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Show srouib VEDNESDA?: OCTOBER 6, 2010 DIXIE SUN -- 5- Wacky college season leaves these questions V" CHRIS DUFRESNE BY 1 MCT ANGELES (MCT) Don't try to make sense of HOW DOES UC DAVIS BEAT SAN JOSE STATE, L LOS football in early October or, maybe, ever. The sport is definitely worth the physical and emotional investment, but that doesn't mean there's order in its unicollege 14-1- 3? r- - . OK, we actually saw that one coming. San Jose State was primed for a fall against n this opponent after an early-seaso- n gauntlet that included beat-dow- n pay-chelosses at Alabama, Wisconsin and Utah. Davis also has a history of these tilings, having shocked Stanford in 2005. e. lower-divisio- - ' Ji verse. v ck beauty, in fact, is its The everlasting ability to consistently confound. How does UCLA, a week shocking win at then-jl7 Texas, almost lose at borne to hapless Washington after a WEEKEND WRAP Freedom's just another word? Brigham Young, which recently announced it would leave die Mountain West and o. vF 4. State? could attribute some of classic Bruin hubris, al- You to it ways thinking they're better than they are after a big victory. back to Brigham Young UCLA 0 in 2008. That Go 59, v game result immedia- the as tely following the Bruins' Labor Day win over Tennessee in Rick Neuheisel's shocking debut. 2005, UCLA improved to after a comeback win at Stanford and then lost at ArizIn 0 52-1- 4. ona, HOW DOES LES MILES KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT? Louisiana State coach The to manage a game the way your teenager manages his room, yet Miles' Tigers are tends ranked No. 12 despite bungle in the jungle and 0 going Tennessee. Miles pulled a lot against of this stuff three years ago he became the only coach to win a BCS bonehead when ss atonal title. Alabama head coach Nick Saban talks to Florida head coach Urban Meyer at the end of Saturdays game. Alabama is the only consistent story this college football season. Saturday was Miles at his sideline worst, nearly blowing the end of the Tennessee game when he tried to shuffle in personnel near the goal lme as time was expiring. The center botched the snap and Tennessee thought it had won. Except, LSU's confusion confused Tennessee into having 13 defenders on the field. The down was replayed and LSU scored the winning touch- The team that jumped Boise State was Oregon, which lost to Boise State last season and in 2008. HOW COULD THE EX- PERTS BE SO CLUELESS? Here's a list of schools and their preseason ranking in the AP poll: Florida (4), Texas (5), Virginia Tech (10), Geor- gia Tech (16), North Carolina (18), Penn State (19), Georgia down. (23). don't know that we can play any sloppier," the winning coach' said. "I don't know if we could have planned it Those schools left the weekend with a 5 combined record. Texas, with its second loss, dropped out of the poll for the first time in 10 years. for the first Georgia fell to time since 1993 with a loss at Colorado. North Carolina is while Virginia Tech and "I any poorer." And then The Associated Press poll came out Sunday, with LSU paying no punitive price in holding its place at No. 12. Meanwhile, Boise State dropped one spot, to No. 4, after a 59-- 0 win over New Mexico State. 19-1- 1- -4 2-- 2, Georgia Tech are Why would Colorado fans storm the field in Boulder win over after a 3-- 2. two-poi- four-los- s nt Georgia? DSC volleyball team loses 2; faces Sea Warriors at home BY BRYAN UHRI Online Editor Lady Red Storm lost pinch against Academy of Art University with both matches coming down to the The in a wire. Games one and two on Frid- ay were a challenge for the team as a defensive strategy was difficult to maintain. This first resulted in losses of the 5 and two games, 19-2- Fundamentals, we need to work on that, said junior defensive specialist Jayci Jeffress, an integrated studies major from Brighton, Colo. Its our weaknesses they capitalize on. The Urban Knights benefited from 10 hit errors in the second set but then lost the following two games. The Red Storm were able to pull together for strong wins in games three and four by carefully guarding the net and passing the ball. Junior setter Alex Shearer was able to help the team gain four points, including two aces leading to a 6 advantage. "Whenever we pass and serve the ball well, we do well, head coach Gregg Jensen said. The fourth game was dominated by the Red Storm 7-- after they took the lead from a 6 tie. Junior setter Kimee Clark scored seven service points and the game ended at 19-- 7 for the Red Storm. The team lost sophomore outside hitter Bnta Noble due to an ankle injury while she was trying to block a ball y through the fourth 6-- mid-wa- game. The team was still able to pull off a win despite Nobles injury, but it didnt last. The Red Storm lost the fifth game 5 for an overall score of 3 for Academy of Art. We just couldnt come out very intense, Jensen said. Saturdays match was similar with the team losing the first two games due to 1 1 hitting errors on the second 12-12-- set. When all looked grim the team was able to pull off dual victories by committing only two errors in the fourth set, leading to a large victory of 5 after the previous score Game five, once again, proved fatal for the Red Storm when the Urban Knights began scoring early, which brought about a lead of 10-- 6 before the team was able to tie the game at 12. The game was lost for DSC because of a score by Urban Knight Angela Heath leaving a final score of 25-1- 25-2- 1. 13-1- 5. Dixie State volleyball is currently in fifth place in the PacWest with an overall standing of The volleyball team hosts Hawaii Pacific University Friday in the Old Gym. 7-- 5. Fifita, a junior elementary education major Midvale, spikes the ball. DSC came up just short losing Friday and Saturday. Melissa gets three per half. 4 HOW DID THE SEC EAST GET SO BAD SO FAST? The East used to be the Commissioner Larry attended the who Scott, 3) 0-- 24-- 5. WHY WOULD OREGON FANS BOO STANFORD FOR CALLING TIMEOUTS? That's a puzzler. We can understand why Ducks fans would be suspicious of Stanford players lollygagging on the field in order to slow down Oregon's fast-pac- ed 1- -4 Pac-1- 0 beast, with Florida, Tennessee and Georgia setting the agenda. This week, the division has an overall record of is in Vanderbilt (1-third place. Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee are a combined 7 in league play. The SEC West, led by Alabama, Auburn and LSU, is 14-1- 4. go independent in football, fell to with a loss to Utah State. We can already hear TV sets clicking off all over America. of- fense. But you can't boo a team for calling timeouts? Each team game in Eugene on Saturday, said the league is honing a plan to divide the conference when it expands to 12 teams next season. There has been heated debate over whether to split the divisions north-sout- h or east-wes- t. "I'm happy with the spirit of the discussion," Scott said. "We're clearly not going to have unanimity on this thing." The Pac-1- 2 will have a championship game next year, although it hasn't been determined whether the game will be played at a neutral site or on the home field of the higher-seede- d team. Scott said California's recent decision to drop several sports, including baseball, underscores the conference's need to find new revenue streams. "ft brings home the significance of what we're doing," Scott said. "Unfortunately, Cal wasn't in a position to wait." Nevada is 0 for the first time since 1991 and climbed to No. 21 in the AP poll. Boise State fans need Nevada to be as highly ranked as possible when the schools meet in Reno on Nov. 26. Nevada has won six consecutive games against rival Nevada Las Vegas and retained the "Fremont Cannon," a replica of a howitzer that explorer John C. Fremont brought west in 1 843 Not the kind of thing want to and back you pass forth. Not this time. Many USC fans blamed quarterback Aaron Corp for last year's upset loss against Washington. Corp was nowhere near the crime scene this year. He was miles away, in Virginia, leading the Richmond Spiders to a 41-1- 9 win over Coastal Carolina. So much for the national title race. North Carolina State's loss to Virginia Tech left every school in the Atlantic Coast Conference with at least one loss. But how does he really feel? Notre Dame Coach Brian Kelly, who grew up in Boston, was thrilled to imrecord to prove his first-ye2-- 3 after a win at Boston Col5-- te 545-pou- . ar lege. Kelly: "We're happy. Happy, happy, happy. Everybody's happy in Notre Dame land." (c) 2010, Los Angeles Times. Courtesy of Tribune Information Services. Mc-Clatc- |