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The Dallas Morning News is no longer allowed on the Obama campaign plane, but as a consolation it was able to secure interview time with HP on the subject of Colt McCoy and Texas-Texas Tech.

While Florida-Georgia is big, the biggest game when it comes to the Heisman this weekend will be Texas-Texas Tech.
Simply put, if Texas wins this one, Colt McCoy locks up the Heisman and has a good shot to win the trophy by the biggest margin in history.
If Texas Tech wins, then Graham Harrell will stake his [...]

I’ll be on Fox Sports 1340 with Jenni Carlson in about 20 minutes (2:40 PT).  Be sure to tune in.

Sorry for the non-existent posting today.  Celebrating my birthday, so I’ll be back tomorrow!  Cheers, HP.

Has a state ever done a worse job at producing quality football teams than Washington has this year?
Washington State has one win against 1-AA Portland State, but has lost its other games by an average score of 54-9.  The Cougars (1-7) are almost assuredly the worst Pac-10 team of all time.  They rank no better [...]

…the talk has always been of the great defenses.  Yet, only two SEC teams–South Carolina and Alabama–are in the top 10 of the total defense rankings (5 are in the top 20).
That’s not a horrible stat, unless you consider that there isn’t a single SEC offense in the top 20 of the total offense rankings [...]

Earlier this season, the thought was that it was the non-conference schedule that accounted for the predominance of Big 12 quarterbacks atop the passing ratings.
Well, we are now eight games in and the stats look like this :
Colt McCoy, 2nd
Sam Bradford, 3rd
Zac Robinson, 4th
Chase Daniel, 5th
Graham Harrell, 6th
Joe Ganz, 14th
Todd Reesing, 17th
Jerrod Johnson, 20th
That’s five [...]

For release: Oct. 28, 2008
For the second week in a row, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy swept all 10 first place votes in the Heismanpundit.com/Orlando Sentinel Heisman Poll, a weekly survey of Heisman voters from around the country.
McCoy, who led No. 1 Texas to its third-straight win over a top-11 ranked team, was a unanimous selection [...]

Billy Cannon takes it back 89 yards against Ole Miss on Halloween night, 1959.  Enjoy.

The Big 12 South has been magnificent this season, but there’s a bit of a mystery as to the tie-breaking procedures. Luckily, one of our readers James Doker has put together a flow chart to help figure it all out. Just click on the image to read. Enjoy and thanks James!