Pittsburgh. Tuber-ville hired Chizik instead, cre-ating a unique connection be-tween some of the best defen-sive coaches in the game.

Rhoads is sure to have his Cyclones fired up to come into Austin to face the Longhorns with Texas fans hoping there’s no passionate locker room speech uploaded to YouTube af-ter this one.

Rhoads brings Iowa State team back from edge

Charlie Neibergall | Associated Press

Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads shakes hands with Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham after their teams’ game on Oct. 9. Under Rhoads the Cyclones have gone 10-8 over two years.

‘‘I think highly of Paul. Everywhere he’s been he’s been successful.”

— Will Muschamp Longhorn defensive coordinator

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