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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1975
Page 13
IBroyles, Bollard discuss
teams’ chances for game
I
Associated Press
„ LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas
y Coach Frank Broyles was giving a
^ pep talk Wednesday — totheRazor-
/ back fans, not the players.
“I’d like to say one of the big fac
tors in our game Saturday will be
whether our fans are truly involved
in the game,” Broyles said. “I hope it
will be like the Southern Cal game
two years ago. ”
In that game, Arkansas upset
USC, the eventual national champ
ion, 22-7 before a full house that
called the hogs constantly.
Arkansas plays Texas A&M Satur
day at Little Rock with the host role
in the Cotton Bowl at stake. A&M is
10-0 for the season, 6-0 in the
Southwest Conference and ranked
second in the country. Arkansas is
8-2 for the season, 5-1 in the SWC
and ranked 18th.
A victory by Arkansas means the
Razorbacks would share the champ
ionship with A&M and Texas and
would oppose Georgia in the Cotton
Bowl because they haven’t been
since 1966. A&M went in 1968.
Texas played in the Cotton Bowl in
1974.
An A&M victory would give the
Aggies undisputed claim to tbe SWC
title. The loser of Saturday's game
will play Southern Cal in the Dec. 22
Liberty Bowl at Memphis.
Does Arkansas have a home field
advantage?
“That s a help . . . not an advan
tage,” Broyles said. “Especially, if
the fans are involved.”
The game has some natural
matchups.
A&M’s defense is No. 1 in the
country, allowing an average of 175.5
yards per game, and No. 1 in defense
against the run, with an average of
71.9 yards per game.
Arkansas is second in the country
in rushing with an average of 335.9
yards per game and leads the South
west Conference in total offense with
an average of 409.3 yards per game.
Texas entered last week’s game
with the Aggies as the top scoring
team in the country but managed
only a field goal against the A&M
defense in a 20-10 loss. Texas’ other
score came on a punt return.
“They are a complete football
team in every respect, ” Broyles said
of the Aggies. “Their defense is out
standing because of many factors —
they’re experienced, talented and
have speed. You can pick out any of
them, watch them one game and you
would say they were all-conference. ”
Pro playoff picture
big question mark
Associated Press
Winning, as the late Vince Lom
bardi said, is the only thing. For a
change, that’s exactly what governs
the match-ups in this year’s National
Football League playoffs.
As in recent years, the Minnesota
Vikings and Los Angeles Rams in the
National Conference and the Oak
land Raiders in the American Con
ference have wrapped up divisional
titles. Unlike recent years, they can’t
afford to sit back, rest on their
laurels, rest their starters, play their
reserves and wait for the playoffs.
They’ve got to keep winning, if
they want “the edge. ”
The post-season picture is shaping
up, all right, but there’s still a lot to
be decided. In one case, things are a
bit out of focus.
In recent seasons, the home field
in the two playoff rounds preceding
the Super Bowl were determined on
a simple, alternating basis, deter
mined before a regular-season game
was played.
“In the National Conference,” the
schedule might say, “the Eastern
Division champion is at the Western
Division champion and the wild-card
team is at the Central Division
champion . . . unless the wild-card
team is from the Central Division. In
that case, the Eastern Division
champion is at the Central Division
champion and the wild-card team is
at the Western Division winner. ”
So the so-called home-field advan
tage was decided not by past success
but in effect by the whim of the
schedule-maker.
No longer. Now that homefield
advantage goes to the winrpngest
teams . . . maybe. This year, the
first-round of playoffs, set for the
weekend of Dec. 27-28, are deter
mined as follows:
“In each conference, the two divi
sion winners with the highest won-
lost percentage during the regular
season will be the home teams. The
division winner with the best per
centage will be the host to the wild
card team and the division winner
with the second-best percentage will
be the host to the third division win
ner, unless the wild-card team is
from the same division as the winner
with the highest percentage. In that
case, the division winner with the
best percentage will be host to the
third division winner and the
second-highest division winner will
be host to the wild-card.”
That last phrase is what brings up
the “maybe.”
Despite all the attempts of the
NFL heirarchy to reward the win-
ningest teams with home games in
the playoffs, a team with a better
record may still wind up as a visitor.
That, at least, is how it looks with
three weeks to go.
Consider, for example, the AFC.
Based on the current percentages.
the Pittsburgh Steelers 10-1, .909
and the Raiders 9-2, .818 are the
hosts with the Miami Dolphins 8-3,
.727 going to Oakland and Cincinnati
9-2, .818 going to . . .
Oh, wait a minute. The wild-card
team can’t play the top winner if
they’re both in the same division. So
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh is out.
That means, based on the 11-game
standings, it’s Miami at Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati at Oakland.
Let’s say back to the argument’s-
sake idea that the Bengals win two of
their last three games and the Raid
ers lose two of the three. What
you’ve got then is Cincinnati, a
wild-card team with a possible 11-2
record, coming in as a visitor against
a division winner with a poorer re
cord, in this case Oakland’s pro
jected 10-3.
Don’t rule out Houston in the
Central Division and Baltimore and
Buffalo in the East. They’re still con
tenders.
The NFC setup is hardly much
clearer.
As it stands now, the Vikings 10-1,
.909, and the Rams 9-2, .818 would
be the home teams in the first round.
The Dallas Cowboys and St. Louis
Cardinals are both 8-3, .727, tied for
first in the East Division.
For argument’s sake, and using
nothing more than alphabetical or
der, say Dallas wins the division and
St. Louis finishes second. That
would send St. Louis, as the wild
card, to top-winner Minnesota and
third-winner Dallas to second-
winner Los Angeles.
In year’s past, with the East-at-
West and wild-at-Central setup, it
would be nice and tidy. But things
can change an awful lot in three
weeks.
Broyles said Arkansas’ offensive
guards have the difficult assignment
of blocking defensive tackles Jimmy
Dean and Edgar Fields. “Those two
are like having two nosemen,”
Broyles said. “Because of A&M’s
linebackers, those two run around
and do anything they want.”
Broyles said A&M’s linebacking
trio of Robert Jackson, Ed Simonini
and Garth Ten Napel are as good as
any group he could remember in the
SWC.
Broyles also said Arkansas’ de
fense would have to handle the Ag
gies Wishbone attack.
“The burden is going to be in the
trenches on their running play be
cause of the fullback George
Woodard,” Broyles said. “And,
you’ve got to be ready for the deep
pass if you try to crowd them.”
A&M Coach Emory Bellard
echoed Broyles’ remarks about the
Aggie defense.
“Our defensive team is very quick,
has great strength, is very aggressive
and they’ve been playing together a
longtime,” Bellard said. “We’ve got
several fellows that are All-American
type caliber.
“I know it sounds trite, but we’ve
got to contain their offense, move the
football and play the kicking game
solid,” Bellard said.
“They can make sustained
marches, and they’re capable of mak
ing the big play,’ Bellard said.
Arkansas hig-play ability di
minished when running back Jerry
Eckwood injured a knee against
Utah State Oct. 25. Eckwood, who
gained more than 750 yards rushing
in the first six games, will not play
against the Aggies.
Ike Forte, who rushed for 967
yards in nine games, dislocated three
toes Nov. 15 but is expected to play.
He will be joined in the backfield by
Rolland Fuchs, a senior.
Mike Jay started at quarterback for
A&M last week, but injured his back
and will not play Saturday. David
Shipman, the starter at the first of
the season, will direct the Aggies’
attack.
“We will miss the continuity as
much as anything,” Bellard said.
“Jay has been playing and practicing
with the team for four or five weeks
now. Shipman was a little rusty, but
he’s back at full speed and, with a
week of practice, should be ready.
You’ve got to remember that the
only thing that got him out of the
lineup was an injury.”
The kickoff is set for 3 p.m. A
crowd of more than 50,000 is ex
pected.
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