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A&M 21-KU 18
THE UNIVERSITY OF BAYSIDE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2006
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Texas A&M21 Kansas 18 October7,2006
Anthony Webb, freshman defensive back, left, and Jerome Kemp, senior safety, stop Texas A&M during the second quarter of Saturday's homecoming game.
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Texas A&M rallies late after low-scoring start
Aggies' offense steps up in final quarter for victory
BY SHAWN SHROYER
For three quarters, the Texas A&M offense played like it wanted to lose, but it played to win in the fourth quarter.
Although nothing seemed to work for Texas A&M early on offense, running back Jorvorskie Lane said the team refused to give up on the game plan.
"We ran the same plays that we ran in the first half in the second half." Lane said. "It's all about execution."
Texas A&M trailed Kansas by only 11 points at the start of the fourth quarter, but the Aggies had been making too many mental mistakes to make a comeback seem possible. Their offense had strung together only two drives of more than 60 vards in the first three quarters.
The first ended in a touchdown;
the second resulted in a fumble.
However, the Aggie offense was in the midst of an 80-yard drive when the fourth quarter began, showing signs that it was finally ready to compliment its defense. Then quarterback Stephen McGee dove inside the pylon for a touchdown on the first play of the quarter and a victory was suddenly within reach.
The Texas A&M defense was the only reason the Aggies were still in the game at that point. Kansas reached the red zone on four occasions, but only once did it reach the end zone. Texas A&M senior linebacker Justin Warren said holding Kansas to field goals on the other
three occasions was a huge boost to the team.
"We were getting into some bad predicaments," Warren said. "They were marching down there, maybe getting one or two big plays, but after that we were pretty much shutting them down."
To complete the comeback, Texas A&M had to avoid making the mistakes that had plagued it for most of the game. In the first three quarters, the Aggies had eight penalties for 41 yards and as many turnovers as touchdowns — one. In the last quarter, Texas A&M responded with two touchdowns, no turnovers and no penalties.
Lane said while the offense was struggling, he expected the defense to lose patience with them. Instead, to his surprise, he said every time the defense came off the field, it encouraged the offense to put a drive together.
The offense came out strong in the fourth quarter, running 24 plays for 91 yards — including 86 passing yards — and eating up nine minutes of clock.
The offense benefited from better field position in the final stanza. For the first three quarters, the Aggies' average starting position for drives was the 18-yard line. In the fourth quarter, their average starting spot was the 36-yard line.
"We knew that offense was losing the game," Lane said. "We came together as a whole offensive unit and did what we had to do to beat KU."
With the offense finally showing
signs of life, the Texas A&M defense kept doing its part to give the offense one last shot.
With 4:59 to go in the game, Kansas had the ball on its own 35-yard line. One first down could have allowed Kansas to run the clock down considerably, but Texas A&M forced a three-and-out.
Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione said his defense was able to stop Kansas on third-and-one that drive because of a perfect play call from defensive coordinator Gary Darnell.
"He had a great feeling for what they were going to do in that situation," Franchione said. "We blitzed on that down and the guys got great penetration and got into the back-field. They never had a chance to get it going."
The Texas A&M offense repaid the defense's favor, going 80 yards for the game-winning score and capping off the improbable comeback.
Although the Aggies could have assumed control of the game earlier, Warren said he saw the game as a positive because the defense kept the game close and the offense came through in the end.
"I just told them, this might not have been a top 25 team or a high opponent on our list, but it builds us up as a team," Warren said.
Kansan sportswriter Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@ kansan.com.
Edited bv Catherine Odson
Jerome Kemp, senior safety, collides with Martellus Bennett, Texas A&M tight end, at the end of a pass play in the second quarter. Kemp led the Jayhawks with 11 tackles and a sack.
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Anthony Webb, freshman defensive back, closes in on Texas A&M's LTydrick Riley to push him out of bounds after he completed a 35-yard pass. The-pass
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Paul Como, senior defensive end, pressures Texas A&M quarterback, Stephen McGee, into throwing an incomplete pass. Como had one sack during the game for two yards.
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