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Sims exits Cotton on high note, awaits next level.(The Dallas Morning News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| January 01, 2003 | Blount, Terry | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Terry Blount

DALLAS _ Chris Simms was the first Texas player to come in the interview room after the Longhorns' 35-20 Cotton Bowl victory over LSU on Wednesday. Simms stood at the podium and didn't need to hear a question. The Texas quarterback knew what he wanted to say.

"I can walk in here with a smile on my face for once," Simms said. "It's about damn time, too."

The cynics will say that the last pass of his college career was an interception, an experience Simms is all too familiar with at the Cotton Bowl.

But his final game at the historic old stadium left him with a far better feeling than the previous times he took ...

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