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This is the last time I make a hefty bet on a team without checking the weather forecast before the game. Oops.
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808's five star plays this week - Texas, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Florida State, Oregon. Tell you what, I can really pick 'em. 
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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NO. 5 TEXAS 22 NO. 17 NEBRASKA 20
Backup kicker Texas hero
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Eric Olson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colt McCoy of Texas eludes Nebraska?s Adam Carriker (90) and Bryan Wilson in the fourth quarter on a wintry day in Lincoln, Neb.
LINCOLN, Neb. ? Texas coach Mack Brown had some encouraging words for Ryan Bailey before the backup kicker took the field in the final seconds.
"You?re the luckiest guy in the world," Brown told the sophomore walk-on. "You?ve got a chance to be Dusty Mangum on your first kick."
Time will tell whether Bailey?s 22-yard field goal with 23 seconds left to beat 17 th-ranked Nebraska 22-20 in a Big 12 game ranks alongside Mangum?s 37-yarder to defeat Michigan in the Rose Bowl two years ago.
For Bailey?s part, he was just happy to be on the travel roster for the fifth-ranked Longhorns. Before yesterday, he said, his biggest accomplishment in football was simply making the team at Texas.
The eyes of Texas, Nebraska and a national television audience were on Bailey after regular kicker Greg Johnson told Brown late in the game that his leg was tightening up. By then Johnson already had missed two field goal attempts and had an extra point try blocked.
"I had no idea something like this would happen," Bailey said. "I was here along for the ride."
What a ride it was for both the Longhorns (7-1, 4-0) and Cornhuskers (6-2, 3-1).
The Huskers were on the verge of an upset after taking a 20-19 lead with 4:54 left. But Texas caught a huge break when receiver Terrence Nunn fumbled as the Huskers were trying to kill the clock. Marcus Griffin recovered at the Nebraska 44 with 2:17 left.
Colt McCoy, with a 20 mph wind in his face, snow flurries swirling and Vince Young looking on from the sideline, drove the Longhorns to the Nebraska 5.
Nebraska (6-2, 3-1) tried to ice Bailey when coach Bill Callahan asked officials to review the previous play to see if the Huskers may have intercepted a McCoy pass. Replays clearly showed that the ball bounced on the ground, however, and Bailey didn?t seem to mind the delay.
After getting a good-natured slap on the helmet from Brown, he trotted back out onto the field and calmly made the kick.
"I was surprised we got the ball back," Bailey said. "I would have preferred a touchdown. I?m just glad I could make it."
McCoy said he never had a doubt.
"Ryan Bailey steps in and I just said, ?Kick it like you do in practice,? " McCoy said. "He never misses in practice."
Nebraska got two shots at the end zone as the clock ran out ? including an untimed down after Texas was called for roughing the passer on what would have been the final play of the game ? but both passes from Zac Taylor were broken up.
Texas won its 16 th straight road game, extending a school record, and 19 th consecutive conference game.
Nebraska, which hasn?t beaten a top-10 team since Oklahoma in 2001, lost for the sixth time in seven meetings with Texas since 1996.
Brown said he expects Nebraska to make an appearance in the Big 12 championship game Dec. 2.
"Nebraska is back," Brown said. "For them to keep coming back and back and back ? they made big plays throughout the game to put themselves in a position to win. The team I saw today is probably the one someone will see in Kansas City for the Big 12 championship. I hope we get an opportunity for a rematch." McCoy completed 25 of 39 passes for 220 yards, including touchdown passes of 6 yards to Quan Cosby and 55 yards to Limas Sweed in the second quarter.
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crazybuckfan40
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Well all my vcash I won from the Mili pickem game just went down the tubes. I know there is never a lock in betting, but this looked to damn good to be true.
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