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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into another edition of pig Skin and

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football Talk. What a fun week here. Welcome into the show.

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Welcome to the program here on Fans Stream Sports. We're

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wherever he gets your podcasts. But welcome into a fun,

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an exciting week of Texas college football. The Texas a

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and m Aggie's were off resting getting ready for the

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Missouri Tigers this upcoming week. We had some very very

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impressive shows by well, we'll say an impressive showing by

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the Red Raiders once again as they continue to stay

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on track.

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Speaker 2: The Texas Longhorns.

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Speaker 1: Squeak one out. Are you happy about that? Longhorns fans?

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I don't know, It's been the story all season. And

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then you add those SMU Mustangs looking like the old

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early eighties Pony Express as they steal one. They're on

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the hilltop of Gerald J. Ford Stadium from the Miami

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Hurricanes in an ACC matchup, and that one was a

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fun one. We had some losers as well. We had Baylor, well,

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Baylor was a winner over the UCF Knights, big winners

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over the UCF Knights, and of course the Houston Cougars

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inexplicably losing to those West Virginia Mountaineers, a program that's

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a little in shambles right now and not what we expected,

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But let's start with the big one. There on the hilltop,

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as the Mustangs in overtime stun Number ten Miami, as

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the students there storm of the field at Gerald J.

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Ford Stadium, SMU continue to shake up the acc race,

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and they're doing it with flair. With a twenty six

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to twenty overtime grab.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: It's their thirteenth straight home conference win behind a walk

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off one yard plunge from TJ Harden and a defense

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that delivered when they needed at most. A mad Moses

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set the table with his second interception of the night,

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jumping Carson Beck just shide of the goal line on

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Miami's first overtime snap. Four straight hardened runs later, SMU

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lit the fuse, untouched left edge.

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Speaker 2: Ball game and bedlam.

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Speaker 1: It was a cathartic response just one week after a

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last play heartbreak loss at wake Forest. The Mustangs regathered, rebound,

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and they grinded. SMU had negative rushing yards entering overtime.

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The twenty five yards on the winning drive pushed the

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total to twenty three, all heart all situational football. The

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finish was pure Dallas Theater. SMU students poured over the

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wall behind the Miami bench toppled the goal posts in

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the end zone where Harden scored. The base wouldn't budget,

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but the uprights did, including one the one that was

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involved in that fourth quarter controversy with Sam Keltner's would

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be tying forty two yard was ruled no good. It

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sold over the upright that is not reviewable, and rhtt

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Lashley kind of laughed it off. In the post game,

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he said, hope there's one in deep Ellum and one

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Speaker 2: Dallas talking about those uprights.

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Speaker 1: Kelner got redemption though with a calm thirty eight yarder

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equalizer at twenty five seconds and kick made possible by

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a critical unnecessary roughness flag on Marquis's lightfoot after a timeout,

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gifting SMU a first down on fourth and nine. Kevin

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Jennings authored a gutty knight, throwing a touchdown running for another,

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returning after an apparent lower leg left injury to Steer

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the late drives, Miami also had its chances. Beck through

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for two hundred and seventy four yards. He tossed scores

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to Jossa Trader and Alex Bowman, but threw two picks,

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both to Moses and the Canes blinked at the end

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of regulation with twenty five seconds and a timeout after

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a touchback, Mario Cristobaul chose to kneel and Beck felt

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the sting there and because from there it was all SMU,

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they finished. Harden's overtime hammer punctuated a night that kept

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the Mustangs worrely in the conference mix there at six

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and three, four and one in the ACC, even after

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last week stumble stacked their long ACC Street Jennings toughness,

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Moses takeaways, Keltner's clutch swing, and one delirious field storm

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turned a top ten up set into a love letter

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to resilience. The Miami Hurricanes will try to regroup. They

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will face Syracuse on Saturday. Should be an easy win.

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Nothing against you, Syracuse Orange. Of course, SMU heads north

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to Boston College on Saturday as well, and this was

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a at least in my opinion, this was a program

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to talk SMU football over the last i don't know,

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thirty years, certainly a statement game, right for those boys,

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for Kevin Jennings, for Rhet Lashley, and yes, I was

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supposed to be there and I missed the game. One

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of those things like, man, I could have been there,

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I should have been there, I wasn't. Maybe I'll just

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light everybody and tell everybody I was there. Now, of

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course we're not gonna do that. But yeah, one for

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the ages, one for the program, and again Miami will

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have to regroup now and try to get caught back

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up in the college football playoff talk. Another program that

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impressed this week, and more so maybe than I thought

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it would, was the Red Raiders as they roll into

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Manhattan in power themselves to a forty three to twenty

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statement win over k State. It was a turnover tsunami

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as Texas Tech snapped an eight game skid to Kansas

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State bagged its first win in Manhattan since two thousand

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and eight, thumping the Wildcats behind a takeaway frenzy and

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helping QB one in a bruising ground game at Bill

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Snyder Family Stadium. Maren Morton returned from injury to throw

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for two hundred and forty nine yards two touchdowns to

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Kobe Williams ripped one hundred and thirty five yards and

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another score. The Red Raiders now moved to eight and one,

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five and one in the Big Twelve. They forced five

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turnovers to overwhelm What was that day of a very

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mistake prone kse State who falls to four and five,

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three and three in the conference. Head coach Joe Joey

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McGuire after the game talked about what a huge win

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it was, and he's not wrong. Interestingly, he arrived. If

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you haven't seen it, Joey McGuire arrived at the postgame

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press conference stand the podium wearing a T shirt that

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featured current Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt when he

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played for Kansas State. When he played linebacker at k State,

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he commented. McGuire commented on he said, it's no disrespect

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to k State. It's a tip of the hat to

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my ad who played linebacker here. It's been a long

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time since we beat K State. YadA, YadA, YadA. As

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a matter of fact, it is it's the first time,

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as we mentioned, since two thousand and eight since the

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Red Raiders have rolled into Manhattan and gotten a win.

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It was a sloppy game for both sides, and Morton

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threw an early pick. Avery Johnson answered with one of

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his own. Tech finally settled in. They were able to

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take advantage of some k State mistakes. And you know,

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watching this game, this is almost one of the infuriating

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aspects of Texas Tech football, and you don't like to

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see it. But it's the slow starts and it's you know,

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it's happened the last couple of weeks with Hammond under center,

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and of course he's out for the year. Morton comes back,

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and you wanted to see a quick start. You didn't

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want to see Texas Tech go down early. They go

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down seven to nothing. They come back and get things

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together in the second quarter thanks to some KSE State mistakes,

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but you don't like the sloppy slow starts. Brown fumble

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set up a touchdown for a nine to seven lead,

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a late three and out became a booming fifty five

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yard field goal. Then on the fourth play of the

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second half, Garrett Oakley fumbled that turned into a Williams

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forty one yard house calling silenced the crowd at nineteen

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to seven, but Barren Morton steady hand kept the pressure

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on with a dark to Caleb Douglas and then a

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field goal drive from Stone Harrington stretched the lead to

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twenty nine to fourteen. Entering the fourth k State tried

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to claw back, but the Texa Tech defense slammed the

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door a two point try with stuff to fourth down

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stop near midfield and a brief offensive miss. Q later

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made another fourth down stonewall. With under six minutes left

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for Tech, John Curry put the exclamation point on it

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scooping Johnson's late fumble and sprinting in for the dagger

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with just under five minutes left. Johnson total one hundred

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ninety nine yards passing with a touchdown in eighty six

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rushing yards with two scores, but those two interceptions in

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the late fumble headlined a brutal night of miskies for

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the Wildcats. They finished oh for four on fourth down

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and literally key drops across a bunch of drives did

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them in as well. Just a ton of errors, unforced

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errors for KSE State. Not like, not what you want

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to see from those boys if you're a k State fan.

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But give full credit to the Texas Tech defense and

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the Texas Tech offense for being able to take advantage

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of those. So the win pushes Tech into its best

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Big twelve starts since eight. The Mike Leach Cotton Bowl

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season showcases a defense that flips fields and it's a

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balanced offense that travels well. We can now see glad

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to have Baron Morton back. Cameron Dicky added a touchdown

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run to the party, and you know again, I think

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the return of Morton kind of lifted everybody up a

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little bit on the offense. Nothing against will Hammond, but

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when you got your starter back. Morton's kind of the

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heart of this thing. We all know that. And now

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Tech will get ready to face number ten b y

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you and maybe their biggest test of the year.

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Speaker 2: On Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Case State is off for a week before they head

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to November, head to Oklahoma State on November fifteenth, looking

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for a rebound game. You hat to have that week

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off after lost, because it really just sort of sits

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there and you're crawling. Doesn't make you feel too good.

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And you know what, the coaching staff makes sure that

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the boys remember those losses too. And you've got a

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week off for sure. So let's talk some Longhorns, kind

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of hook them horn, I guess maybe a little bit.

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As the long Horns escape Vanderbilt after blowing a twenty

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four point lead.

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Speaker 2: Should anybody be celebrating here? I don't know. I don't

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think so.

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Speaker 1: If you are, I'd love to hear why and how

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you think this was a good win. Look, I know

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a win is a win, is a win any given Saturday.

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Blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: But you can't sit there as a long Horns fan

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and tell me that you feel that you still feel

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good about this thing.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you.

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Speaker 1: If you just watched the first forty five minutes of

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this game, he'd probably think the long Horns had finally

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turned a corner.

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Speaker 2: They're back. Arch is back, the long Horns are back.

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But that was not the case.

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Speaker 1: Up thirty four to ten in the fourth quarter, they

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were cruising behind a freshly cleared Arch manning until well

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they weren't a desperate Commodore's rally. Diego Pavia's TD run,

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a sixty seven yard strike to Eli Stower's in a

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final touchdown to Richie Hoskins with thirty three seconds left

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turned a laugher into a near collapse that required the

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onside kick to trickle out of bounds for the Longhorns

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to survive. And boys and girls, if you didn't see

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that onside kick, it was so close. It was within

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six inches of a Vanderbilt player collecting that thing. Now,

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I know they would have still had to go score,

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but the the on side kick was the first step

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in that and man, they were so close. Steve Sarkesan

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after the game called it a great win. And my

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question to coach sark could be, really, I guess I mean,

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it is a win. I won't argue that is a

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great win. I mean, I get it. Vandy was what

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number nine in the country at the time, and well

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the Longhorns weren't.

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Speaker 2: So it's a win, all right.

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Speaker 1: But I still don't know how long Horns fans can

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feel good about where this thing is as we get

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closer and closer to the real goal for everybody here

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in the college football playoff. And you know, Manning struggled

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a little bit in this game, as he's done all year.

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His return from concussion protocol looked like a Hollywood rehab reel.

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He went twenty five to thirty three for three hundred

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twenty eight yards and three touchdowns, including a seventy five

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yard catch and run to Ryan Wingo on the game's

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first snap. He had its scoring throws to C. J.

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Baxter and him at Moseley. He popped up after a

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hard shot in the third and for once was able

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to enjoy clean pockets. Sarks said it was the best

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protection he's gotten all year, and it certainly looked like it.

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Wisner turned eighteen carries for seventy five yards in a score.

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Wingo needed only two grabs to post eighty nine yards.

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So why the side eye to the Longhorns here, Well,

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because the top ten road scalp shouldn't require a near choke.

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Texas defense bullied Pavia for three quarters, six sacks, bottled

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up scrambles, and then promptly let him stack a career

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high three hundred and sixty five passing yards and four

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hundred and eight total by the buzzer. Vandy missed a

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forty eight yard field goal in the third quarter, and

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they were that and a few inches on an on

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side kick away from erasing a twenty four point fourth

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quarter deficit, which sounds familiar because this program's margin for

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error keeps shrinking the moment the game pressure hits.

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Speaker 2: Uh. You know Texas took the bump up in the rankings.

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That's fine.

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Speaker 1: You have the whole cliche that November matters, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: Since they fell out of the polls. They've won four straight.

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It's went over a top ten of point opponent. It'll

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keep the college football playoff dream on life support for now.

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Speaker 2: But the film's not nice. The film is not kind.

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Speaker 1: Soft zones, late, leaky tackling a defense that went inexplicably

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from suffocating to scrambling in just minutes. Many looked at

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the part complimentary complimentary football did not. Sarks said, he'll

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have something to rip their butts about, and he won't

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have to look too far. There's plenty there. Style points

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are gone. Georgia awaits on November fifteenth. If the long

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Horns are gonna be real and they want to be

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taken seriously and they want everybody to say that they're back,

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that's the game. Be Georgia on November fifteenth. If they

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bring the last five minutes version of this team to Georgia,

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look out, this thing's gonna get ugly.

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Speaker 2: Look. And I'm not a Georgia lover.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Georgia's all that either, but they're better

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in Texas. Vanderbilt falls to seven and two, three and

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two in the SEC. They will host Auburn on November eighth,

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and we'll wonder how different this looks if the on

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site kick state in bounds at least I am Texas

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approves to seven and two, four and one in the SEC.

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Call it resilience, call it whatever you want. I'm a

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little bit of a Texas cynic right now. And I'm

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calling it a warning for you long horns out there.

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I don't know what else to tell you. The Aggies,

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of course, were off as they prepare the eight and

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O Aggies, by the way, prepare for number nineteen Missouri

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coming up this weekend. It's two thirty kick on ABC.

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If you are like me and you don't have ABC

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anymore or ESPN because you have YouTube TV like me,

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well then I'll join you at the bar up the

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street to watch some Aggi's and Tigers on Saturday. More

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on A and M next week probably, and we'll have

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a little bit of the recruiting news too for all

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of the programs. So we're gonna get into some recruiting

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talk coming up here shortly on the show. But let's

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get some kudos and maybe a sicken to those Baylor Bears.

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If Sorrier Robertson throws for three touchdowns, Cayden Knight rushes

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for one hundred and four yards, and Baylor beat UCF

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thirty to three, and I didn't see this coming. I

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thought these two programs were pretty evenly matched, and just

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the pure domination by the Baylor defense on the Knights.

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I did not see this coming at all and what

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a shocker look. And I expected the offense to be good.

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I expected Robertson to throw for three touchdowns. I expected

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Knighting to rest for one hundred and four yards. I

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did not expect Baylor to get back in the win

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column with a thirty to three victory over the Nights

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On Saturday, Baylor improves to five and four, three and

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three of the Big Twelve. They scored points on four

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of their first five drives, including a pair of touchdown

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passes from Robertson to former USC and Old Miss tight

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end Michael Trigg and wide receiver Josh Cameron. The Bears

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built a twenty three lead at the half. Connor Hawkins

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drilled his third field goal late in the third quarter

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to put them up twenty. Hawkins made kicks from forty one,

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forty and twenty eight yes. He continues an impressive campaign

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this year. Robertson completed twenty nine to forty passes for

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two hundred and sixty seven yards, but coughed up his

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first fumble of the season on a strip sack late

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in the first half. He has twenty seven hundred and

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eighty yards and twenty six touchdown passes.

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Speaker 2: Overall, both marks ranked near the top of the FBS.

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Speaker 1: UCF scored its only points as time expired in the

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first half. They followed a four and four one and

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four in the Big twelve. They were set up by

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a short field goal set up with a short field

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goal after Robertson's fumble. No a rule has drilled that

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forty five yard field goal. The Knight's other drives ended

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in four punts, three turnovers on downs, and a missed

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field goal, along with two interceptions, one of which was

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set up by baters only touchdown of the second half,

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Tavan Jackson was eighteen to twenty three for one hundred

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and fifty one yards with two picks. For UCF, Dwayne

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Thomas Junior rushed eight times for seventy seven yards. It

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was the first time since November twenty sixth, twenty fifteen,

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that UCF did not score touchdown, snapping one hundred and

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twenty one game streak. That said, Scott Frost was the

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most frustrating part of the offensive performance that he saw.

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Speaker 2: The takeaway here look.

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Speaker 1: Baylor coach Iran and the Bear secured a much needed

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win following a two game skid. Baylor's now one went

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away from Bowl eligibility. Randa improved to thirty six and

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thirty four in his six season leading the program for

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the Knights. A week after the overwhelmed Western Virginia with

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forty five points, they struggled to muster any offense against

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a Baylor defense that's given up over four hundred and

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thirty yards per game in conference play. Uc F finished

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with just two hundred and twenty five yards of offense

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despite averaging four hundred and forty two in league play.

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Entering Saturday, the Knights must win two of their final

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four games to secure Bowl eligibility, and now our disappointment

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of the week. At least for me, I expect a

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little bit more from those Houston Cougars, especially at home.

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Right against a program that has struggled. They fired their coat.

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West Virginia improves the three and six. It was their

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first Big Twelve win of the year. Houston falls to

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seven and two four and two in Big Twelve play,

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as West Virginia ten better than Houston forty five to

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thirty five. Scotty Fox Junior accounts for three touchdowns in

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the process. He threw four one hundred and fifty seven

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yards and accounted for three touchdowns as West Virginia snaps

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its five game losing streak over Houston. Fox was thirteen

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to twenty two and threw a touchdown pass to twenty

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four yards to Cam vaugh He also rushed for sixty

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five yards and a touchdown. Run of at two touchdown

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runs one of six, one of thirty four yards your

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Hubbard rushed four hundred and eight yards in a touchdown.

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Bowers added sixty five yards rushing and a touchdown as

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the Mountaineers out rushed Houston two hundred and forty.

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Speaker 2: Six to eighty two. Good God.

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Speaker 1: West Virginia also forced four Houston turnovers converted those into

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seventeen points. That was your difference in the game, right there,

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Boys and girls. Houston had committed just four turnovers combined

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in the first eight games this season, including three in

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the team's other loss against Tech. Connor Wigman was twenty

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five to thirty five for three hundred nine yards, four

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touchdowns two interceptions for Houston. He also rushed for a

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touchdown and lost one of his three fumbles. Dean Connors

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rushed for seventy one yards and Marii Thomas caught ten

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passes for ninety nine yards and three scores. You know,

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this game was tied twenty one at the half, and

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I already didn't feel good about it. This game should

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not have been this close. West Virginia then outscored Houston

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twenty four to seven to start the second half, took

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the lead on a field goal Struck Scrugs, putting the

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Mountaineers up by ten. With an eighty yard interception return

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for a touchdown with six and a half minutes left

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in the third, the Cougar's cut the lead to three

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on an eight yard touchdown pass from Wigman to Thomas

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Fox rushed.

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Speaker 2: For his thirty four yard score.

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Speaker 1: Hubbard rushed for an eleven yard touchdown midway through the

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fourth to put West Virginia up by seventeen, but it

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was not to be for the Cougars. The Mountaineers staved

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off bowl elimination and beat a ranked team for the

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first time since the thirty eight thirty one win over

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Iowa State back in twenty twenty one. Houston's chances of

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reaching the Big Twelve Championship took a big hit with

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the loss, and we will kind of see how Look,

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they're just two losses, all right, But you've got better

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teams in the conference. Of course, with Texas Tech BYU,

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Houston was right after with them. This loss is going

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to Sting West Virginia hosts Colorado this Saturday. Houston travels

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to see those nights in Central Florida in a Friday matchup.

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I don't feel about these Friday college games. I'm not

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so sure actually how I feel, especially with these bigger programs.

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Speaker 2: I don't like the Friday you know, if it's.

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Speaker 1: The smaller programs, I don't have a problem with it

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because I don't mind watching TV on Friday, watching some

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college football on Fridays, but I do not like the uh.

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I don't like the Friday night. I've got better things

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to do on Friday night than watch college football. You guys,

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I don't know about y'all, but that's where I'm at

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on it.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: I've got a ton of recruiting stuff with some recruiting

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rankings nationally where the Texas teams fall into those. Tell

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you what, I will do a special episode of of

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the show and we will talk recruiting. I don't want

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to combine that with this. I was going to, but

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I don't want to know I changed my mind. I'm

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allowed to do that. But so that means we will

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wrap this up for you, boys and girls right here

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