From: boisseau@chpc.utexas.edu (John R. Boisseau (Jay))
Subject: SWC Review for 11/14
Organization: The University of Texas System CHPC
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 04:46:29 GMT


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SWC Review For Games the Week of 11/14
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Gary 'Goober' Smith and Jay Boisseau.

                Conference      Overall
                  W  L  T       W  L  T
Texas A&M:        5  0  0      10  0  0
Texas:            4  1  0       6  3  0
Rice:             4  2  0       5  4  0
Baylor:           3  3  0       5  5  0
Texas Tech:       3  3  0       4  6  0
SMU:              2  5  0       4  6  0
Houston:          1  4  0       3  6  0
TCU:              1  5  0       2  7  1


TEXAS A&M at HOUSTON (Thursday, Nov. 12)
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Final Score:         A&M 38, Houston 30
Predictions: Goober  A&M 35, Houston 17
             Jay     A&M 38, Houston 21

Lots of offense in the dome and just enough bad officiating to make both sides 
complain.  Houston ran and shot for 582 yards against the normally tough 
Aggie defense.  Klingler had a great day burning the Aggie defenders and 
for the first time since the LSU game in 1988, A&M did not register a QB 
sack (last season against Houston, A&M had 11 sacks).  The bright spot for 
A&M in the game was the offense: Corey Pullig threw for 272 yards; Greg Hill 
ran for 3 touchdowns; and Rodney "I will *not* go down" Thomas provided his 
normal supply of incredible runs, some of them behind Greg Hill blocks.

"The Aggies are behind at the half... so what's new?" - R.C. Slocum

Houston held a 17-10 haltime lead and looked to be dominating.  For the 
umpteenth time this season, however, A&M came out strong in the second half. 
A&M scored 21 unanswered points to move ahead and seemed to take command of 
the game.  Houston refused to roll over, however.  In the middle of the
fourth quarter a quick 73-yard pass to Ron Peters changed the momentum.
Peters actually had stepped out of bounds back at the A&M 44 but the 
officials missed it.  That was perhaps the worst bad call (bad no-call?) of 
the game.  The next bad call occured three plays later.  A&M ran the 
ensuing kickoff back to the Houston 2 yard line.  On second and goal, 
Rodney Thomas jumped towards the goal.  It was called a touchdown but 
probably wasn't.  Refusing to stay down, the Cougars score nine plays later
with a 42-yard touchdown pass to Peters and the score was 30-38. Houston 
gets another big play with an interception at the A&M 35 yard line with 
3:13 left in the game.  But it was short lived as, this time, Klingler was 
intercepted.  From there, A&M was able to hang on to the win.


SMU at TEXAS
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Final Score:         Texas 35, SMU 14
Predictions: Goober  Texas 27, SMU 14
             Jay     Texas 30, SMU 20

The Longhorn defense, which finally discovered itself last week against 
TCU, hung around for another week against SMU. The offense showed that 
last week was indeed an aberration. Overall, the Longhorns looked ver 
impressive.

The game was actually not very entertaining: it seemed "routine" somehow, 
and I heard _many_ people talk use the word "boring." The Horns took 
comand from the start, leading 28-0 in the fourth quarter before the Ponies
could get a score. The 'Horns scored again, and gave up a meaningless TD
at the end for the mianl margin. The Texas defense stifled the Ponies 
14th-ranked passing attack for most of the game, holding it to just 28 
total yards in the second and third quarters (and only 2 yards rushing 
for the entire game), when the game was being decided. After going two 
full games without a sack, the 'Horns registered 6 against SMU.

The offense also looked good (i.e. nothing like last week against TCU). 
Gardere was given ample protection, and threw for 3 TDs with no INTs. The 
first TD toss was to TE Jason Burleson on a wonderful 3rd-and-inches call 
in which Pete faked the hand-off and rolled to his right. (I like 
Mackovic's play-calling--I could always guess what McWilliams was going 
to do, but not so with Mackovic.) Gardere's other TD passes were to 
Adrian Walker (he is hitting the backs a _lot_, as expected in a Mackovic 
offense) and Justin McLemore (the final score). Freshman WR Mike Adams 
scored on a 14 yard reverse for the 4th TD.


TEXAS TECH at TCU
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Final Score:         Texas Tech 31, TCU 28
Predictions: Goober  Texas Tech 24, TCU 17 
             Jay     Texas Tech 21, TCU 20

"I never had a victory that meant more."  - Spike Dykes.

It looked at first like TCU would post another win on the heels of their 
upset of the 'Horns last week as they jumped to a sizeable half-time lead.
A Texas Tech rally, capped by a wild finish in Fort Worth with 4 
touchdowns in the final 2:34 minutes of play, saved the Raiders.  Lloyd
Hill caught a touchdown pass with 3 seconds left to lift the 
Red Raiders over the Frogs.


BAYLOR at RICE
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Final Score:         Rice 34, Baylor 31
Predictions: Goober  Baylor 35, Rice 27
             Jay     Rice 28, Baylor 24

Just as he did last season against Baylor, Rice's Darrell Richardson kicks 
the game winning field goal in the closing seconds.  Rice started the game 
with two quick touchdowns and held the lead through most of the game. They
had sveeral _large_ leads, but had to withstand Baylor's punishing ground 
game to win. Baylor's early miscues kept the Bears from putting more 
points on the board early in the game, despite some impressive offensive 
plays.



Jay's record:    4-0 this week, 37-7-1 overall
Goober's record: 3-1 this week, 29-15-1 overall
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  John R. Boisseau ("Jay")       
  Department of Astronomy        
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