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Dallas 17, at Warshington 0

#22 Wisconsin 20, #14 Miami 14

#19 Nebraska 33, #20 Arizona 0

Oklahoma 31, #19 Stanford 27

at Dallas 24, Philthydelphia 0

I’m leaving one score off today’s recap, because it’s getting a post all its own tomorrow – and I don’t want my winners here to have to don their asbestos undies.

But I do have one bonus score (and yes, it’ll count):

Alabama 37, TU Shrimpdicks 21

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Dallas is peaking at the right time for once, or so it seems.&#160 They caught a Warshington Deadskin team as flat as Rachel Corrie, threw them down, stepped on their throats and then held them there.

Romo was 25-38-286 with a pick that really wasn’t his fault (it clanged off Roy Williams’ hands, as usual).&#160 Jason Witten had a career day, catching six for 117, and the Felix Jones/Marion Barber combo rushed for 121 yards as the C’boys followed up the New Orleans win with a workmanlike effort.

The defense shut down a Deadskin unit that had all but quit on coach Jim Zorn – although injuries did play a major part, the Skins not having either Clinton Portis or Ladell Betts to run the ball, making Warshington about as one-dimensional as it gets.&#160 Zorn would eventually be fired at season’s end.

Revenge Week&#169 followed the Skins game, with Dallas doing to Phucky what Phucky had done to them 12 months ago.&#160 Romo torched the Beagles for 311 yards on 24-34; Jones & Barber added bookend 91-yard rushing days, and Patrick Crayton & Miles Austin each had 90-yard-plus receiving days (Crayton had 4 grabs for 99 yards and a score).

TWGQBEITHOE,E™, Donna McCrabbs, was sacked four times by the C’boys and fumbled twice, losing one that would eventually lead to a Dallas field goal.

For their trouble, the Beagles get to come right back here to The Stadium Just Down The Road From Me&#153 and do it all over again for the playoffs.&#160 That one’s tonight.

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In the comments section of the preview, HDD was heard to say:

Jacory Harris is going to get hit like he’s never been hit before. Miami’s receivers are going to feel like they’re getting jammed at the line by semis. Their running backs are going to feel like they’re being tackled by dump trucks.

So, really, the question isn’t “How can the Badgers keep up with the speed of Miami?” (few teams are outright faster than the Badgers), it’s “How is Miami going to handle getting hit like they’ve never been hit before?”.

From the DevilDog’s mouth to God’s ears.

Bucky’s defense pounded the Hurricanes into submission and John Clay pounded for 121 yards of his own as the Badgers dominated.

Scott Tolzien threw for 260 yards, and Montee Ball added 61 yards rushing for a Wisconsin team touted as too big and too slow for the dynamic Hurricanes. None of that seemed to matter when the Badgers were powering the ball down the field.

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Speaking of the preview, I guess I could consider what I said here a WITY&#153.

Vegas considers it a tossup, but I think it’ll come down to whether or not Arizona’s line can hold Ndomukong Suh long enough to let their quarterback throw.

Uh…no.

Arizona QB Nick Foles’ third pass was intercepted by Matt O’Hanlon and returned to the Wildcat five, Zac Lee bootlegged around the right side from there, and that’s all the Huskers would need.

Arizona set Holiday Bowl records for futility, with six first downs, 109 yards of offense, 51 offensive plays and nine punts. The Wildcats didn’t get into Nebraska territory until the first drive of the third quarter.

Now – this game notwithstanding – all they need is an offense.

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Memo to rest of the Big XII:&#160 You’ve got at least two more years of this.&#160 Uh-oh.

Landry Jones went 30 of 51 for 418 yards and three touchdowns, all to Ryan Broyles, as Oklahoma overcame a 24-17 halftime deficit to hold off the Cardinal.&#160 The Sooners gave Heisman candidate Toby Gerhart his 135 yards (32 carries) and two touchdowns, and focused on shutting down everyone else.

All they need next year is an offensive line and a running game.

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As I noted to Widdle Mackie Brown the other night – it’s not quite as easy, even for Texas Third Pro Team&#153, when it’s your&#160 quarterback that’s getting knocked out of the game with a shoulder injury.

[Alabama coach] Saban’s defense changed the tenor of the title game suddenly and startlingly when Marcell Dareus hit [TU quarterback Colt] McCoy, injuring the quarterback’s shoulder and knocking him out on Texas’ fifth offensive play.

“I just heard a thump when I hit him,” Dareus said. “I did lay it down pretty hard. I didn’t try to, but it felt great.”

McCoy was knocked out of the game with what’s probably a pinched nerve, and Bama survived two touchdown catches from second-year pro* Jordan Shipley and two poorly-covered onside kicks to pull away late.

UPDATE:&#160 Chalk up another WITY&#153 for His Rudeness:

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy suffered a pinched nerve in his right shoulder and could not have returned to play effectively in the Citi BCS National Championship Game.

McCoy offered the doctors’ diagnosis after the game. Texas football spokesman John Bianco confirmed it Friday morning as the Longhorns were preparing to leave Southern California after a 37-21 loss to Alabama.

The injury occurred when McCoy was hit by Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus on a run attempt. He left after five snaps, never to return. He said his arm was dead, pain-free but with no strength.

“As far as the doctors have told me, this is a freak accident,” McCoy said. “It’s a pinched nerve. It takes days for it to recover and get healthy again. I just couldn’t throw the ball. If I was playing receiver or playing safety, I would have been playing.

“It wasn’t a question of toughness and pain in this whole deal. It was just a matter of I couldn’t do it.”

Told you.

Heisman winner Mark Ingram gashed the Shortdick defense for 116 yards and two touchdowns, and backup Trent Richardson added 109 yards and a couple of his own scores, as Alabama shut up all the T-sip pussies who were bleating about how good they supposedly were.

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TOMORROW:&#160 Not good enough to win straight-up…

* Yeah, I said “second-year pro”.&#160 The snot-nosed little weasel has been at TU for six fucking years, bah Gawd (a little Jim Ross lingo, there).&#160 I don’t effin’ care what his excuse was – no college player should ever get any more than five years of eligibility, period.

I note that those were his only two bowl-game catches of his career.&#160 What, was the weenie gonna apply for another medical redshirt had Bama shut him out?

Geeze.

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One response to “PFW:&#160 Benediction, part I (UPDATED)”

1. HDD says:

   January 9, 2010 at 1:53 pm

   no college player should ever get any more than five years of eligibility, period.

   Um…sorry to break it to you, but, SEVEN years is the maximum eligibility for a college player. Four years playing, one red-shirt year, one medical red-shirt year (rarely given out), and one MORE year of medical red-shirt, given out even less often than sixth year medical red-shirts. A medical red-shirt is ONLY allowed by the NCAA after a hearing, so, it’s not the Hamburgers Longhorns’ “fault” that Shipley got six years. They asked the NCAA for an extra year of eligibility because of injury, and the NCAA gave it to them. Don’t blame Texas. They just followed the rules. Blame the NCAA. It’s their stupid rule to begin with.

   Bucky would have won by the 10 points I predicted, if they hadn’t let the Himmicanes (there aren’t *too* many females on their team, so, it seems wrong to call them “Herricanes”) get that TD in garbage time. Bucky dominated Miami from about 2 minutes after the opening kick-off until about 5 minutes before the final gun. Watching the game, I could tell that Coach Shannon (whom I like a lot. Too bad he’s a Himmicane.) knew what his team was in for, and tried to coach them out of it. Miami played the entire game as if Coach Shannon knew that the Himmicanes needed a 20 point lead going in to the 4th quarter. Coach Shannon was quite aware that his defense and offense weren’t stout enough to take the pounding that the Badgers were going to apply to his team, so, he wanted a LAAAAARGE lead to carry him through the 4th quarter. It was also note-worthy that Jacory Harris looked, for most of the game, like a quarterback who was getting hit like he’d never been hit before…just like I predicted was going to happen. By half-time, he looked frustrated, and angry, and was letting his offensive line know what he thought of the job they were doing. NO quarterback plays well when he’s running for his life.

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