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Although bowl bids don’t offi-
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tie nation’s top college football
ams are already making travel
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Fourth-ranked West Virginia
eemingly locked up a Fiesta Bowl
late against No. 1 Notre Dame with
35-25 victory over Rutgers, leaving
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ily enhance our standings?” he said.
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hampionship is nice. It’s not an ab-
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nesta, no matter what happens the
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feated, although the Irish still must
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fan. 2 bowls looks like this: Michigan
vs. the Southern Cal-UCLA winner
in the Rose; Arkansas vs. Florida
State or UCLA in the Cotton; Au
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homa loser in the Citrus; and Syra
cuse vs. Auburn or LSU in the Hall
of Fame.
Michigan clinched the Big Ten
championship and the Rose Bowl
berth with a 38-9 victory over Illi
nois.
But Michigan coach Bo Schem-
bechler said he’s only thinking about
Saturday’s upcoming game against
arch-rival Ohio State.
“We’re playing the biggest game
of the year next week,” he said. “The
Rose Bowl doesn’t mean as much to
me as playing at Ohio State.”
LSU clinched at least a tie for the
Southeastern Conference title with a
20-3 victory over Mississippi State,
but they haven’t clinched a spot in
the Sugar Bowl.
If Auburn beats Alabama in Bir
mingham Nov. 25, it will share the
league championship with LSU.
If that happens, the Sugar Bowl
committee will choose the league’s
representative in New Orleans.
Arkansas, which beat Texas A&M
25-20 to remain undefeated in 10
games, locked up the Southwest
Conference title and a Cotton Bowl
berth several weeks ago.
Their opponent in Dallas figures
to be Florida State or UCLA, if the
Bruins lose to Southern Cal.
Clemson beat Maryland 49-25 to
gain its third straight Atlantic Coast
Conference title and a trip to the Cit
rus Bowl against the loser of Satur
day’s Nebraska-Oklahoma game.
Here’s the tentative lineups for
the other bowls:
Gator — Georgia vs. Michigan
State, Pittsburgh or Colorado.
Sun — Alabama vs. Army.
Aloha — Washington State vs.
Houston.
All American — Florida vs. Illi
nois or Michigan State.
Holiday — Wyoming vs. Okla
homa State.
California — Western Michigan
vs. Fresno State.
Freedom — Brigham Young vs.
Arizona or Colorado.
Independence — Southern Mis
sissippi vs. Texas El-Paso.
Liberty — Indiana vs. South Caro
lina.
Peach — Iowa vs. North Carolina
State or Pac-10 team.
Lewis’ 196 yards not enou
to put A&M in win column
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Editor
Player of the Week
Darren Lewis
lose
The Aggies obviously were going to win c
with Darren Lewis Saturday. They did both.
Apparently Jackie Sherrill didn’t care that Arkan
sas’ run defense was ranked No. 1 in the country.
Apparently he thought his star running back would
be able to handle them.
Apparently he was right.
The sophomore from Dallas Carter rambled for
92 yards in the first quarter on his way to a 196-yard
performance — his second best of the year.
He carried the ball on Texas A&M’s first five
plays. He earned A&M’s first six first downs. He ran
on eight of the first nine Aggie first down plays, in
cluding the first five.
Was it to open up the rest of the offense, or was it
to run Lewis for its own sake? Either way, it worked.
The first quarter may even have been too slanted
toward Lewis. His 92 yards rushing accounted for all
but seven yards of A&M’s total offensive output.
It ended with Lewis carrying the ball three plays
in a row for 31 yards, taking the ball to the Arkansas
34. He got 12 more on the first play of the second
quarter.
Then Robert Wilson got the ball — the first play
of the drive that anybody but center Mike Arthur,
quarterback Bucky Richardson, and Lewis had
touched the ball at all.
Wilson fumbled.
It didn’t discourage Sherrill from getting away
from the one-dimensional attack, though. And di
versification worked the next time.
The defense might have figured with the ball back
on the A&M one yard line, Lewis was sure to be the
man. Instead he carried the ball only three times for
eight yards on the drive, as the Aggies took the ball
the length of the field behind Wilson’s running and
Richardson’s passing.
But in the end the Aggies could never count on
anything else but Lewis’ running.
Wilson met a brick wall most of the times he tested
the Arkansas line. And Richardson threw two key in
terceptions — one that went for a touchdown, an
other in the other end zone that killed a sure scoring
drive.
Arkansas could afford to overkey on Lewis the
next time the Aggies had the ball inside their own
five, and it resulted in a safety.
The Hogs stopped Lewis on a key third down
play, forcing the Aggies into a punting situation with
less than eight minutes remaining.
The attempted fake that followed resulted in an
11-yard loss, giving Arkansas the field position to
tack on a field goal to extend the lead to 25-14, es
sentially icing the game for the Razorbacks.
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay for me to leave town
Friday night, 10 p.m., Fayetteville, Ark. My
family van plows into a dingbat high-school
girl’s Mustang in front of a shopping mall.
Of course, 1 wasn’t at fault. The dip-ette
cruised on through a flashing red light doing
about 30 on a wet road. We didn’t have a
prayer of stopping. Actually I wasn’t even
driving at all. It was my mother — the epit
ome of paranoia. If anybody could have
avoided the accident, she could have.
But she couldn’t and didn’t. The mental
equivalent of Chuck Barris — obviously a fu
ture physics major at the University of Arkan
sas — could’ve and didn’t.The result was pre
tty much what you would expect. Squash city.
Now, I don’t really believe in omens,
buuuuuuut. . .
Ya kinda figger I should’ve been expecting
the worst Saturday afternoon.
I mean, Arkansas did seem to have every
thing going for them. They were 9-0. They
did match up pretty well with the Aggies.
And if that weren’t enough, there’s always
the Texas A&M-Hal L. Hammons road game
curse.
I don’t know what it is, but I can’t seem to
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Hal L.
Hammons
Sports Editor
be present at an Aggie road game when the
Aggies actually show up themselves.
OK, this year’s Cotton Bowl win over Notre
Dame is a notable exception. I was there, and
the team was too. Instead it was Lou Holtz’
brain that didn’t make the trip. And the Au
burn win too — I was there for that one.
But other than that, my record stands at 6-
2 — 3-0 this year. Pretty impressive, huh?
As much as I like for the Aggies to win
road games, as well as home games, you’d
think I’d learn. You’d think I’d stay home.
You’d think I’d be satisfied with watching the
Aggies whip up on their opponents on TV or
listening to the carnage on radio.
Buuut Noooooooo! I’ve got to go see it in
person!!!
It started in 1984, when an innocent fresh
man tagged along with a senior friend on a
road trip to the Astrodome.
A&M played pathetically all game and still
was able to stay in the game. Until the officials
robbed A&M of any chance at a late field goal
that would put the Aggies ahead.
If only I had known about the history that
was in the makings.
Maybe I got a big head when A&M beat
Texas — in Austin, and in my presence — to
clinch the Cotton Bowl in 1986. But then
again, I didn’t have any idea what was in
store. The game, plus the 1986 Cotton Bowl
against Auburn, actually had me with a losing
record — one I enjoyed fully.
But Ohio State would bring me and the
Aggies down to earth.
I travelled all the way to Lubbock to watch
the Aggies play another stupid game. Billy
Joe Tolliver just sat back in the pocket as the
quarters rolled by. A&M wouldn’t blitz him,
and eventually he found receivers. Result — a
Texas Tech win to kick off the conference
season.
Wins against Baylor and Notre Dame made
me think that feeling that’s always telling me
the Aggies aren’t going to do well was just
paranoia.But this year has been atrocious for
me and the Ags on the road.
I went to the Kickoff Classic. I went to
Louisiana State. And now I’ve gone to Arkan
sas. Three for three.
How much do you believe in stuff like that?
I never really have, but it’s always been fun to
fool around with it.
My sophomore year I wore the same
sweater to three critical games in a row at the
end of the season. Arkansas, SMU and Texas.
The Aggies won all three. Of course, all three
were at home.
I know none of that really matters. The
team isn’t going to play any better or worse
one way or the other.That’s why I’m not
going to feel guilty about going to the Texas
game. Even though it’s in Austin.
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