Last Updated on September 8, 2009 1:49 pm by drew
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One game into the 2009 campaign, they’re seemingly already in good position to accomplish what they didn’t last year.
The second-ranked Longhorns look to build on a convincing season-opening victory and take advantage of a rival’s early stumble as they visit Wyoming on Saturday.
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They lost out on a trip to the Big 12 title game on a tiebreaker despite defeating eventual conference champ
This season,
It was an impressive showing but not as polished as Brown expects from a team with national title aspirations.
"Colt wasn’t as pleased with himself in the first half, but his standard is set really, really high," Brown said. "If we were great tonight, why practice any more? Opening games should be your worst."
The Longhorns also had some concerns about their defense after giving up the most points in a season opener since a 23-20 loss to
Defensive coordinator Will Muschamp didn’t take solace in the fact that 10 of the points his unit allowed came in the fourth quarter, after the Longhorns had put the game away and their starters had been replaced.
"We don’t want to give up 20 points. Ever," Muschamp said.
The Cowboys were last among the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams with 12.7 points per game last season and 108th with 296.0 scrimmage yards per contest, but they totaled 434 yards to give Dave Christensen a win in his coaching debut.
Darius Terry rushed for 99 yards and two touchdowns, and freshman Austyn Carta-Samuels threw for 101 yards and ran for 22 more.
Christensen, who spent the last eight seasons as the offensive coordinator at
"That’s a little disheartening, but we’ll work on that," he said. "We’ll improve."
It might take some dramatic progress to keep up with
Posted: 9/8/09 1:49PM ET