Saturday’s Texas-Texas Tech
game at Jones Stadium in Lubbock,
Texas, was a shootout. The two
teams combined for 1,183 yards in
the Longhorns’ 38-32 victory. Tech
out-gained Texas 608-573, but the
Longhorns put the game away by
holding on in the second half after
building a 28-3 lead. The yardage
total was the highest ever in the Big
12 and the most ever gained in the
30-year history of Jones Stadium.
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Texas senior Phil Dawson has
become one of the most reliable
place-kickers in the nation, making
14 of 18 field goals, first in the Big
12 and seventh nationally. Dawson
hit a career-long 53-yarder against
Texas Tech to seal Texas’ win.
“He has ice in his veins, that
kid,” Longhorn Coach John
Mackovic said. “I have total confi
dence in putting the game in his
hands.”
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Colorado quarterback Koy
Detmer has been named the Big 12
offensive player of the week. The
6-foot-l, 185-pound senior was 27
of 41 for 401 yards and five touch
downs passing in No. 6 CU’s 49
42 win over Iowa State.
The league’s defensive player
of-the-week award was given to
Kansas State defensive end Nyle
Wiren. Wiren, a 6-foot-l, 250
pound senior, had nine tackles, two
sacks, and two tackles behind the
line of scrimmage in No. 9 KSU’s
38-12 win over Kansas.
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Missouri Coach Larry Smith
said again Monday that the Ne
braska defense is something spe
cial. Two days after the Huskers
shut down the Tiger attack in NU’s
51-7 victory, Smith compared the
1996 Nebraska defense to the 1991
Washington defensive unit
Washington won a share of the
national title that season, downing
Nebraska 36-21 in Lincoln and
Smith’s Southern California team
14-3. “Nebraska dominates the way
Washington did for a couple years,”
Smith said. “They just line up and
stop everything you try to do on
offense.”
Despite a 5-5 record, Texas
A&M has a chance to have four
500-yard rushers for the first time
in school history. The Aggies al
ready have three in that category:
Sirr Parker (704 yards), D’Andre
Hardman (555) and Eric Bernard
(554). If Dante Hall can manage 12
yards in the last two games of the
season, A&M will complete the
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In other Big 12 action, Texas
A&M came back from a 7-0 half
time deficit to defeat Baylor 24-7
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LISAREITSMAdinks a kin uvw missuui i a ciuui maime last r nday. Keitsma and her Husker teammates
play at No. 20 Kansas State Friday night.
K-btate battle to begin
season’s stretch drive
cozy confines of the NU Coliseum.
Kate Cmich attributed NU’s
road problems to a lade of focus.
; “But I don’t think we’ll have
any more problems,” said Cmich,
a senior. “We know we cannot af
ford to lose any more matches.’’
By winning its last six matches,
NU could possibly put itself in po
sition to gain atop seed in the tour
nament and earn the right to play
host to a regional, clearing a path
to the Final Four, Dec. 19 through
21 in Cleveland.
Playing at home, Cmich said,
will increase NU’s chance of ad
vancing to die tournament’s final
rounds. Currently, top-ranked
Florida (26-1), No. 2 Stanford (21
2) and No. 3 Hawaii (25-1) appear
to have inside tracks to play host to
regionals.
Penn State (23-2) is ranked one
spot ahead of NU at No. 4. In addi
tion to records, the tournament se
lection committee considers atten
dance in determining regional sites.
Nebraska ranks second nationally
to Hawaii in attendance, averaging
3,511 fans in 12 home matches.
“Our crowd is so big and intimi
dating to other teams,’’ Cmich said.
“We absolutely love playing in the
coliseum.”
Pettit is reluctant to look past
Friday’s match but acknowledges
that his team’s remaining road
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nuutnes are important in aeiennm
ing its seeding in the tournament
Nebraska will play at Kansas
Saturday before returning home
next weekend to face No. 22 Texas
Tech and Baylor. The Hu&kers close
the regular season on the road
against^No. 8^xas and 13th
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Big 12
picture
unclear
First-year league
may not fill allotted
bowl slots. _
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
With three weeks to play in the
regular season, The Big 12 Conference
bowl picture remains surprisingly un
clear.
An upside-down inaugural year in
the league’s South Division has left
some coaches wondering if the con
ference can fill the six bowl spots al
lotted for the Big 12.
“I think everybody is surprised at
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Minor pains
cannot slow
Comhuskers
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Bumps and braises can’t seem- to
stop die Nebraska football team.
Only twice this season have start
os been held out f" - -
of a game because
of an injury. I
back Ahman
Green did not play
against Baylor on
Oct. 12 and full
back Brian
Schuster sat out
the Oct 26 Kansas
game with a knee _ J
injury. Both play- Kelsay
ers returned the
next week.
Despite playing nine games this
season — eight on consecutive Satur
days — NU has remained in fairly
good health.
“I suppose there isn’t anybody who
is starting for us that doesn’t have
something wrong with them,” Coach
Tom Osborne said. “But they will play.
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