DUCKS DUCK DEFEAT OREGON GETS BEST OF TEXAS OREGON 35, TEXAS 30.Byline: Steve Irvine Staff Writer SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. - Next college football season is a long way off, but some of the University of Texas contingent spent part of this past week talking about a national championship not to far in the future. The plan was, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the hopeful Longhorns, to come into the Holiday Bowl on Friday night, beat up on Oregon and use that momentum to begin a drive for a return trip to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, on Jan. 3, 2002. Well, the Longhorns return plenty of talent and may end up hitching Bevo to the Rose Bowl stands next year in the BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. national championship game. But it will be the Ducks carrying the momentum of a school-record 10th win into next season's workouts after holding off Texas 35-30 at Qualcomm Stadium Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers • • [ in front of 63,278 on a chilly Friday night in San Diego. The win came compliments of a wild fourth-quarter that saw two long Oregon touchdown drives, a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Texas' Victor Ike, three potential touchdown passes dropped by a pair of heralded freshman Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. receivers, a botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. exchange while the Ducks were trying to run out the clock and a game-saving interception by defensive MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. Rashad Bauman Leddure Rashad Bauman (born May 7, 1979 in Tempe, Arizona) is an American football player who currently plays cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals. He attended the University of Oregon and was a third team All-American selection by the NFL Draft Report . ``It was the weirdest fourth quarter I've ever seen,'' Texas coach Mack Brown William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. said. ``About the time you would think it was over for one bunch, they would come back.'' Technically, the game-winning score came with 5:46 remaining when Jason Willis scored from 4 yards out on 3rd-and-goal after taking a reverse handoff from quarterback Joey Harrington (19 of 30, 273 yards, two touchdowns). The touchdown capped off an eight-play, 68-yard drive that featured 52 yards passing by Harrington. But the game surely didn't end with that. Sophomore quarterback Chris Simms (17 of 33, 245 yards) steadily moved the Longhorns (9-3) toward the possible tying score. On first down from the Ducks' 22-yard line, Simms hit freshman B.J. Johnson in the end zone but the Longhorns receiver dropped the ball. After another incompletion, Johnson dropped another pass that seemed destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for a touchdown. Then, fellow freshman Roy Williams let a perfectly thrown ball by Simms slip through his hands with 2:24 left. An Oregon mistake kept the Longhorns in the game, however, when Harrington and running back Allan Amundson mishandled an exchange and Texas' D.D. Lewis recovered at the Ducks' 32-yard line with 1:23 left. Two plays after that, the 5-foot-8, 180-pound Bauman worked his way in front of the 6-foot-1, 190-pound Williams to pick off a Simms pass. The Ducks (10-2) took a safety with 21 seconds left and Texas was able to get to the Oregon 39-yard line in the final seconds but couldn't score. ``This victory means a lot,'' said Bauman, who also had six tackles. ``We wanted to go to the Rose Bowl, but we'll take this. I don't think I could have written a better ending.'' The final few minutes of the fourth quarter overshadowed a nifty nine- play, 90-yard drive by Oregon in the opening minutes of the final period that ended with a 36-yard run by Amundson and a 9-yard touchdown run on a quarterback draw by Harrington. The score gave the Ducks a 28-21 lead, but that advantage lasted the amount of time it took Ike to race 93 yards with a kickoff to set a Holiday Bowl record. ``I'm not sure either team wanted to win at the end,'' Oregon coach Mike Bellotti said. ``But we found a way to persevere.'' All that fourth quarter action certainly overshadowed an entertaining first half that saw Oregon score the first 14 points and Texas answer with 21 unanswered points. Oregon's 14-0 lead came on a 1-yard pass from Harrington to Justin Peelle and a 18-yard toss on a trick play from Keenan Howry to Harrington with 2:19 left in the first quarter. The first score came on Oregon's opening drive and the second came one play after Rasuli Webster recovered a Johnson fumble. Texas dominated the remainder of the second half with Mitchell Hodges rushing for a 3-yard touchdown, Simms dashing in from four yards out and Greg Brown intercepting a pass and running 24 yards into the end zone. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Oregon's Steve Smith intercepts a Texas pass on the 1-yard line in the first quarter. Lenny Ignelzi/Associated Press |
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