News Nuggets, 09.15.03
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College football weekend: The good, the
bad and the ugly
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09.14.03: Conference
USA rings up profitable Saturday against BCS foes... ..
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09.13.03: Madison
lost for season as injury toll rises in Texas Christian
backfield... .. Staff 'fixture', air horn guru gets props at
Southern Miss... ..
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09.12.03: After
two emotional weeks, can Miami's Berlin relax?... .. Frogs
coach to strum and croon for fans... .. Fundraiser in the
works for former Louisville hoops star... ..
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09.11.03: Billikens
old-timers to be managed by Herzog... .. Injuries sideline
TCU quarterback, running back... .. Professional wrestling
barreling toward Minges Coliseum... .. NCAA sentences Fresno
State to four years... ..
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09.10.03: Fowler,
Corso and Herbstreit to set up shop at West Point... ..
Surprising Deacs roll towards Boilermakers... .. Charlotte
hoops recruit postpones enrolling... ..
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09.09.03: Wave,
Bulldogs rekindle century-old rivalry... .. Horned Frogs hop
higher in polls... .. Tigers devour two of league's three
weekly awards... ..
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09.08.03: Hurdles
ahead get more ominous for struggling Pirates... .. AP Top
25... .. TV exposure plentiful for Marquette basketball... ..
USC baseball team schedules mid-winter excursion to Cuba... ..
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09.07.03: Tigers'
win over Ole Miss highlights C-USA Saturday action... ..
Coastal Carolina debuts football program with dramatic win...
.. Tidbits of interest from college football... ..
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09.06.03: Standing
room only for debut of Chanticleers' football program... ..
No. 25 TCU faces unconventional attack after abnormal week...
.. TV capsules: Houston at No. 5 Michigan; Mississippi at
Memphis... ..
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09.05.03: ECU
game added to Army's national radio package... .. Pirates
finalize football game times... .. Conference USA busy
promoting and hiring... ..
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A few notes and numbers that stood out
during the college football weekend:
PULLING RANK: Purdue's 16-10 victory
over No. 20 Wake Forest spoiled the Demon Deacons' first game as a ranked
team since January 1993.
STREAKING MIAMIS: Miami (FL)
extended the nation's longest home winning streak to 24 games with a 38-3
win over East Carolina. ... Miami of Ohio beat Northwestern for the fifth
straight time, 44-14.
STUMBLING OUT OF THE GATES: With its
38-3 defeat at Miami, East Carolina has been outscored 126-13 in its first
three games. For relative solace, the Pirates can take comfort in knowing
that the Liberty Flames, with their 62-3 loss to Bowling Green, have been
outscored 159-12 this season.
STRONG IN DEFEAT: North Carolina
State's Philip Rivers was 36-of-52 for 315 yards and four touchdowns in the
No. 24 Wolfpack's triple-overtime loss to No. 3 Ohio State. ... Chance Mock
threw for 264 yards and three touchdowns in Texas' 38-28 loss to Arkansas.
HOT POTATO: Cincinnati and West
Virginia combined for 14 fumbles in the Bearcats' 15-13 win. Cincinnati
quarterback Gino Guidugli fumbled three times, losing two. Running back
Quincy Wilson and quarterback Rasheed Marshall had three fumbles apiece for
West Virginia.
OVER DUE: No. 3 Ohio State's 44-38
win over No. 24 North Carolina State was the first overtime game in
81-year-old Ohio Stadium, coming in the old gray horseshoe's 472nd
intercollegiate game.
SNAPPED: David Greene's 2-yard pass
to Reggie Brown in the first quarter of No. 8 Georgia's 31-7 win over No. 25
South Carolina was the Bulldogs' first offensive touchdown against the
Gamecocks since 2000, ending a streak of 181 minutes, 18 seconds.
SLIGHTED IRISH:
No. 5 Michigan's 38-0 win over No. 15 Notre
Dame was the Wolverines' first shutout over the Irish since a 23-0 victory
in 1902. Saturday's loss was Notre Dame's worst since a 58-7 beating by
Miami in 1985 and the worst shutout since a 40-0 game against Oklahoma in
1956.
BUSTED BADGERS: Before its 23-5 loss
to UNLV, No. 14 Wisconsin hadn't lost at home with this high of a ranking
since 1959, when it was ranked seventh and lost to Illinois 9-6. The Badgers
failed to score an offensive touchdown at Camp Randall Stadium for the first
time since a 3-3 tie with Illinois in 1995.
QUICK STRIKE: Louisiana Tech rallied
to beat Michigan State 20-19 on two late touchdown passes by Luke McCown.
McCown threw a 4-yard TD pass to Julius Cosby with 1:09 left to make it
19-14. Dez Abrams then recovered an onside kick, and McCown followed with an
11-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Curry with 2 seconds left.
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE
WEAPON: "We totally gave it away. We didn't just shoot ourselves in the
foot. We took a bazooka and blew the whole thing off." - Michigan State
guard Paul Harker after the Spartans' 20-19 loss to Louisiana Tech.
- Craig Krenzel, Ohio State, had 273
yards and four touchdown passes, as No. 3 Ohio State beat No. 24 North
Carolina State 44-38 in triple overtime.
- Jamaal Brimmer, UNLV, returned a fumble for a score, and had two
interceptions and two sacks as UNLV stunned No. 14 Wisconsin 23-5.
- Ryan Schneider, Central Florida,
passed for a school-record 497 yards in Central Florida's 33-29 win over
Florida Atlantic.
Frogs hop higher in polls despite idle weekend
Despite not playing in the week just ended,
the 2-0 Texas Christian Horned Frogs continued their climb in both the
Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls. The Frogs find themselves
ranked 20th in the A.P. poll and 19th in the coaches poll.
TCU gained 114 additional points in moving
up two spots from 22nd in the A.P. poll, tallying 309 points to rank between
No. 19 Washington (352) and No. 21 Alabama (223).
The No. 20 ranking in the writers' poll is
the Frogs' top ranking since they were ranked 13th in the final regular
season poll in 2000, when they boasted a 10-1 record.
TCU went from 157 points to 298 in the
ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll to move from 23rd to No. 19. The Frogs rank
between No. 18 Arkansas (420) and No. 20 Texas A&M (249) in the poll. The
Frogs have climbed nine notches in the coaches' poll over the last two
weeks.
Oklahoma continues to lead both polls,
followed by Miami, which defeated TCU's fellow Conference USA member, East
Carolina, on Saturday.
The Horned Frogs will put their ranking on
the line on Saturday, September 20, when they host the Vanderbilt Commodores
(1-2) of the Southeastern Conference.
C-USA members Louisville and Cincinnati
picked up votes in both polls after posting notable victories over Big East
foes, but neither cracked the Top 25. The Cardinals knocked off Syracuse in
the Carrier Dome, while Cincinnati upset West Virginia in Morgantown.
Following are the
09.14.03 polls with Carolinas and C-USA
teams denoted in bold font.
ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP
25
The Top 25 teams in The Associated
Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
records through Sept. 14, total points based on 25 points for a
first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and
previous ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. Oklahoma (50) 3-0 1,601 1
2. Miami (3) 3-0 1,508 2
3. Michigan (4) 3-0 1,457 5
4. Southern Cal (2) 3-0 1,445 4
5. Ohio St. (6) 3-0 1,402 3
6. Kansas St. 4-0 1,248 7
7. Georgia 3-0 1,230 8
8. Virginia Tech 2-0 1,151 9
9. Pittsburgh 2-0 1,061 11
10. Florida St. 3-0 1,054 10
11. LSU 3-0 999 12
12. Tennessee 2-0 956 13
13. Texas 1-1 677 6
14. Arkansas 2-0 651 _
15. Nebraska 3-0 647 18
16. Arizona St. 2-0 643 16
17. Florida 2-1 602 19
18. Iowa 3-0 521 23
19. Washington 1-1 352 21
20. Texas Christian 2-0 309 22
21. Alabama 2-1 223 _
22. Oregon 3-0 150 _
23. Missouri 3-0 149 _
24. Washington St. 2-1 141 _
25. Purdue 1-1 122 _
Others receiving votes: Notre Dame
120, Minnesota 105, N.C. State 91, N. Illinois 66, Bowling
Green 58, Texas A&M 52, Virginia 50, Wisconsin 50, Colorado 49,
Louisville 34, Wake Forest 33, Boise St. 26, Boston
College 21, Colorado St. 14, Air Force 12, Texas Tech 10, South
Carolina 8, Oklahoma St. 7, Oregon St. 6, Cincinnati 5,
Maryland 5, UNLV 4. |
USA TODAY/ESPN
COACHES POLL
The top 25 teams in the USA
Today-ESPN college football poll, with first-place votes in
parentheses, team's records through Sept. 14, points based on 25
points for a first-place vote, through one point for a 25th-place
vote and last week's ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. Oklahoma (46) 3-0 1,551 1
2. Miami (Fla.) (8) 3-0 1,498 2
3. Southern California (1) 3-0 1,397 4
4. Ohio State (7) 3-0 1,366 3
5. Michigan (1) 3-0 1,335 7
6. Kansas State 4-0 1,265 6
7. Georgia 3-0 1,217 8
8. Virginia Tech 2-0 1,123 9
9. Florida State 3-0 1,031 10
10. LSU 3-0 985 11
11. Pittsburgh 2-0 933 12
12. Tennessee 2-0 892 13
13. Texas 1-1 712 5
14. Iowa 3-0 648 19
15. Nebraska 3-0 641 18
16. Arizona State 2-0 637 16
17. Florida 2-1 587 20
18. Arkansas 2-0 420 NR
19. Texas Christian 2-0 298 23
20. Texas A&M 2-0 249 25
21. Washington 1-1 204 24
22. Oregon 3-0 185 NR
23. Notre Dame 1-1 140 14
24. Minnesota 3-0 122 NR
25. Washington State 2-1 116 NR
Also receiving votes: Missouri 113;
Virginia 103; Boise State 82; Wisconsin 72; North Carolina State
66; Air Force 53; Northern Illinois 50; Purdue 50; Colorado 49;
Texas Tech 47; Colorado State 41; Louisville 37; Bowling
Green 35; Boston College 26; Wake Forest 25; UCLA 19; Brigham
Young 18; Oklahoma State 11; Auburn 5; Cincinnati 4;
Clemson 4; Georgia Tech 4; Hawaii 3; Utah 3; Fresno State 1;
Louisiana Tech 1; UNLV 1. |
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