{"id":85,"date":"2009-10-11T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-10-11T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T04:24:10","slug":"longhorns-escape-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/10\/11\/longhorns-escape-with-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Longhorns escape with win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=jordan%20shipley&amp;iid=6774904\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/6\/7\/7\/7\/Colorado_v_Texas_ea20.jpg?adImageId=5075866&amp;imageId=6774904\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Colorado v Texas\" width=\"234\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>The score won&#8217;t do the Colorado Buffaloes any favors but the truth is not only did they hang with the #2 team in the nation for most of three and a half quarters: they were better.<\/p>\n<p>In the end though Texas was too much and midway though the third quarter Colorado crumbled when faced against a talented Longhorns squad.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado went into halftime with a surprising 14-10 lead but aided with a blocked punt and a defensive touchdown the Longhorns outscored the Buffaloes 28-0 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>While Colt McCoy&#8217;s overall numbers looked solid (32\/39, 265, 1TD\/1INT) it masks that there was little production in the first half until he found Jordan Shipley with 2:05 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley later ran a punt back 74 yards that extended the Longhorns lead to 17.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n<p>The running game again provided little to the Texas attack totaling 46 yards on 25 carries. The longest run coming on a 12 yard scamper by Foswhitt Whittaker that resulted in the final score of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The big storyline from the Buffaloes aspect was coach Dan Hawkins benching his son quarterback Cody Hawkins in favor of Tyler Hansen late in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>With the win Texas is now 5-0, while Colorado dropped to 1-4.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The score won&#8217;t do the Colorado Buffaloes any favors but the truth is not only did they hang with the #2 team in the nation for most of three and a half quarters: they were better. In the end though Texas was too much and midway though the third quarter Colorado crumbled when faced against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,162,338,471,616],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-colorado-buffaloes","8":"tag-colt-mccoy","9":"tag-jordan-shipley","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}