I hope Heisman voters see this and pay attention.  Tech fans are grumbling in the comments section, but I suppose you can't blame them.  They don't seem to appreciate that the DMN names Leach coach of the year.  Besides Colt, only two other Horns named to the first team -- Orakpo (no surprise) and Shipley (yes!).

Nice argument for the Heisman:

The bottom line: McCoy did as much for his team as any offensive player in the Big 12 – or the country. Here are three of several numbers that back up the argument:

• McCoy accounted for 70.3 percent of the Texas offense.

• With his completion percentage of 77.6, McCoy could break Daunte Culpepper's Bowl Subdivision mark of 73.6 in 1998.

• He's one of just seven players in the Bowl Subdivision to lead his team in rushing and passing this season.

... he'll be giving him a prostate massage.

Sorry to be so graphic, but come on.  King's blathering on today about Sam Bradford being the best OU player of all time.  The Heisman hype for Bradford is out of control.  Reminds me of '05 and all the BS about USC being the Best Football Team of All Time -- at least until January 4, 2006.  Texas deflated the hype machine then, and Vince showed up the pretender Reggie Bush.  We probably won't get a rematch with OU this year, but I can't wait for the Sooners -- and Bradford -- to stink it up in Miami, and for Colt and Texas to come out smelling sweeter than ever.

This graph from an AP story caught my attention:

The Sooners remained No. 1 in the new AP poll Sunday, their record 97th time at the top. They had 51 of a possible 65 first-place votes, eight more than a week earlier when they broke a tie with Notre Dame for 95 appearances at No. 1.

If OU's number 1 among the No. 1s, where does Texas rank? 

Eighth, it turns out, and a distant eighth at that.  In nearly 1,000 AP college football polls published since 1936, the Horns have been ranked No. 1 just 42 times.  We're third among the Big XII teams -- Nebraska ranks fifth, with 70 No. 1s. 

Just some interesting trivia as we head into Saturday.  Hook 'em!

The UT men's tennis team advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals with a 4-0 win over 9th-seeded Florida on Friday.  The 'Horns haven't dropped a match since the tourney started last weekend in Tulsa, posting 4-0 victories over A&M CC, Rice and the Gators.  Texas, the tournament's 7th seed, meets 2-seed Ohio State today.  The rest of the Elite 8 are Baylor, Georgia, Mississippi, top-seed Virginia, USC and UCLA. 

texassports.com has a report on Friday's win over Florida .  ncaa.com sucks as far as tourney coverage is concerned.  Your better bet is the University of Tulsa site , where they are filling in the bracket as the tournament proceeds. 

The Horns fell one spot in the AP and rose one spot in the ESPN/USA Today polls released today.  

I know, big deal.

But there was one interesting factoid:

Ten schools were ranked in every poll this season, with North Carolina, UCLA, Memphis and Kansas spending the entire season ranked eighth or higher. The others ranked all season were Georgetown, Tennessee, Michigan State, Washington State, Duke and Texas.

Well this may take a little of the sting out of the men's loss in Lubbock yesterday.  The Texas women took this one by a full 15 points on the road, despite another double-double (her 88th) by Courtney Paris.  The victory kept o.u. out of first place in the Big XII and burnished the Horn's (18-11, 6-9 Big XII) tournament resume considerably.

The Longhorns picked up a crucial win in their bid to make it back to the NCAA tournament by handing Oklahoma its first home loss to an unranked opponent since SMU beat a 15th-ranked Sooners squad 71-68 on Dec. 21, 2002. It was Texas’ second straight Big 12 road win after starting conference play 0-6 outside of Austin.

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With the men's basketball team now 9-0 on the young season, I keep reading references to the record set by the 1981-82 team, which jumped out to a 14-0 start.  I'm wondering how that story played out.

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