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Show Let a Professional do your... 2005 PERSONAL TAX RETURNS "Student" Special Only Drop by or mail your info along with a check to: - Electronic Filing - 1 State Return - 1 0 4 0 Return - 2 W-2 s additional W-2's <2 each "EKttfe Sfeetyw S Associates, s£ .C. 13 ^ e t Cm Ho^ <u<u 753-5800 Georgia Tech to play Utah in Emerald Bowl in Calif. BY CHARLES O D U M The Associated Press ATLANTA - The announcement of Georgia Tech's ninth straight bowl bid didn't go over too well with the school's basketball fans. During a break late in the Yellow Jackets' 63-54 home basketball victory over Virginia Sunday came the announcement that Tech's football team will play Utah in the Emerald Bowl. The fans responded with loud boos. The reaction from Tech's players was more civil, though hardly enthusiastic. "Is it a new bowl?" asked senior safety Chris Reis. "Well, it's new to me." The Emerald Bowl is in its fourth season. Navy beat New Mexico in last year's game. The trip to San Francisco for the Dec. 29 game will be Tech's fourth bowl expedition west in the last five years. This year, Tech thought it had earned the right to play in a bowl game closer to home after beating two teams - Auburn and Miami - that finished the regular season in the top 10. Tech finished 7-4 and No. 24 with a close 14-7 loss to Georgia to end the regular season. Tech was thought to be in position for an invitation to the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn. Instead, the Music City Bowl invited a 6-5 Virginia team. Another 6-5 Atlantic Coast Conference team, North Carolina State, will play in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, N.C. "We had higher expectations as a team," said linebacker Gerris Wilkinson. "But we were able to keep our bowl streak going, so that's a good thing." Added Wilkinson: "We just tried to win as many games as we could. The rest is out of our control. We did all we could." GET A LIFE ... RES LIFE!! 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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT AARON FINLY 797-5497, aaron.finley@hfs.usu.edu USC, Texas finish ! where they started; BY R A L P H D. RUSSO The Associated Press For the second straight year, the two teams that started at the top of The Associated Press poll held those spots for the entire regular season. Southern California was No. 1 and Texas No. 2 on Sunday in the Top 25, just as they were in the preseason. USC received 56 first-place votes and 1,616 points, a day after winning its 34th straight game, 66-19 over UCLA. Southern California has been No. 1 for a record 33 straight polls. Texas got nine first-place votes and 1,569 points after beating Colorado 70-3 in the Big 12 title game, the Longhorns' 19th straight win. USC and Texas will play for the national title on Jan. 4 in the Rose Bowl. In 2004, USC and Oklahoma started and ended the regular season as Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, marking the first time in the seven-decade history of the media poll that the top two went through the regular season unchanged. But for one week last season, the Sooners were co-No. 2 along with Auburn. This season, USC and Texas have hardly been challenged \ for the top two spots. No other ( team has received a first-place J; vote during the season. \ Behind the Big Two, Penn i State, Ohio.State and Notre \ Dame rounded out the topfive.I Florida State was back in t the Top 25 after falling out \ last week for the first time in i four years. The 22nd-ranked [ Seminoles upset Virginia Tech, f 27-22, in the inaugural Atlantic: Coast Conference title game I Saturday. • Fresno State, which was No. | 16 after nearly upsetting USC i two weeks ago, fell out of the • rankings on the heels of a sec- , ond straight loss. The Bulldogs [ were beaten at home 40-28 by Louisiana Tech. The loss denied Fresno State a share of the | Western Athletic Conference } championship. f The Harris Interactive poll I had the same top five as the APi poll. In the USA Today coaches'! poll, the top four is the same as j the AP poll, but Oregon is No. t 5 instead of Notre Dame. ! Oregon is No. 6 in the AP j poll, the Ducks highest rankingj since finishing the 2001 season ! No. 2. ! USC FOOTBALL PLAYERS gather to watch a broadcast of BCS rankings Sunday in California. ^ACADEMICS From page 5 and have a schedule of approxi- studying on road trips for athmately 40 games, consisting letes is the same non-athletes of road games as well as home face on a road trip. games, and the team members Who wants to study on are asked to make the sacrifice vacation? without the opportunity to have "We try [to study], but most their schooling paid for. people don't. You could do it on the plane or you could do it "Some guys can do it all. They can do awesome in school in your hotel room, but most and hold a job and play hockey. of us just go out and have fun and don't really worry about it. But personally, hockey and school is all I can handle," USU And then when we come back, hockey player Roberto Leo said. we have a lot of work to do," freshman cross-country runner Leo said he thinks the time Todd Griffith said. "You worry commitment is a lot to expect more about your sport than without a scholarship and the school right then." hockey players would benefit academically But for the with fewer athletes, it practices. requires more dedication, "The "When you come home because with NCAA from practice ... the last the excepteams get tion of spring, money for thing on your mind is to Thanksgiving what they're do homework." and Christmas doing, so I break, the can underJohn Neil opportunities stand why ^Former USU for students to they practice Basketball Player go on a road every day," trip are very Leo said. minimal. But, "But we're a club team, so I think we could for athletes, it is a regular facet cut down on practicing a little." of their monthly schedule. "If you think about that, In addition to the time commitment, the physical nature of a basketball team will be on the road for 30 days out of the sports affects the athletes ability to perform in the classroom. semester. That's going to make "When you come home from a difference as far as their academic success goes," Neil said. practice and you're tired and Recognizing the challenge you just want to go to sleep and road trips pose to the athletes you're sore, the last thing on academically, the Utah State you mind is to do homework," volleyball team has instituted a former USU basketball player mandatory study hall for road John Neil said. trips. Neil, who was an Academic All-Big West selection while "Usually we have 9 a.m. playing basketball for Utah breakfast, then at 10, we have State, said coach Stew Morrill study hall and coach actually is one of the best coaches for goes to your room to see if i acknowledging the athletes' you're studying or not," Zuzanal commitment to academics. Cernianska, a senior on the vol-i leyball team, said. "Coach Morrill is pretty good about not letting us get But athletes do get help from burned out. Like at Utah when the university. It does a lot to Rick Majerus was there — I'm help the athletes succeed in the ; not going to say anything, but classroom with priority regisask Chris Huber about it sometration, free tutoring and all of time. He'll tell you about honthe athletes have said teachers ., estly spending 7-8 hours a day have been very understanding . just with basketball stuff" Neil and willing to work with them said. when they have road trips. 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