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For college football fans in Texas and Oklahoma, it's practically a doomsday scenario: The Cotton Bowl sitting empty on the second Saturday of October.

No University of Texas. No University of Oklahoma.

It's a scenario that could happen - and sooner than many fans may realize. Economic forces on several different fronts are threatening to drive the UT-OU game out of the venerable Cotton Bowl, the contest's home since 1930.

The major issue revolves around surging ticket demand at the competing schools. Both have set records for season-ticket sales this year. The Sooners have already topped the 70,000 mark and the Longhorns are nearly to that level.

The Cotton Bowl, with attendance announced at 75,587 for last year's game, can only accommodate about half of the two schools' best customers. Because each school receives only about 35,000 tickets each year, thousands of high-dollar donors to both programs no longer have access to UT-OU games.

OHIO SUCCESS: Three Ohio teams boast the longest winning streaks in their respective divisions. Dayton has a 14-game winning streak, the longest among teams in Division I-AA. Ohio State has won 19 straight in Division I-A.

Division III's Mount Union College in Alliance hasn't lost a game in four years. The team is riding a 46-game winning streak and is approaching the all-time record winning streak in any of the four divisions - 54 games. That mark is held by - Mount Union.

IN THE FAMILY: His cousin Maurice Clarett is more celebrated, yet Syracuse tailback Walter Reyes is doing all the running this season.

Four games into his junior season, Reyes leads the nation in rushing, points and all-purpose yards.

Reyes, 5-foot-10 and 210 pounds, is averaging 170 yards rushing, 15.5 points and 193.5 total yards per game. He has 10 rushing touchdowns and at least one TD in nine straight games.