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Tuesday, September 24, 1991 The Battalion Page 5 Around the SWC: Baylor rides 3-0 wave WACO, Texas (AP) - Inch ing toward the Top 10 with a 3-0 record, the Baylor Bears aren't in terested in talking national cham pionship yet. They're just concen trating on Southern Methodist. Baylor, ranked No. 12 in The Associated Press poll, thrashed Missouri 47-21 Saturday night and is looking to go 4-0 for the first time since 1980 when the Bears travel to Dallas to play SMU (0-2) on Saturday. While three Southwest Con ference teams have dropped out of the Top 25, the Bears are rising. "I was a little disappointed the way the rest of the conference looked this week," said sopho more quarterback J.J. Joe. "But here at Baylor, we just have to do all we can do and take care of our business." "I can honestly tell you, I don't know where we're ranked," Baylor coach Grant Teaff said Monday. Someone suggested No. 3. "Well, I do know it's not that high," Teaff said. "Our players are not talking national champi onship. We do have our goals." "The rankings don't mean anything right now," said defen sive tackle Santana Dotson. "It's nice, but I want to be No. 1 on Jan. 2." Baylor, which is 9-2-1 in its last 12 games, faces a SMU team that leads the nation in pass de fense just as Joe is coming off his best passing game. Joe, who came into the season with the reputation as a running quarterback, drilled Missouri for 300 yards, and for the season has 623 yards passing. • "J.J. has one of the most accu rate arms in the conference," said receiver Melvin Bonner, who hooked up with Joe for 149 yards on two catches. "He knows where the ball has to be. I think we have shocked some people." SMU has not beaten Baylor since 1986, and in their last two meetings the Bears have outscored the run-and-shoot Mustangs 101-20. "I think this is the best Baylor team I've ever seen," SMU coach Tom Rossley said. The 1991 version of the Bears is drawing comparisons to the 1980 SWC champion team and the 1988 team that started 3-0. "The teams we have beaten this year are better ones than we beat in 1988," Teaff said. Baylor's 649 yards in total of fense against Missouri was the second best in school history, and the Bears are averaging 483 yards a game. Horns beset with long list of injuries AUSTIN (AP) — Texas coach David McWilliams read a foot ball-long list of injuries Monday and said it would be difficult to aay who will start at quarterback when the Longhorns play next, against Rice on Oct. 5. Jimmy Saxton, relieved No. 1 quarterback Peter Gardere on Sat urday night in Texas' loss to Auburn. Saxton was among the injured as he was knocked out with just over 6 minutes to play- McWilliams said Saxton is having headaches and cloudy vision, but hopefully will return to practice by Thursday. Offensive tackle Chuck John son injured his knee* find his sub, Alan Luther, went out with leg cramps Saturday. Offensive guard Jeff Boyd was hit on the bone above the an kle and left the game, but McWilliams said he thought he would return by the Rice game, which opens the Southwest Con ference for both teams. Top running back Butch Had- not sprained an ankle and also was taken out but is expected to be back by next week. More tests are scheduled for kicker Jason Ziegler, who has been bothered by soreness in his kicking leg. Linebacker Winfred Tubbs, who stretched a nerve in his neck during the preseason, is still side lined. Safety Willie Mack Garza has mild sprains in both ankles. Anticipating a question about his quarterbacks, McWilliams told his weekly news conference: "I think that Jimmy did some good things in the football game. I think he made some mistakes in the football game. I think Peter did some good things, and I think he made some mistakes." A 17-yard scoring run by Sax ton is Texas' only touchdown in losses to No. 13-ranked Auburn, 14-10, and No. 21 Mississippi State, 13-6. "As far as the work right now, nothing changes from what we've been doing. We've always alternated those guys," McWilliams said. "Jimmy is not able to work out right now, and so for me to say who's going to start against Rice at this point, it's hard to say." Tech needs winning ingredients LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes knows there are some necessary ingredients for a player to suc ceed in football: 1. Defensive players should be possessed with the desire to rearrange the number of the quarterback with bone-crunching tackles. The ones that cause mothers to shudder when they hear their son wants to play foot ball instead of golf. 2. Offensive players should never stop smelling the end zone, with running backs pushing for that extra yard and linemen knocking people out of the way to set up a dive over a goal-line pile for the game-winning touch down. Necessary to both descrip tions is enthusiasm. And Dykes says that is what his Red Raiders (1-2) lacked in a 22-17 loss at Wyoming (2-2) last Saturday. "We need more get-up-and- go," Dykes said Monday during his weekly press conference. "You can't play football unen thused. You can play chess and you don't need to be enthused. But you can't play football like that. You really have to play with emotion." Dykes said he would take the blame for his team's inconsistent play against Wyoming. Tech mustered only 88 total offensive yards — 18 rushing yards on 11 carries — in the first half. Tech's quarterbacks, Jamie Gill and Robert Hall, combined for only 11 completions on 34 passing attempts for 115 yards. They were sacked three times. "That's my fault," Dykes said. "It's my job to get the team ready to play. You know, sometimes you leave it on the practice field. Sometimes you don't do enough on the practice field. I don't know what happened." Despite the 1-2 start in non conference competition. Dykes says the ultimate goal still lies ahead of Tech. "Our record really is 0-0 start ing the (Southwest Conference schedule)," Dykes said. "And our whole aim ... when we started this thing was to be a contender for the (SWC) championship. I still think we can do that." The beaten path to the Cotton Bowl begins at home this week against Texas Christian (3-0) in both teams' conference opener. "TCU does it all," Dykes said. "They have a prolific offense with great receivers. They score a lot of points. It's get-after-it-time for us. It's homecoming and we have to be ready to play." Dykes praised TCU for its un blemished record despite the loss of star quarterback Leon Clay, who is out for the season with a fractured left leg. "Most teams would take two or three steps backward with the loss of a great player like him," Dykes said. "But their (redshirt) freshman quarterback (Tim Schade) came in and did a good job in their ballgame last Satur day, (a 24-21 victory over Okla homa State)." ^ Cruises, Scuba, Ski and International Travel * Free Flight Insurance. 313 B. College Main *3 Blocks North of M-F 9-6 pm Sat 10-2 pm * A&M Post Office (409) 260-1131 * + + + + *■ + + + *■ + Monday night's game . . . Bears beat Jets in OT, 19-13 CHICAGO (AP) - The Chica go Bears twice escaped almost cer tain defeat and improbably beat the New York Jets 19-13 Monday night on Jim Harbaugh's 1-yard touchdown dive with 18 seconds to go in overtime. The game seemingly ended a play earlier and both teams had left the field. But replay official Bill Fette ruled that Cap Boso had been stopped 6 inches from the goal line on a pass from Harbaugh that covered 22 yards. Chicago, trail ing 13-3 entering the final period, tied the game on the final play of regulation when Neal Anderson caught Har baugh's 6-yard pass on fourth down as the clock expired. That touchdown was set up when Steve McMichael stripped the ball from Blair Thomas as the Jets tried to run out the clock. Then the Bears watched as Pat Leahy, one of the NFL's most con sistent kickers for the past 15 years, missed a 28-yard field goal with 3:50 left n overtime after the Jets elected to kick on first down from the Bears' 11. The usually reli able Leahy, the league's oldest player at 40, missed wide left. Harbaugh, who set career highs with a 28-for-42 performance for 285 yards, then drove the Bears 80 yards to win it and give Mike Ditka his 100th win as an NFL coach. The victory left Chicago as one of four unbeaten NFL teams, along with New Orleans, Wash ington and Buffalo, where the Bears will play next Sunday. The bitter loss left the Jets at 1-3. Smith key to Pokes’ season Whitley Continued from Page 3 Continued from Page 3 the focus of the Dallas attack after coach Jimmy Johnson promised the team was going to "get back to basics." "I knew I would get the ball a lot," Smith said. "I don't mind when the offensive line wqs block ing like it did against the Cardi nals. They were great. On the 60- yard run, there was an enormous hole up the middle." The New York Giants come to Texas Stadium on Sunday and Smith could get some backup help from the injured reserve list. Ricky Blake, the leading rusher in the World League of American Football for the San Antonio Rid ers last spring, will be activated by the Cowboys. Blake was a training camp sensation before he wore down. Smith's performance came af ter the Cowboys set a club record for offensive futility in a 24-0 loss to Philadelphia. Smith gained only 44 yards in that game. "For this team to win, we need Emmitt Smith running the foot ball," offensive coordinator Norv Turner said. Smith did. So did the Cow boys. ing but room. Something happened at inter mission that would make the fi nal 30 minutes a comedy of er rors. It was all triggered by the first play. Jeff Granger flubbed up a pitchback to Greg Hill. Tulsa re covered at the A&M 10, and would eventually pick up a touchdown. Granger would not recover from that play. Neither could the receivers. Granger's 13-for-28 passing is somewhat misleading when you consider there were more than five certain catches that the re ceivers just flat out dropped. The defense turned into a sieve letting Tulsa's Chris Hugh- ley run to his heart's content. He wound up with 231 yards, the biggest rushing total given up by the Aggies since they faced Eric Dickerson. However, there was a ray of hope in the fourth quarter. A&M put together a good, solid, me thodical drive capped by a 28- yard-pass from Granger to sophomore Tony Harrison. That put them back in the lead, 34-28. After dodging the proverbial bullet several times, when Tulsa coughed up the ball three times deep in Aggie territory, it looked pretty good that A&M might pull it out after all. Then came The Play. By now, most A&M fans have seen the clip of Marlin Haynes and Patrick Bates running into each other as Tulsa's Chris Penn went down the sideline un scathed into the end zone to clinch the Hurricane upset. It's impossible to determine what happened to cause such a huge turnaround to occur. Ev erything, on every side of the ball, fell apart. Texas A&M looked like rein forced steel before halftime. When they came out, they looked like a wet paper bag. The biggest excuse to come from Saturday is the lack of expe rience, which has some merit. Not only did an all-freshman of fensive backfield play for much of the game, but it was its first game in hostile territory. But what happens when these same Aggies go to Lubbock? Or Fort Worth? Or Waco?! It is still conceivable that Texas A&M is a Cotton Bowl contender. The Aggies have proven they have the talent to put them in the running. But now they must go one step further. They must show that they have the tenacity to win when the chips are down - the trademark of a winner. A&M must move on, and stop living on Tulsa time. 12th Man Notebook reminder: The Battalion would like to take this opportunity to remind all Texas A&M sport club teams and other athletic teams affiliated with the University that the Battalion has begun a What's Up column in the Sports section of A&M's student newspaper. The 12th Man Notebook is a great way for teams to announce up coming events. The Notebook is seen by almost every A&M sports enthusiast. If you would like to draw attention to your sport club, the Note book is for you. The Battalion would like to cover every sport club that exists at A&M ,but the newspaper regrets that it doesn't have the time, space, or resources to do so. 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