McCoy leads Longhorns to 49-39 victory over rival Texas A&M

Colt McCoy ran and passed No. 3 Texas past Texas A&M Thursday night in a 49-39 shootout at Kyle Field. McCoy had a career high 175 rushing yards and 304 passing, scoring five combined touchdowns.

The Aggies rallied behind quarterback Jerrod Johnson, who ran for 97 yards and threw for 342, with four touchdowns.

After falling behind 7-0 after a 70-yard touchdown throw on the first possession, Texas built a 28-21 lead at the half, scoring to take the lead with five seconds left on the clock.

But after adding to their lead in the third, Texas couldn’t pull away from A&M, needing a kickoff return for a touchdown by freshman Marquise Goodwin and a defensive stop inside the 20 to hold on in the highest-scoring game in the history of the rivalry.

Texas racked up 597 yards of total offense, needing each one to hold off Johnson and the Aggies, who gained 532 of their own.

Twice, the Aggies pulled to within three, but the Longhorns responded both times with a 47-yard touchdown catch by James Kirkendoll, his second of the day, on third-and-long. After Johnson led another touchdown drive, Goodwin went 95 yards right up the middle on the ensuing kick return.

After A&M missed a short field goal with two minutes left, Texas was able to run out the clock, surviving with their national title hopes still intact.

4 comments

re: awesome

Thu Nov 26 2009 15:14

Not sure where you're coming from, awesome, but policies that are rooted in the current anti-smoking trends of demonizing smokers(i.e. outdoor smoking bans, increasing tobacco taxes) and stereotyping them to be pariahs are NOTHING for any college, company, or any other private group to be proud of. If anything, people like yourself should be very ashamed for favoring such excessive laws. What do you have to say about those who suffer from asthma, and has NOTHING to do with smoking?

Also, if UT-Arlington never moved ashtrays far from entrances to discourage smoking near them, and never enforced their existing rules, this college only has themselves to blame. Smoke free campus rules are nothing more than an extension of imposing the excessive will of anti-smoking groups and tobacco control against the will of free thinking people, and those who support such rules should be very ashamed of themselves. College presidents that allow the agenda of anti-smoking groups to be imposed on professors, students, and visitors have no business passing 'smoke-free campus' rules, which only smack disrespect against the majority of smokers who are respectful and smoke away from others outside. UT-Arlington administrators should go back to the drawing board, throw out this rule, and come up with a new one that only bans smoking away from building entrances. A faint whiff of SHS outside has never, and will never kill a single person.

One last thing: you may as well should have put the icing on the cake with that post, and made an allegation that outdoor bans will reduce heart attack rates!

awsome

Wed Nov 25 2009 19:48

I just found out David Beckham suffers from asthma. It is a challenging condition to deal with when everyone who also suffers from allergies /asthma has to be at the mercy of inconsiderate smokers who pollute EVERYONE's air.

I think this a good policy. With pollution, airborn pollen and second hand smoke everywhere, just having clean air in public places is a positive outcome policy.

I think the tobacco industry should be taxed out the wazoo for profitting off an industry that ends up contributing to emphesema, COPD, lung cancer,stroke, heart attack and all the high medical costs associated with that when people are in their senior years!

Longhorn

Wed Nov 25 2009 15:34

To smokers at UT: Please be kind not to smoke when people are around you even when you are outside, like while walking on a busy street. I feel physically weak every time after inhaling second-hand smoke of a passerby on busy campus streets.

1911

Wed Nov 25 2009 12:25

Can't smoke outside huh? Sounds like a Comi-fornia idea.

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