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A whole lot of touchdowns. Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan tossed five second-half touchdowns to lead the Warriors over Arizona State, 41-24, in Saturday???s Hawaii Bowl. Brennan finished the season with 58 touchdown passes, breaking the previous single-season mark established by Houston???s David Klingler in 1990. Klingler tossed 54 touchdowns that year before moving forward to a career in the NFL. I???ve seen Brennan play a couple of times and he???s certainly talented. He was 33-of-42 for 559 yards on Saturday and finished the season with 5,549 passing yards to become just the third player with more than 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in one year. All that and he still has one season left to play.

A weekend of records. Brennan wasn???t the only person to make history in the world of college sports as Texas Tech head coach Bobby Knight led the Red Raiders over Bucknell to tie Dean Smith with 879 career victories. With one more victory, Knight will become the all-time leader. Knight is one of those coaches that you either love or hate, and while I believe his antics are wholly unnecessary, there???s no denying that he???s done a great job with his teams over the years. He had a winning record at every stop along the way, first at Army, later at Indiana and now at Texas Tech. He seems unconcerned with the record and that???s probably the way it should be. From the outside, it doesn???t seem as if he treats his players right and that bothers me. On the other hand, they keep coming back. Knight will look for his 880th win on Thursday against UNLV.

Almost a bad situation. Because of television rights, fans in the New Jersey and New York area almost had to go without watching Rutgers play against Kansas State in the Texas Bowl on Thursday. I don???t want to get into too many details, but a deal has been worked out between the NFL Network and Cablevision and fans will now be able to tune in and watch the Scarlet Knights in their second straight bowl game.

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Bobby Knight will soon be the "all-time leader" in men's college basketball victories, when he reaches 880.

The Tennessee Lady Vols' Pat Summitt, however, still leads all hoops' coaches in victories with 924. http://utladyvols.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/summitt_pat00.html

posted by: Carol Anne | 12/26/06

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It means that two very good teams with very good coaches made it to the final game.
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