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Show Thursday quarterback SUSC vs. Southern Colorado glory. Vengeance will be an Indian motive. The long road trip necessary for SUSC will also assist use. Last year Southern Utah won a 27-12 victory. The year before, it was SUSC 49, USC 15. "Defensively, they are a physical team. End Rich Perea (6-1, 230) is a good one, and they could have the best overall linebacking in the conference." con-ference." That linebacking crew is led by brothers Mark and Dan DeRose. Fort Lewis on their home Pueblo field, 49-30. "I'd say we are a pretty evenly matched pair of teams, with our strength being defense, and their strength being offense," Bishop said. "They have had a week off, and we are a little bumped and bruised physically. That may be to their advantage, ad-vantage, but we'll be ready by Saturday." A pair of other factors may also weigh in Southern Colorado's favor. The Indians have been treated rather roughly by SUSC during the last two meetings, both i in Cedar City. Both times, USC came to the T-Bird T-Bird lair with rather high hopes of some conference CEDAR CITY -Despite a couple of extra obstacles, Southern Utah State College Football Coach Jack Bishop is reasonably optimistic about his team's chances Saturday at Pueblo, Colo., against the University of Southern Colorado. The kickoff will come at 7:30 p.m. MDT. Radio KSUB (590) will broadcast the game live. "They have a good solid ball club; they are especially strong offensively," of-fensively," Bishop pointed out. "We do, however, match up strength-against-strength reasonably well with them." Both Southern Colorado and Southern Utah rank in the middle of the current Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference standings, but Bishop figures that the winner of Saturday night's matchup mat-chup will have taken a big step toward a high finish in the league. "I'm sure that Southern Colorado is also looking at this game as ' awfully important to its championship hopes," Bishop said. After all the adjusting for the abnormally high number of tie games this year in the league, SUSC rests in fourth place in the RMAC with a 1-0-2 record. Southern Colorado is just one step down with one win and one loss in its first two contests. Two common opponents op-ponents allow rough comparisons between the two teams. SUSC tied Mesa in Cedar City, 10-10, and nipped Fort Lewis in Durango, Colo., 17-12. Meanwhile, the Indians of Southern Colorado fell to Mesa at Grand Junction, Colo., 14-13, but clipped |