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News Nuggets, 09.22.03
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Compiled from staff reports and electronic dispatches

College football weekend: The good, the bad and the ugly

STARS: Antonio Perkins, Oklahoma, ran back three punts for touchdowns and finished with 277 yards on seven returns to break two NCAA records as the top-ranked Sooners beat UCLA 59-24. ... Chris Rix, Florida State, was 30-for-39, with 394 yards and two touchdowns in three quarters as the No. 10 Seminoles beat Colorado 47-7. ... Walter Reyes, Syracuse, ran for 241 yards and four touchdowns as the Orangemen beat Central Florida 38-14.

NEW TOON: Lee Evans caught five passes for 80 yards and a touchdown in Wisconsin's 38-27 win over North Carolina, and surpassed Al Toon's school record for career receptions. Evans has 134 catches.

FLYING FRESHMAN: Booker Stanley rushed for 119 yards and three touchdowns as Wisconsin beat North Carolina 38-27.

OWNING OHIO: With a 24-17 win over Bowling Green, Ohio State has not lost to another Ohio college since falling 7-6 to Oberlin in 1921.

SNAPPED: Kansas State snapped a 41-game home nonconference winning streak with a 27-20 loss to Marshall.

SLUMPING: UTEP lost its ninth straight game and 17th straight on road, falling to Louisville 42-14. ... Army's 50-33 loss to Tulane was the Black Knights' 10th straight home loss and fifth straight overall.

STRONG IN DEFEAT: B.J. Symons threw for a school-record 586-yards in Texas Tech's 49-21 loss to North Carolina State.

FINALLY: Minnesota-Morris ended its 46-game losing streak — an NCAA Division II record — with a 61-28 win over Principia. The Cougars' last victory was over Mayville State in 1998. Donnay Green rushed for three touchdowns and a school-record 234 yards.

INDY 600: Matt Kohn passed for 645 yards, breaking the NCAA Division II single game record, as Indianapolis beat Michigan Tech 59-52 in overtime. Kohn was 39-for-61 with six touchdowns and no interceptions. The previous record of 642 yards was set by Glenville State's Wilkie Perez in a 1997 game against Concord.

SPEAKING: ``That's one of those plays you work on all the time. You never think you're going to run it, or that it's going to work.'' — James Banks, who caught a ricocheting 48-yard pass at the end of the first half in No. 12 Tennessee's 24-10 win over No. 17 Florida. --- ``Everyone did their job, except for the ball.'' — Florida safety Daryl Dixon. --- ``This is still the same team that lost to Louisiana Tech last week.'' — Michigan State coach John L. Smith, who told his Spartans not to get too excited about beating Notre Dame.

C-USA executives meet face-to-face instead of by phone

Bonesville.net's Saturday report that Conference USA's presidents would conduct a Sunday teleconference turned out to be correct in the sense that a meeting was held but incorrect concerning the setting in which the session would be conducted. The CEO's met in person instead of by phone and they plan another meeting in October. Interim chancellor William Shelton represented East Carolina at the meeting.

Fox-ESPN rights conflict nixes TCU-Arizona TV

TDue to contractual relationships, the Texas Christian football game at Arizona, scheduled for Saturday, September 27, will not be televised in the Metroplex, TCU/ESPN Regional General Manager Brian Florko has announced.

"Fox Sports owns the rights to the Pac-10 Conference package and has elected to not televise the TCU-Arizona game," Florko said. "The TCU/ESPN Regional Sports Network requested Fox Sports to release the rights to televise the game to us so that we could televise it in the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace on UPN-21, however they have chosen not to do so because of window exclusivity."

Kickoff for the game is set for 10:00 p.m. ET.

Horned Frogs cruise upward in weekly rankings

Unbeaten Texas Christian, on the strength of its win over Vanderbilt, moved up a notch from 20th to 19th in the Associated Press Top 25 and leaped to spots from No. 19 to No. 17 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Conference USA and Carolinas which received votes in one or both polls but did not crack the Top 25 were Louisville, Cincinnati, Southern Miss, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, Clemson and South Carolina. Following are the 09.21.03 polls with C-USA and Carolinas teams denoted in bold.

News Nuggets are compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member schools, and from Associated Press and other reports. Copyright 2003 Bonesville.net and other publishers. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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