UT knocks off No. 5 Nebraska

By The Associated Press     Oct 17, 2010

Texas 20, No. 5 Nebraska 13

Lincoln, Neb. — Texas beat Nebraska yet again, and this time there was no doubt.

Garrett Gilbert got the Longhorns out to a two-touchdown lead in the first half and their defense shut down Taylor Martinez to key an upset Saturday, a crushing first defeat for a fifth-ranked Cornhuskers team that was out to avenge last year’s loss in the Big 12 championship game.

“They had more pressure on them today than us, and that’s unusual,” Texas coach Mack Brown said. “I thought their fans hung in there with them. But I could feel some of their fans, when we got up 10-0 thinking, ‘You’ve got to be kidding, not again.”‘

The Huskers (5-1 overall, 1-1 Big 12) and the Nebraska faithful had been pointing to this game for 10 months, since last year’s conference title game ended with one second put back on the clock — enough time for the Longhorns to kick the winning field goal and sneak away with a 13-12 victory.

The stakes became even higher after Nebraska announced over the summer that it was moving to the Big Ten next year.

Suddenly, this looked like the Huskers’ last chance to beat a Texas program that had dominated them since the inception of the Big 12.

Barring a rematch in the conference championship game, Texas will have won nine of 10 meetings against the Huskers since 1996, with Nebraska’s only win coming in the 1999 title game.

“We’ll let the fans feel sorry for what happened,” Huskers coach Bo Pelini said. “We have to take an experience like this and have it make us stronger. I know our team has a lot of character.”

Texas (4-2, 2-1) entered as 91/2-point underdogs.

No. 6 Oklahoma 52, Iowa State 0

Norman, Okla. — DeMarco Murray scored three times to set Oklahoma’s career record for TDs (58), and Ryan Broyles broke his own mark for receptions in a game (15).

No. 20 Oklahoma St. 34, Texas Tech 17

Lubbock, Texas — Justin Blackmon had a career-high 207 yards receiving, and Oklahoma State beat Texas Tech in Lubbock for the first time since 1944.

No. 21 Missouri 30, Texas A&M 9

College Station, Texas — Blaine Gabbert threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns, and the Tigers improved to 6-0 for the fifth time in school history.

Baylor 31, Colorado 25

Boulder, Colo. — Jay Finley rushed for a career-high 143 yards and Chance Casey batted down a last-second pass in the end zone.

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