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Get your kicks on Rout ... 63?

By Chris Dufresne
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The No. 8-ranked Texas Tech Red Raider wrecking balls ruined No. 19 Kansas’ homecoming on Saturday with a 63-21 win in Lawrence -- and here’s the kicker.

One of the ancillary stars of Texas Tech’s win was sophomore Matt Williams, who converted on all nine of his extra-point attempts. Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach, frustrated by his team’s kicking woes, offered Williams a roster spot after seeing him win a between-quarters kicking contest during a home game on Sept. 20.

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Williams was perfect on Saturday, and Texas Tech was nearly the same in dismantling what was thought to be a pretty good Kansas team.

By a Texas mile, this was Texas Tech’s most impressive win of the season and it could improve the school’s No. 9 ranking in the Bowl Championship Series standings.

Not that it matters to Leach.

‘I don’t know anything about those dumb BCS standings,’ Leach told ESPN afterward.

Well, at least he knows they’re dumb.

-- Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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