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1982 Texas-Alabama: Drawing Up One Perfect Play

In 1954, Junior Quarterback Charlie Brewer threw two touchdown passes as Texas defeated Bear Bryant and Texas A&M 22-13.
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1973 Texas-Alabama: Walking The Line

Stan Mauldin, more than most, can fully appreciate the intensity of the upcoming BCS Championship battle between Texas and Alabama.
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Texas vs Alabama: An Historical Perspective

For Longhorn fans the history is short but sweet: Texas holds an all time record of 7-0-1 against Alabama.

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The differences between the two coaches involved in this week’s BCS Championship Game were made even more evident today in this L.A. Times column.

Love this quote:

He (Brown) followed Alabama Coach Nick Saban to the microphone at a news conference at Disneyland over the weekend. Saban looked as though he’d rather be having a root canal and called things other than playing the game “clutter,” but Brown, when asked whether this was fun for him,

Where: Glendale, AZ

When: January 4th, 7:00 Central on ESPN

Line History: Opened at 7 and has bounced between 7 and 7.5 since the open. Total is 54.5.

Trips Rights’ Blind Line: I made TCU a 10 point favorite.

In 1954, Junior Quarterback Charlie Brewer threw two touchdown passes as Texas defeated Bear Bryant and Texas A&M 22-13.

Holy cow, the hits just keep on coming for former Texas Longhorns in the NFL…

Jamaal Charles, who barely saw the field in the first half of this season, shattered the Kansas City Chiefs’ single-game rushing record today, running up 259 yards on the day, putting him over 1,100 yards for the season.

Chiefs’ LB Derrick Johnson ran back two interceptions for touchdowns in the team’s upset of the Broncos, and flashed the Hook ‘em sign after

Brandon Collins arrested yesterday on two first degree felony charges.

Welcome to the two deep Mike Davis and Darius White.

Stan Mauldin, more than most, can fully appreciate the intensity of the upcoming BCS Championship battle between Texas and Alabama.

I’m at a tapas bar so you’re all latchkey kids tonight.

And f Tim.

Open thread!

Whenever we writers at BC are too lazy to put up any original content (we’re 65% original content at this point), we just throw up an open thread. Let our mouthbreathing intelligent readership add their own thoughts. Some open threads are better than others, e.g. Trips ‘Univsion Lucha Libre’ open threads typically don’t draw that many responses.

So we’ll throw up a thread about today’s high school all star game because 1) there are

For Longhorn fans the history is short but sweet: Texas holds an all time record of 7-0-1 against Alabama.

Roses.
Ducks.
Bucks.

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