THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIRY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009
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SPORTS
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
7B
Negative rushing yardage, interceptions hinder teams
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
NEBRASKA 20,
BAYLOR 10
half. Baylor didn't score an offensive touchdown in the game.
In his first start, freshman quarterback Cody Green led the Cornhuskers to a 20-10 lead in the first
Green finished the game 12-for-21 with one interception, but Nebraska cut down its turnover total to two after turning the ball over eight times against Iowa State the week before.
Baylor actually outgained Nebraska 276-273 and recorded seven more first downs. However, Nebraska's Eric Martin blocked a punt on Baylor's first possession and Justin Blatchford returned it for a touchdown.
Nebraska defensive end Jared Crick constantly harassed Baylor quarterback Nick Florence and recorded five sacks.
MISSOURI 36,
COLORADO 17
Though Kansas struggled in
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Boulder, Colo., Missouri used a 21-point first quarter to cruise to a victory against Colorado.
Missouri receiver Danario Alexander caught eight passes for 123 yards and two touchdowns, including a 73-yard touchdown reception to put the Tigers up 14-0.
Colorado had -14 net rushing yards. Rodney Stewart rushed 10 times for just three yards but did pick up a touchdown.
Despite being hobbled by a right ankle strain, Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert threw for 192 yards and two touchdowns.
It was the Tigers' first victory in Big 12 play this year.
TEXAS A&M 35,
IOWA STATE 10
The Aggies never punted in a controlling offensive performance Saturday.
Quarterback Jerrod Johnson threw for three touchdowns and ran for another as Texas A&M racked up more than 500 yards of total offense.
Iowa State's Jerome Tiller, filling in for injured quarterback Austen Arnaud, threw two costly interceptions and Iowa State fell too far behind early in the game.
Texas A&M picked up 31 first downs, ten of them coming on third down conversions.
Alexander Robinson returned at running back for the Cyclones and rushed for 76 yards on 20 carries.
OKLAHOMA 42,
KANSAS STATE 30
Landry Jones is getting pretty comfortable at the helm of the Sooners' offense.
The freshman quarterback filling in
for Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford threw for 294 yards and four touchdowns and held off a game Kansas State team Saturday.
Three of Jones' passing touchdowns came in the first quarter and gave the Sooners an early 21-0 lead. From that point on, the Wildcats outscored the Sooners, but the
deficit was too much to overcome.
Kansas State wide receiver Brandon Banks caught nine passes for 156 yards and returned a kickoff for a touchdown for the fourth time this season and the fifth time in his career.
TEXAS 41,
OKLAHOMA
STATE 14
Cowboys quarterback Zach Robinson
Back Zach Robinson threw four interceptions and Texas returned two of them for touchdowns in Oklahoma State's 41-14 loss at home against Texas.
Oklahoma State outgained Texas 277-275 but had five turnovers compared with Texas' one.
The victory gives the Longhorns complete control of their destiny in the Big 12 South. With victories against one-loss teams Oklahoma and now Oklahoma State, Texas could even slip up once along the way and still be division champions.
Information compiled from Associated Press reports.
Edited by Abbey Strusz
ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas State running back Keithen Valentine gets past Oklahoma to score a touchdown on Saturday in Norman, Okla. Oklahoma beat Kansas State 42-30.
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NFL
Undefeated Broncos lose to Ravens The 30-7 loss was the first for Denver since first-year head coach Josh McDaniels took over
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BALTIMORE — The Denver Broncos went from unbeaten to overmatched during a 60-minute beatdown by the Baltimore Ravens.
Rookie Lardarius Webb returned the second-half kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown, and Baltimore ended a three-game losing streak with a surprisingly easy 30-7 victory Sunday.
It was Denver's
"We didn't play our best ball, but they're a pretty good team and they beat us pretty good today on all sides of the ball."
The Ravens, however, dominated every facet of the game.
first loss under rookie head coach Josh McDaniels. The Broncos (6-1) came in with the NFL's top-ranked defense, a plus-7 turnover differential and one of the league's best kick returners in Eddie Royal. Denver had also outscored the opposition 76-10 after halftime.
Baltimore (4-3) limited Denver to 200 yards, scored off the game's lone turnover, won the special teams fight and outscored the Broncos 24-7 in the second half.
KYLE ORTON Denver quarterback
Denver started the day as one of three unbeaten teams in the NFL and was trying to go 7-0 for the first time since 1998. Baltimore needed a win to avoid falling under .500 and dropping two games behind Pittsburgh and Cincinnati in the AFC North.
Baltimore held Royal in check, bottled up Orton and became the first team this season to rush for more than 100 yards against Denver. Given two weeks to think about a three-game skid in which they lost by a combined 11 points, the Ravens started fast and never relented.
"We didn't play our best ball, but they're a pretty good team and they beat us pretty good today on all sides of the ball." Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton said. "We didn't really do a whole lot."
"They just did a better job of executing. Desperation had nothing to do with it," Broncos safety Brian Dawkins said.
Baltimore went up 13-0 when Webb turned the second-half kickoff into his first NFL touchdown. After breaking free around his own 30, the speedy rookie cut right and outran his pursuers into the corner of the end zone.
"We know we're capable of doing this kind of thing," said Joe Flacco, who went 20 for 25 for 175 yards and a touchdown. "We had a chance in the other games. Today we finished. That's why we won."
In a duel between an undefeated team and a desperate one, the Ravens prevailed.
"All 10 guys got their body on someone," Webb said. "I just saw a hole and ran."
a hole and ran.
The Broncos responded with an 86-yard march fueled by three Baltimore penalties totaling 44 yards. A 39-yard pass interference call on Domonique Foxworth and an offside by Ed Reed on a fourth-and-1 led to a 1-yard touchdown
run by Knowshon Moreno.
The Ravens answered with a field goal for a 16-7 lead, then went up 23-7 on a 20-yard pass from Flacco to Derrick Mason with 13:07 left.
"Around the locker room it's going to be more upbeat," Foxworth said. "It's amazing how winning heals all wounds."
The Broncos, for the first time under McDaniels, will have to rebound from a defeat.
"Anytime you have a game like this, it forces you to look in a mirror," McDaniels said. "Hopefully we can find out just as much about one another ... through the adversity of a loss as you can through six wins."
The Broncos managed only 79 yards in being held scoreless
RayRicecapped the rout with a 7
"Anytime you have a game like this, it forces you to look in a mirror."
the rout with a 7-yard touchdown run with 1:59 to go. Rice ran for 84 yards, the most by one player against Denver this season.
JOSH MCDANIELS Denver coach
in the first half for the first time this season.
The tone was set on first play from scrimmage, when Ravens linebacker jarret Johnson blitzed untouched from the left side and sacked Orton.
for an 8-yard loss.
"That's not the way you want to start the game, for sure," Orton said. "It's not just one play. We
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Baltimore Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb returns a kickoff for a touchdown Sunday.
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had a number of plays where we just didn't execute. They were just better than us."
Denver made only one first down in the first quarter, and Moreno's fumble on a screen pass led to Steve Hauschka's field goal for a 3-0 lead.
The Ravens added a field goal in the second quarter.
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