Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Arlington Heights 37, Southwest 14
at #4 Texas Christian 31, BYU 3
at #6 Oklahoma 52, Iowa State 0
at #5 Nebraska 13, TU Shortdicks 20
at #18 Wisconsin 31, #1 Ohio State 18
Dallas 21, at Minnehaha ViQueens 24
Like most every other game this year, the Raiders didn’t really make a game of it versus the Yellow Jackets.
Fort Worth Arlington Heights looks like it has two ways to answer any challenger in District 6-4A.
Its defense.
Marquis Jackson.
First, the defense.
It produced two interceptions in the first quarter and allowed less than 150 yards in a 37-14 victory against Fort Worth Southwest on Thursday night at Clark Stadium.
Then, Jackson.
The senior wideout caught three first-half touchdown passes and finished with 10 catches for 228 yards, plus a 41-yard score on the ground. He was a weapon the Raiders had no match for as they tried to keep up with Heights’ offensive attack, which despite suffering three turnovers, rolled up 523 yards.
Seems like Heights has a lot of weapons.  District 4A-6, beware. 
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Records all over the place.
Ryan Broyles broke his own mark for receptions in a game, finishing with 182 yards on 15 catches and one touchdown.
Ryan Broyles broke his own mark for receptions in a game, finishing with 182 yards on 15 catches and one touchdown.
And finally…
DeMarco Murray wasn’t about to leave the ball on the ground after scoring his latest touchdown for No. 6 Oklahoma.
This score, which came in a 52-0 rout of Iowa State on Saturday night, put him at the top of an impressive list at one of college football’s most storied programs: the most touchdowns ever scored in school history.
Is it any wonder that the Sooners romped all over the Cyclones?
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BigamYU will be a good football team again some day.
“But”, as Gowron was fond of saying, “…not today.”
Believe it or not, though, with 2:00 left in the first half, TCU only had a 3-0 lead on the Cougars, and the natives were getting restless.
Then Bronco Mendenhall, who was getting mondo props all week for once again taking over the defense, made a couple of critcal mistakes.
First, he left the post route wide open, and Phil Boyce reined in an Andy Dalton pass from 35 yards out.  10-3.
Then, after a Tank Carder pick, Jimmy Young hauled in a 14-yard pass on the same route.  Boom – 17-3, g’night Cougars.
Dalton added a pair of TD passes (one to Jeremy Kerley and another one to Boyce) along with a Ross Evans field goal to close out the scoring for the Frogs.
The defense did  soften up a bit to allow a FG drive for BYU, ending the scoreless streak at 10 quarters or so.  But the TD-less streak is now at 13 quarters.  And it did  get a stuff on a BYU 4th-and-1 at the start of the second half, so it seems to be rounding into form.
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David Gilreath has recovered from the concussion he suffered a few weeks ago against San Jose State.  And did he ever put an exclamation point on it Saturday night.
Gilreath took the game’s opening kickoff 97 yards for a score, and Bucky never looked back.
John Clay rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries, and James White added 75 yards on 17 rushes, including the game-clinching score with about seven minutes left in the fourth.
Tolzien was 13-16-152, with one pick.
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I didn’t get a chance to see this game, as I was busy bidding BYU a not-so-fond farewell from the Mountain West.
But I refuse  to believe that the pussies from Austin, College Football’s Biggest Payroll™, beat the Huskers straight-up.  They had to have had some help.
OTOH, I see in the writeup where Nebraska didn’t help its cause any:
A wide-open Rex Burkhead couldn’t hang on to what would have been a 30-yard TD in the second quarter. Niles Paul dropped what would have been an 11-yard score in the third quarter and Brandon Kinnie what would have been a 38-yarder in the fourth.
“Pretty obvious, isn’t it?” Pelini said. “We had opportunities to make plays. We didn’t make plays. They did. They won the football game.”
Look on the bright side, Bo:  Those three players were all Bill Callahan recruits.  Hopefully, you’ve got some real  talent in the wings to take their places.
But this is a black mark on your era there at NU.  You just let an inferior team come into your place and embarrass you again  (remember Iowa State last year?)  You’re going to have to learn to treat the conference douchewads like the proverbial fire hydrant gets treated by the proverbial mutt.
Sooner rather than later, please, sir.
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Stupid penalties (one of them yet another of the excessive-celebration type)?  Check.
Inability of the offense (read:  Romo) to protect the ball and avoid turnovers?  Check.
Inability of the offensive line to block?  Check.
Special-teams meltdown, allowing a long kickoff return for a score (either directly or indirectly)?  Check.
Yep, just another typical Dallas Cowgirlz effort, leading to another Cowgirlz’ loss.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
The offense begins the game by gashing the ViQueens D-line with runs off the left side.  Gash, gash, gash.  Got a couple of first downs out of it, too.  Then Jason Garrett, aka Red-Headed Jesus™, decides to go away from that and start throwing the ball.  Incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, punt.
See what Dallas fans have to put up with around here?
Dez Bryant did have one nice TD catch of a perfectly thrown Romo ball, and Roy Williams had another good day.  Other than that, it was extremely forgettable, so I’m going to do just that:  Forget about it.
Along with any Dallas Cowgirl playoff hopes.
Only good thing to come out of it was that the C’girlz covered the SpatulaLine™, so it counts as at least a moral victory.  Like that helps any.
This week:  5-1 (Dallas covers).  Overall:  35-8.
The PFW will return on Friday.  By then, we’ll know the outcome of Arlington Heights-South Hills (Heights will win, no worries).  We’d run with a post for tomorrow, but I’m going to have zero time to write anything tomorrow, due to it being another One-Legged Man™ day.
When we do reconvene, we have a story on Widdle Terri Owens’ latest exploit.  Trust me, you ain’t gonna believe this one. 
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