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Sometimes, that last yard can be the toughest to get.

UBuff actually had a chance to win this one, but Brett Hamlin failed to protect the ball on the Bulls’ final drive, having it pulled from his grasp at the one after catching a pass from Drew Willy with 1:46 to play.  Kent State’s Justin Edelman had put KSU in front four minutes earlier with a 25-yard pass to Jonathan Simpson.

KSU gashed the hell out of the Bulls line, going for 312 rushing yards.  Edelman was their leading rusher with 167 yards.  Eugene Jarvis added 150 yards on 22 carries.

Willy was 21-31-240 and one touchdown.  James Starks ran for 136 yards on 24 carries.

What hurts about this one is that KSU went into the game at 3-8.  Memo to my old acquaintance Turner Gill:  you do not  drop games to losing teams at home.  I hope that you gave more of a rip job to your team afterwards than Coach Branch used to give the AHHS varsity hoops team after games during that oh-fer season of 78-79 (read:  none).

What hurts worse is that, had we had the SpatulaLine™ on this, we’d have a PFW for the week.

Grrrrrrrrrr. 

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Bo Pelini got too cutesy for his own good, and it almost cost him.

With two minutes left in the first half Friday, the Cornhuskers lined up for a 50-yard field goal, intending to run a fake where holder Jake Wesch would take the snap and pitch back to kicker Alex Henery on a sweep.  But Henery left too soon, Colorado’s Jimmy Smith read the play and intercepted Wesch’s blind flip, then took it 58 yards untouched to the house.

Henery made up for it, though, with 2nd-half field goals of 27, 37 and 57 yards (the last being a Nebraska school record), and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh intercepted a last-gasp Cody Hawkins pass and rumbled 30 yards for the final margin.

Joey Ganz was 19-26-229 and two touchdowns.  Roy Helu Jr. had 166 yards on 25 carries.

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Memo to the Big XII:  You might have lower-scoring games during Bedlam week if you just make OU & OSU leave their defenses on the sidelines the entire game.

I mean, that’s basically what you had Saturday night, anyway.

Believe it or not, this started out as a defensive struggle – it was only 7-3, OU, at the end of the first quarter.

So check out this box:

1 2 3 4 T
OKLA (11-1) 7 14 16 24 61
OKST (9-3) 3 10 13 15 41

Usually, OU gets it revved up in the first quarter of games, then coasts.  But OSU wasn’t having any of that.  Every time OU would score to push the lead back out to 10 or so, the Cowboys would come right back and score to bring it back down to a field goal.

The game wasn’t over, in fact, until Jeremy Beal sacked OSU quarterback Zac Robinson with just under three minutes to play, causing him to fumble, and Adrian Taylor recovered at the Cowboy 38.  Chris Brown ran it in from 28 yards for the final margin.

Bradford, playing with an injured left thumb, was 30-44-370 and four touchdowns.  Brown had 98 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries, and DeMarco Murray added 73 yards and a score on 15 carries.  Jermaine Gresham caught nine passes for 158 yards and two scores.

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When you have an uninspired team basically going through the motions, the first thing you want to do is put your foot on their throat and disabuse said opponent of any notion that they have a chance that day.

Dallas did just that, scoring touchdowns on their first three drives, and letting the defense crank it up on an injured Matt Hasselbeck the rest of the way, putting him on the ground a total of seven times Thursday.  DeMarcus Ware had three of those sacks, and Bradie James added two.  Tank Johnson even got into the act with one sack.

Julius Jones, in his first game back at Texas Stadium since signing with Seattle, showed why Dallas didn’t bother re-signing him, gaining only 37 yards on 11 carried, being largely ineffective and losing a fumble.

Romo was 22-34-331 with three touchdowns.  Jason Witten caught nine passes for 115 yards and a touchdown, and Terrell Owens caught five for 98 yards and a score.

All in all, quite the nice bird on which to feast for Thanksgiving.

This week:  3-1.  Overall:  56-16.

The PFW will return on Friday, when we hope to show a perfect team just how overrated they really are.