The Battalion
SPORTS
Tues
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Tuesday, September 19,1989
Ags move up one spot to No. 21
Wolverines drops to No. 5 after close loss to Irish
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Fresh off of a 44-7 victory over
Texas Christian this weekend, R.C.
Slocum’s Texas Aggies rose one
place in the Associated Press’ college
football poll.
A&M (2-1) faces Southern Missis
sippi on Sept. 30 at Kyle Field. After
an opening upset of Louisiana State,
the Aggies jumped into the Top 25
at the No. 15 position. But a loss the
next week to unranked Washington
dropped them down to No. 22.
Notre Dame’s victory over Michi
gan convinced almost everyone that
the Fighting Irish are the best team
in the country.
Lou Holtz’s team received 57 of
60 first-place votes Monday in The
Associated Press’ college football
poll.
The other three votes went to sec
ond-ranked Miami, which plays
Notre Dame on Nov. 25 in the regu
lar-season finale for both teams.
Notre Dame extended its winning
streak to 14 games Saturday with a
24-19 win over Michigan, which was
ranked No. 2 at the time. The sea-
son-opening loss dropped the Wol-
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verines to No. 5 in voting by a na
tionwide panel of sports writers and
sportscasters.
Michigan was No. 1 in the presea
son poll, but Notre Dame took over
the top spot after beating Virginia
36-13 in the Kickoff Classic and has
widened its lead each week since.
Last week, the Fighting Irish re
ceived 37 first-place votes and 1,463
points. This week, they received 20
more first-place votes and 34 more
points.
Nebraska, which improved to 2-0
after beating Utah 42-30, is ranked
third. Next are Auburn, Michigan,
Colorado, Clemson, Arkansas, West
Virginia and Syracuse.
The No. 6 ranking is Colorado’s
best since reaching No. 3 in October
1977. The Buffaloes (3-0) moved up
two places following an impressive
38-7 win over Illinois.
Oklahoma (2-1) and Illinois (1-1)
dropped out of the Top 10. The
Sooners plummeted from No. 6 to
No. 16 after losing 6-3 to Arizona
and Illinois fell from No. 10 to No.
20.
It is the first time in five years that
Oklahoma hasn’t been ranked in the
Top 10 during the regular season.
Auburn (2-0) defeated Southern
Mississippi 24-3; Clemson (3-0)
downed Virginia Tech 27-7; Arkan
sas (1-0) beat Tulsa 26-7; West Vir
ginia (3-0) topped South Carolina
45-21; and Syracuse (2-0) edged
Army 10-7.
Leading off the Second Ten is
Washington, which beat Purdue 38-
8 for its second victory of the season.
Southern California is ranked 11th,
followed by Pittsburgh, Tennessee,
Alabama, Oklahoma, Houston,
North Carolina State, Washington
State and Illinois.
A&M, Oregon, Arizona, UCLA
and Ohio State complete the Top 25.
Oregon, Arizona and Ohio State
were unranked last week.
Dropping out the rankings were
Louisiana State, Iowa and Missis
sippi State.
LSU fell to 0-2 after losing to Flor
ida State 31-21, Iowa was pounded
in its opener by Oregon 44-6 and
Mississippi State (2-0) did not play.
LSU was 21st last week, Iowa 24th
and Mississippi St. 25th.
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on fine points as they
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP)
— The eighth-ranked Arkansas
Razorbacks began on Monday
their preparations for meeting
the undefeated Ole Miss Rebels
on Saturday at Jackson, Miss.
In shorts and shoulder pads,
the Razorbacks spent time cor
recting some mistakes made in
last Saturday’s 26-7 victory over
Tulsa, as well as emphasizing the
good points of that game, accord
ing to Arkansas defensive coordi
nator Bob Trott.
Trott spoke to the media after
practice because Arkansas Coach
Ken Hatfield left practice early to
get to Little Rock, where he was
to speak at the Billy Graham Cru
sade in War Memorial Stadium.
“We just spent time working on
mistakes we made Saturday,”
Trott said. “Ole Miss is a very ex
plosive football team on offense,
so we can’t give them anything.
We also emphasized the good
points of Saturday’s game.”
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Trott said Hatfield emphasuesftnsii
the importance of the kickin;
game in a meeting with the tear
and said the Razorbacks mi
tighten up on kicking coverage
The Razorbacks went throug
a light one-hour workout afej
conducting team meetings ant|
watching film of Ole Miss. Tlj
Rebels defeated Arkansas StauFi
34-31 on Saturday.
“Offensively,” Trott said
Miss is a very good football teaitBHou
And they’re on a roll. They'dbf its la
been executing real well and the
threw well on their deep passei
against ASU. They ran the
real good in their last game too. I
believe Ole Miss has more speec
than Tulsa had.”
Trott said the Arkamai
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said Trott. “He has improvedotRation
his decision-making and his pasv
ing looks sharper.”
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