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Show DAILY D8 HERALD Sunday, September 9, 2007 TOP 25 ROUNDUP No. 5 Sooners earn redemption in blowout of Miami ASSOCIATED PRESS THE tion in the end zone. Keller completed f 41 passes for Nebraska which lacked the gaudy offensive numbers of last week but withstood its first real challenge 6f the season and now can focus on next week's visit from No. 1 Southern California. Wake Forest ) had a prime opportunity to take or at least tie it the lead midway through the fourth quarter, when defensive end Zach Stukes smothered Keller and John Russell intercepted the pass at the Nebraska 10. The Huskers took it back three plays later when Bow man stepped in front of Brett Hodges' pass into the end zone with 6:05 to play. 24-o- NORMAN, Okla. By the time Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford threw his school record-tyinfifth touchdown pass, the bad memories from past Miami games were long gone. Malcolm Kelly caught three of Bradford's TD passes and Reggie Smith returned a fumble for a score as the No. 5 3 Sooners rolled over Miami in their first meeting since (2-0- ), g (0-2- 51-1- the Hurricanes swept three games in the 1980s. "That didn't matter," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "It makes for a good story, but that's a long time ago." Bradford completed passes for 205 yards in his second career start as the Sooners (2-series evened the e at three games each. All three of Oklahoma's losses came in a three-yea- r span when the Sooners went 33-- 0 against all opponents except the Hurricanes. Stoops said he introduced his players to the rivalry's history on Monday, but after that "they're rolling their eyes. That's years ago. Most of them weren't even born." Stoops said even he had a hard time going back that far, but he hoped the win was a lift for Sooners fans who had been "storing those hard feelings all those years." "I can't say I thought a lot about that," said Bradford, who wasn't even two months a old when the last F - KiWt T Sot tJ BILLY ., A W It ft. HEFTONAssociated Oklahoma's Jermaine Gresham (18), Joe Jon Finley (19) and Sam Bradford celebrate touchdown against Miami on Saturday in Norman, Okla. Oklahoma won, 1 No. 20 Hawaii 45, Louisiana Tech 44, OT: At Ruston, La., Colt Brennan passed for 548 Press a Sooner 51-1- 20-so- seven possessions in the first half, moving the ball with relative ease against Troy shall 23: At Hintington, W.Va., Pat White threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Steve Slaton rushed for two scores and West Virginia scored 42 points in the second first time since a 14-- 9 loss to South Carolina in 2001. (0-2- ). Florida led 49-- 7 at halftime, and the starters figured to get much of the rest of the night off before facing SEC East rival Tennessee in a week. But the second half was much different from the first. . three-and-o- (2-0- Miami-Oklahom- (0-2- lf st high-scorin- 0, 0 66-1- 35-1- (2-0- 0-- y utGOorsoa. 16th coming Sunday, September , This year's publication promises to be bigger than ever Local features about local people e forecasts Hunting tips from the. big boys No. 16 Nebraska 20, Wake 17: At Winston-Salem- , N.C., Sam Keller threw for 258 yards and a touchdown Forest in his first road start at Nebraska and Zackary Bowman had a critical intercep- - sealed the win for the Huskies. Roy Lewis broke up a fourth-dow- n pass in the end zone with four minutes left and Vonzell McDowell had an interception at the 2 with 2:40 remaining. Boise State running back Ian Johnson saw his streak of d seven consecutive games end. He had 81 yards on 20 carries. Boise State (1-- is in road games against teams from BCS conferences. 100-yar- 0-- No. 23 Texas A&M 47, Fresno State 45, 30T: At College Station, Tex., Jorvorskie Lane scored his fourth touchdown in the third overtime, then powered in for the decisive conversion and the Aggies held on for a victory. Fresno State quarterback Tom Brandstater, who went for 260 yards, found tight end Bear Pascoe in the end zone to cut the Aggies' conlead to two. On the version try, Brandstater overthrew receiver Marlon Moore in the corner of the end zone. The Aggies ) could have . I r? yards and four touchdowns and No. 20 Hawaii stopped a conversion on the final play of the game to beat Louisiana Tech in overtime. Brennan hooked up with Jason Rivers for a touchdown to put the Warriors (2-Western Athletic but Zac Conference) up Champion answered for the TD pass Bulldogs with a to Dustin Mitchell. Louisiana Tech went from 2 and the win instead of the tying extra point kick and Champion's final pass to Brian Jackson was batted down. Brennan finished with an interception that kept ' Tech in the game in the fourth quarter. Champion finished for 188 yards and Patrick Jackson ran for 95 yards and two touchdowns for Louisiana ) No. 24 Tennessee 39, Southern Miss 19: At Knoxville, Tenn., Erik Ainge threw two touchdown passes and Arian Foster ran for two scores for Tennes- Tech. see. 45-3- No. 12 Ohio State 20, Akron 2: At Columbus, Ohio, the Buckeyes forced Akron to punt 14 ,1 half. times, including after 12 conHeld to three first downs secutive series, and 118 total yards in the openand pulled away in the second half of a lackluster offensive ing half, heavy favorite West ) scored on its first Virginia performance. three possessions of the third t South Carolina 16, No. 11 Akron ( managed just three first downs and 69 yards Georgia 12: At Ahtens, Ga., quarter and handed Marshall game was played. "I its worst home loss since ) was really trying to play for Ryan Succop kicked three field on offense gaining 3 net it opened Joan C. Edwards Stagoals, Cory Boyd ran for the today." yards on 19 rushing attempts. dium opened in 1991. Oklahoma built a 21-- 3 and touchdown The Zips had two first downs only game's first-hal- f lead on Bradford's South Carolina's defense kept the first time they had the ball, Slaton, held to two first-hathe Bulldogs out of the end then didn't pick up another untouchdown passes of 23 and yards, erupted after West Vir24 yards to Kelly and Smith's til 5 minutes remained with ginia went to a power running zone. return of a Javarris Gamecocks coach Steve game. Behind the blocking of punter John Stec putting his fullback Owen Schmitt, Slaton James fumble, the Spurrier, who beat Georgia 11 name in the record book. finished with 146 yards and fumble return in Sooners' hisout of 12 years while he was at Stec set a school record for g scored on runs of one and 18 Florida, doesn't have tory. punts, averaging 41 yards. Neither starter Kirby Freetalent at South Carolina (2-yards. White ran for 125 yards. No. 14 Penn State 31, Notre man nor backup Kyle Wright SEC). So the Gamecocks No. 4 Florida 59, Troy 31: At could mount enough of a comeDame 10: At State College, Pa., relied on a stout defense and back, and Miami (1-- suffered Gainesville, Fla., Tim Tebow Succop's accurate right leg to the Nittany lions bottled up its most lopsided defeat since a threw three touchdown passes, hold off the Bulldogs (1-). freshman quarterback Jimmy 3 loss to Syracuse on Nov. ran for two more scores for Clausen in his starting debut, Georgia, coming off an the defending national chamDerrick Williams had a d 28,1998. impressive 4 victory over Oklahoma State, was held pion Gators. punt return for a touchdown No. 3 West Virginia 48, Mar- Florida ) scored on all without a touchdown for the and Austin Scott ran for two second-hal- f scores. Anthony Morelli threw for "I 131 yards and a touchdown, though Penn State's offense looked shaky much of the day. The Irish were worse, in almost every way. Notre Dame opened the season 2 for the first time since 2001, when the Irish lost their first three games. hooed Clausen The much-ballfinished passing for 144 yards and an interceptioa third-longe- -- I No. 21 Georgia Tech 69, Sam-for- d 14: At Atlanta, Tashard Choice went over 100 yards rushing in the first quarter with a career-lon- g touchdown and Georgia Tech scored its most points in a half 73-ya- since 1916. It was the Yellow Jackets highest scoring game and largest margin of victory since a 70-- 7 win at Navy on Sept. 8, 2001. Georgia Tech (2-hadn't scored that many points in a n home game since beating (2-0- 1 1 1UV.ACU 11113 UUC UI1 1 ICM1U State's first play of the first overtime. After Matt field kicked a goal to give A&M a 9 lead, Moore caught a Brandstater pass and tried to stretch the ball over the goal line witn one hand. He fumbled into the end zone as he stepped out of bounds, and the Aggies recovered the loose ball. The official on the spot ruled that Moore went out at the 1. Szy-mans- ki 27-ya- 32-2- Ainge completed 23 of 36 for ana goi a ioi oi neip from his developing receivers. Austin Rogers caught seven passes for 112 yards and Lucas Taylor adding 118 yards on five catches. Josh Briscoe also caught a touchdowa Jeremy Young went for a career-hig- h 254 yards for Southern Miss. He also ran for 48 yards on nine carries. zo yaras, 6 I No. 25 Clemson 49, Louisiana-Monro- e 26: At Clemson, S.C., Cullen Harper threw a school-recor- d five touchdown passes 69-in 1921. and Clemson capped a frenzied week with a victory. Choice, who set a career The Tigers started for high with 196 yards rushing in Tech's 33-- 3 win over Notre the second time in three seaDame last week, did not play sons, following up Monday after rushing for 110 yards night's 8 win over Florida and two touchdowns in the State with the wipeout of the first quarter. It was his ninth Warhawks d finished Harner game. straight 1 270 yards and for passing no interceptions. He tied the I Washington 24, No. 22 Boise State 10: At Seattle, redshirt TD pass school's single-gam- e freshman Jake Locker threw mark, set by Bobby Gage in 1947 and matched by four othfor one score and ran for another as resurgent Washington er players, in the first half. James Davis had 68 yards snapped the longest major touchcollege winning streak in the rushing and a down run. C.J. Spiller had four country. Two key defensive plays receptions for 87 yards. Fur-ma- 0 2-- 0 24-1- (0-2- ). 100-yar- fi Big-gam- Fishing hot spots Camping Hiking in Utah ' ' TCU Continued from Dl Schedule your ad space now This product will be delivered as part of Sunday, September 16 Daily Herald. 6 Contact Dan at to place a retail ad. "We showed them it was our house." McCoy, who threw two interceptions, includone was returned for that ing a touchdown, cut a 10-- TCU lead in the third quarter with strike to Nate Jones. a scramble early in His d the fourth set up the score before the Longhorns started piling-i- t on. "You didn't want to touch me in the second quarter, I had some bad luck there," McCoy said. "I had Bible study the other morning (and) you're going to get tested. You get tested, then you're blessed." The Texas defense did the rest. Brandon Foster returned a fumble by TCU punter Derek s Walsh for a TD and the ) held the Horned Frogs (1-- to 251 total yards. TCU had just 17 yards and no first downs in the third quarter when Texas started surging. Jones had eight catches for 91 yards and Jamaal Charles touchtacked on a down run in the fourth quarter with just under three minutes left. McCoy finished for 239 yards. Charles ran for 134 yards, most coming in the second half. The loss was a bitter disappointment for TCU, which e wincame in with a ning streak over Big 12 teams viand sions of more payback for an old Southwest Conference rival and the league that snubbed the Horned Frogs in the first-ha- lf 0 .344-295- i 33-ya- ' . go-ahe- jr ..... J"" sw ft And win $ 1 000 in prizes ! Tilts years top six contest winners will receive gift certificates from Gunnies, this year's came page qytrwr. HARRY CABLUCKAssociated er the team that would force its way into a Bowl Championship Series game. "We have come a long way since TCU played Texas the last time (1995). But we still have some work to do," said TCU coach Gary Patterson. "I think TCU is past the moral victories. This is not one of those games where you are happy you played well for a half. We came here to win," If only TCLTs offense could have matched its early defense. McCoy's shaky start led to TCLTs early lead and had the purple-claHorned Frogs fans sprinkled throughout the stadium thinking they might get the upset. Torrey Stewart faked a blitz, then dropped off and snagged an easy interception. Linebacker Jason Phillips got a good block on McCoy, leaving Stewart to run straight toward a large section of TCU fans. A tipped pass led to another interception by David Roach, A win might have catapulted and the Longhorns made a key the Horned Frogs into this defensive stand by forcing a season's "BCS busters" role as field goal instead of allowing a Long-horn- GranJ prize winner will receive a $400.00 gift certificate; 2nd place will receive a $200.00 gift certificate, and our third, forth, fifth & sixth-plac- e winners will receive a gift certificate worth $100.00 This year's QamePageis sponsored by mmsd w? L.J w i SPOCTinO GOODS vjccTcnn vjenn 5 GUNNIES BUCKS This coupon worth L $5 off $20 min. purchase Excludes gunsmithing, licenses, classes. Cannot be combined o!her offers or discounts ' (2-0- 25-of-- five-gam- mid-1990- s. Press Texas cornerback Brandon Foster, center, scoops up the loose ball on a hobbled punt attempt by TCU kicker Derek Wash, left, action Saturday in Austin, Texas. during fourth-quart- d touchdown. "Tonight we showed what our defense is made of," Muck-elro- y said. "We stepped up and put the offense on our shoulders until they came around." Shut out in the first half, Texas got on track in the third quarter, rolling up nearly 150 yards and keeping the Horned Frogs of f the field. TCU didn't have a first down in the second half until midway through the fourth. "This is unacceptable. Zero points in the first half?" McCoy said of the first-hashutout. "We've got to show something." On his TD pass, McCoy rolled to his right to avoid the rush, then floated an easy ball to Jones who was dragging across the middle of the end zone. Texas had tied it 0 before McCoy's long run set score. Dropup the ping back to pass, he saw the middle come open and took off running to the TCU 1. Vondrell McGee punched in the TD two plays later. lf 10-1- go-ahe- |
