Tuesday, October 9, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Sooners vie for top spot
Horns retain No. 1
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United Press International
NEW YORK — The game be
tween Texas and Oklahoma at Dal
las next Saturday will pit the top two
college football teams in the nation,
according to the latest UPI Board of
Coaches ratings.
It will be the first time the two top-
ranked teams have met since the
Jan. 1, 1983 Sugar Bowl between
No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Penn State.
Texas held onto its No. 1 rating
Monday for the second week after
trouncing Rice 38-13. T he Long
horns received 34 of 39 first-place
votes and 579 points.
Oklahoma was idle last week, but
moved from third to second after
previously second-ranked Ohio
State was upset by Purdue. Okla
homa received one first-place vote
and 518 points.
“(Oklahoma) means a lot,” Texas
tailback Terry Orr said. “They’re
our next opponent and that’s always
the most important. But No. 1
against No. 2 ... it’ll be the biggest
game of everyone’s career.”
No. 3 Washington and No. 4 Bos
ton College also received first-place
votes. Washington moved up from
fourth, getting three votes for No. 1
and 487 points. Boston College, fifth
last week, got the other first-place
vote and 459 points. Brigham
Young rounds out the top five with
429 points.
Total points are based on 15 for
first place, 14 for second, etc.
Nebraska, which was ranked first
until losing to Syracuse a week ago,
climbed three places to sixth this
week after knocking off Oklahoma
State 17-3. Idle Southern Methodist
jumped three spots to seventh, fol
lowed by No. 8 Florida State, No. 9
Ohio State and No. 10 Louisiana
State.
Florida State dropped one place
after a 17-17 tie with Memphis State,
Ohio State fell seven places and idle
LSU jumped three spots.
Completing the Top 20 are No.
11 Miami, No. 12 Penn State, No. 13
Oklahoma State, No. 14 South Caro
lina, No. 15 Georgia, No. 16 Au
burn, No. 17 Purdue, No. 18 Flor
ida, No. 19 Iowa and No. 20
Kentucky.
Purdue and Kentucky are making
their first appearances in the Top 20
this year. Florida was ranked 18th in
re-season but dropped out after
osing its opener to Miami and did
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not return until a 16-0 win over Syr
acuse Saturday.
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt
both dropped out of the rankings af
ter cracking the Top 20 last week.
Georgia Tech was knocked off 27-22
by North Carolina State and Tulane
upset Vanderbilt 27-23.
Perennial powers Michigan and
Notre Dame also fell from the Top
20. Michigan had been ranked since
pre-season before losing 19-7 to
Michigan State Saturday. The Wol
verines were ranked No. 2 in the
Sept. 10 ratings. Notre Dame —
beaten 31-13 by Miami Saturday —
was ranked 15th last week.
Texas, 3-0, Oklahoma, 4-0, Wash
ington, 5-0, Boston College 3-0,
BYU, 5-0, SMU, 3-0, Florida State,
4-0-1, LSU, 3-0-1, South Carolina, 4-
0, and Kentucky, 4-0, are among the
14 teams still unbeaten in Division I-
A.
Other games matching two
ranked teams Saturday are Auburn
at Florida State and Iowa at Purdue.
With Florida and Kentucky crack
ing the Top 20, the Southeastern
Conference has five ranked teams.
The other three are LSU, Georgia
and Auburn. No other conference
has more than three ranked schools.
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Tech uses upset of A&M
as major building block
United Press International
I LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas T ech
I coach Jerry Moore said Monday his
| ieam’s win over Texas A&M last Sat-
| urday was one of the biggest victo-
f ties in years for the Red Raiders and
I indicated his experiment with a
I quarterback shuttle was probably
I over.
I Freshman quarterback Aaron
I Kessee threw for three touchdowns
I and ran for another against the Ag-
Igies-
I “That win ought to propel us,”
I Moore said. “It ought to give us
■ something to build on. This team
I has been needing a win like that for
| three years.
I “The players are beginning to see
I we can be pretty good. It’s an indica-
| tor of what kind of team we can be.
It's really something when you think
12 months ago Aaron Keesee was a
Ballinger Bearcat.”
Tech will travel to Little Rock Sat
urday night to face Arkansas.
“I hope we can continue to im-
[ prove and get better every day,”
1 Moore said. “Arkansas is the best
team we have played so far and it’s
important there is no letdown. You
: are going to see more and more
dose games in the Southwest Con-
’ ference.
Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — University of
i Texas Coach Fred Akers said his No.
hanked team will go up against un
beaten Oklahoma this week with at
! least nine key players nursing inju
ries or bruises that could hamper
their play.
The two most worrisome injuries,
Akers said, were suffered by starting
quarterback Todd Dodge, who Ak
ers named offensive player-of-the-
week, and tackle Tony Degrate, Ak
ers’ pick for defensive player-of-the-
week for his performance against
Rice.
Dodge suffered a hyperextended
knee in the Horns’ 38-13 victory
over Rice last week after throwing
for two touchdowns and running for
another.
Degrate continues to nurse an an
kle injury, but was able to record
nine tackles against Rice, eight of
them unassisted.
“He’s got a good strong knee,”
Akers said of Dodge, “There is no
instability in it and that’s good news.
It’s a question of getting the soreness
out.”
However, Akers said Dodge was
only “probable” for the OU game
and that Danny Akers appeared
most likely to fill in should Dodge be
sidelined.
“There’s nothing certain, there’s
nothing set in concrete,” Akers said.
“We’ve had to make several changes
this year we didn’t want to make.”
Akers said he had all but ruled out
the possibility of returning Rob
Moerschell to quarterback.
Moerschell, who was switched
from quarterback to running back at
the outset of the season, was among
the nine players Akers said would
see only limited practice this week
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In addition to Dodge, Moerschell
and Degrate, Akers said fullback
Ronnie Robinson, offensive guard
Paul Jetton, defensive end James
McKinney, wide receiver Brent Du-
hon, running back Terry Orr and
defensive tackle Ralph Darnell all
were nursing injuries that could
hamper their play against Oklahoma
or keep them out of action entirely.
Akers said this year’s Cotton-Bowl
dash promises to be a dif ferent style
of game than last year, when UT
prevailed 28-16.
“I think the biggest difference is
that they’re getting really good play
from their quarterback, (Danny)
Bradley,” Akers said. “He’s throwing
the ball well, which gives them versa
tility.”
Texas also is a radically different
team this year, he said.
“Last year we had so much experi
ence, just a ton of experience,” he
said. “We had a big-play running at
tack last year. Our big plays this year
are coming from other areas. We’re
really a scrambling team this year.”
Saturday’s nationally televised
game from Dallas will be the 79th
time the teams have met. Texas cur
rently leads the series 47-28-3 and
also has won five of the last seven
games.
Baylor
WACO, Texas — Baylor coach
Grant Teaff said Monday he was
pleased with the way sophomore
quarterback Cody Carlson per
formed in the Bears’ loss to the
Houston Cougars last Saturday and
that Carlson would maintain his
hold on the startingjob.
Carlson and Tom Muecke have al
ternated at quarterback for most of
the past two seasons, but Carlson was
awarded the starting position for the
Houston game.
“He performed very, very well,”
Teaff said. “Cody had a good, solid
game. He handled the ball very well
and made very few errors.”
Much more of a concern, how
ever, is the Baylor secondary, which
allowed a number of big plays
against Houston in helping the Cou
gars overcome an early 10-point def
icit.
T he Bears take on SMU in Waco
Saturday afternoon in a regionally
televised game.
“We have to get SMU off the field
offensively,” Teaff said. “Hopefully
it won’t be two plays and a touch
down, but three plays and a punt.”
Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Ar
kansas fullback Marshall Foreman
was named Monday as Bale Chevro
let’s player of the game after rushing
for 150 yards, including a 59-yard
touchdown scamper, in Saturday
night’s 32-31 loss to Texas Christian.
Later in the day, cottch Ken Hat
field said Foreman was one of only
two offensive players to get a “cham
pion” designation from coaches who
reviewed the game films, marking
the fourth straight week he had been
singled out for the honor.
Running back Bobby Joe Ed
monds and six defensive players
joined Foreman in getting such rec
ognition.
Bale Chevrolet, a dealership in
Little Rock, will donate $250 to the
university’s general scholarship fund
in Foreman’s name.
The Razorbacks worked out in
sweatclothes Monday as prepara
tions began for Saturday’s matchup
with Texas Tech at Little Rock’s War
Memorial Stadium.
“We had a fun day — a good day,”
Hatfield said, noting that his players
were loose for the workout.
“We got a look at the film and
made some corrections, and we had
a good passing drill at the end of
practice.”
Senior quarterback Brad Taylor,
who has missed two games with a
lower leg injury, and wide receiver
Donnie Centers, the victim of a pre
season leg injury, worked out Mon
day. Hatfield said Taylor appeared
to be ready to go, but withheld a
judgment on Centers.
No shakeups for 0-6 Oilers
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HOUSTON — Oilers co«Ach
Hugh Campbell, still seeking his first
NFL win, Monday said coaching is
frustrating at the best of times.
With the Oilers extending their
road losing streak to a league record
21 against the previously winless
Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, Camp
bell is finding coaching “very, very
frustrating.”
The 13-3 loss to the Bengals was
made even worse because the Oilers
played “very hard and determined,”
Campbell said in assessing the game.
But even though the Oilers share
the NFL cellar with Buffalo and face
6-0 Miami next Sunday, Campbell
still won’t talk major changes.
“You have to believe in something
and keep going in that pattern,” he
said. “I think the big thing to avoid is
a panic situation.
“Building a football team is not as
clear cut as win-loss,” he said. “You
can’t just start over again every once
in awhile.”
Campbell says it’s fine to shake
things up if the changes are within
the framework of a plan. His plan is
to develop his young team into a
fine-tuned orchestra rather than in
dividual instruments.
“The point is for them (changes)
to have a rhyme and reason. If
there’s no apparent plan, then you
have no direction. Whatever we do
has to be in the long-range plan.”
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