TUESDAY,DEC.4,2001
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Big 12 teams fill bowl games
The Associated Press
DALLAS — A record eight football teams from the Big 12 Conference will appear in post-season bowls this year. Nebraska still has an outside chance to appear in the biggest one of them all — the Rose Bowl, where the national championship will be decided.
The Bowl Championship Series rankings came out on yesterday. Nebraska (11-1) had a surprise No. 3 ranking, which means the Cornhuskers could go to the Rose Bowl if Tennessee (No. 2 in the BCS rankings) loses to LSU on Saturday.
Colorado (10-2) which qualified for a BCS bowl by beating Texas 39-37 Saturday for the Big 12 championship, isranked No.4 in the BCS rankings, behind undefeated Miami (No.1) and Tennessee, which leapfrogged past Florida by beating the Gators on Saturday.
Should Tennessee beat LSU, it will be Tennessee and Miami in the Rose Bowl, and Nebraska and Colorado would appear in the Fiesta, Orange or Sugar bowls. Those BCS bowl lineups won't be announced until Sunday.
The six other bowl-bound Big 12 teams got their invitations yesterday — Oklahoma (10-2) to the Cotton Bowl, Texas (10-2) to the Holiday Bowl, Texas Tech (7-4) to the Alamo Bowl, Kansas State (6-5) to the Insight.com Bowl, Texas A&M (7-4) to the Gallery-furniture.com Bowl and Iowa State (7-4) to the Independence Bowl.
LSU likely would play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, should the Tigers lose to Tennessee on Saturday. That game is scheduled for Jan. 1. Oklahoma plays Texas every year in Cotton Bowl stadium, in Dallas, but has never played in the 65-year-old bowl classic.
Texas, which could have earned an invitation to the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 in Pasadena by beating Colorado, will instead be in San Diego on Dec. 28, playing in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego against Washington (8-3), which tied for second in the Pac-10.
"Not many teams have the chance to win 11 games and finish in the Top 10, and that's something we want to do. It'll be a great matchup with Washington, and I know Rick (Neuheisel) will have
his team ready," said Longhorns coach Mack Brown.
The Longhorns are seeking to post 11 victories for the first time since 1983 and for just the fifth time ever. Texas also is looking to finish in the Top 10 for the first time since 1983. Texas was in the Holiday Bowl last year, losing a 35-30 shootout with Oregon.
The Alamo Bowl was Texas Tech's first choice, but it had been thought that the bowl would select Texas A&M to oppose Iowa (6-5). Instead, the Alamo Bowl invited Texas Tech (7-4). Texas A&M suffered from losing its last three games, against Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Texas.
Texas Tech lost to Texas, Nebraska and Oklahoma but beat Texas A&M and Kansas State.
Kansas State will play Syracuse (9-3) in the Insight.com Bowl on Dec. 29. A&M will play in the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl on Dec. 28 against the winner of Saturday's game between TCU (5-5) and Southern Mississippi (6-4), and Iowa State will play in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 27 against a SEC team still to be named.
Packers pull it off at the end
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Facing a tie game with two minutes left Monday night, the Green Bay Packers weren't worried.
Not with Brett Faver on their side. And not with the Jacksonville Jaguars on the other.
Favre threw three touchdown passes, and ran six yards for the game-winner with 1:30 left to rally the Packers from 14 points down for a 28-21 victory over the laguars.
Favre rolled around left end on a bootleg, then just squeezed into the corner of the end zone for the go-ahead score.
(3-8) to midfield on their late desperation drive, but he was sacked on second-and-short, and two plays later lost a fumble to end yet another close loss.
Favre threw for 362 yards to help the Packers (8-3) stay one game behind Chicago for the NFC Central lead with the teams set to meet next Sunday.
The Jaguars blew a late lead for the fourth time in six games, and threw yet another distraction onto a pile that includes Jimmy Smith's recent positive test for cocaine and Tom Coughlin's potential candidacy for the Notre Dame job.
With the game tied at 21. Mike Hollis had a chance to give the Jaguars the lead, but his 42-yard field goal hit the left upright.
mitting 111 yards in penalties, enough to nullify Smith's 116- vard receiving night.
Most of the damage came at the expense of cornerback Fernando Bryant, who has made himself one of Jacksonville's numerous distractions this season, as the most outspoken critic of the soft-zone defenses the Jaguars have used to blow all those leads.
Before that, Favre rallied the Packers from a 21-7 deficit.
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