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Tuesday, November 10,1987/The Battalion/Page 9 L'entun i one dram lisedife ?d the ■ anylj r," Nol t thinj ' s what they al, but -1 mt 1 to be f those n Ido, r wont d as a; sment report tty “ assault accordi has to let | t to ex] you're sj i > ’’hes NFL parity a direct result of strike-inflicted season From the Associated Press Some of the NFL’s emerging teams are starting to emerge. Try Philadelphia, San Diego, Minnesota and New Orleans, all of whom showed real potential — as opposed to the replacement- ball potential of teams like Hous ton and Tampa Bay. The Eagles’ 31-27 victory over Washington Sunday avenged their only “real” loss of the sea son. They are 4-1 with their regu lars, as opposed to 0-3 with strike irregulars, and Buddy Ryan’s bravado seems a little more real these days. “I think we beat the best team in the National Football League and that shows we can play with the big boys,” Ryan said after Randall Cunningham made like John Elway, with three touch down passes and seven carries for 80 yards, including a 45-yard scramble that set up his first TD pass. Cunningham now has 11 TD tosses in five games. The Vikings’ regulars matched the Eagles, moving to 4-1, 4-4 overall, by beating the Los An geles Raiders 31-20. It was the fifth loss in a row for Los An geles, its longest losing streak in 23 years. The Chargers, 7-1, also are 4-1 with regulars. And New Orleans made itself a legitimate wild-card contender, improving to 5-3 by routing the Rams 31-14 as Los Angeles lost for the seventh time in eight starts, the first time it has been 1-7 since 1964. Sunday’s results also left the league in a strange state of parity — or is it strike-produceo par ody? — as the 15-game season moved past the halfway mark. The strangest situation was in the AFC East, where four teams were tied at 4-4 and the New York Jets were 3-4 going into Monday night’s game against Seattle. There was a three-way tie at 5- 3 atop the AFC Central among Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Hous ton. Off non-strike form, Cleve land should be favored, but the Oilers played tough Sunday, los ing 27-20 to the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park. In the AFC West, defending champion Denver was in trouble following its 21-14 loss to Buffalo. That left the Broncos behind San Diego and Seattle, 5-2, going into Monday night’s game, and be hind Pittsburgh, Houston and Cleveland for a wild-card berth. Washington, Chicago and San Francisco still look like division winners in the NFC, although what’s with the Bears? For the third straight week, they had to come from behind against a mediocre team, this time beating the Packers 26-24 on a last-second field goal. i of in >od bul k or ret: , uble/" ■ople *1 xouble Razorbacks post victory at Penick golf tournament AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Fourth- anked Arkansas held on to its first- ay lead and captured the Harvey ^Penick Intercollegiate Invitational olf tournament, while Texas A&M inished third in the tournament hat concluded with 36 holes Mon- day. The Razorbacks held a three- stroke lead over Baylor, Houston •and Houston Baptist after Sunday’s rain-shortened first round. They finished with an eight-over par 908, two strokes ahead of runnerup Texas. A&M finished at 915, while Hous ton Baptist was fourth at 917, Baylor was fifth at 918 and Houston was sixth at 920. The tournament was a designated meet by the Southwest Conference and will count toward the SWC reg ular season championship. Sports Cotton Bowl chase a four-team race Aggies must win remaining games for berth Cotton Bowl Race W L Games Remaining Arkansas 5 1 A&M Texas A&M 3 1 Arkansas, TCU, UT Texas 3 1 TCU, Baylor, A&M TCU 3 2 UT, A&M By Hal L. Hammons Assistant Sports Editor Here we go again — another year, another chaotic Southwest Confer ence Cotton-pickin’ tournament. Arkansas’ victory over Baylor made it AnOlySIS possible to try mmmmmmmmmmm to compute all the possibilities. The game left the Hogs with one loss in conference with only one game to play, eliminat ing the Bears and Texas Tech in the process. But the Red Raiders’ victory over Texas Christian and Houston’s wild and woolly win over Texas more than made up for it in creating our traditional dose of conference pan demonium. Let’s try to summarize the possi bilities as coherently as possible: • Texas A&M and Texas have the roads to Dallas with the fewest complications. If the Aggies win the rest of their games (over Arkansas, TCU and Texas) they get a Cotton Bowl berth and an outright SWC championship for the third year in a row. The Longhorns go if they win the rest of their games also (against TCU, Baylor and A&M). However, they have to share the title with Ar kansas unless A&M beats the Razor- backs Saturday. • Baylor and Tech were elimi nated from the race with Arkansas’ victory over the Bears. With three losses apiece they cannot catch the Razorbacks, who have just one con ference game left. • Texas and Arkansas are the only teams left in the race that can lose another game and remain alive. The Longhorns could afford a loss to Baylor (if A&M beats Arkan sas) or TCU (if A&M beats Arkansas and the Frogs). In either case there would be a tie between UT, A&M and Arkansas, and the Horns would have beaten both of the others, giv ing them the coveted New-Year’s- Day trip to Dallas. Arkansas’ Cotton Bowl hopes wouldn’t necessarily die with a loss to A&M Saturday. The Hogs would still pick Cotton if A&M, Texas and TCU all lose another game (compli cated, but possible). • The race gets extremely simple if Arkansas beats the Aggies Satur day. Then the race will be down to Hogs vs. Horns, with Texas getting the nod if it wins the rest of its games and Arkansas getting it if UT doesn’t. Therefore you can bet the farm that A&M will win. Whoever heard of a SWC race that didn’t go down to the wire? • After opening the season with losses to mediocre Boston College and Air Force teams, few expected TCU to figure in the SWC race. However, the Horned Frogs have come on strong and still remain in the race despite Saturday’s loss to Tech. If TCU wins its games with UT and A&M, and if the Aggies beat the Hogs, the Wacker Backers will be taking Frog Fever to Dallas on Jan. 1. The resulting tie of TCU, Arkan sas and the UT/A&M winner would send the Frogs to Dallas. Each of the others have been to the Cotton Bowl since the Frogs’ last trip. “But, you ask, what if a game ends in a tie?” (Sigh) You had to ask. OK, . goes nothing. • If A&M ties Arkansas sui-.. (•.*v the Ags are out of the Cotton L 'wt picture. The best they could do would be a tie for the conference with Arkansas and possibly Texas. In either case, A&M goes bowling somewhere besides Dallas. Arkansas would stay alive, how ever. All they would need is a Long horn loss or tie to clinch a Cotton Bowl trip. It would be interesting to see if Arkansas would play for a tie in such a situation. • A&M can tie anybody else, and UT can tie anybody, and remain in the race as long as the Aggies beat Arkansas. • If TCU ties anybody, they are out. Unusually simple, huh? • When in doubt, remember: if the race winds up in a tie, one team automatically goes to the Cotton Bowl if it has beaten all of the other teams in the tie. The second tiebreaker involves the time lapse between Cotton Bowl trips. If (hypothetically — it is not ac tually possible) the four teams wound up in a tie, TCU would go. So, only four teams remain in con tention — A&M, UT, TCU and Ar kansas. And if any one of them lose a game, they can pretty much kiss their Cotton chances goodbye. Glanville pleased with Oilers’ performance HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s habit of trailing opponents in the fourth quarter and then rallying to victory didn’t work against San Francisco but Coach Jerry Glan ville said Monday the trick almost worked. The Oilers, 5-3, have won three games with fourth quarter rallies this season but their magic left them Sunday as Joe Montana threw three touchdown passes and the 49ers won 27-20. “The thing we should em phasize is that we could have won the game in the fourth quarter,” Glanville said. “We believed that we’d find a way to win it. “I felt we could have won if the officials would have given us an other minute.” Trailing 21-6 in the third quar ter, Houston’s Warren Moon threw touchdown passes to Curtis Duncan and Ernest Givins but the 49ers kept the lead on two Ray Wersching field goals. That set the stage for a Hous ton comeback that never tran spired. “Maybe this will be a lesson to us,” Oiler receiver Drew Hill said. “We have to come out the first quarter and play like we do at the end of the game. 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