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A&M drops to No. 19 in AP Poll
Irish keep hold
of No. 1 spot,
BYU plummets
From Staff and Wire Reports
Texas A&M took it on the chin Satur
day night at Louisiana State's “Death
Valley” Stadium. On Monday the J7-B
loss dealt the Aggies another blow — an
eight-place drop in the Associated Press
Top25 poll.
A&M was ranked No. 11 last week
and pushing for a Top 10 spot, but it
dropped to No. 19 Monday.
The Aggies (3-1) haven’t beaten LSU
in Baton Rouge, La. since 1975. They
open their Southwest Conference sched
ule this weekend at home against Texas
Tech.
Elsewhere, there was a time when
Georgia Tech frequently occupied a spot
among the nation's elite in the poll.
That was during the davs when Bobby
Dodd was compiling a 165-64-8 record
in 22 years. But when he left after the
1966 season, Tech’s football program
tumbled.
Bobby Ross is trying to get the Yellow
jackets back where they used to be.
His team achieved one goal Monday,
moving to No. 23. It was the first time
Tech appeared in the poll since 1985,
when the Jackets were ranked as high as
No. 12 and ended the season 19th with a
9-2-1 record.
‘‘There’s not any real special signifi
cance being ranked for tne first time
since I’ve been at Tech,” said Ross, who
left Maryland in 1987. “I think it’s a nice
honor. The goal is not to just get there,
but it is to stay there and show a consis-
tenq in there, not only in this season hut
in the years to come."
Only three times since Dodd left has
Tech been ranked in The AP poll at the
end of the season, never higher than No.
13.
The Jackets moved into the poll this
week with an impressive 27-6 victory
over South Carolina, which fell from No.
25 out of the rankings.
Tech visits Maryland Saturday, con
cerned that quarterback Shawn Jones
may not be ready because of a sprained
right arch that had him on crutches
Photo by Mike C. Mufvey
Defensive back Derrick Frazier glances at the scoreboard in the final moments of A&M’s 17-8 loss to LSU Saturday.
The road loss dropped the Aggies to No. 19 in Monday’s Associated Press College Football Top 25 Poll.
Monday.
“Obviously if we don’t beat Maryland,
we won’t stay there,” Ross said of the
ranking.
Notre Dame and Florida State contin
ued to occupy the top two spots in ihe
poll, but there was somejuggling behind
them in the Top Ten.
The Fighting Irish, who beat Purdue
37-11, receivetf 49 first-place votes and
1,489 points. Florida State got 10 first-
place votes and 1,420 points following a
39-28 comeback victory over Virginia
Tech.
The only other first-place vote went to
Virginia, which moved from seventh to
No. 4, one spot below Michigan, which
was ranked sixth last week. Virginia beat
William & Mary 63-35 and Michigan
beat Maryland 45-17.
The only team that fell out of the Top
Ten was Brigham Young, dropping
from fourth to 1 ith after a 32-16 loss at
Oregon. Florida became the newcomer,
moving up seven positions to No. 10 af
ter beating Mississippi State 34-21.
Two Southeastern Conference pow
ers fell slightly after playing to a 26-26
tie Saturday night — Auburn dropping
from third to fifth and T ennessee from
fifth to sixth.
Oklahoma climbed two positions to
No. 7 with a 31-17 victory over Kansas,
and Nebraska remained No. 8 after
beating Oregon State 31-7. Miami
moved up one position to No. 9.
Behavior of Ags,
Tigers reflecting
intense competition
Nadja
Sabawala
X he Aggie
football team finally
had its first test. And
taking on Louisiana
State in Death
Valley is like ...
well... taking on
Louisiana State in
Death Valley. There’s just nothing quite
like it.
It has an aura. Incoming teams are
supposed to be terrified by the imposing
Tiger Stadium and the well-established
tradition of containing one of the
loudest, most rowdy crowds in the
nation.
So, these teams go into the game on
the defense. They’re not necessarily
worried about the crowd influencing the
Tigers’ play. But they do know that the
crowd hates them and would probably go
out onto the field to personally rip the
heads off each and every one of the
visiting team.
The Aggies went to Baton Rouge to
prove to the world that they can defeat a
“real” team. And to prove to themselves
that their victories over Hawaii,
Southwestern Louisiana and North
Texas were won on their skill and not the
lack of skill by the other teams.
LSU went into Tiger Stadium after a
humiliating loss to Southeastern
Conference tackling dummy Vanderbilt
to prove to the world that the loss was a
complete fluke. And to prove to
themselves that the loss was a complete
fluke.
The two teams each had something to
prove to others as well as themselves and
weren’t going to let anyone stand in their
way. Even if they had to fight for it.
At 7 p.m. a battle broke out that saw
no equal. Three minutes into the game,
LSU offensive line coach Kenny Ferro
was flagged for arguing with an official
and the Tigers went back 15 yards.
At the end of the same drive, LSU was
forced to punt. A&M’s Shane Garrett
lined up to receive the punt and an over
anxious Tiger leveled him before the ball
was even caught... giving the Aggies an
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