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he Battalion PORTS 9 ednesday, September 6,1989 A&M cracks Top 25 Poll |FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS I Texas A&M, fresh off its 28-16 lupset of formerly-seventh-ranked |Louisiana State on Saturday, cracked the first regular-season As- AP Top 25 Poll Team 1 Notre Dame 2. Michigan 3. Miami 4. Nebraska 5. Auburn 6. UCLA 7. Arkansas 8. Oklahoma 9. Colorado 10. CJemson 11. Illinois 12. Penn State 13. USC 14. Syracuse 15. Texas A&M 16 Florida State 17. West Virginia 18. Southern Mississipi 19. Alabama 20. Arizona 21. LSU 22. Houston 23. Pittsburgh 24. BYU 25. North Carolina St. Last Week 2 1 4 3 8 9 40 15 14 12 22 11 5 13 NR 6 17 NR 16 18 7 21 20 19 24 sociated Press Top 25 Poll, released Tuesday. A&M, who faces the University of Washington on Saturday in Seattle, was not ranked in last week’s presea son Top 25 Poll. Notre Dame took over the No. 1 ranking with an impressive win in the Kickoff Classic, while opening losses dropped Southern California, Florida State and Louisiana State out of the Top 10. The Fighting Irish, who routed Virginia 36-13 last Thursday, re placed Michigan in the top.Michigan opens at home against Notre Dame on Sept. 16. The last time No. 1 met No. 2 was last Nov. 26, when top-ranked Notre Dame beat Southern Cal 27-10. Notre Dame received 31 first- place votes and 1,430 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sportscasters. Michigan was sec ond with 18 first-place votes and 1,419 points. Informed of the media’s vote, Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said: “I just hope they’re right for a change.” Miami was ranked No. 3, followed by four other teams that have yet to play a game — Nebraska, Auburn, UCLA and Arkansas. Miami re ceived four first-place votes, while Nebraska was No. 1 on six ballots. Oklahoma, Colorado and Clem- son round out the Top 10. Okla homa moved up seven spots after crushing New Mexico State 73-3. Colorado jumped from No. 14 to No. 9 after beating Texas 27-6 and Clemson rose from No. 12 to No. 10 following a 30-0 win over Furman, the defending Division I-AA cham pion. Southern Cal fell from No. 5 to No. 13, Florida State dropped from No. 6 to No. 16 and LSU plummeted from No. 7 to No. 21 after losing their openers. Illinois edged Southern Cal 14-13 Monday night. On Saturday, Florida State lost to Southern Mississippi 30- 26 and LSU was beaten by Texas A&M. 1 The victories by Texas A&M and Southern Mississippi moved them into the Top 25, while Illinois jumped from No. 22 to No. 11. Southern Miss is No. 18, the Golden Eagles’ first appearance in the AP poll since 1981. Five teams dropped in th£ poll de spite winning. Arizona fell from No. 18 to No. 20, Houston from No. 21 to No. 22, Pittsburgh from No. 20 to No. 23, Brigham Young from No. 19 to No. 24 and North Carolina State from No. 24 to No. 25. Wallace steps out of shadows Senior linebacker leads young Aggie defense By Richard Tijerina Of The Battalion Staff Aaron Wallace has lived in shadows before. The senior Aggie linebacker was recruited by mistake, consid ered just a “raw” athlete by coaches his freshman year, fight ing for playing time behind other big-name players and then be came the lesser-known half of the tandem known as the Blitz Broth- But this year is finally Wallace’s time to shine. Wallace is now just three quar terback sacks away from breaking Jacob Green’s career school re cord of 37 sacks. With three sacks recorded against Louisiana State, Wallace conceivably could break the re cord this weekend in Washing ton. Wherever he breaks it, it prob ably won’t be at Kyle Field, as the Aggies play Texas Christian next weekend in Fort Worth. Wallace leads a talented but in- by talk of the inexperience on de fense, Wallace saw his linebacking corps and defensive front line perform w^ell against LSU. “I was surprised from the be ginning because I knew how (the new members of the defense) looked against our offense, but as far as playing against other peo ple, I had never seen them play,” Wallace said. “They came out and made a big impact. I knew they were good, but I didn’t expect them to do as well as they did. “We just came out hard and shut them down.” Aaron Wallace experienced group of lineback ers, and now finds himself in a strange position: considered the leader of a young defense and, along with running back Darren Lewis, one of the anchors of the team. In a season dominated so far It looked more like a case of closing the door. With LSU bringing in two heralded offen sive weapons that some consid ered as having outside chances at the Heisman Trophy — quar terback Tommy Hodson and running back Harvey Williams — Wallace and company disrupted the Tigers’ offense and See Wallace and photos/Page 11 old that remote, football fans: it’s THAT time of year again The last eight months have been mentally grueling, drudging, tedious, agonizing and . . . well, you get the picture. All that is over now. It’s finally THAT time of year. What is that time? It’s the time of year mothers, wives and girlfriends loathe. It’s the time of year fathers, husbands and boyfriends plant themselves in stadiums and in front of televisions to watch all the professional and collegiate football games they can get their hands on. I hate to admit it, but they say the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I guess I first realized my problem when I dragged my girlfriend to the Texas A&M- LSU football game an hour and a half before kickoff to bask in the glory of the first game of the Aggies’ season. It had to be 100 degrees on Kyle Field. After sitting I was crushed when the United States Football League folded. For a brief second in time, I was blessed with year-round football. No more waiting until the autumn for gridiron action. As things would have it, the USFL disbanded and I was stuck once again waiting months for a football fix. enthusiast, I have a good idea. Television covers maybe a few collegiate and possibly four professional games a week. One can turn on the television on any given weekday and find at least one baseball game. If we are going to label football as being overexposed, let’s not discriminate baseball. through the first half, my date was quickly losing strength and had to spend time in the ramp, by the air vents to survive the game. I don’t think being addicted to football is that bad. Think of those poor wives, girlfriends and mothers that live with baseball fanatics. If they did, their advertising campaigns might go something like this: Okay, here goes. “I used to spend every waking moment ' ' “ tba " ~ I am a football addict. I need football, I love football and come every January, I mourn the loss of football. Do the hospitals h4#e a recovery plan for football addicts? watching football, reading football, talking football and analyzing football. I never realized I had a problem until my girlfriend left me. That’s when I discovered Joe’s Hospital for the Sports Addict.’Just one ten-week session and a couple of follow ups and I was a normal, functioning member of society.” At first, I accompanied her, but after seeing the crushed look on my face at the possibility of missing a single play, she forced me to stay. By game’s end, we were both dehydrated, but I hadn’t had enough. Does baseball season ever end? For that matter, how long is basketball season? Afterwards, I grabbed her by her arm and dragged her across campus so I wouldn’t miss any of the Cowboys-Oilers game. She made me painfully aware of my addiction with a dirty look and a thump upside my head. Television critics and anti-sport activists (you know who you are) scream every September that football is overexposed. Actually, it all comes down to you. Man invented the remote control so that one doesn’t have to sit through a football game if it isn’t to his liking. And don’t complain that there’s nothing else on but football. Along with remote control televisions, man created cable for programming diversity. If every channel contained football, don’t you think that every football addict including myself would know about it? How’s that, guys? 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