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Buffalo must really&#160 hate our guts now.

Arlington Heights 21, at Eastern Hills 14
Texas Christian 21, at Wyoming 24
at UBuffalo 31, Ohio University 10
#10 Oklahoma 28, #19 Texas 21
at #1 LSU 28, #9 Florida 24
Dallas 25, at Buffalo 24

There are close to 120 Division I NCAA football programs. Number 117 played what had to have been #119 Saturday, with (for once) the expected result.

Drew Willy completed 10 of 19 for 118 yards, and James Starks ran for 183 yards and two touchdowns.

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Okay, so it wasn’t the expected squash.&#160 On the other hand, when you consider that the Shortdicks Shorthorns had won the last two (three?) games rather convincingly, there was reason to believe they might win this one, too – especially when they set out to decimate the Oklahoma secondary, which for some reason has turned into a block of Swiss cheese.&#160 Jordan Shipley caught a touchdown pass in the corner of the endzone for TU and Jermichael Finley – not to be confused with Michael Finley of the San Antonio Spurs – added one touchdown on a post route.

Neither running game did very much until OU’s DeMarco Murray went on a 65-yard gallop in the third quarter.&#160 (This touchdown would prove to be the difference in the game, as TU matched OU touchdown-for-touchdown otherwise.)&#160 Murray wound up with 128 yards on 17 carries.

Turnovers, for once, plagued TU rather than the Sooners. OU protected the ball all day, while Texas’ Jamaal Charles lost one fumble inside the OU five, and Colt McCoy threw one interception that killed another drive.&#160 Despite all that, McCoy ended up 19 of 26 for 324, while Sam Bradford (aka TU’s worst nightmare the next three seasons) was 21 of 32 for 244.

All in all, a very nice game – and sweet revenge for what TU did to TCU.

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Memo to Les Miles:&#160 Uh, you don’t have a favorite set of lottery numbers, do you?

The Louisiana State football coach went 5-for-5 on fourth-down plays, scoring two touchdowns directly and setting up a third off a fake field goal in winning its first game as an AP-Top-25 #1 team since 1959.

Florida gashed LSU early and often.&#160 It didn’t hurt that the Gator line was holding every down, but it rarely got called for some reason.

The defense solidified when it had to, though, causing a couple of second-half turnovers.&#160 Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s last-gasp pass into the end zone was knocked down as time expired.

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Memo to Gary Patterson:&#160 You can whip up on Baylor all you want, you can occasionally beat Texas Tech, Iowa State and sometimes OU – but if you can’t beat Air Force & Wyoming, you need to STFU about the BCS and always being overlooked.

It used to be that Texas Christian was an outstanding second-half team.&#160 The book on the Frogs was:&#160 as long as they were within a touchdown or ahead by halftime, the game was all but theirs, due to their superior adjustments after halftime.

That was not to be against the Cowboys.&#160 Down 7-6, freshman quarterback Andy Dalton (SECOND MEMO TO GARY PATTERSON:&#160 Have you not seen enough to know that you don’t play freshmen at quarterback unless they’re named Sam Bradford?) threw an interception at his own 47-yard line.&#160 Ten plays later, the score was 14-6.&#160 On Wyoming’s next drive, TCU’s long-pathetic secondary was exposed, as three pass-interference penalties set the Cowboys up at the 2.&#160 (Granted, I didn’t get to see the game, so I don’t know if the penalties were legit – but knowing TCU’s secondary as I do, it wouldn’t surprise me.)&#160 Wyoming scored on the next play to make it 21-6, and would kick a field goal in the 4th quarter after yet another failed Frog drive to put the game away.

TCU came back with two touchdowns late in the fourth, and even had a chance to send the game into overtime.&#160 However, Chris Manfredini, playing in the role of Peter LoCoco this year, clanked one off the right upright from 48 yards, indicating that perhaps Patterson should eschew the weekly radio show in lieu of getting his team to play a full 60 minutes and scouting the soccer team for a placekicker.

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Speaking of which, the C’boys have found theirs for years to come.&#160 Nick Folk has pretty much vindicated Jerry Jones’ decision, not only to draft him, but then to keep him over Martin Gramatica.&#160 Folk, as you know by now, kicked a 53-yard field goal – twice – to bring the Cowboys back from defeat againt a team they had no business losing to.

He needed to be that good.&#160 Romo had his first really horrific game as a pro, throwing five interceptions (despite being 29 of 50 for 309), two of them pick-sixes, and losing a fumble on a scramble.&#160 The special teams also sucked eggs, allowing a 103-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

What saved Dallas last night was their defense (three points allowed, plus one very critical interception from Terrence Newman).

Folk, however, was the hero last night.&#160 After Dallas’ Tony Curtis had recovered Folk’s onside kick following a Romo-to-Crayton TD pass (the two-point conversion failed), Romo fired incomplete to Widdle Terri Owens – he actually caught the ball, but the replay officiating, continuing a night of sucky calls against him, ruled that he’d dropped it.

(In fact, Widdle Terri was the victim of three other calls that went against the Cowboys last night – a five-yard penalty for spiking the ball (he didn’t, and replays showed it), a catch that was ruled incomplete (despite replays showing that Bill defenders had forced him out, the refs said he juggled the ball; he didn’t), and a pass-interference penalty on the aforementioned failed two-point conversion that wasn’t called (replays showed he was clearly pushed).

Anyway, Romo then completed two short passes to Marion Barber III and Crayton, setting Folk up at the Buffalo 43.

Bills coach Dick Jauron pulled a stunt which is becoming de rigueur&#160 in the NFL this year, calling a timeout mere nanoseconds prior to the snap.&#160 No matter – the second kick was also good, giving the C’boys the win.&#160 However, expect this particular issue to be addressed sometime in the off-season.

Probably after Buffalo petitions the NFL to let them beat Dallas at least once.&#160

This week:&#160 5-1 (damn you, TCU!).&#160 Overall:&#160 27-7.

The PFW will return Thursday, when we guarantee a loss for the Froggies.&#160 Tell you why then.

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2 responses to “PFW:&#160 Folk hero”

1. RobertHuntingdon says:

   October 10, 2007 at 12:30 am

   Snort, was that a game of slop-ball or what? But the rest of his team (and a bit of his own efforts) pulled Romo’s butt out of the fire.

   But after that kind of play, I have to wonder what will happen against the patriots? I’m afraid that I have to repeat myself… but after such an abysmal performance against the woeful Bills, Dallas winning next weekend really would be considered by many to be the upset of the season. And, again, I have to admit I don’t expect it to happen. But in this case, I will hope for it.

   Oh and don’t even get me started on the zebras… once again one of my teams lost points to a horribly blown call… at least it wasn’t a last second one that obviously gave the game away, but it was one that took 7 off the board and they only ended up with 3. And considering that they lost by 3 points…

   I’m really starting to wonder if the refs really do any good at all anymore. Well, maybe not quite THAT bad. But way too close for comfort.

   RH

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2. RobertHuntingdon says:

   October 10, 2007 at 12:30 am

   Oh, and BTW… why wasn’t this over on the Rott??

   RH

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