LONGHORNS PUT ON THAT '70S SHOW WINS BIG 12 TITLE, ROSE BOWL BERTH TEXAS 70, COLORADO 3.Byline: Walter Hammerwold Staff Writer HOUSTON - It took an appeal by 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. , an 11th-hour change of opinion by poll voters and an end around run past Cal in the final Bowl Championship Series standings to send the Texas football team to the Rose Bowl last season. On Saturday, the Longhorns made sure their second January trip to Pasadena wouldn't be so contentious. No. 2 Texas (12-0) routed Colorado (7-5) 70-3 with a punishing defense and a high-powered offense that smothered smoth·er v. smoth·ered, smoth·er·ing, smoth·ers v.tr. 1. a. To suffocate (another). b. To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion. 2. the Buffaloes in front of a partisan crowd of 71,107 in the Big 12 championship game at Reliant Stadium Houston Texans • • [ . The Longhorns scored on nine of their first 10 possessions and matched last year's 42-3 Oklahoma-Colorado final score at the half en route to the most lopsided victory lop´sid`ed victory n. 1. A victory in a contest in which one side defeats the other overwhelmingly; - in sports, meaning one side scores much more than the other; in war, meaning one side has many more casualties than the other. in Big 12 title game history. Texas will become the fourth straight Rose Bowl champion to reach 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. title game the following season and the fifth Big 12 team to play for the series championship when their selection is made official today. The Longhorns will play top-ranked USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , which beat cross-town rival UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX 66-19 at the Coliseum on Saturday. ``We've waken up and we're smelling the roses right now,'' defensive lineman Larry Dibbles said. ``We're taking aim on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and we just want to go out there and bring back the big thing, the big ring, out here to the great state of Texas.'' The victory gave the Longhorns their first Big 12 title since 1996 and Brown his first conference title with any school. And it gives Texas a chance at its first national title since 1969. Texas quarterback Vince Young Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983[1] in Houston, Texas), commonly Vince Young, or "VY", is an American football player. He is a dual-threat quarterback, and the current starting quarterback for the National Football League Tennessee Titans. completed 14 of 17 passes for 193 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another 57 yards and a score before being pulled early in the third quarter. A platoon of Texas running backs amassed 201 yards on the ground - led by freshman Jamaal Charles, who carried seven times for 62 yards and two touchdowns and caught another on a 3-yard pass. After giving up 42 and 69 yards on the Buffaloes' first and third drives, the Longhorns' defense held Colorado to one first down the rest of the first half. Walter Hammerwold, (626) 962-8811, ext. 2151 walter.hammerwold(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Texas' Brandon Foster (28) celebrates a touchdown along with Longhorns teammates after recovering a blockedpunt in the end zone. L.M. Otero/Associated Press |
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