Some things you need to know about Texans and Texas teams involved in sports: • • • • • • • 1. TCU easily downs Texas on Turkey Day< By halftime, TCU had achieved its fans announced goal of painting the Texas Longhorns purple. ... By the end of the contest, the fifth-ranked Horned Frogs made mincemeat of Texas in a 48-10 Turkey Day romp. ... With fans chanting T-C-U, Trevone Boykin (West Mesquite HS) passed for two touchdowns and ran for another as TCUs defense dominated UTs offense and quarterback Tyrone Swoopes (Whitewright HS), sending Texas to one of the worst home losses in program history. The worst home loss came in 1956 -- also to TCU. ... In one of the few bright spots for Texas, John Harris (Garland Naaman Forest HS) caught five passes for 39 yards to break the 1,000-yard mark for the season. He becomes only the eighth Longhorn to exceed 1,000 yards in a season and the first since Jordan Shipley (Burnet HS) in 2009. ... TCU was sending a message to the College Football Playoff committee in the form of style points. You want style points? The style points tonight were defense, turnovers, doing the things you needed to do, TCU coach Gary Patterson said. ... The Horned Frogs forced six turnovers, five by quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, and scored on an early fumble return and a late interception. TCU held Texas (6-6, 5-4) to 290 total yards and made the Longhorns pay for every mistake. Five of Texas turnovers set up 24 points for the Horned Frogs. ... TCU plays Iowa State, the last-place team in the Big 12, to end the regular season on Dec. 6. The playoff pairings will be announced the next day. Weve got one more to do it, and Im very proud of them. Im finally going to go maybe smile once, but weve got to get ready to play Iowa State, Patterson said. ... Swoopes hit on 20 of 34 passes for 200 yards for four interceptions with only one touchdown, he led Longhorn rushers with 61 yards on 15 carries. ... TCU sacked Swoopes four times. The first by Josh Carraway forced a fumble that Terrell Lathan scooped for a 40-yard touchdown return for a 13-0 lead. Texas briefly grabbed the momentum before Boykin connected on two big passes late in the second quarter. ... The first was a 38-yard throw on third down to Josh Doctson (Mansfield Legacy HS), who used his 6-foot-4 frame to out-jump Texas 5-9 Quandre Diggs (Angleton HS) at the Texas six. Three plays later, Boykin zipped a pass to David Porter (DeSoto HS) in the back of the end zone for a 20-3 lead. ... After Swoopes threw his third interception, Boykin connected with Doctson for another jump-ball pass over Diggs for a touchdown early in the fourth. Carraway closed it out with a 33-yard interception return with 2:19 left. Id be lying if I were to tell you we werent aware of style points and all that, Doctson said. ... • • • • • • • 2. Cowboys home losing streak extended; Romos string of TD passes ended< The Dallas Cowboys extended their home losing streak to three games and Tony Romo saw his streak of games with at least one touchdown pass end at 38 in an ugly 33-10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. ... Led by LeSean McCoy, the Eagles (9-3) opened with quick drives of 80 and 88 yards for touchdowns as they took sole possession of the NFC East lead in a Thanksgiving Day battle. ... With four games remaining -- including a rematch in less than three weeks -- Philadelphia has a one-game lead over Dallas. McCoy ran for 159 yards and a touchdown. Quarterback Mark Sanchez had his first scoring run in almost three years. ... Romo was sacked four times and finished 18 of 29 for 199 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns. DeMarco Murray finished with 73 yards and Dallas only touchdown on 20 carries. ... Making his fourth start since Nick Foles (Austin Westlake HS and Arizona) was sidelined by a broken collarbone, Sanchez was 20 of 29 for 217 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions. ... • • • • • • • 3. A&M comeback ends when no flag called on free play< Believing he had a free play because LSU had jumped offside, Texas A&M quarterback Kyle Allen threw deep and was intercepted ending the Aggies opportunity for a comeback win over LSU. ... After the game A&M players confirmed that Allen believed LSU defensive lineman Sione Teuhema jumped offside. Kyle thought free play, he threw it up and the refs didnt call it, senior tackle Cedric Ogbuehi (Allen HS) said. ... They just said they didnt call it, coach Kevin Sumlin said when asked if he received an explanation from the officials. Sumlin said Allen did what he was coached to do. ... The result was a 23-17 win for LSU in front of 105,829 at Kyle Field. The Aggies dropped to 0-3 at Kyle Field in SEC games this season and now await their bowl destination, which will be announced Dec. 7. The Aggies lost five of their last six SEC games. ... Representatives from the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl (Houston), Belk Bowl (Charlotte, N.C.) and Duck Commander Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La.) were present. The Texas and Belk bowls are part of the SECs pool of six bowls, where the bowls match with teams after the SECs top-tier teams are paired. ... The Independence Bowl is in the SECs lowest tier of bowls. Other “pool of six bowls” are the Outback Bowl (Tampa, Fla.), TaxSlayer Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.), Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl (Nashville, Tenn.) and the AutoZone Liberty Bowl (Memphis, Tenn.). ... • • • • • • • 4. Baylor defense shuts door on Memphis< The Baylor Bears held Memphis to 19 percent (4 of 21) from the field in the second half en route to a 71-47 victory in the Las Vegas Invitational. ... Baylor will face Illinois (5-0) in the championship game Friday night. Against Memphis, Taurean Prince (San Antonio Warren HS) scored 20 with five rebounds and Royce ONeale (Harker Heights HS) added 16 to lead the Bears, who outscored the Tigers 42-15 in the second half. ... Rico Gathers had eight points and 11 rebounds for Baylor. We kept our heads up, Prince said after the Bears trailed by six with 19:44 left. We stuck to our principles. We stayed aggressive and stayed out on their shooters and long rebounds led to fast break points. ... • • • • • • • 5. NFL Briefs: Stafford passes Lions past Bears< Matthew Stafford (Dallas Highland Park HS and Georgia) was 34 of 45 for 390 yards and two TDs in the Lions 34-17 win over the Bears. ... Martellus Bennett (Alief Taylor HS and Texas A&M) caught eight passes for 109 yards for Chicago. ... Its official: Colt McCoy (Tuscola Jim Ned HS and UT) will start for the Redskins over Robert Griffin III (Copperas Cove HS and Baylor) on Sunday against the Colts, led by Andrew Luck (Houston Stratford HS and Stanford). ... The Texans have placed QB Ryan Mallett (Texarkana Texas HS and Arkansas) on season-ending injured reserve with a chest injury. Coach Bill OBrien said they were not sure if Mallett would need surgery. ... Michael Bennett (Alief Taylor HS and Texas A&M) had four tackles and a sack and Earl Thomas (West Orange-Stark HS and UT) had four tackles and an assist for the Seahawks, 19-3 winners over the 49ers. ... • • • • • • • 6. FYI: This blog features Texas teams and athletes with Texas connections. It is compiled by retired newspaper journalist Bob Sonderegger (anglebob61@yahoo) who covered most of the teams mentioned. Your comments or additions are welcome.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:05:30 +0000
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