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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas aims for its first road win this season when the Longhorns face Texas Tech on Saturday.The two teams have identical records, but the Red Raiders (2-3, 4-4) have won one game away from Lubbock -- after losing two earlier this season. They beat TCU last week in Fort Worth on a field goal in the second overtime.Texas coach Charlie Strong says his players need to summon a home-game mindset for the Longhorns (2-3, 4-4) to get their first road win in Lubbock.So how good you feel when youre at home, thats the same feeling that we have to take when were on the road, even though its a different atmosphere.Texas biggest challenge will be stopping Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who leads the nation in passing yards (3,519) and total offense (471.3 yards per game). The junior is still recovering from an injury to his passing shoulder in late September. He fell on it painfully on a rush that set up the winning field goal at TCU.Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury says Mahomes shoulder has steadily improved and that he gets daily treatments.I think it scared him, the fourth-year coach said. He landed right on it. Im sure there was some pain, but he sounds like he will be able to practice almost a full week so that should help.TCU kept Mahomes contained inside the pocket for most of the game, holding him to a season-low 206 yards passing. The team had a season-low 345 total yards and was held to its fewest points since a 20-10 win over the Horned Frogs in 2013.Thats whats got to be critical for us, not to let him outside, Strong said.A few more things to look for when Texas Tech hosts Texas:TEXAS RUSHINGDOnta Foreman, second in the nation in rushing yards (158 ypg), got two TDs and 250 yards on 32 carries in the Longhorns 35-34 win over Baylor last week. Thats more than the team is averaging per game (226.5 ypg). The performance made Foreman Texas first 1,000-yard season rusher since Jamaal Charles in 2007. Texas Tech has given up 300-plus yards rushing three times this season and is allowing an average of 213.8 yards. He runs with everything he has, Texas offense lineman Connor Williams said.THIRD DOWNSThe Red Raiders lead the nation in third-down conversion (57.8 percent), getting 74 first downs on 128 third downs. That is way better than the Longhorns who are 58th in the nation. Texas has gotten 52 first downs on 126 third-down attempts (41.3 percent). Kingsbury said a lot of the success is due to Mahomes abilities. Pat does a tremendous job of understanding the down and distance, he said. If its not there find a way to get it with your feet, so its a credit to him on more than the brilliant third down play calling that goes on.SMACK TALK BACKLASH?Texas DE Breckyn Hager apologized, and Strong chastised him, for a comment he made to TV reporters Monday, telling them the mission for the Longhorns defense was to injure that quarterback, referring to Mahomes. Some of Texas Techs faithful, in social media posts, wrote that the apology was not accepted. The comment could make for some added tensions between the teams.PENALTY REBOUNDPenalties have hurt the Red Raiders all season. They are 124th in the nation with 8.75 penalties per game. But against TCU Texas Tech had just one -- a 5-yarder. That hasnt happened since 1992. Can they keep it up against the Longhorns? They made their decision to play disciplined, Kingsbury said. 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ATHENS, Greece -- Michel Platini insisted his conscience was clear and he would continue the fight to overturn a FIFA ban in a farewell speech on Wednesday to European soccer leaders before his successor as UEFA president was elected.Platini was allowed by FIFAs ethics judge to deliver the UEFA congress address as a gesture of humanity, despite serving a four-year suspension from any role in soccer over an improper payment.Emerging from his FIFA-enforced exile, Platini used the platform in Athens to highlight his achievements since assuming the UEFA presidency in 2007 and issue advice to the next head of European soccer.There was applause from UEFA delegates but no standing ovation after Platini completed his address by declaring: Friends of football, farewell.Before then, without detailing the specifics of the wrongdoing, Platini insisted there was nothing improper about taking a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) from FIFA in 2011.Be assured that I have a clear conscience, that Im convinced I did not make the slightest mistake, and that Im continuing the legal battle, Platini told an audience which included FIFA President Gianni Infantino. I want to thank everyone in this room who had the courage and loyalty to support me during the past months.The 61-year-old Platinni expected to have vacated the presidency by now to be serving as FIFA leader.dddddddddddd But the ethics ban allowed Infantino, his former UEFA administrator, to assume Platinis self-proclaimed destiny to run world soccer.This is a juddering end to a decades-long career in soccer, with Platini going from winning titles with Juventus and France to becoming one of the sports most powerful leaders before being brought down in disgrace last year.Platinis four-year term through 2019 will be completed by Slovenian federation leader Aleksander Ceferin, who won the election later Wednesday in the Greek capital.Platini told the candidates that football is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a market.For millions of people around the world, football is ... a flame, Platini said. We have done much together for nine years to develop and preserve this flame.After expressing confidence that football is on the right track, Platini warned that serious abuses are still undermining the sport.Continue to balance sports realities and economic interests, he said.---Rob Harris is at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '