Show 4 I B2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October 26 2003 wnmmGmijm AGGIES PASSING Yds Int Long TD AtL Comp TD Journal Mtch MascanVHeraJd Rec Yds Utah State linebacker Robert Watts levels Arkansas State's Gary Vincent following a punt Saturday at Romney Stadium 7-- Continued from B1 the fourth quarter "I saw the tight end slip out and I ran for him turned and die ball was in front of me I don't think it was a good throw by die quarterback It just fell in my 0 INTERCEPTION RETURNS Nate Fredrick 7 7 1 Yds No TD Long I: PUNTING Na Yds 279 7 Ben Chaet Avg Long 399 47 v SACKS v5 rt MlOb Yard Joe Lindsay " : 2-1- Justin Jackson Ryan Taylor Brent Pollock 1 13 : ’l'IO 1 t ' V:i ??- r - ' J' t 7? i I - " I f Yds 55 48 ' 22 AtL : : Avg 37 80 ' 31 V 17 -- 07 85 TD 0 0 ' 0 0 v 0 V ' PASSING Yds Int TD 121 37 4 2 0 0 RECEIVING Rec Yds Long TD AtL Comp 7 4 23 9 Nick Note Elliot Jacobs 40-ya-rd 12-ya- rd ’ out The Aggies converted three plays on their only scoring drive of the third TD to make quarter Cooley caught a third-and-lo- : stat-wi- se ' -9 pass attempts "We turned the ball over and didn't take ‘ ng 14-ya- rd it 42-- 0 ’ Mitch MascanVHerald Journal USU wide receiver Jerome Eason hauls in a touchdown pass in front of Arkansas State's Lamar Lee Saturday afternoon V v USUs final score came after safety Joe Lindsay intercepted a pass and returned it 24 yards to the Indian 15 On the next play Bryan Black tossed a screen pass to Stallworth who 1 up a big bloct from offensive tackle IdPetm and was gone for the final score with 13:52 still left Nick George tod: over the deep snapping duties in a new formation that had punter Ben Chaet closer to die line and kicking on die run several times Chaet finished with a 399 yard average on seven punts with a long of 47 "Ben had an outstanding game" Dennehy said "I've said before he is a heck of an and did a nice job today" As did all of the Aggies Other game notes: Cooley extended his ' streak of catching at least two passes to 13 straight games but had his streak of at least four receptions end at nine games The Aggie defense held an opponent to less than 300 passing yards for the 1 1th straight game Aggie LB Jared Johnstun was taken to the ' hospital in the second quarter for precautionfor a possible cervical injury Tests ary were negative and he was released from the USLTs 49 points hospital Saturday evening 3 woe its most since beating Weber State in 2001 It was the most points against a Division 1 opponent since beating Idaho 63- 17 in 1997 Also the victory margin was the 16th largest in school history and fee largest since a 76-- 0 win against New Mexico Black a redshirt freshman State in 1964 had his second collegiate pass attempt intercepted but then came back and tossed a TD on his third attempt ’’ ' 48-ya-rd r " 6: -- st i That's how things went for the Aggies most : of the game "We had a little luck today" Dennehy said "When things aren't going well the ball seems J ' to bounce the wrong way When things are well it bounces it going your way Today bounced our way" Seven turnovers a blocked punt and no problems in the punting game certainly helped the Aggies seize control of this Sun Belt showdown between teams that entered the contest still alive in the league race USU turned Indian mistakes into 21 points y "We can't turn the ball over seven times give up big plays and have an opportunity to win" ASU head coach Steve Roberts said after watching his team get taken to die wood shed "If you look at the stats it definitely wasn't a 49--0 game" Maybenotlt could have been worse had v the Aggies not called off die dogs Aggie starting quarterback Travis Cox who attempts and passed for 260 yards on three touchdowns did not play in the final ' V quartet '"4tlwad nice tedayCox said "We had a ' It good game plan that everyone executed was just fun" USU starting tailback David Refia had just :! one cany in die fourth quarter rushing for 86 ' yards on 20 carries and two semes for the different Aggies caught passes game Eight ' led by wide receiver Chris Stallworth with three receptions for 68 yards and a score Tight end Chris Cooley (60 yards) and wide receiver Tony Penyman (24 yards) also had three catches each "There are not a lot of games where you can teams some get your second- - and third-un- it "It was time" said playing steady Dennehy nice to do that they played hard" USU finished with 366 yards of total offense (275 passing 91 rushing) while the Aggie defense turned in its second best out- holding ASU to ing of the year 272 yards of offense (158 passing 114 rushing) The Indians used two quarterbacks who with six intercepcombined went 1 With tions jS tarter Elliot Jacobs was two picks before getting pulled midway through the second quarter for sophomore Nick Noce who saw action for the first time ever collegiately Noce tossed four balls to the wrong jersey finishing with 121 yards on : RUSHING Antonio Warren 15 6 Chris Easley Shermar Bracey 7 9 NickNoce : 2 Elliot Jacobs - : 14-of-- 21 INDIANS ts j v' - y yard but to make it 0 less than four minutes in Then the Aggie defense got into the scoring action Free safety Terrance Washington came up with die first interception of die day and returned it 26 yards to paydirt fix a 14-- 0 lead with 10:23 left in die opening quarter "Coach put us in the right positions and we made plays" said Washington who had a team-beeight tackles "Our offense was V clicking our defense was dieting and special teams did well We just got back to basics and everything came together" A pass to Kenny Coleman set up the third Aggie score Cox then hit Cooley in stride who broke a tackle and picked up a big score and a block from Eason for a 21-- 0 lead after one period Linebacker Nate Fredrick blocked a punl which was recovered by Ryan Ifylor at die ASU 23 Three plays later Eason was catching TD strike from Cox to start the sec- a i ond quartet 'v USU made it 35-- 0 at the break when Fiefia followed fullback Trent Nate in from a yard ' Balanced lap"'-'- ' 1 ' ath-ile- te (advantage of opportunities when we had thenv" Roberts said "Give Utah State credit they took advantage of the opportunities they had They played real well and made big 1 plays when they had opportunities and we - didn’t" The whipping began after a shaky start1 USU fumbled die ball away on its first play from scrimmage Bui the Aggie D trotted on and held Arkansas State to 9 yards on four plays as strong safety Mike Rosep- crans came up with a big tackle on fourth-and-o- X-ra- ys ne i "We just had to adjusl step up and make a play" Watts said of the defense starting with its back against the wall again "We just went and played defense" Then the offense went to work scoring four touchdowns on its next six possessions "Early on we knew it was going to be a -good day even with the fumble" Cox said A Cox to Jerome Eason pass set up the game's first score Fiefia scored from a 56-4- : 49-poi- nt 47-ya- rd Noles deliver Bowden win No 339 Volunteers outlast Tide in 5'overtimes Northern Illinois deait first loss of year — By The Associated Press STAHDIIICS North Texas Middle Tenn Utah St Arkansas St Idaho N Mexico oe Utah Si Si Conference W L PF PA 0138 92 1 91 72 1104 47 3125167 2 51144 3 90114 3 94110 3110135 All W L Games PF PA 5 3 221 208 2 6 210 243 2 6 175 226 2 7 163 306 3 5 162 272 1 8 147 257 2 6 182 231 1 7 162 280 ed Saturday's Games 49 Arkansas Si 0 e 31 Idaho 20 North Texas 33 Middle Tennessee 28 14 New Mexico State 21 -4 Louisiana-Lafayett- Next Week's Games Middle Tennesse at Utah State Troy State at North Texas Arkansas State at New Mexico State at Southern Miss at Auburn Florida State’s Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history Saturday wife his 339th victory as the sixth-rankSeminoles captured at least a share of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship wife a 48-2- 4 victory over i Wake Forest in Tallahassee Fla The fans chanted "Bobby Bowden! Bobby Bowden!” and the coach was joined on the sidelines at the end of the game by his wife of 54 years Ann Bowden 339-97in 38 seasons as a head coach surpassed Joe Patcr-n- o whose Penn State team lost 26-1- 4 at Iowa Eddie Robinson has the overall college record with408 wins Bowden picked up 3 1 wins at Sam-for- d (Ala) College another 42 at West Virginia and is 266-65-- 4 since coming to Florida State in 1976 There wasn't much mystery in AP photo FSU coach Bobby Bowden gets doused with water by his players after becoming the career leader with 339 wins In Division FA football E Bowden’s record win as the Seminoles (7-- 1 6-built a 48-1- 7 lead as they ran their league record to 12-- 0 against fee Demon Deacons(4-- 4 2-Chris Rix scored on a run wife 1:38 left in the quarter as the Seminoles took a 10-- 7 lead and Leon Washington raced 65 yards wife a punt return less than two minutes later Washington set a school record with 159 yards on seven punt returns 0) 3) No 1 Oklahoma 34 Colorado 20 At Boulder Colo Jason White threw three touchdown passes to Mark Clayincluding a ton wife 1:59 left as the Sooners survived a scare The Sooners (8-- 0 4--0 Big 12) built a 27-- 7 third-quartlead before Colorado closed to 27-2- 0 wife two touchdowns in the fourth er er See TOP 25 on B8 |