| Show o - COLLEGE FOOTBALL THURSDAY SI PTI 9 2003 K NI IS I - M VI C M Games Conference 00 020 0 38 0 0 00 0 41 00 0 5314 0 00 00 0 2417 BYU Nilo St San PA PC BF PA W W ULM 1 17 1 21 1 21 7 1 Wyomtng Att Force 56 27 1 C(St 1 000 Mexico MTV New 42 17 1 Salurtley'$ WAN at MsrAltsin 10 a rw ESPN EaMem Washmiton at kr Force roon WmmqatTexisMM13OpmFSN Texas Tech at New Memo 6 p m Colomdo State at Southern Cal 6 p m Cll 4 Utall at Antona Ppm BYU al Stantvd 8 p Ch 2 tIVIC POWER RATINGS Getting loads of national hype as a possible BCS buster 2 BYU Defense looks a lot better than Berry at quaderback 3 Colorado State Practically had Buffs beat d not for Utah 1 ): ): (0-1- ): d catastrophe It Hamilton 4 San Diego State can't return the Aztecs could have big ): problems 5 New Mexico — show them Same old Lobos (0-1-): Pac-1- watch logo 0 them fall Dorsey looks great but that defense was awful vs tots 6 UNLV (0-1- ): After seeing A&M 7 Wyoming ( ): the Cowboys actually have a chance 8 Air Force ): May have new OB after worst opening loss since 1957 East C vs Big M Does the Mountain West deserve to re- place the Bg East Conference in the Bowl Championship Series? Here's our ongoing look at how thp leagues compar e: Big East MWC Nonconference record 4 3 01 23 4 2 02 25 vs Top vs BCS 20 20 non BCS vs vs Utah Texas AA Big win 41 AMA Cal 56 Air Force 14 19 Rutgers State Mich 21 loss Ugly 14 Purdue 51 Syracuse 0 Sun Belt I All Games Conference W PF PA W L PF PA 1 1715 1 0 17 15 1 0 14 7 0 1 20 52 00 Tennessee Arkansas St Mid 1765 0 Idaho La Monroe New Memo St Texas 31 1 1 13 1 0 1 17 SI 63 65 48 Today's game at Troy pm Saturday's games Middle Tennessee at Akron 4pm New Mem() State re California pm Florida Atlantic at North Texas 5 p m Louisiana Lafayette at Louisiana Tech 5 p m Idaho at Utah State 6 pm Arkansas State at ISU 6 pin ' 102720 St St Sacramento St I 1 14 Idaho St 1 21 0 0 0 37 38 N Arizona 1 3 21 Weber St I 31 34 last season the Speaking of the Pac-1Cal Golden Rears bulldozed Air Force in the second half for a 56- 14 victory at Falcon Stadium — "We were thoroughly embarrassed" coach Fisher DeBerry said — before UNIV was trounced at Tennessee in advance of their rematch against Wisconsin on Saturday Not the most convincing ar-gument The Mountain West is against teams from the 'ICS conferences since last season and that includes losses to lesser teams like Stanford and Kansas to which some around the league refer when they complain that crummy teams in powerful leagues have better access to the BCS money than they do None of which means the KS is fair But it does mean that the big leagues that comprise it probably aren't going to listen real hard to what the Mountain West constantly tries to tell them (and itself) -- that "there's a lot of mat football teams in this conference" as Utah coach Urban Meyer put it OW maybe as the Ute and Cougar victories attest But great? Only better performances against the best teams will convince many people of that The Mountain West is not short on opportunity though with five teams other than CSU taking on teams from the BCS this weekend And who knows? Maybe the catastrophe against the Buffs will help Lubick and his Rams at USC "If we go through it next week" he said "I'd hope we'd be 0 7 11i"°5 ' ' -- ii- 4 il i''4''1'7-' '1'41103 '- 441 f '11 - i t it - '' sa At yli i t '-- - - ' ' " -' N will work to do We need to get better at everything we do - Games of the week ''' '100 ' ' - Hi 414k - 221 1 189 1 No 1Ds 13 1 12 11 o o 10 1 Yards TDs 513 4 470 4 3 415 403 2 382 5 Basenez Northwestern Sonny Cumbie Texas Tech Josh Betts Miami (Ohio) 'JUs lin Holland Colorado Slate Brett Dan Otiovsky tkonn This week's TV schedule TONIGHT 'Missouri at Troy 5 pm ESPN2 FRIDAY Florida State at Miami 6 pm Ch 4 Oregon State at Boise State 8 pm ESPN SATURDAY Southern Miss at Nebraska 10 am 10 am Ch 4 ESPN Arizona State at Northwestern10 am ESPN2 Colorado vs Washington St 130 pm Ch 4 Michigan at Notre Dame1:30 p m Ch 5 MM 130 pm ESN Georgia at South Carolina 3 30 pm ESPN Houston at Oklahoma 5 p m IBS Texas at Arkansas Cal Golden Bears y TI Florida State at Miami Friday 6 pm Will Colorado State Saturday 6 pm e Only team to beat USC last season looked frighteningly good in second half of 56-1- 4 victory at Air Force Take the over against New Mexico State Ryan Moats Louisiana Tech 4 Ch FSU's Xavier Beitia finally kick aside Miami's win at USC Ch i Spins cuts and dashes for 257 yards and three touchdowns against Nevada and gets Louisiana-Lafayetnext before visits to Miami and Tennessee streak? 1 It Derrick Johnson Texas Linebacker makes nine tackles in the Longhorns' 4 opening blowout of North Texas and forced three fumbles - two that thwarted drives and led to touchdowns Rams will be lucky to even have a chance to screw up the end of this : Saturday 10 Randy Edsall Connecticut -- After going 3 last year and winning the opener contract worth this season coach signs $900000 a year — nearly five times his current salary am Coming off whipping of Washington the Bulldogs should give KSU a Michigan i Holding steady at Notre Dame 38-- Joe Dailey Nebraska Ch 5 loss last year but looked bad at BYU ' Saturday 6:45 pm ‘ ir' Horns want revenge tor stunning loss — faces tough Southern Miss defense after throwing four touchdowns (and four interceptions) in debut of passing offense against Western Illinois Ouarterback Ix& out ESPN and Razorback celebration — below in Alexis Serna Oregon 2003 i State i Kicker missed three extra points that could have loss given Beavers upset of the year rather than Quote of the Vied - at LSO Will they let him try at Boise State? Big Ten Replay iI NII7 when you get into the i1 it Proof h mistake by Colorado State quarterback Justin Holland cost the Rams a chance to tie or beat Colorado last Saturday last-minu- te Walk-o- n Passing yards Colorado State at 1 butt kicked Big 12!" from both Experimental system gets sides after confusing and at times contradictory usage thumbs-dow- in Wisconsin's 21-1- 3 victory over Central Florida ' Hawaii Warriors Phil Bennett to Texas Tech's Mike Leach accord- ing to the Dallas Morning News after leach had the Red — Raiders try for a late touchdown in a victory 34-- 6 Ouaderback Timmy Chang will break Ty Delmer's career passing yardage record but Detmer never lost to Division FAA Florida Atlantic at home 94 Chad Owens Hawaii Mart Philmont Northwestern Marti Nance Miami (Ohio) Lance Moore Toledo Wyoming at Texas 41 k' m 31111s A the rise Harris West Virginia y t 1 "You will get your : Sonny Curable Explodes for 337 yards and four touchdowns against East Carolina Next up? Central Florida which allowed 230 rushing yards to Wisconsin I Texas at Arkansas xie i 4114 1 at Wisconsin On Kay-Ja- t i? t Yards Ms 4 337 261 2 257 3 quarterback Lt think our quarterbacks that Fighting Irish hope to avenge Gi rl' Texas Tech fight LEADERS 6 pm 645 pm USC Ch 4 ESPN Mississippi at Alabama 1 p m ESPN2 BM at Stanford 8 pm Ch 2 - our quarterbacks il'Oli V i1 : NCAA Receptions 27-- for Saturdays game against Marshall "As far as have gaps narrowed and this and that we just go try to get better all of us and we need better quarterback play: coach Jim Tressel said "That's not a slam on N - Harris Vemaod Morency OW State Ryan Moats La Tech Darren Sproles Kansas S Bobby Purity Goiorado CA1 The Buckeyes are straining to replaced departed veteran quarterback Craig Krenzel but were not so impressed with backup Troy Smith in relief to move him ahead of Zwick ' k:: '' 1 4- 1 1 the season opener We lost There ain't too much Fresno State at Kansas State - :' i 4S tp W Virginia jt victory over Cincinnati last week And kept his starting job - 4 0' 4- 1- 1 - one ' - a 1 States Justin Zwick fumbled four times and threw two interceptions in a Ohio II 3 a But five fumbles is a different story t l 49144 T1 '''' I - i St at Montana State 1 pm at Idaho State 6 p m Northern Arizona at Stephen F Austin 6 pm Weber Slate at UTEP 7 pm Sacramento St at Nevada 7 p m UNLV "Personally give myself an F" fields said good you can get out of that: : tP Ouarterback Joe Fields is the first freshman to start at that position at Syracuse in 22 years but might be last under coach Paul Pasqualoni if the Orangemen don't home loss to Purdue -- i that sharp Too bad his throws aren't I r :ttal s middle: quarterback Sonny Comb le said 'Ts a different philosophy between the two I guess if you don't like it stop us" better" 1 ' Poly-SI- Rushing r thing else he did against a team that had lost 12 in a row "We're not a team that kneels on the ball not a team that runs the dive up the bounce back from a I 'ri Leach though was unrepentant Though he said he should not have gone for it on fourth down as much as he did - the Red Raiders went for it six times inside the Mustangs' 38 yard line after their kicker missed a field goal and extra-poin- t attempt - he did not apologize for any- in 1111! - that feehng: Bennett said Saturday 1:30 pm 'Adams f want my kids leaving that field - L "14i Saturdays games lastern Washington at kr Force noon lintstra at Montana 1 pm Cal N 4t- Montana Washington kt1 - Games AWL PF PA 0 38 0 0 0 0 'didn't gon State in the Las Vegas Bowl it Not only did the Rams collapse but New Mexico threw two interceptions and allowed a blocked punt in the fourth quarter to give away a home game to Washington State Not that that's anything new of course The Lobos have lost eight in a row to Pac-1Conference teams defeat to Ore including a All Montana IP174- That led to a scuffle at midfield after the game when SMU coach Phil with i 64 - Bennett confronted Leach ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL looked like Ilurricane Frances - Portland I week in college football the bright side they failed to score ready led MICHAEL C LEWIS just tore through STANDINGS E Apegrtt 55-1- alin F the look at Coach Mike Leach was at it again last weekend throwing for the end zone three times in the final 30 seconds of a game at SMU that his Texas Tech Red Raiders al- r not been for solid victories by Utah over Texas MAI and Brigham Young over Notre Dame the league would have Big Sky W SERE A On 27-2- - Conference PARg s I lad it STANDINGS Tray n Sonny Lubick said not be surprised if State Rams go down and play "very very well" against the defending national champion and No 1 USC Trojans on Saturday They just have to get over their last game first The Rams folded in the final minute of their season opener at Colorado last wmkend blowing a chance to finish a stunning comeback in Mulder when junior quarterback Justin Ifolland forgot the (town and failed to spike the ball to stop the clock "None of us realized how fast that clock runs when you rush the football with no timeouts to go" Lubick said Obviously they should have with no time-out- s Trailing the Rams had driven to the line with 34 seconds left Holland spiked the ball on first down then handed off to running back Marcus !Ralston for no gain on second But instead of spiking the ball on third down to stop the clock in the final seconds and give the Rams an organized chance for either a field goal or a touchdown — Lubick said he was going for the touchdown all the way I folland frantically called a pitchout to finning back Tristan Walker The Buffs swamped the play easily as time ran out to end the game "I wish we would have spiked it" Lubick said Ile's not the only one The Mountain West Conference could have used fewer meltdowns on opening weekend after spending the offseason pressing the case that they deserve an automatic berth into the Bowl Championship Series ahead of the weakened Big East Conference Coach 21 1 000 games 1 MWC losses torpedo case for BCS STANDINGS Utah at Arizona 8 pm KJZZ suddenly must be up to full speed UTAH BY NI ICIIAEL C LEWIS Sah Lake Tribune at ARIZONA Saturday 8 pm NU KJZZ Goodbye Longhorns? Fans won't get a chance to see the StaTexas Longhorns in dium anytime soon The Utes and Longhorns have canceled three games between them scheduled for 2007 2008 and 2009 The Utes had to push back one nonconference game from the schedule next season athletic director Chris Hill said to accommodate TCU as a new member of the Mountain West And of the scheduled games next year a matchup against Oregon State was the best choice Hill said because the Utes have not started a series with it Utes: One player a suspect t: Continued from Cl Rice-Eccle- s Safety Casey Evans was as shocked as anybody else to find himself forced into the game for the Utah Utes in their season-openinvictory over Texas A&M last week Now facing the first of his young career start Ui'AII at Arizona on Saturday NOTES the walk-o- sophomore is simply trying not to be overwhelmed "There's a little more nerves than usual" he said "But you just have to prepare harder" Evans was thrust into the lineup against the Aggies when the Utes' top two strong safeties — sophomore Eric Weddle and senior Kawika Casco — were injured The former Olympus I Iigh standout made live tackles and played well and has shaved his hair into a Mohawk in honor of Casco who'd done the same at the start of training camp The Utes are going to need him to stop Arizona running back Mike Bell The junior was Second Team last season after rushing for 920 yards and six touchdowns "You just have to be ready" Evans said "It's my job and I won't be out there if I'm not doing it" — Surgery sidelines Walker Junior receiver Justin Walker had surgery Wednesday to repair ligament damage in his right hand and will miss the game at Arizona Walker was hurt in practice earlier this week The Utes said he is questionable to play at Utah State on Sept 18 and Meyer said he encouraged Walker to have the surgery right away in hopes of being fully recovered in time for the Mountain West Conference opener against Air Force on Sept 25 1 yet Hill wanted to push the games against the Beavers into the spots occupied by the Texas games — the 2008 meeting was to have been in Salt Lake City — and the Longhorns obliged However lull said he's still negotiating with Texas to schedule other games in the future maasttribcom been a witness McPharlin said The No 17 Utes have not taken disciplinary action against any player in advance of their game at Arizona this weekend and Meyer said Tuesday that his understanding was that "there was nothing done wrong" On Wednesday the coach declined to discuss the case I further "Out of respect for all of the people involved I'm Just going to leave that as it is" he said The alleged assault took place early Sunday In a dorm room on campus where police said a claims she was forcibly raped by a football player andI another man after drinking with them Police said Wednesthat their initial report roneously said the alleged assault was being investigate d as a "statutory" rape because of a clerical error McPharlin said he expected to screen the case with a county prosecutor today "There are allegations that have some credibility" he said "But there are some denials that have some credibility" s 1 |
