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Show THE HERALD, Repeat? Miami Evas By ALAN ROBINSON AP Sports Writer gator Alley understandably won the national title. But Miami wouldn't have edged Washington for the national championship if field goal Gerry Thomas' hadn't faded a foot wide in the Game of the Century, Miami's 6 victory at then-N1 Florida State. "When I die, they'll chisel on my tombstone, 'But he played Miami,' " Florida State coach Bobby 34-ya- rd nt o. Bawden said. And Miami must play Florida State again on Oct. 3 a huge obstacle if the Hurricanes are to "Repeat, Repeat," as coach Dennis Erickson persuaded a Miami basketball crowd to persuasively chant last winter. The second game in college football's version of Murderers Row comes a week later when Miami visits Penn State on Oct. 10. Talk about your fall classics: Miami- State and Miami-Pen- n State on successive weeks. But even to get to this double killer of a doubleheader, the Hurricanes must survive a potential opening game ambush Sept. 5 at Iowa. They were upset by Brigham Young in just such a dangerous opener in 1990. With a schedule filled with such potential pitfalls, can Miami even -Florida dream of repeating? "Duke did it," Miami quarterback Gino Torretta said. So did the Chicago Bulls and the Pittsburgh Penguins, so perhaps the motto for Torretta and Co. in this Year of the Repeat this should be: "Repeat After Me." Looking East, here how th 1992 season looks in the Big Ea: Plus One: Miami returns not only starters, more than any Hurribut stars cane team since the '87 edition that, produced 12 NFL draft choices. Torretta was 205 of 371 for 3,095 yards and 20 touchdowns and has plenty of waiting hands to throw to in Lamar Thomas, Horace Cope-lan- d and Kevin Williams. Not that he needs more weapons, but Torretta may also have shotgun and offenses at his disposal, no-h- ur ; Page 4 to 9 the last three seasons, so please stand up? Coach Tom dation: the school is spending $28 should mean an up. year for this Stadifirst million team was was to renovate Rutgers Coughlin's coach 4 lost Miami The also Scarlet um. and to Jerry Berndt. There's one apKnights by just yet to Penn State. Glenn Foley pear to be building a solid proproblem: the Owls return just four starters each on offense and deis another excellent quarterback in gram. There is optimism in New a region loaded with them. He Jersey, with coach Doug Graber fense. but losthrew for 2,222 yards and led the earning high marks for his recruitVirginia Tech was and defense its much of es quarterBig East with 22 touchdown passing and a 5 record last season back Will Furrer, who threw 43 es. that could get even better. to career touchdown passes. Rutgers is building a solid foun Temple has gone from 2-- 19-1- 28-2- 1 plus a defense that allowed only 9.1 points per game. The date that Syracuse has circled is Nov. 21 , when Miami visits the Carrier Dome. But the Orangemen hope their season is more than one big game and one big-pla- y player. Wide receiver Qadry "The Missile" Ismail is the Rocket's brother, but he certainly can stand and leave on his own two feet defensive backs standing in their shoes. Eight Orange starters are back on defense from an 11-- 2 team, but the defense needs some rebuilding. Before Joe Paterno completely befuddles the folks at Rand Pennby moving a mid-stasylvania university to the Midwest, Penn State wouldn't mind winning a national title in its final season back East. Mc-Nal- 5-- 6, 6-- PONTIAC HABMON'S 1992 BONNEVILLE CLOSEOUT ;AGJS ly te p The Nittany Lions, already gearing up for next fall's move to the Big Ten, return a dozen starters from an 1 team that lost just 26-2- 0 to Miami. How quickly Kerry Collins becomes comfortable reTony placing the Sacca at quarterback is a big key. Ismail-lik- e wideout O.J. "Don't Call Me The Juice" McDuffie will help ease the new QB's transition. Alex Van Pelt's back at Pitt to chase Dan Marino's school passing records, but the question in Pittsburgh is how much longer coach Paul Hackett will be around if the Panthers don't go bowling. The Panthers were 8 in his first season and 6-- 5 last year, but only a -2 now-graduat- ed 3-- victory over Rutgers prevented them from becoming the first Divithen lose team to go sion A We see a trend here. 5-- 0, its final six. Question marks? Don Nehlen has plenty of them in his 13th season at West Virginia, 5 a year ago. For the first time since the Major Harris era, Nehlen has a starting quarterback back; the only question now is if Darren Studstill can hold off Notre Dame transfer Jake Kelchner to keep the job. Nehlen can never remember a team sustaining as many injuries as the Mountaineers did last spring, but a defense that keyed by linebackers Wes Richardson and Mike Taffoni should help ease the pain. 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