Texas routs Kansas 66-14

By Darrell Laurant  |   Saturday, November 12, 2005  |  Comments( 0 )

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It didn't take long for Jason Swanson and his Jayhawk teammates to realize they weren't in Kansas any more.

Last year in Lawrence, a scrappy Kansas team took the Texas Longhorns to the wire before losing in the final minute. This year, they came to Austin with the No. 1 defense in the country against the run.

No problem. Vince Young just went over them. The junior Longhorn quarterback threw for 281 yards and four touchdowns, and Mack Brown's second-ranked Longhorns (10-0, 7-0) took a 28-0 first-quarter lead, went up 52-0 at halftime, and cruised to a 66-14 rout.

Young passed Major Applewhite as Texas' all-time leader in total offense with 8,269 yards, and he still has a year to go (in theory, if he can withstand some heavy incentives from the NFL).

The Kansas Jayhawks defense did force Texas to punt on its first two possessions, but then the roof fell in. First, 6-5 Longhorns' receiver Limas Sweed out-jumped 5-11 Theo Baines in the end zone to snag the first Young touchdown pass. KU's Greg Heaggins fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and Jamaal Charles made the visitors pay with a 10-yard scoring run. The next time Texas got its hands on the ball, Young hooked up with Quan Cosby on a 64-yard scoring play, and then Aaron Ross hauled a punt 71 yards to the end zone. The contest was essentially over less than a quarter of the way in.

KU quarterback Swanson threw for 148 yards, but most of that came after the issue was no longer in doubt. Brown used some comments by Kansas coach Mark Mangino after last year's game (he said the officials really wanted Texas to win, and was fined $5,000 by the Big 12) to motivate the 2005 Longhorns, and it obviously worked.

In the end, the Jayhawks (5-5,2-5) didn't even stop the Texas running game. The Longhorns amassed 336 overland yards, led by Ramonce Taylor (96), 270-pound Henry Melton (73) and Charles (70). The scary thing for Big 12 rivals is that Melton and Charles are freshmen, Taylor a sophomore.

It remains to be seen whether the Texas Longhorns will take route 66 to the no. 1 spot in the BCS standings, but Alabama's loss to LSU leaves the Longhorns and Southern Cal as the only unbeaten teams in the mix.
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