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Show DAILY HERALD t. Sunday, September 11 2004 . CS COLLEGE FOOTBALL A . look at how the teams Utes get defensive , roll past Wildcats the AP Top 25 poll fared: in -- 1 TH ASSOCIATED PRESS It. Scu&cm alifomia (2-- 0) Eeat Colorado State 49-- Next: at BYU, Saturday LenDale White ran for 123 yards on M carries and scored three TDs, 0. r Alex TUCSON, Ariz. Smith passed for two scores, and No. 17 Utah held Arizona without a touchdown in a 23-- 6 victory Saturday night. The Utes seeking to defend their highest poll position since they finished the 1993 season ranked eighth.flashed their offensive strength early, then held on with a defensive effort that included three fumble recoveries, a goal-lin- e stand and an interception that set up aTD. . Utah coach MWC Urban Meyer ROUNDUP improved to M . against Pac-1-0 teams; a string that includes wins over California and Oregon last year in his first season with the Utes. Smith, who had a career-hig- h 359 yards in last week's 1 win over Texas A&M, had only 170 this time but connected with Steve Savoy on TD passes of 5 and 9 yards. Marty Johnson, who ran for 105 yards on 18 attempts, scored from 20 yards out to help the Utes snap a seven-gam- e losing streak in Tucson that dated to the 1969 season. , Ntek Folk had d field goals for the Wildcats their first since Sept. 27, 2003, in a 0 loss to TCU. But that was it before a crowd of 52,790, the largest to see a game in Arizona Stadium since the 2000 season finale. New coach Mike Stoops' squad, which took a 3 lead into the fourth quarter against Northern Arizona last week before adding two late TDs, fell to against ranked teamsinthelast four years. Folk, whose third field-goa- l attempt went awry in the fourth because of a bad snap, cut Arizona's deficit 11 at 17-with 1023 left in the second quarter, and Utah made that stand up at halftone by stopping the Wildcats four times near the end of the half The last three Arizona plays line. began at the On fourth down, safety Casey Evans hit Gilbert Harris in the backfield and he fumk bled. Linebacker Tommy recovered for a. loss with 49 seconds left in the second quarter, killing a 14- drive the Wildplay, d cats couldn't quite finish. ; , ,' . 2. Oklahoma (2-0- (2-- 0) Beat Houston 63-1-1 Next: vs. No. 24 Oregon, Saturday Oklahoma's Jason White threw for 257 yards and two TPs and Antonio Perkins tied the NCAA record with his eighth career punt return for a score and the Sooners cruised. .'"MC i3.Gcrt;:a(2-C- ) , Next: vs. Marshal Saturday. Beat South Carolina 20-1I. David Greene struggled early but finished with 213 yards pass-' ' ' I ing and two touchdown passes, to lead Georgia. ; 1 - i f 4. Florida State (0-- 1) Lost f 5. to No. 5 Miami f.!s.-r.-i (1-- in GT Friday. Next: vs. DAB, Saturday. 16-1- 0 ;t. 0) I Beat No. 4 Florida State ; . Next: vs. La. Tech, Saturday. 16-1- 0. I , . LSU (2-Beat Arkansas State 533. Next: at No. 18 Auburn, Saturday. JaMarcus Russell threw two touchdown pass and Marcuas Randall had another to lead LSU to an easy victory. 0) (;7 Texas (2-- 0) . Next: vs. Rice, Sept 25. Beat Arkansas 22-2, Cedric Benson rushed for 188 yards and scored two TDs and Texas took advantage of a late Arkansas fumble deep in Long-- I ' horns' territory to hold off the Razorbacks. ; 0. 33-an- . . - 35-ya- 13-1- 8. Michigan (1-- 1) Next: vs. San Diego State, Saturday. to Notre Dame TDs to lead Freshman Xterius Walker had two fourth-quartthe Irish to the upset. Lost 28-2- er r Ohio State (2--0) t 7-- . .. tBeatMarshan24-2LNexfcatN.C.State,Saturday- A field goal as time expired gave the Buck Mike Nugent's eyes ihewirtOSU has won 13 of their last 14 games decidedby seasons. touchdown or less over the last two-plu- s 55-ya-rd . t, . ., 10. West '.' ' ;,V. . i Virginia (2-- ; - - . 0) Next: vs. No. 23 Maryland, Saturday. Beat Central Florida 45-2Rasheed Marshall completed 14 of 18 passes for 225 yards and TDs, and ran for another score in West Virginia's win. 6 Hl.norida(1-0- ) Beat Eastern Michigan . Next: at No. 14 Tennessee, Saturday, in the rain in the 49-1- i Chris Leak threw, for 244 yards and three TDss I Gators' season opener. hurricane-delaye- d 12. California (2-- 0) Hack-enbruc- Next: at Southern Miss, Saturday. J J. Arrington ran for 177 yards and three TDs, and Aaron Rodgers completed 19of-2- 6 passes for 260 yards and two scores for CaL . Beat New Mexico St. 41-1- 11 Kansas State (1-- - 1) s ,v; m 41-2- Qy JOHN Hackenbruck forced a fum- gan Scalley recovered. Following a short drive, Bryan Borre-so- n field goal kicked a only 253 in. , The next time the Utes got the ball, they made it 10-- 0 on Savoy's scoring grab up by his d reception over the middle --- with 621 left in the first quarter. After Folk's first field goal, in the Smith, who was first quarter, moved the team to its second TD with a d pass to Paris Warren. The Utes scored from the Arizona 38 on two running plays a carry by Quinton Gardner and Johnson's burst off tackle, with a juke left to freeze the last defender before he ran in untouched. Utah only had to move 11 yards for its clinching TD in the third after another big defensive play. Ryan Smith broke through a pass by Arizona's Kris Heavn-e- r to Ricky Williams, and the ball ricocheted to lineman Sione Pouha, who cradled it while lying on the ground for 21-ya- rd 11 Florida, Saturday. J (2-- 0) , v : 56-2- 4. r " (2-- 0) w Next: at Arizona State, Saturday. Beat Iowa State Ed Hinkel made a diving, fingertip catch for a key touchdown and the Iowa defense forced Iowa State to kick field goals four times after the Cyclones had driven deep into Hawkeye territory 17-1- 0. i ilutah2-0- ) k i . f JOE RAYMONOAssociated Irish get well in a hurry ? , V. ; ''ti , (2-- 0) , 19.r.rscuri(1-1):I l&st to Troy State 20.Clemson 24-1- 4 (1-- ' : : , Thursday. Next: vs. Ball State, Saturday. ' 1) 4. J ' ' Beat UNLV 18-- Next: at Arizona, Saturday. Jim Leonhard returned a blocked field goal 86 yards for a score and the Badgers came up with two safeties. " 3. v (2--0) Beat Illinois State . Next: at Colorado State, Saturday. Marion Barber III and Laurence Maroney each surpassed 100 yards rushing as Minnesota held off Illinois State. 37-21- fourth-quarte- r SOUTH BEND, Ind. , Notre Dame found a familiar way to make its problems go away beat Michigan. "Anytime you knock off a team it is a big win. top-1-0 Our guys did something significant, but it was stiU one win," coach Tyrone WiUing- -' . ham said. "We cant get ; ahead of ourselves. Tomorrow we have to start aU V over." ; Using the ingredients that vaulted the Fighting Irish to wins in Willingham's first eight games two years ago, Notre Dame used a stingy defense, an opportunistic offense and a key special teams play to beat Michigan 28-2:., on Saturday. Willingham and the Irish "I think if you check the have been the target for much criticism while losing . teams we played, we played, 10 of 15 since that 0 start in pretty good teams," Michi- 2002. Now, there's renewed gan coach Lloyd Carr said. . The Wolverines have lost hope in South Bend for a . twice to Notre Dame and at turnaround after a third Oregon, Washington and , straight win over Michigan' UCLA during that spaa . inSouthBend. v ' The biggest surprise, ,The difference this time was an unexpected offensive though, was Walker and the . star for the Irish, v ; : , ' Notre Dame rurining game, which produced just 11 yards Freshman Darius Walker, in its opener. .. who didnt even play a week .' "' The Georgian ran for 61 V ago in a deflating loss to : : Brigham Young, ran for 115 ; yards on 14 carries in the ' yards on 31 carries and, two i'. fourth, quarter as Notre , 0 : Next: at No. 10 West Virginia; Saturday.' jodStathamcornpleted-18of-2- 5 passes for 268 yards and two fEoat Temple , 45-2- Itoucbdowns for Maryland. , . 4 ' , J 8-- 1 24. Oregon (0-- 1) Next: at No. 2 Oklahoma, Saturday. v , Lost to Indiana Matt LoVechhio threw for a touchdown and BenJarvus Green-FJlis ran for 91 yards and another score, to lead Indiana. . . 30-2- 4. ' - :, ' ! 2S.nrd-3(2-- C) . r , ' I Beat Ball State 59-Next: at Illinois, Sept. 25 I Kyle Orton threw for a careeriigh five touchdowns and I archer to lead Purdue. , 7. HERALD ' "' " ran for ( NEWS and-goa- . LOCAL SERVICES LOGAN Travis Cox threw two touchdown passes Satur- day to lead Utah State to a 14-- 7 win oyer Idaho. Cox, who threw two interceptions in the first half, was with 214 yards and two touchtouchdowns. His down pass to Tony Pennyman conand successful two-poiversion with 6:17 left in the third quarter gave the Aggies (1-Sun Belt) a 14-- 7 lead. The Aggies turned back a late Idaho challenge after the Vandals had driven to theAg-gie- s' 1, 0 line. rd fifth-ranke- 2t.V."bccn::.i(2-C- ) 22. Minnesota 27-2- a false start penalty by Idaho moved the be! back to the touchdowns. He is the first Notre Dame freshman to rush for more than 100 yards since Julius Jones had 146 yards against Navy in 1999. "I didnt even know who that was running the ball" cornerback Marlin Jackson said. "He's a good player and he had a good game." Notre Dame (1-- earned its first win over a top-1-0 team d since beating Michigan 25-2- 3 two years ago. Since that game, the Irish were 04 against top-1-0 teams, losing by a combined 164-2- 7 including the 380 loss to Michigan last season. The Wolverines (1-- lost their opening road game for a fifth straight year again. doing serious early damage to their national Tom Coyne THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Next: at Texas A&M, Saturday. Lost to Georgia Tech 28-2pass to Calvin Johnson with 11 Reggie Ball threw an seconds left to give Georgia Tech the upset win. f ; 43-ya- But with win over Michigan Next: vs. No. 6 LSU, Saturday. Beat Mississippi State 43-1Carnell Williams ran for 122 yards and two touchdowns, and Ronnie Brown added 147 yards rushing to lead Auburn. I Press Notre Pame fullback Rashon Powers Neal celebrates his fourth quarter TD in the Irish win over Michigan. ,: f i( -- 18. Auburn l : t f Beat Arizona 23. Nexfc'atlftah State, Saturday.. ' : The Ute defense didnt give up a touchdown. , f ' r' ' , i Mexico 27, Texas Tech 24: ' USU, Snow get victories Next: vs. Akron, Saturday. Beat North Carolina ,.1 ' ', I Backs Wali Lundy, Alvm Peatman, Michael Johnson and Jason " "JSneliing combined for seven rushing TDs for the Cavaliers. . 'rt 16. Iowa I New At Albuquerque, N.M., New Mexico had waited 20 years to beat Texas Tech, so a few rnpre minutes mattered not to kicker Wes Zunker. field Zunker kicked a goal as time expired and New Mexico withstood Texas Tech's passing attack for a 4 win, the Lobos' first victory over the Red Raiders since 1984. Zunker had to wait through three timeouts two of them called by the Red Raiders in an effort to freeze him. Once he got his chance, Zunker booted DAILY ' I A 0) Did not play. Next: vs. No. j15. Virginia st ' the game winner as the crowd of 38,746 erupted. "I knew they were going to do that, so I just tried to block everything out and keep my mind as blank as possible," Zunker said. "I knew I couldn't think too much, except about going through my routine. It was just another kick." New Mexico (1-- won despite giving up 449 yards to Tech quarterback Sonny Cumbie, who completed 44-o-f and was intercepted twice. The second interception, by Lobos defensive back Brandon Payne, came late in the third quarter as the Red Raiders led 24-2-1 and had a first l at the New Mexico 5. I Air Force 42, L Washington 20: At Air Force Academy, Colo., freshman Shaun Carney threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another, and Air Force reached the end zone on its first three possessions in its victory over Eastern Washington. I Texas A&M 31, Wyoming 0: At College Station, Texas, Reggie McNeal threw for 298 yards, intouchdown cluding an d to freshman Kerry Franks, and ran for another score to lead Texas A&M past Wyoming. f f Lost to Fresno State, Next: vs. ayette, Saturday. ;Paul Rnegar threw two touchdown passes to Matt Rivera and ran " for another score for Fresno State. Bryson SumKn added two TD t, I funs in Fresno State's biggest win ever over a ranked team and K-State's worst regularHseason nonconference loss in 13 years. (1-- h 20-ya- Press La.-La- 45-2- 1. 14. Tennessee an interception Three plays later, Savoy made it 26 with 1:07 left in the quarter. I No. 1 Southern California 49, , Colorado State 0: At Los Angeles, LenDale White ran for 123 yards on 14 carries and scored three touchdowns a career-higto lead Southern California to an overpowering victory. The win was USCs 22nd in 23 games and 11th straight the second-longeactive winning streak among Division schools behind Boise State's 13. It was also the Trojans' 16th consecutive triumph at the Coliseum. ble on the first play from scrimmage in the game a carry by Mike Bell and safety Mor- MILLERAssociated a tackle attempt by Arizona's Sean Jones. Utah's Paris Warren (5) dodges away from . t 12. On fourth down, Utah State linebacker JaredJohnstun stripped the ball away from Idaho quarterback Michael Harrington, and Aggies took over on their own 30 with 1:15 remaining. Idaho's defense forced five turnovers, but the Vandals' offense was only able to capitalize once after a Cox fumble in the second quarter. Michael Harrington led the Vandals (0-- 0-- on a eight-pla- y drive capped by his touchdown pass to WendeD Octave that gave Idaho er d, NJ-CA- A Harrington completed 17 of his 23 pass attempts for 101 yards and an interception I Texas-- Paso 32, Weber State 0: At FJ Paso, Texas, Howard Jackson rushed for 162 yards and two touchdowns as Texas-Paso beat Weber State for coach Mike Price's first victory at the school UTEP (1-- bounced back from a 41-- loss to Arizona State last week. The Miners racked up 490 yards of offense and held DiWeber State ) to vision 1 12 yards. It was UTEPs first shutout since 199L (2-0- on-tra- El 1) 9 21. Georgia Military 13: At Mffledgevflle, Ga., in a replay of last season's Golden Isles bowl game, the Badgers stopped Georgia Military. In another defensive battle, the Bad- -. ger offense predictably sputtered a bit in the season-openebut a ferocious defense, by BYU transfer CI Ah You, dominated the Hne of scrimmage and allowed the Badgers to slowly gain control ban-gam- e. (0-3- ). (0-2- I Snow Georgia Military got on the board first with a 34 yard field goal with 4:18 to go in the second quarter. But the lead didnt last long as Jason Knighton ran back the ensuing kick-of- f 85 yards for a Badger touchdown and a The defense added a touchdown on the last play of the first half as Snow's Quincy WaUin intercepted a long pass and ran it back 95 yards for another TD with no time remaining to give the Badgers a 14-- 3 halftime lead. Snow's offense finally put a score on the board in the third TD pass quarter with a from James Pritchard to Jake little on the Badger's first possession of the second half, uj ping the score to 21-Defense dominated the rest of the game, including a BuUdog safety. The Bulldogs added a conversion TD and two-poiwith 2:13 left in the game. I Dixie State 21, Air Force Prep 3: At St, George, after struggling to find a rhythm in its season-openState last week,-DixiCollege, the No. team, hoped to find consistency against Air Force Prep. The Rebels ) came away with a win, but Dixie didnt get until late in the Dixie never punted. But Dixie had a bunch of turnovers. The Rebels were picked off three times, fumbled a punt, missed a field goal and turned the baU over on downs. Dixie State's chances were also limited because of theoption " s ran by Air Force Prep StiU, Dixie was able to put it away behind the passing of former Timpview quarterback Danny Southwkk. Late in the first half, Southwkk gave Dixie' the lead for good, breaking a 3 tie, when he found Provo na--, rive Dane Ashworth for a 25- yard score. Southwick completed passes for 214 yards. Dixie State put it away with a, drive, as long, the Rebels took 14 plays to go 56 yards before XT. Diederichs plunged in from the L Dixie added another TD on Akphonso run late. Qinningharn's 3. . 2, ROUNDUP 3-- . r, ed ' |