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Sooners ready for Missouri match up
BY CLARK FOY The Daily Oklahoma
After being selected as the No. 1 team by the BCS, OU will travel to Missouri and take on the No. 11 Tigers on Saturday. The Sooners struggled on the road last season. Although the wins have not been pretty on the road this year, the team's reemphasized that wins are wins.
The Sooners have beaten Missouri several times in the past few seasons when both were in the top 25, including marquee wins on the road. Most recently, OU embassarded Missouri 62-21 in the Big 12 Championship, giving the Sooners the final bump over Texas into the national championship.
So far, OU has been perfect on the road with wins at Cincinnati and a win over the Longhorns at a neutral site, in part because the team has limited its turnovers this year, sophomore center Ben Habern said.
"We really struggled on the road with turnovers and penalties and getting off
schedule with our offense (last year), and that's one thing we've definitely improved," said Habern.
Penalties plagued the offensive line last season. OU has not been penalized this year for holding or a false start since the second quarter of the Air Force game.
Coach Bob Stoops is 6-0 against the Tigers in his career, and OU has won 19 of 20 meetings with the Tigers over history.
Sophomore quarterback Landry Jones has displayed more swagger and confidence over the past several games, especially last week against Iowa State where he completed 30 of 34 passes and broke an OU record for highest completion percentage with 25 or more attempts.
His confidence, he said, has come from more experience and harder work in practice.
"As you mature as a quarterback, you have to start blocking that stuff out," Jones said. "We're still learning, and it's going to be a huge challenge going up there."
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Nebraska Cornhuskers
Texas's Garrett Gilbert scans the field against Nebraska during an NCAA college football game Saturday
Loss set Nebraska back for rankings, Heisman contender
MITCH SMITH The Daily Nebraskan
The Huskers entered Saturday's game as a legitimate national title contender, with a No. 5 ranking and a quarterback in the Heisman Trophy conversation. But in the 20-13 loss to the unranked Longhorns, the Huskers let three would-be touchdown passes happen, benched their Heisman-candidate quarterback and all but fumbled away any national championship dreams.
Nebraska wide receiver Niles Paul, who campaigned publicly for a bigger role in the offense earlier this season, dropped a pass that would have likely scored a touchdown. Running back Rex Burkhead bobbled a first-half pass inside the 10-yard line, and wide receiver Brandon Kinnie added to the series of follies in the fourth quarter. Paul said those miscues cost the Huskers a 6-0 record.
NU coach Bo Pelini said his team's loss could be attributed to a series of missed opportunities and failed plays.
Nebraska spent virtually the entire game playing from behind, and Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert more than quadrupled his season rushing total with 71 yards.
But it was the offense, not the defense.
which failed most poignantly. Stopping the Husker offense became a joint project between the Longhorn defense and the Nebraska receivers, Texas contained the running game while the Husker wide receivers paralyzed the passing game.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Taylor Martinez was held to 21 rushing yards, zero touchdowns and two fumbles before being benched in the third quarter in favor of Zac Lee.
Lee, the 2009 starter who was criticized for a lack of mobility, outgained Martinez on the ground and led a late field goal-scoring drive that was buoyed by a series of Texas personal fouls.
Barring an unprecedented collapse of powerhouse teams, Nebraska won't attend the BCS National Championship game. And after being benched in two of the last three games, Martinez will probably have to wait a few years to win that Heisman.
Running back Roy Helu Jr. said pushing past Texas will be the focus as the Huskers prepare for this week's game at Oklahoma State.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Jayhawks to fight Aggies for conference win
Freshman Jordan Webb passes downfield during the third quarter of Kansas game against in-state rival Kansas State at Memorial Stadium Thursday night. The Jayhawks will attempt to earn their first conference in 10 games.
BY KORY CARPENTER
kcarpenter@kansan.com
For Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman and Kansas coach Turner Gill, it's a long way from the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. Sherman was the Green Bay Packers coach for six seasons, and he hired Gill as the Director of Player Development in 2005. After meeting Gill, Sherman was immediately impressed.
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"I felt he could relate well to the players and coaches," Sherman said. "He is full of integrity."
Five years later, the two coaches are in the Big 12 Conference, Gill in his first season with the Jayhawks and Sherman in his third with the Aggies.
Both teams have struggled through the first half of the season and both are still looking for their first conference win. The Aggies started the season strong with three consecutive wins, but have dropped the last three, including conference losses to Oklahoma State and Missouri. Kansas has faced similar adversity, dropping the last two games by a combined score of 114-14.
Freshman safety Keeston Terry will miss another week with a leg injury he suffered in the second half loss to Southern Miss. Gill confirmed the decision after Wednesday's practice.
Terry played a large part in the upset of Georgia Tech, recording five tackles in the 28-25 Kansas win. His absence the last three games has been noted, as the Kansas defense has given up an average of 43 points per game.
"He's still having trouble. He won't be ready for this ballgame," he said. "We'll have to make the decision next week if he's able to go or not."
If those performances are repeated Saturday night in Memorial Stadium, Homecoming week for KU fans might end on a sour note,
Texas A&M senior quarterback Jerrod Johnson has ruled the air for the Aggies this season. He's averaged 43 passes a game, including a staggering 62 attempts in the loss to Oklahoma State. Johnson is also second in the Big 12 in total offense, second only to Baylor's Robert Griffin III. However, Johnson is capable of making bad decisions. His nine interceptions so far this season are more than he threw all of last season.
as the Aggie offense is 10th in the nation in passing yards per game with an average of 305 per contest.
On offense, Kansas has failed to put up double digits in Big 12 play, only scoring 14 points the last two games. Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb is in his first season running the Jayhawk offense, and it has shown recently. After starting his season with only one interception in four games, he has thrown three in the last two losses.
The three straight losses by the Aggies could be a sign of hope for Jayhawk fans. However, last week Kansas State came to town after an embarrassing loss as well. All they was put up 460 yards of offense while beating the downtrodden Jayhawks 59-7.
Gill said he wants to have the lead early to call a trick play like a reverse or half-back pass, but that obviously hasn't been the case the last two games.
"We always have some plays like that in the game plan," he said. "It's just about finding an opportunity to execute them."
With the offense struggling to score points, Gill didn't rule out the idea of calling a few trick plays Saturday night.
Saturday's loser will be 0-3 in the
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Big 12, with big games still remaining in conference for each squad. Texas A&M still plays Oklahoma and Texas while the Jayhawks have yet to play Nebraska or Missouri. A win by either team would give the respective squad much needed momentum heading into the second half of the season. Kicwoff is set for 6 p.m.
because of the loss of Sherron Collins, Cole Aldrich and Xavier Henry.
How do people expect the Jayhawks to win when they lose the winningest player in program history, a big man who bailed anybody out on defense and a versatile scorer?
It's the same thing Martin does, but in Manhattan.
It's addition by subtraction. It's not like the NBA where guys can play for the same team from their rookie season to retirement. Guys come and go their first year or stay for four, but in the end they will be replaced.
His main goal when he became the coach was to win the Big 12 Championship. He has yet to do that because Kansas has won it the last six seasons.
On paper Kansas State looks like the favorite, but Martin lives in reality and winning on paper doesn't cut it for him.
It's what coach Bill Self calls "Kansas Math."
Martin says that this is Kansas' conference because of its dominance.
"Nobody has beat them on the floor, which is where you decide who wins," Martin said.
This is true. Since the 2007-2008 season, when Martin was hired as the Wildcat coach, Kansas has a 42-26 record. Kansas State is 30-18.
But Self does not live in the past
He thinks it's difficult to win a national title and it's even more difficult to repeat. He is hungry for another title.
He doesn't look at the preseason polls either. When asked about receiving two first-place votes, he had no idea that Kansas received two votes.
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I don't think coaches really care about preseason polls and awards. They don't mean anything if the team isn't cutting down the net in April.
Edited by Abby Davenport