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Show Page - 68A THE HERALD, Ptovo, Utah. Thursday, August Ranked From 12lh to w Good By DOROTHY K NO ELL Herald Sporti Writer How good are the Cougars going to be this year? There's been a lot of speculation among Cougar fans about the 1984 edition of the Cats. The unknown quantities in the skill positions on offense plus the tough schedule the Cougars face make it tough to predict just what kind of record BYU will have as November winds down. If it's comfort, the tional 30, 1884 Is th w Cougars are in the No. 20 spot. (Writer Beano Cook writes that he puts BYU in the Top 20 "out of respect for the best passing game no in football college or pro matter who the quarterback is.. ..My picking BYU in the Top 20 has become a matter of habit. Look for a few thousand yards passing, a WAC title, nine wins and a trip to the Holiday Bowl. You can take that to the bank.") Street & Smith College Football, in its 44th year of predic- - "All-Rockie- I instead for New Mexico (the role of choosing a team besides BYU usually goes to Playboy, and they may have done so again this year but I didn't check it out to see). Here's a quick look at what the magazines say about the Cougars: Athlon's Western Football The Cougars made the cover of this magazine, which sports a picture of Kyle Morrell in the process of tackling a UCLA receiver. Athlon picks the Cougars to win ("It doesn't take a Jeanne any na- sports Post's controversial series magazines aren't having athletes, esrecruiting pecially blacks. There are, he top-nam- e notes, students.. "26,963 .97 per- cent belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints there are 36 blacks at y , BYU.. that code of conduct cludes. ..the usual and found on many in- dictums no-dru- other campuses. ..but even wearing a beard, playing the radio loudly or drinking iced tea or soda with caffeine are frowned upon..." Mixed in with his story is an as- sessment that the Cougars have a good football program and are on likely to come up with another great QB this time around. black athletes at BYU, apparantly had some quotes left over from any easier time their making pre- pre-seaso- n dictions. If you pick up four different magazines with col- lege that series and decided to milk it a little more. His look at BYU focuses in on the same thing as always: Yes, the Cougars have a fine football program, but they have trouble Hawaii and Air Force as his top three picks, noting the Cougars have replaced more starters than they have to this year and still won the WAC and should be able to do it again. His team includes BYU s Kozlowski, Garrick, Herrmann and Johnson. Hawaii's Raphel Cherry is his choice at quarterback. Sport doesn't condecend to predict the WAC finish in it's "Conference Table'' section. Only the Ivy League, ACC, Southeast, Big and a 10, Big 8, Southwest, Pac-1- 0 few major eastern independents are considered worthy of notice. Sporting News College YearThe WAC roundup is book written by T.R. Reinman. but the Denver Post's Shelby Strother (remember him?) does a special story on BYU before Reinman of pregets into the nitty-gritt- y dictions. Strother, who wrote the Also-Ra- n Bach-To-Scho- Special ol CORONA COMPUTER Low, Low Price football predictions, you are likely to find four different teams ' picked to finish No. 1 at the end of the year. You will find BYU ranked as high as 12th in one publication, $ s """"""""f gr i ''ri"''".'1..". L .. J L a t 'J V - j With Packaged Software while the Cougars won't even be mentioned by most of the others. Meanwhile, the Cougars' first opponent, Pittsburgh, will be ranked as high as 3rd in some while others rank them as low as 19th. At least one ranks the Cougars higher than the Panthers. " However, the "magazine are in general agreement that the Cougars will win the WAC title for the ninth straight magazines, gen-ies- year (with a couple of exceptions, most notably Sports Illustrated, who sees the Cat finishing third behind New Mexico and Hawaii). Here's a quick look at the jumn bled 1984 national and the magazines what rankings are saying about the Cougars: Rankings: Throw the names of the top 30 or so teams in the nation in a hat and pull one out and you'll probably have as much chance of correctly predicting the national champion as any of the magazines. Football Roundup has a top five, consisting of Auburn, Clem-soOhio State, Arizona State and Florida. Pittsburgh is ranked sixth and BYU doesn't appear. 1984 College Football ranks Clemson on top, followed by Arizona State, Notre Dame, Alabama and Nebraska. Pittsburgh is 15th pre-seaso- and the Cougars aren't $2995 Reg. I.- men- tioned. Game Plan College Football again ignores BYU and puts Pitts- burgh 12th, but its pick for No. 1 is Notce Dame, followed by Auburn, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio State. Sport Magazine, has Arizona State No. 1, followed by Florida, Texas, Ohio State and Michigan. The Panthers are 19th and the The national magazines are less than consistent in ranking BYU. tions and recruiting information, figures Auburn will beat out defending (mythical) national champion Miami for the No. 1 spot this year. Behind those two come Iowa, Clemson and Penn State. The Cougars rate their highest nod in this magazine, chosen to finish 12th, while Pittburgh is looking up at BYU from its No. 16 ranking. Sporting News College Football Yearbook disagrees with the rest and chooses Texas as the national champ, followed by Clemson, Pittsburgh, UCLA and Alabama. BYU is mentioned in the 19th spot. Athlon's Western Football moves east long enough to pick Auburn as it's No. 1 team, followed by Texas, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma and Clemson. The Cougars aren't mentioned. If that's not confusing enough, note that Auburn, ranked No. 1 by some, isn't even mentioned in the Sporting News poll and is only 12th in the Sport magazine poll. ASU and Notre Dame, No. 1 in other polls, are a measly 12th and 13 on the Sporting News list and neither is mentioned anywhere in the Athlon list. So much for national rankings. How about the WAC ratings? Everyone knows the WAC writers have (again) put the Cougars in the favorites role in the conference race. And so, for the most part, have the magazines. Sports Illustrated casts a dissenting voice, opting Dixon to predict that BYU will win the WAC title again. The Cougars may have to unveil Includes: G.W. Basic Language an- other quarterback, but isn't that standard procedure?" it says), followed by Hawaii and Utah. Five Cougars 2.0 Multimate D.O.S. Word Processing 256K RAM Two DSDD Disk Drives Corona Monochrome Monitor (Green) n make their Lee Johnson, list (punter-kicke- r wide receiver Glen Kozlowski, defensive lineman Jim Herrmann, offensive lineman Craig Garrick and linebacker Leon White. quarterback is predicted to be Utah's Mark Stevens). "...Old Beau-cou- p Street & Smith Yardage University will always come up wiih someone to air it out when the Saints Go Marchin' Long. ..Inevitability. Death, taxes and out patterns. It's a way of life in Mountain pre-seaso- All-WA- All-WA- C 224 - 8887 0fH- - TbI Standard Time..." notes John Blanchette of the Spokesman-Review- , Telephones who wraps up Rocky Mountain football for the magazine this year. Blanchette goes with BYU, & Computer Systems (Next to Mervyn's) EVERY is ' OFFER GOOD QXLY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1, 1984 TOMY, TusE-u- ?, TOHSiif A tmmmtm mu f IfMY mm tmmwm day... BRING YOUR CAR IN AND RECEIVE .1 A 5m HtHlwn 1 tatbot 5 Bras, Auto , 4, 'tg'tsi Em v THOSE SERVICES! 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