????Texas Knocked Off???

Texas vs. Texas Tech…I mean I every knows of the Texas Long Horns and how they have been one of the top twenty five teams for the last couple years I mean Vince Young brought a new idea of how a quarterback could run and pass the ball in college and also made it known that a Black player could be good at something other than wide receiver, running back and defense. Texas also is known for its football program, unlike Texas Tech who is widely known for the basketball program mostly because of Bob Knight who coached the men’s basketball team from 2000-2008 and was widely known before then for the disputes of what happened at Indiana University. The Texas Tech football team, on the other hand, has only been growing in public’s eye since they have been winning and winning more; you could also count on the stats that Graham Harrell is putting up. He has been completing seventy percent of his passes and has thrown for 30 touchdowns along with thirty six hundred yards. He has brought fame to this otherwise dead program for college football.

Now to the Texas vs. Texas Tech game, it began as if Texas Tech was going to go away with game, for Texas’ defense was just giving away points because they could not stop the Texas Tech Raiders high powered offense. By the end of the second quarter, halftime, the Score was Texas Tech 22 and Texas 6. This just shows how Texas Tech is growing as a team and becoming one of the dominant teams in D-1.

Then after halftime and almost ten minutes into the third quarter Jordan Shipley ran back a punt forty five yards for a touchdown. Texas then thought that they had the momentum and stopped the Raiders (Texas Tech) three and out and got the ball back after a punt of 30 yards by Texas Tech Punter Johnathan LaCour. Then after an incompletion and two penalties the Texas Longhorns were backed into their territory on the seven yard line and then the momentum was changed again when Daniel Charbonnet intercepted a pass from Colt McCoy on the eighteen and returned it into the end zone for a touchdown. This made the score 13-29, Texas Tech, after the extra point made by Matt Williams. Then later in the quarter Colt McCoy threw a thirty seven yard touchdown to Malcolm Williams and that score of 19-29 (Texas failed on the two point conversion) was the score after three quarters. The Texas Longhorns had outscored the Raiders in the third and were eager to extend this into the fourth quarter and win the game to keep their number one spot in the BCS and AP polls.

It started out this way with a touchdown nine minutes into the game, on a ninety one yard pass from Colt McCoy to Malcolm Williams. This brought the score to 26-29, Texas Tech, and thus the comeback was on for the Texas Longhorns although the Texas Tech Raiders began to come back but only scored a field goal on their next drive and then the imaginable happened with one minute and twenty nine seconds left in the game Texas running back Vondrell McGee ran in for a touchdown which put the Texas Longhorn up by one point. Texas had came back from being down the entire game and now the Texas Tech Raiders had only one minute and twenty nine seconds left to either score or get into field goal range. Texas squib kicked the ball down to Texas Tech’s forty nine yard line. Then Graham Harrell completed four straight passes, down to the Texas twenty eight yard line. Then with ten seconds left in the game instead of going for the field goal Graham Harrell threw the ball to the best wide receiver in the nation, Michael Crabtree, who then caught the ball and spun out of what would have been a tackle and then side stepped another defender and walked right in to the end zone and scored for the winning touchdown for the Texas Tech Raiders. The knock off of Texas just shows that even a Powerhouse that everyone thinks is going to go all the way may not win the one game that gets them there.