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The Battalion
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Tuesday, September 18,1990
Sports Editor Nadja Sabawala 845-2688
Dreams of 63-14
become nightmare
of 61-13 visions
Nadja
Sabawala
hick 0, Joe
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. strolled into The
Battalion newsroom
Monday morning
after being caught
in the rain twice
without an
umbrella. As I
walked along,
people whose ■■■■■■■■■■■■
eyes met mine
diverted their attention elsewhere.
A dog barked in the distance.
1 knew what was happening. I had
been a part of earlier incidences of the
same kind. It could mean only one thing
... there was a mistake in my section.
Before I could scan the pages to Find
the mistake myself, everyone in the
newsroom felt it was their responsibility
to tell me.
“Go to the game Saturday?,” they all
chanted at once, waiting for a rebuttal
after they had baited me all too well.
“Yeah, what about it?”
“What was the score — certainly not
61-13.”
Great. We just put the wrong score of
the Aggies’ victory over Southwestern
lousiana in huge type as a headline.
I felt the telephone was just about to
ring ...off the hook.
People I didn’t even know were
coming up to me and saying they’ve just
answered a call of some guy telling us
we’re a bunch of idiots.
So, I’m going to write this now to
inform all of you who think you’re the
first out of 40,000 to realize we’ve made
a stupid mistake.
You’re not.
I got calls at 6 p.m. Monday to tell us
we’re idiots. I was about to retaliate. So
was my staff and so were all the Batt
people who were tired of Fielding my
calls.
Get a life, people. Yeah, I make
mistakes, and I’m embarrassed for those
of you who feel it’s your purpose on
earth to tell me something was
misspelled or inaccurate or I forgot to
capitalize some inane word.
Please, don’t get this confused with
differences of opinion that you have. I’d
love to get good, constructive mail from
anyone. But I don’t get any mail with
your views on anything.
The opinion page gefs mail for
months about topics that have gone the
way of the dinosaurs. I haven’t received
any mail about anything. Not about the
Southwest Conference, not about the
See Sabawala/Page 8
AP Poll: The more things change ...
AgsstayatNo. 12
despite big win;
Irish stay No. 1
From Staff and Wire Reports
It obviously takes more than a 63-14 win
and a new school record for offensive yards
(774) for Texas A&M to move up in the na
tional rankings.
The Aggies, who destroyed previously
unbeaten Southwestern Louisiana Saturday
on their way to racking up the second high
est offensive yardage in Southwest Confer
ence history, were in a position to move up
in The Associated Press Top 25 College
Football Poll.
Two teams ahead of A&M, which was
ranked 12th, lost on Saturday. No. 4 Michi
gan and No. 9 Colorado. But while both
dropped in the rankings, A&M stayed at
No. 12 where it’s been for two weeks.
That won’t be a problem for A&M head
football coach R.C. Slocum. He said Satur
day after the win that the Aggies aren’t
quite Top 10 material.
Yet.
“I have no idea if we are a Top Five or a
Top 10 team,” Slocums said. “I haven’t
even seen those other teams play. We’ve got
a long way to go before we even worry
about those things.”
Another coach famous for worrying
about his football team had little to worry
about Monday when the poll was released.
Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz saw his Fighting
Irish hold off Michigan Saturday, and the
win bolstered the team’s claim to No. 1.
Elsewhere, the Sooners soared and the
Panthers plunged in this week’s football
poll.
After routing Pittsburgh 52-10, Okla
homa rose three spots to No. 11 and Pitt fell
12 places to No. 25. The Panthers almost
dropped out of the rankings, just edging
Fresno State by one point for the Final spot.
Colorado dropped out of the Top 10 af
ter losing to Illinois 23-22.
The Fighting Irish, who rallied to beat
the Wolverines 28-24 Saturday night, re
ceived 44 First-place votes and 1,480 points
from a nationwide panel of sports writers
and broadcasters. That’s an increase of
seven first-place votes and 29 points over
the previous week.
Colorado fell from ninth to 20th — its
lowest ranking since last year’s preseason
poll.
The Buffaloes, who had a perfect regu
lar season in 1989, are off to a rough start
this year. They tied Tennessee in their
opener and needed a last-minute touch
down to beat Stanford before losing to Illi
nois, which jumped six spots to No. 15.
Florida State moved past Auburn into
second after routing Georgia Southern 48-
No. 22 Texas
worrying about
No. 20 Buffalo
McWilliams
Texas A&M remained ahead of the Southwest Conference at No. 12 in the AP
Top 25 College Football Poll. The Aggies stayed in the same position as last
week despite Saturday’s 63-14 trouncing of Southwestern Lousiana.
6. The Semtinoles got 10 First-place votes
and 1,385 points, while Auburn, which beat
Mississippi 24-10, received four first-place
votes and 1,382 points.
Brigham Yoqng rose one spot to No. 4
after overcoming a 22-point halftime deFicit
to beat Washington State 50-36. BY'U was
listed as the top team on two ballots and re
ceived 1,236 points.
Also moving up a notch were Southern
Cal, to No. 5, andj Tennessee, to No. 6.
Southern Cal beat Penn State 19-14 and
Tennessee crushed Texas-El Paso 56-0.
Michigan fell from No. 4 to No. 7 after
losing to Notre Dame for the fourth
straight year. Nebraska, which had the
week off, remained No. 8, just ahead of ML
ami and Virginia.
Miami, which rebounded from an open
ing loss to BYU with a 52-24 win over Cali
fornia, rose one place to No. 9. Virginia
moved up a spot to No. 10.
AUSTIN (AP) — No.
20-ranked Colorado is
better offensively than
last year’s 11-1 team,
Which defeated Texas
27-6, Texas football
coach David McWil
liams said Monday.
McWilliams talked to
reporters as students
stood in long lines for
tickets; to Saturday
night’s game, which is
expected to be a sellout
of 77,809 even though
it will be televised nationally on ESPN.
Kickoff is at 6:37 p.m., CDT.
Colorado, was upset by No. 21 Illinois,
23-22, at Illinois last week, after defeating
Stanford 2D 17 and tying No. 7 Tennessee
31-31.
Texas woh its first opener since 1985 by
beating Penn State 17-13, and is now
ranked No. 22.
The lionghorns had this past weekend
off, pnd MoVilliams said, “It was nice to
haVejan extra week of preparation from a
defensive standpoint.”
“Their advantage is they’ve played three
games ahd how, coming into the fourth
‘ game, thty pretty much are going to be set.
| I’m sure,” he said. “Whether it evens out or
noi, I ddn’t know. It’s tough to lay off two
weeks anjd play.”
But h^ said Texas “had good practices
last week — tihe concentration was good, in
tensity was gbod ... certainly our team is re
ady to play.”
McWilliams rated Colorado better offen
sively because of the experience gained by
junior duart|erbkck Darian Hagan, who
sprinted i75 yferds on the First series last year
to set! up Colciradb’s FirSt touchdown against
Texas. | '|
■ “Tihe jca^y thing is if you do stop Ha
gan,’! taifbadk Eric Bieniemy “is a threat up
the midcSe,’* he s^id.
Befeniivdfy he said; Colorado “looks a
little younger.”
“They’re a good football team that
maybe hasn’t gotten some breaks at the end
of the game,” McWilliams said.
Several Longhorns are nursing injuries,
including middle linebacker Brian Jones,
tight epd Stephen Clark,'running back Le-
tnel Foreman and defensive tackle James
Pattoh!)
Asked if he hoped Colorado would have
to pass.Smore, McWilliams said, “You hope
to ,makie them beat you left-handed, if
they’re going to beat you, which for them is
having to throw the football.”
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