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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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GO TCY 2003: A child shall lead them
Welcome to the 2003 season. For a lovely recap of life in the basement in 2002, go here:
GO TCY 2002 2003 Offseason Reputation Check Academic: Fair (37), 108th 2002: Good (40), 98th Athletic: Good (54), 125th 2002: Good (57), 125th A slide downward in both instances. Not too good. Especially in the academic area. Got to get that boosted back up somehow. Staff Changes Marvin Abrams, Syndicate Coordinator, hired away by Maryland Danny Raaiola, 47, hired as replacement OLD: vg/vg/ex NEW: fr/pr/tf (decrease) Abrams and his great ratings bolted, leaving me scrambling for a replacement. Best I could come up with was Raaiola, who can bring in alumni dollars, but his other ratings are very meager by comparison. Troy Folsom, Offensive Coordinator, hired away by Texas-El Paso Jeremy Meraz, 35, hired as replacement OLD: fr/dc/ex/dc/pr/gd/fr/ex/vg NEW: ex/fr/pr/ex/lo/gd/fr/tf/ex (increase) Meraz looks to be a solid up-and-comer, which unfortuantely means he'll likely only be here a year or two. I really, really hate the fact that he has a "lousy" rating for QB development, but he's a much better game day coach and has a better personality, which hopefully will mean less "don't like your coordinator" messages from recruits. Dave Stump, Defensive Coordinator, fired Howard Mota, 55, hired as replacement OLD: vg/pg/gd/pg/pr/pr/lo NEW: tf/tf/vg/vg/tb/fr/pr (increase) After some wrangling, the one staff dismissal for 2003 was Dave Stump. I still wonder if I did make the right choice as Stump isn't too much worse than Mota, though Mota generally is an upgrade in all areas except DL development. After seeing how my scouts aged, I probably should have fired one of them. Andrew Creveling, 55, NW (Head) scout, retained OLD: tb/pr/pg/gd/fr/tf/pr/tb NEW: tb/pr/pg/gd/pr/tf/lo/tb (decrease) Adam Barber, 41, SW scout, retained OLD: pg/ex/lo/pr/pr/ex/pr/ex NEW: pg/ex/lo/lo/pr/ex/pr/ex (decrease) Matt Kinney, 76, MW scout, retained OLD: fr/dc/pr/tb/lo/pg/fr/vg NEW: fr/dc/pr/tb/lo/pg/fr/tf (decrease) Quentin Pribbenow, 42, DS Scout, retained OLD: ex/lo/lo/tb/lo/pr/tb/ex NEW: ex/lo/lo/lo/lo/pr/tb/ex (decrease) Al Mayes, 55, SE scout, retained OLD: fr/gd/tb/pr/gd/lo/tb/tb NEW: dc/gd/tb/pr/gd/lo/tb/lo (decrease) Rickey Escobar, 44, GL scout, retained OLD: vg/pg/dc/gd/vg/tb/tf/pr NEW: vg/pg/dc/pg/vg/tb/tf/pr (increase) Gino Frederick, 61, NE scout, retained OLD: dc/ex/ex/tf/lo/dc/pr/pg NEW: dc/ex/ex/tf/lo/dc/fr/pg (increase) Gene Bovee, 54, MA scout, retained OLD: pr/tb/pr/pg/fr/fr/ex/pr NEW: pr/tb/pr/pg/fr/fr/tf/pr (increase) Scouting group has gotten worse this year as four of the seven had at least one rating decrease. Creveling pretty much is on the chopping block for 2004 as having ratings like that for a head scout is appalling. The most frustrating aspect is the scouts for the regions I am likely to do most recruiting all experienced at least one drop in their ratings. The Graduating Class of 2002 Daniel Anderson, QB (3 GP, 1 GS, 28-45-253-1-0, 8-51-0 rush) Bob Garrison, QB (9 GP, 8 GS, 95-224-909-3-19, 53-(-57)-0 rush) Willie Conley, RB (10 GP, 5 GS, 42-340-2 rush, 8-23-0 recv) Bernard Reilly, WR (3 GP, 3 GS, 4-39-0 recv, 12-247-0 KR) Troy Barton, T (11 GP, 10 GS, 5-17 KRB, 7-247 SkA) Corey Thomas, P (9 GP, 67 punts, 1991 yards, 29.7 avg, 45 long, 6 inside 20) Lamar Bates, DE (4 GP, 3 GS, 4 tackles, 1 assist, 2.0 sacks, 2 TFL) Dwayne Paeth, DT (4 GP, 3 GS, 9 tackles, 5 assists, 1.5 sacks, 1 TFL) Junior Sherman, DT, graduated (1 GP, 0 GS, 1 tackle) Geoff Rice, OLB, graduated (5 GP, 2 GS, 6 tackles, 3 assists, 1 sack, 1 TFL) Non-graduate Departures Morris Newsome, WR, left due to injury (ACL damage to knee) (11 GP, 9 GS, 19-208-0 recv) Walt Williams, DE, kicked off team for taking money from a booster Welcome, Class of 2006 Class ranked #119, #4 in L&C Wally Bourgeois, WR, 6-0, 189, Coachella Valley HS in Thermal, CA Was rated a top 20 wide receiver in California...caught 56 passes for 1111 yards and 8 touchdowns his senior year at Coachella Valley HS...is projected as a starter as a freshman Lee Burks, DT, 6-5, 265, Lone Peak HS in Highland, UT Was a Top 20 overall recruit in Utah and #3 defensive tackle in that state...recorded 45 tackles and 9 sacks last year...won't start but will play as a freshman Mitch Fielder, QB, 6-2, 203, Central Valley HS in Central Valley, CA Is projected to step in and start right away for the Bobcats...completed 104 of 205 passes for 1593 yards and 7 touchdowns his senior season...also rushed for 689 yards and 6 scores on 137 attempts Darren Fulcher, S, 6-2, 195, Thompson Falls HS in Thompson Falls, MT Was selected to the Montana All-state team...rated national Top 100 safety, second in Montana, and an overall Top 20 in the state...made 51 tackles, 3 sacks, and 13 interceptions...played receiver in HS as well, catching 5 balls for 117 yards...will red-shirt the 2003 campaign Mo Garrison, OLB, 6-0, 200, Channelview HS in Channelview, TX Only incoming freshman from Texas...was rated Top 15 OLB in that state...made 79 tackles, 8.5 sacks, and 3 interceptions for Channelview...will red-shirt in 2003 Blake Gomez, OLB, 6-2, 215, Bozeman HS in Bozeman, MT Grew up in Bozeman and is one of three Montana recruits in the class...was rated a Top 25 prospect in Montana and third-best OLB in the state...registered 58 tackles, 5.5 sacks, and 4 interceptions his senior year...will be red-shirted this year Xavier Gowan, RB, 5-11, 190, Benson Polytechnic HS in Portland, OR All-state running back in Oregon...ranked as a Top 100 running back in the country and Top 20 in the state of Oregon overall...was rated best running back in Oregon his senior season...rushed 228 times for 1217 yards and 35 touchdowns in 2002...also caught 35 balls for 492 yards and 4 touchdowns...is expected to red-shirt in 2003 Sedrick Haggans, DE, 6-6, 253, Henley HS in Klamath Falls, OR Rated Top 50 overall in Oregon and #5 among Oregon DEs...made 51 tackles and 5.5 sacks and even had an interception last season...will be red-shirted for 2003 Brock Harmon, OLB, 5-11, 180, Upper Perkomian HS in Pennsburg, PA Selected to Pennsylvania's All-state team...ranked Top 100 nationally at OLB, Top 50 overall in Pennsylvania, and #5 OLB from that state...made 93 tackles, 6.5 sacks and picked off 5 passes in 2002...is expected to see playing time in 2003 as backup OLB Brett Heath, G, 6-3, 277, El Camino Real HS in Woodland Hills, CA Rated Top 20 at his position in California...will red-shirt in 2003 Zach Hughes, OLB, 5-11, 226, South Albany HS in Albany, OR One of three Oregon All-state players in this year's class...Montana State's only national Top 1000 recruit...national Top 50 OLB, #10 player in Oregon, and rated best OLB in the state in 2002...made 84 tackles, 7.5 sacks, and 4 interceptions last year...is likely to start as a freshman in 2003 Johnny Lusk, T, 6-3, 263, Canyon Springs HS in Moreno Valley, CA One of five Bobcat recruits from California...will red-shirt in 2003 Moe Rodriquez, P, 5-11, 192, Mission Viejo HS in Mission Viejo, CA Only special teams player in this year's class...a national Top 100 punter and Top 20 in California...made 47 punts and had a 40.57 average his senior season...will red-shirt unless starter Bryce Gunn goes down with injury Donnie Straight, S, 6-0, 174, Franklin HS in Portland, OR An Oregon All-state safety his senior year...was also rated national Top 100 at safety...rated a Top 25 player in Oregon and #1 safety in the state in 2002...made 65 tackles, 5 sacks and intercepted 13 passes in 2002...will likely start as a true freshman this season Bill Thompson, FB, 5-9, 203, Henry Foss HS in Tacoma, WA National Top 100 fullback, Top 50 overall in Washington, and #2 fullback in the state last year...rushed 56 times for 250 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2002...also caught 29 passes for 495 yards and two scores...will red-shirt in 2003 Joe Torres, CB, 6-0, 181, Whitefish HS in Whitefish, MT Is the other Montana All-state player in this class...rated Top 50 in the state and #2 cornerback in Montana in 2002...had 35 tackles, 5 sacks, and 11 interceptions for Whitefish HS his senior year...may step in and start right away in 2003 Schedule Making (Louisiana-Lafayette and Ball State permanent) at Virginia Tech, Week 2 (away only 2003) at Washington, Week 3 (away only 2003) I've basically made a rule that in order to get home games with anyone, I have to at least rate somewhere close to or above them in the rankings. Being #124 in 2002 means basically the only team I could have had for a home-and-home was Connecticut. So, that means two road games. I chose VaTech and Washington because I have seniors on the roster from those locations. I would like to be able to play away games near the homes of players I have on my roster if possible. 2003 Montana State Bobcats Roster *Note: the numerical categories after height and weight are the player's ratings this year and then last year for comparison. The decimal number is the average of their individual ratings. For freshmen, their only rating from the prior year is their scout potential. Quarterbacks (scout is terrible) Code:
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Recruiting Needs for 2003 With the imposed 60 scholarship limit, we only have 10 scholarships to give in 2003, so we will be concentrating on replacing a few losses and answering needs in some areas. Particular need areas are all line positions on both sides of the ball and inside linebacker. We will also recruit another QB as Weber's graduation in 2004 will leave us with just two. If we land one, he'll likely redshirt unless he's vastly superior to Fielder. We'd also like to add another receiver to go with Bourgeois. That leaves one scholarship open to give to whomever we can get that may be good. To give ourselves a more realistic chance, we're only going to consider "blue" and "green" prospects initially, and perhaps pursue "reds" or "blacks" later if no one has shown interest and our initial targets look to be falling through. Early examination of the HS class of 2003 shows that the talent pool in the Northwest doesn't seem to be as good as last year (indeed, a check of Top 1000 recruits in each Northwest state reveals that not only are there fewer Top 1000s total in the Northwest, the average rank of Top 1000 players is lower than it was in 2002). There are a few Montana State idolizers, but none of them are worth pursuing. The really big news is that the #3 player in all of America is a "green" prospect. He is an ILB from New York. It's a longshot, but worth the risk. Even so, I'll be peering around the west looking for another candidate. Predicted Lewis & Clark Order of Finish (based on average of voter polls) 1 MSU-Northern 2 Montana-Western 3 Montana Tech 4 Great Falls 5 Montana 6 Helena 7 MSU-Billings 8 Montana State Last edited by Wolfpack : 03-22-2003 at 09:11 PM. |
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03-22-2003, 09:07 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Around the Nation in 2003
Coaches Preseason Top 25 Code:
Top 10 Recruiting Classes, based on average of recruit rankings Code:
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03-22-2003, 11:34 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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wow....i am loving this, expecially your last post...really immerses me in the game world!!! Bravo, and a great rookie effort!
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Underachievement The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower. Despair It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. Demotivation Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. http://www.despair.com/viewall.html |
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03-23-2003, 05:05 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 1
Upcoming Opponent None, bye week Coaches Top 25 Code:
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In-home (Northwest) Alston (--), Bautista (-), Blake (+), Covington (+), Fuller (++), Gildon (-), W. Hall (-), Rodriguez (+) Phone calls Cummins, Curtis, Elliott, H. Hall, Ivy, Joslin, Langton, McCormack, Messer, Richard The big fish is Langton and surprisingly he's receptive to our contact, though distance will be a difficult thing to overcome. His receptiveness means we'll pay a visit next week. Elsewhere, we in-home with several Northwest candidates and phone recruits in the Southwest and Northeast, giving ourselves reasons to visit those areas. Our backslide in academics is having an impact as several recruits voice displeasure at our standing. (Several recruits unfortunately had high emphasis on academics) We get the feeling this is going to be a difficult year from a recruiting standpoint. Game Time None, bye week Coaches Top 25 (12) Kansas State 20, (4) Penn State 17 All-American kicker Clyde Biakabatuka hit a game-winning 25-yard field goal with :53 left to help Kansas State upset #4 Penn State in Happy Valley (9) Notre Dame 27, LSU 3 Notre Dame's defense held LSU to 148 total yards and Darnell Chitwood returned a punt 74 yards as the ninth-ranked Irish routed LSU in South Bend (14) Maryland 37, Illinois 15 Daniel Jordan rushed for one score and caught another, while Daniel Coleman intercepted and returned an Illini pass 78 yards for a touchdown as the Terrapins rolled past Illinois on the road (17) Tennessee 41, San Jose State 0 Tyrus Ding threw for 173 yards and three touchdowns and the Volunteer defense produced a shutout as #17 Tennessee thumped the visiting Spartans in Knoxville (21) Auburn 28, (20) Wisconsin 14 Riddick Tharpe completed 23 of 32 passes for 329 yards and two scores to lead the Tigers to a home win over Top-20 foe Wisconsin (25) Syracuse 10, Tulane 7 The Orangemen scored the only touchdown of the game on a four-yard run by Louie Godfrey with 11:25 left in the fourth as Syracuse struggled to defeat the Green Wave in the Carrier Dome Scores of Interest Missouri 20, Montana-Western 10 The Tigers slogged their way past a determined Bulldog squad in rainy Columbia, despite 102 yards from Bulldog rusher Mike Mason Oregon 45, NC State 16 Oregon picked off five NC State passes and Shawn Singletary rushed 31 times for 144 yards to help the Ducks dominate the visiting Wolfpack Players of the Week Offense: Lee Richard, QB, Kansas, 20-25-333-4-0 Defense: Robert Stewart, DE, Notre Dame, 7 tck, 2 ast 4.0 sck Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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03-23-2003, 05:17 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Oh, yeah. One other thing. You think that the national post was immersive. I had a grand notion to do a total "preview" of each Top 25 team as well as teams in my conference, detailing roster departures, expected starting lineups, and the like. I ultimately abandoned it because it would have been too time consuming in comparison to time actually spent playing the game. I'm just hoping I can get some conveyence of the national teams and national stars across during the course of the season. I'm still thinking of creating some kind of Heisman watch list, based on statistical leaders, that will start sometime around week four. I want this dynasty to be a shimmery, vague reflection of the universe we reside in.
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03-23-2003, 11:04 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 2
Upcoming Opponent @ Virginia Tech (0-0, 0-0 BEC) Coaches Top 25 Code:
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In-home (Northeast) Curtis (+), Elliott (-), Fountaine (+), Ivy (+), Messer (-), Langton (++) Visit Offers Alston, Bautista, Cummins, Gildon, H. Hall, W. Hall, McCormack, Richard Phone calls Baker, Blake, B. Covington, R. Covington, Fuller, Irwin, Joslin, Rodriguez, Shelby, Sinclair Langton is an absolute monster. Too bad Michigan is already all over him. It was a nice thought while it lasted. I'll still press ahead with his recruitment, making an offer in due time, but I seriously doubt he'd take it. Anyway, swung through the Northeast, visiting recruits called last week and unearthed a new one. Also added some new contacts by phone in the Southwest. The Northwest is definitely looking thin this year. Game Time Virginia Tech 52, Montana State 7 TECH GOBBLES UP BOBCATS Blacksburg, VA--Year two of the Norwood Longview era got off to the same rough start that his first year had. Longview's Montana State Bobcats were rudely thrashed by Virginia Tech 52-7 in the opener for both squads at rainy Lane Stadium. "Those turnovers at the start killed us," said Longview. He was referring to a muffed opening kickoff, a fumble on the next possession, and a blocked punt on the possession after that which the Hokies converted into 21 points by the 5:27 mark of the first quarter, effectively settling the matter just as the crowd of 43,800 had finally gotten to their seats. "Still, we did alright considering. Fielder and Bourgeois I thought did a pretty good job for their first time out." Mitch Fielder, the freshman quarterback from Central Valley, California, completed 9 of 23 passes for 124 yards before being relieved in the third by Louis Weber. Bourgeois, another California freshman, caught 5 balls for 64 yards. While Montana State struggled, Virginia Tech cruised. VT quarterback Sedrick Morey was efficient in dissecting the Bobcat defense, completing 13 of 20 passes for 152 yards and 4 scores against one interception, which was made by another Montana State rookie, Donnie Straight. His backup, Blake Dwyer, also got in on the act during garbage time, hitting on 6 of 9 passes for 72 yards and two scores. Two Tech receivers, Leonard Foreman (6-80-2) and Kerry Cossaboom (2-12-2) each caught two touchdowns. Lionel Franz had a rough homecoming. Franz, who is from nearby Roanoke, only managed 6 yards on four carries during the game. Alvin Rohr lead Bobcat rushers with 64 yards on nine carries. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 59, New Mexico 0 The defending champions started 2003 in record fashion, piling up 691 yards of total offense while holding the visiting Lobos to just 47 in the 59-0 hammering (2) Florida 60, Idaho 7 Ricky Alston passed for 247 yards and four touchdowns as #2 Florida began their quest for the national title with a 60-7 hammering of Idaho at The Swamp (4) Nebraska 37, Central Michigan 0 Walt Everett rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns and Jessie Mason caught 5 passes for 122 yards as the Cornhuskers shut out the visiting Chippewas in Lincoln (5) Oklahoma 87, Akron 7 William Dorash caught 11 passes for a record 250 of Oklahoma's 590 passing yards as Oklahoma set a modern-day record for points and passing yards in a game by hanging 87 on the hapless Zips in Norman (7) Miami 30, (22) Washington 7 Casey Fortney passed for 204 yards and a touchdown as the visiting Canes easily dispatched the #22 Huskies (8) Penn State 27, Pittsburgh 3 #8 Penn State bounced back from last week's loss by drubbing in-state rival Pittsburgh in Happy Valley, paced by Craig Hansen's 129 yards rushing and two scores, including a 49 yard rumble in the third quarter (9) Alabama 52, Southern Mississippi 21 Calvin Morton rushed for 180 yards and a score and caught five passes for 82 yards, while Kenny Allen passed for 276 yards and three touchdowns to lead the visting Tide in a 52-21 romp over Southern Miss (10) Notre Dame 45, (20) Purdue 0 Tyrus O'Donnell began his 2003 Heisman campaign in earnest, going 18 of 26 for 287 yards and three scores as the Irish dominated Purdue in South Bend (11) Texas A&M 44, Wake Forest 7 The Aggies opened their 2003 season with a 44-7 demolition of Wake Forest at Kyle Field, lead by Seth Davison's 137 yards rushing and a stifling defense that held the Deacons to just 79 total yards on the afternoon (12) Ohio state 17, (17) Auburn 10 Winston Stanford ran eight yards for the go-ahead score with 6:06 left as the Buckeyes downed previously unbeaten Auburn in a rainy morass in Columbus (13) Maryland 51, Western Michigan 0 Terrapin QB Stephen Berry connected on a sizzling 14 of 17 passes for 221 yards and two scores as Maryland thrashed the visiting Broncos at Byrd Stadium (14) Texas 27, North Carolina 20 Marlon Rayfield caught five balls for 91 yards and a score as the Longhorns rolled past the Tar Heels in the opener for both squads (15) Colorado 28, Colorado State 17 Defending Big XII champion Colorado won their second straight game against in-state rival Colorado State in Boulder behind 152 yards and two rushing touchdowns by Jerome Ross (16) Tennessee 33, Miami (OH) 7 #16 Tennessee has half their win total of 2002 with a 33-7 rout of visiting Miami of Ohio behind the stellar play of Kenneth Wilburn, who caught 7 balls for 129 yards and two touchdowns (18) Stanford 62, Eastern Michigan 7 Dominic Vance outgained the entire Eastern Michigan team 266-233 and outscored them 18-9 as the Cardinal plastered the visiting Eagles in Palo Alto (19) Clemson 35, Baylor 7 Matthew Lee single-handedly carried Clemson, throwing for 205 yards and a score and rushing for 94 yards and another score as the Tigers defeated the visiting Bears at Death Valley (21) UCLA 56, NC State 27 Robbie Sheldon rushed 19 times for 110 yards and three touchdowns as the visiting Bruins thrashed the Wolfpack in Carter-Finley Stadium (23) Syracuse 27, Iowa 6 Louie Godfrey rushed for 205 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries, leading the Orangmen past the Hawkeyes in Syracuse Other Scores of Interest Great Falls 31, Alabama-Birmingham 29 Chris Ratcliff rushed for 198 yards and three scores as the Argonauts recorded their first-ever out-of-conference win by surviving a failed two-point attempt by the Blazers with 4:27 left Marshall 38, Montana 7 Deon Miller rushed 24 times for 127 yards and two touchdowns to pace Marshall past the Grizzlies in Missoula MSU-Billings 22, Arkansas State 21 Quentin Karl recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown with 2:44 left to cap a Yellowjacket rally from a 21-6 deficit in the last ten minutes of the game as MSU-Billings recorded their first-ever out-of-conference win over the visiting Indians Army 20, Helena 17 Rich Gaylor passed for 343 yards and two scores and Tony Metzler kicked a 32-yard field goal with 5:35 left to give Army a tough 20-17 victory over visiting Helena Washington State 55, MSU-Northern 3 Marshall Fisher caught 8 balls for 162 yards and a score to lead the Cougars past visiting MSU-Northern Virginia 26, Montana-Western 21 Joseph Garrett rushed for 155 yards and a score and caught 7 passes for 90 yards and another score to lead the homestanding Cavaliers past a determined Montana-Western squad at Scott Stadium Players of the Week Offense: Bruce Borders, RB, Air Force, 39-234-3 Defense: Kim Fox, Utah State, 10 tck, 3 ast, 3.5 sck Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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03-24-2003, 12:36 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Keep up the good work. I am a Miami Hurricane fan so I like the top 25 weekly wrapup. I can follow my team while reading about yours. Good job.
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03-24-2003, 04:58 PM
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Bonafide Seminole Fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Miami
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Just jumping in to let you know that I'm reading this dynasty.
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03-25-2003, 07:24 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 3
Vital Statistics Code:
Casualty List Aaron Theriot, DE, P-?, Turf Toe Upcoming Opponent Code:
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In-home (Southwest) Baker (+), Cummins (+), H. Hall (+), Irwin (--), Joslin (++), McCormack (+), Richard (+) Visit Offers R. Covington, Curtis, P. Elliott, Fountaine, Ivy, Langton, Messer, Sinclair Phone calls Alston, W. Elliott, Fuller, W. Hall, Hopkins, Humphrey, Jarvis, Prescott, Rodriguez, Shelby A trip through the Southwest reveals some generally good prospects. A visit offer is extended to Langton and several other Northeast prospects. At this point, we have scholarships to offer, but since I only have 10 total, we are hard pressed to give scholarships to the players I've presently visited as none of them are impressive. We will likely start handing out offers next week with Langton first on the list. We add several more Northeast contacts to the list at positions we only have a couple of contacts for at present. Game Time Washington 49, Montana State 0 HUSKIES BURY BOBCATS Seattle, WA--This one was ugly. The Montana State Bobcats bravely ventured into Husky Stadium and three hours later walked out with a 49-0 spanking at the hands of the twenty-third ranked Huskies. "They just toyed with us," said Bobcat head coach Norwood Longview afterwards. "Our offense was ineffective, our defense was ineffective. Was there anything we were effective at?" The Bobcats could only manage 127 yards of offense while Washington rolled up 428. No one player dominated the game for the Huskies. Rather it was a group effort. Lonnie Schraeder rushed 13 times for 84 yards and three scores and Joe Cassidy rushed 17 times for 96 yards and a score. Passing, Kris Bradley (8-11-129-2-0) barely worked up a sweat as his line held the Bobcats without a sack and he threw timely passes though they were few. Mitch Fielder and Wally Bourgeois both made their second starts as freshmen and both were clearly playing like freshmen. Fielder completed just 3 of 8 passes for 15 yards before being relieved just before halftime. Bourgeois was held to just 1 catch for four yards after getting six balls last week. One bright spot was the play of another freshman, Brock Harmon, who set a team record with 14 tackles despite coming off the bench. "We are going to have some growing pains," said Longview, "but it does look like we have some potentially great players." On the ground, Lionel Franz again struggled, gaining only 13 yards on four carries. Alvin Rohr, meanwhile, put up decent numbers in garbage time, getting 56 yards on nine carries. Washington put the game away early, scoring touchdowns on each of its first five possessions of the ball game to go up 35-0 by the 3:36 mark of the second quarter. By contrast, MSU managed 65 yards of offense during that same stretch, punted four times, and was intercepted once. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 51, (8) Notre Dame 10 Jose Steiner passed for 331 yards and five touchdowns as Michigan surprisingly routed Notre Dame in Ann Arbor (3) Florida State 31, (11) Alabama 28 FSU scored 31 unanswered points after falling behind 14-0 and then held on to win as Shawn Fitzgerald's 42-yard attempt to tie the game missed with just :21 left (4) Nebraska 27, Arizona 24 Nebraska fell behind 24-7 before scoring 20 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, including the game-winner, a 36 yard field goal by Kenneth Kapp as time expired to enable the Huskers to escape Tucson with the win (5) Miami 45, Southern Methodist 0 The fifth-ranked Hurricanes dominated SMU though a 6-0 halftime advantage did not show it as Miami held the Ponies to just 98 yards of total offense for the game (6) Oklahoma 62, Tulsa 10 OU QB Dexter Fierro tied a national record with 7 touchdown passes and ultimately threw for 422 yards as the Sooners buried the in-state visitors, whose only touchdown came on a 104 yard kickoff return by Jessie Peterson in the fourth quarter (7) Kansas State 41, Southern Mississippi 13 #7 Kansas State continues to impress, blasting USM in Manhattan behind 118 yards and three touchdowns on the ground from running back Teddy Lawler (9) Penn State 49, (18) Clemson 7 Craig Hansen rushed for 101 yards and a score and caught another pass for a touchdown and the Penn State defense held the visiting Tigers to 136 yards of total offense as the Nittany Lions won its second straight (10) Ohio State 38, (19) UCLA 17 Winston Adamov had seven receptions for 155 yards and 3 touchdowns, including two scores in a 21-point second quarter outburst by the Buckeyes to bury the Bruins at the Rose Bowl (12) Texas A&M 55, Nevada 0 Aggie running back Seth Davis rushed 23 times for 178 yards and three touchdowns as the Aggies crushed the visiting Wolf Pack in College Station (13) Texas 73, Louisiana Tech 0 Marlon Rayfield had 6 catches for 124 yards and a score, Alex Guenther had 5 catches for 121 yards and three scores, two Longhorn quarterbacks passed for over 200 yards, and the Longhorn offense as a whole racked up 666 yards in destroying Louisiana Tech in Austin (14) Maryland 41, West Virginia 14 The home-standing Terrapins spotted West Virginia a 14-3 first quarter lead before outscoring the Mountaineers 38-0 in the last three quarters (15) Colorado 33, Houston 3 The Buffaloes had a difficult time with the visiting Cougars leading only 12-0 after three before burying Houston with a 21-point fourth quarter (16) Stanford 65, San Jose State 13 The Cardinal piled up 614 yards of total offense with Dominic Vance rushing for three scores and 121 yards on 16 carries while holding the home-standing Spartans to just 164 in the 65-13 demolition (20) Mississippi 48, Arkansas State 14 Ole Miss got 2003 off on a good foot as Sammie Blanchard rushed 29 times for 194 yards and two touchdowns as the Rebels thumped the Indians in Jonesboro (24) Syracuse 16, (21) Auburn 14 Syracuse lead 13-0 going into the fourth quarter only to see the host Tigers score two touchdowns to erase the deficit but ultimately triumphed on a 50-yard field goal by Neal Weaver with 2:14 left (22) Purdue 38, Northern Illinois 10 The Boilermakers bounced back from their defeat to Notre Dame by whipping visiting Northern Illinois 38-10 behind the one man attack of Gene Durham, who rushed for 118 yards and caught passes for 106 yards and two scores (25) Wisconsin 24, Oregon 14 Ian Dawson passed for 208 yards and two touchdowns as the Badgers rebounded from their season-opening loss by dumping the Ducks in Madison Other Scores of Interest MSU-Billings 33, New Mexico State 21 Gilbert Decker set a new national record with 13 receptions, picking up 193 yards, while his quarterback Devin Weaver passed for 273 yards and rushed for 192 yards and two scores as the Yellowjackets picked up back-to-back non-conference wins for the first time in school history Wyoming 55, Montana Tech 7 Jimmie Daniels passed for 340 yards and three touchdowns to spark the visiting Cowboys in a rout of Montana Tech in Butte Louisiana-Lafayette 38, Helena 21 Britt Burks completed 27 of 46 passes for 286 yards and 4 touchdowns as Louisiana-Lafayette scored 17 unanswered points to break open a 21-21 game in the second half Alabama-Birmingham 41, Montana 20 Ray Weikel carried the ball 23 times for 153 yards and three scores in guiding the Blazers past the visting Grizzlies Fresno State 41, MSU-Northern 10 Jerry Boothe rushed 24 times for 164 yards and a score and the Fresno State defense held the Lights to 145 total yards in a cold rain in Havre Players of the Week Offense: Dexter Fierro, QB, Oklahoma, 29-39-422-7-1 Defense: Clay Brandon, DE, Buffalo, 6 tck, 2 ast, 5.0 sck Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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03-26-2003, 08:46 PM
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Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 4
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Casualty List Aaron Theriot, DE, P-?, Turf Toe JC Pourdenash, G, P-?, Turf Toe (NEW) Other News Barry Lapointe, WR, wants a scholarship based on his current playing time Upcoming Opponent None, bye week Coaches Top 25 Code:
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In-home (Southwest) Cunningham (+), Dawud (+), England (+), Humphrey (+), Oliver (++), Sinclair (-), South (--) Visit Offers Baker, FUller, Hopkins, Jarvis, Joslin, Prescott, Rodriguez, Shelby Offered Cummins, Curtis, Fountaine, H. Hall, Ivy, Langton, Richard Phone calls Alston, Bautista, Blake, B. Covington, R. Covington, P. Elliott, W. Elliott, Gildon, W. Hall, Irwin We put our first offers on the table to Langton and several others. Now we wait a few weeks to see what they'll do. We continue to scour the Southwest for prospects generally looked over by other teams and uncover some nice ones. The only problem is just about all the new contacts emphasis academics, something we don't have a good reputation for yet. Game Time None, bye week Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 55, Georgia 17 Jose Steiner passed for 272 yards and four touchdowns and Norm Page caught eight of those passes for 125 yards and two scores to pace top-ranked Michigan in a rout of the visiting Bulldogs[/i] (2) Florida State 42, (13) Texas 36 In what can only be described as a miracle, a hail mary pass from Horace Richmond skipped off two Texas defenders into the hands of Frankie Tyler who ran it into the end zone to complete an 85 yard touchdown pass play on the last play of the game, giving the #2 Seminoles one of the most improbable victories in college football history (3) Florida 25, (8) Ohio State 18 Ricky Alston passed for 301 yards and two touchdowns to rally the #3 Gators from a 12-0 deficit midway through the third quarter to down the Ohio State Buckeyes in Gainesville (4) Nebraska 48, Southern Mississippi 7 The Huskers piled up 622 yards of total offense, including 402 through the air, while holding the visiting Eagles to just 131 total yards on the day (5) Miami 24, Iowa State 21 Anthony Martinez plunged in from one yard out with 4:11 left and the visiting Hurricanes survived a missed 37 yard field goal attempt with :15 left to claim a victory over an upset-minded Iowa State squad (6) Oklahoma 52, Colorado State 24 The sixth-ranked Sooners surrendered a 21-7 first quarter lead, then ripped off 45 consecutive points to whip the visting Rams (9) Kansas State 33, Southern California 7 K-State QB Steve McKnight completed 18 of 28 passes for 363 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 33-7 drubbing of USC in Los Angeles (10) Notre Dame 87, Louisiana-Lafayette 3 The Irish took their frustration from last week's whipping at Michigan out on the visiting Cajuns, putting up 59 points in the first half en route to tying Oklahoma's single-game record of 87 points in a game Pittsburgh 31, (11) Texas A&M 17 Gary Cooper had 5 catches for 107 yards and two scores and Skip Weaver rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown as the Panthers upset #11 Texas A&M in Pittsburgh Arizona State 41, (12) Alabama 17 ASU's Spencer Howe returned a fumble 63 yards for a touchdown and the Sun Devil defense stymied the offense of the Tide and Heisman hopeful Kenny Allen as Arizona State surprisingly romped over Alabama in Tempe (22) Washington 31, (15) Colorado 24 (OT) Washington's Omar Malone kicked a 28-yard field goal with :22 left in regulation and the Huskies' Joe Cassidy caught a six-yard touchdown pass from Kris Bradley in the first OT, lifting Washington past the Buffaloes in Boulder (16) Stanford 55, Kent State 0 The Cardinal continued the domination of its non-conference slate with a dominating performance against Kent State, shutting the Flashes out and holding them to 149 yards of total offense for the game (18) Mississippi 34, North Carolina 7 The Ole Miss defense forced five turnovers, one a sixty-four yard fumble return for a touchdown by Vernon Fuller as the Rebels whipped the Tar Heels in a downpour in Chapel Hill (19) Purdue 30, Wake Forest 19 Harvey Baker caught six passes for 175 yards and the Boilermakers exploded for 27 points in the last 13:10 of the fourth quarter to overcome a 19-3 deficit and defeat the Demon Deacons in West Lafayette Arkansas 38, (21) UCLA 31 Razorback cornerback Sammie Broomfield returned two interceptions 67 and 90 yards for touchdowns and returned a kickoff 106 yards for another touchdown as Arkansas knocked off the visiting Bruins in Fayetteville (25) Wisconsin 27, Vanderbilt 7 The Badger defense smothered the Commodores, holding Vanderbilt to four total first downs and just 95 yards of offense and only 57 yards after Vandy's only touchdown at the 12:11 mark of the first quarter Other Scores of Interest New Mexico 38, Great Falls 35 New Mexico's Marty O'Donnell booted a 34-yard field goal as time expired to cap a remarkable 17-point rally by the Lobos in the final 4:03 that included a 78-yard drive that took 1:15, a fumble by Argo running back Chris Ratcliff on the very next play from scrimmage, another Lobo touchdown that took :26 seconds, and the game-winning field goal that resulted from a three-and-out on the last UGF possession Louisiana-Monroe 31, Montana-Western 14 Bulldog running back Mike Mason rushed for 101 yards but it wasn't enough to overcome the 401-yard, 4-touchdown passing effort of Dana Lane as the Indians triumphed in Monroe Utah 41, Helena 16 Utah's running back Myron Zorich outgained the entire Saints team 229-152 and outscored Helena 18-16 as the Utes jumped out to a 31-13 halftime edge and coasted to the win Navy 37, Montana 8 Navy running back Howie Pieper rushed for 125 yards and two touchdowns and caught another pass for a touchdown as the visiting Midshipmen hammered Montana in Missoula Arkansas State 41, MSU-Northern 14 Indians QB Quinn Horn completed 33 of 49 passes for 366 yards and three touchdowns as visiting Arkansas State kept the Lights winless in three contests this year Indiana 30, NC State 7 The Hoosiers sacked Wolfpack QB Mel Benton six times, contributing to a remarkable -32 net rushing yard total for NC State and IU running back Andrew Flowers rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns Players of the Week Offense: Dana Lane, QB, Louisiana-Monroe, 38-44-401-4-1 Defense: Sammie Broomfield, CB, Arkansas, 6 tck, 1 ast, 2 int Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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03-27-2003, 07:35 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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How does ASU ands Mizzou look this year....there my two squads, and with ASU handing it to Alabama i have to ask
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Underachievement The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower. Despair It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. Demotivation Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. http://www.despair.com/viewall.html |
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03-29-2003, 01:23 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 5
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Casualty List Aaron Theriot, DE, P-?, Turf Toe JC Pourdenash, G, P-?, Turf Toe Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home (Northeast) W. Elliott (+), Fountaine (RV), Hopkins (-), Jarvis (-), Langton (RV), Prescott (-) Visit Offers Blake, Cunningham, Dawud, England, Humphrey, Irwin, Oliver, South Offered Alston, Baker, Fuller, Joslin Phone calls R. Covington, Cummins, Curtis, P. Elliott, H. Hall, Ivy, Richard, Rodriguez, Shelby, Sinclair Four more offers go down. Many of our recruits are not impressing, making it difficult to put offers down on the table. We now have two QBs offered but we may be shopping again later, which isn't such a bad thing as we uncovered Fielder late in the recruiting process last year. We still hope against hope for Langton, but we begin to prepare for our eventual disappointment. Game Time MSU-Northern 38, Montana State 10 LIGHTS SACK BOBCATS Havre, MT--MSU-Northern recorded seven sacks of MSU QB Mitch Fielder and held the visiting Bobcats to 194 total yards as the Lights (1-3, 1-0 L&C) used a late surge to down Montana State 38-10 in Havre. The Bobcats fell to 0-3 and 0-1 in the L&C. "Mistakes killed us all day," said Bobcat coach Norwood Longview. "We didn't pass block well, we didn't tackle well, we didn't come up with a stop when we needed it, we didn't get a first down when we needed it. It's getting to be old." From an aethsetic point of view, the game was not a thing of beauty as penalties and turnovers abounded. The game started with an MSU interception of an MSUN pass on the opening drive, only to fumble it right back on the very next play. MSU did get ahead briefly after a four-play, 31-yard drive resulted in a 31 yard field goal by Kyle Garner with 7:49 left in the first. Then penalties fluttered in from all directions against the Bobcats. On the next possesion, an illegal contact flag gave MSUN a first down on 2nd-and-13, then MSU was nailed for spearing on 2nd-and-10. Eventually MSUN would capitalize with a short touchdown pass from Bryce Muirbrook (26-40-196-3-2) to Butch Wolfe (4-37-1) to make it 7-3 with 4:09 left in the first. The penalty parade continued as MSU was hit with an illegal block on the ensuing kickoff. A sack by MSUN contributed to a three-and-out and MSUN getting the ball back on its own 42. One the first play of the drive, MSU was hit with roughing the passer on a pass play gaining 21 yards, moving the ball to the MSU 22. MSU forced a fourth down, but a roughing the kicker penalty on the field goal attempt gave MSUN a first down at the MSU 8. The next play, another illegal contact penalty was called, moving the ball to the 4. Muirbrook would then connect with Deion Randle (4-30-1) on the last play of the quarter to make it 14-3 MSUN. "Those two drives with all those penalties, that's what put us behind the eight ball," said Longview. "Still our kids battled on and didn't give up." Both defenses stiffened up as neither team scored during the next two quarters, except for a Bert Shea field goal from 24 yards to put the Lights up 17-3 with 5:01 left in the second. Montana State caught a big break late in the third quarter when Pete Joseph made the second of two interceptions he made on the day to give MSU great field position at the MSUN 33. From there, freshman QB Mitch Fielder (13-25-125-1-1) got the Bobcats into the end zone, capping the drive with his first touchdown pass in a Bobcat uniform, a two yard pass to Barry Lapointe and the Bobcats closed to 17-10. The Bobcats forced a punt by MSUN, but failed to gain any yards on their next possession. After that, the roof caved in. MSUN scored touchdowns on three consecutive short-field possessions inside Bobcat territory while MSU managed just 7 plays and -11 yards over its intervening possessions, turning a 17-10 contest into a 38-10 rout. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (2) Florida 35, LSU 0 Deron Jenkins caught 6 passes for 101 yards and a touchdown as the Gators romped in its SEC opener against LSU in Baton Rouge (3) Florida State 35, Virginia 9 FSU WR John Lawrence had six receptions for 131 yards and a score as FSU overcame a mistake-filled game to dumped the Cavaliers in Charlottesville (4) Nebraska 41, Texas 3 Husker wideout Jerry Rivers made six catches for 132 yards and two touchdowns as Nebraska had a surprisingly easy time in the Big XII opener against Texas in Austin (5) Oklahoma 51, Kansas 21 OU QB Dexter Fierro continued his impressive passing display, connecting on 28 of 42 passes for 395 yards and five touchdowns against one interception as Oklahoma rolled past the visting Jayhawks (6) Miami 17, (12) Syracuse 3 Percy Lancaster rushed for 126 yards and scored on a 57-yard gallop with 5:17 left to put away #12 Syracuse in a pivotal Big East opening contest (7) Kansas State 52, Baylor 10 The homestanding Wildcats racked up 542 yards of offense, including 198 yards and two touchdowns on the ground by running back Teddy Lawler as K-State routed Baylor in the Big XII opener for both teams (8) Maryland 18, Duke 14 Maryland spotted Duke a 14-3 lead after three quarters before scoring 15 consecutive points in the fourth quarter take the lead and the win in Durham (9) Stanford 28, (19) Washington State 18 Stanford broke open a 14-10 contest with two touchdowns in two and a half minutes late in the fourth quarter to defeat the visiting Cougars despite being outgained 375-322 (11) Mississippi 34, (10) Tennessee 8 Rebel running back Sammie Blanchard rushed for 93 yards and three touchdowns as #10 Ole Miss routed #8 Tennessee in Oxford (13) Arkansas 31, South Carolina 24 (OT) Razorback kicker Norm Rivers booted a 49-yard field goal with 1:09 left to force overtime, Randall Rose caught a 25-yard pass on the first play in OT, and the Razorback defense did not allow a first down on the Gamecock possession to claim a tough win in Columbia (14) Utah 42, UNLV 10 Ute RB Myron Zorich rushed for 131 yards and two touchdowns as Utah scored 14 points in each of the first three quarters to defeat UNLV in Las Vegas Southern California 17, (15) Oregon State 14 USC linebacker Buddy McConnell made 15 tackles, four sacks, and an interception as the Trojans knocked off #15 Oregon State in Los Angeles Pittsburgh 40, (16) Boston College 39 Cris Taylor connected with Brenden Schrock for an 11-yard touchdown pass with 1:36 remaining as the Panthers took down their second ranked team of the season in a classic see-saw affair in Boston Rutgers 14, (17) Virginia Tech 10 In perhaps the biggest upset of the season thus far, the Scarlet Knights held on with timely defense and a time-consuming drive late in the fourth quarter to stun #17 Virginia Tech in spite of being outgained 375-190 (20) Penn State 35, Minnesota 9 PSU RB Craig Hansen rushed for 175 yards and four touchdowns as the Nittany Lions routed the homestanding Gophers (21) Mississippi State 51, Vanderbilt 3 Bulldog running back Billy Joe Farley rushed for 149 yards and a touchdown and MSU's defense held the Commodores to 105 yards in the 51-3 demolition in Starkville Colorado State 20, (22) Air Force 13 (23) Marshall 28, Northern Illinois 7 The twenty-third ranked Thundering Herd trailed 7-0 at the half before erupting for 14 points in both the third and fourth quarters to down Northern Illinois in Huntington (25) Texas A&M 52, Missouri 10 A&M's Rusty Windham opened the game with a 101-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and Heisman Trophy candidate Amos McCloud had an efficient 10-of-12, 116-yard, two-touchdown passing performance in limited duty as the Aggies buried the Tigers in College Station Other Scores of Interest MSU-Billings 17, Montana Tech 16 The Yellowjackets remained the only unbeaten team in the L&C as Devin Weaver passed for 212 yards and two touchdowns as MSUB held off Montana Tech in Billings Montana-Western 41, Great Falls 3 Bulldog QB Carl Rose passed for 246 yards and two touchdowns and Mike Mason had another 100-yard rushing game, going for 104 yards and a score as the Bulldogs buried the Argonauts in Great Falls Helena 21, Montana 14 Saints defensive lineman Jay McElroy racked up 14 tackles and two-and-a-half sacks as Helena stopped two potential game-tying drives deep in Helena territory to defeat the Grizzlies in Missoula NC State 21, Clemson 9 Clemson's season-long slide from the nation's elite continued as Dwight Dodge caught an 11-yard pass from Mel Benton to seal the game late in the fourth for the previously winless Wolfpack Players of the Week Offense: Craig Hansen, RB, Penn State, 35-175-4 Defense: Buddy McConnell, OLB, Oregon State, 15 tck, 4.0 sck, 1 int MSU nominated: Pete Joseph, ILB, 10 tck, 1 ast, 2 int Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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03-29-2003, 01:50 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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blade: Arizona State has moved up to #19 in the Coaches Poll for Week 6. They had week 5 off. They're 3-0 with the other two wins against SDSU and Miami (OH). They have six Coaches top 50 opponents in the Pac-10 schedule, though all of them are at Alabama's rank or worse and they don't play Stanford (the top Pac-10 team) this year, so they have a good shot at the BCS if they keep things going.
As for Missouri, as noted above, they got plastered by A&M to fall to 3-1. Before that, they beat Montana-Western, Ohio, and Michigan State in Lansing. They have a tough row to hoe ahead as only Baylor is not among the top 50 in the Coaches Poll and they have to play Nebraska (#4 currently) and K-State (#7 currently) on the road. Minor bowl, possibly. |
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03-29-2003, 09:30 PM
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Pro Rookie
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Location: Raleigh, NC
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Week 6
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In-home (Mid-Atlantic) Alson (-), Clemons (-), Edens (--), Fulton (-), Harris (-), Phillips (+) Visit Offers W. Elliott Offered Humphrey, McCormick, Oliver, South Phone calls Alston, Baker, Cummins, Curtis, Fountaine, Fuller, H. Hall, Ivy, Langton, Richard Committed Elsewhere Calvin Joslin, WR, CA, commits to San Jose State Some more offers put on the table. We hear of the first of our targets going elsewhere as Joslin stays home. As a result, we shift our WR offer to South, whom we weren't impressed with in person, but his statistics are the best of any receiver we're recruiting. We also begin working on backup plans by checking out a new region, primarily for a QB that hasn't had much interest yet. The recruits we check aren't impressive, save an ILB that may be of some consideration if future events warrant. Game Time RECORD-BREAKING HEARTBREAK Muncie, IN--Bobcat records fell by the boatload. The offense racked up yards. The defense stuffed the opposition numerous times. Montana State played perhaps its best game in the entire Norwood Longview tenure and it still wasn't enough. The Bobcats fell to Ball State 21-17 in Muncie to drop to 0-4 for 2003. "We did very well today, but there are things we have to learn how to do," said coach Longview afterwards. "One thing is to cut down on the penalties. That hurt us more than anything else this game." The Bobcats racked up a whopping 18 penalties for 161 yards, many coming at the most incovenient times. MSU quarterback Mitch Fielder (16-32-221-2-1) and wide receiver Wally Bourgeois (8-128-2), both freshmen, set various records for passing and receiving. In addition the Bobcats set a record for total offense with 363 yards and total defense with 232. Both teams started well as each team scored on the first two possessions of the game. Ball State started with a 10-play, 64-yard drive that was finished by a 25 yard touchdown run by Leonard Wolfe (11-107-2). On that drive, the Bobcats were hit with two penalties and the loss of leading tackler Zach Hughes, a freshman. Hughes was later diagnosed with a pulled quadriceps and is expected to be out a month or more. The Bobcats responded well, as a good mix of running and passing lead eventually to a 26-yard touchdown pass from Fielder to Bourgeois to tie it up at 7 with 5:35 left in the first quarter. The Cardinals got the next break in the second quarter when Mitch Fielder had a pass picked off at the MSU 41 and returned to the 26. From there, Ball State pushed the ball down the field and into the end zone, capping the short drive with a one-yard plunge by Wolfe to go up 14-7 with 7:10 left in the half. The Cardinals then forced a three-and-out and got the ball back on their own 43 with 5:10 left. After a short gain on first down, Wolfe broke loose for 53 yards off the left side of the line before being tackled at the Bobcat 1. Three plays later, Leon Duran (16-26-135-1-0) completed a short pass to Morris Martin (4-18-1) for a touchdown and Ball State enlarged its lead to 21-7, which remained the score until halftime. Neither team accomplished much in the third quarter as Montana State was beset by its penalty problems and Ball State could not move the ball against the Bobcat defense. Montana State got the ball early in the fourth quarter at its own 27. The drive started inauspiciously with a delay-of-game penalty, but the Bobcats responded. Fielder hit Bourgeois on two long completions in a row, one for 36 yards, one for 28 yards. Lionel Franz (15-79-0) then ran off right guard for 11 yards to put the ball at the Ball State 3. From there Fielder went back to Bourgeois again for the short touchdown pass and MSU drew to 21-14. The Bobcats forced a three-and-out on the next drive and capitalized by moving the ball down the field to the Ball State 23 before settling for a Kyle Garner 40-yard field goal to narrow the lead to 21-17. Ball State would dodge a bullet on the next possession when Duran was sacked and coughed up the ball at the Ball State 6 yard line, but a Cardinal player fell on it. MSU was not so fortunate when Fielder was sacked on the next possession and fumbled the ball at midfield, which Ball State recovered. Again, the Cardinals lucked up on the following possession when another Bobcat sack forced a fumble, only to have Ball State fall on it again. Ball State was unable to score on the drive, but they melted much of the clock away, eliminating any good chance Montana State had to rally for a winning touchdown. To add insult to injury, Bourgeois got hurt on the third-to-last play of the game. He has been diagnosed with a sprained back and is probably out a month. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 37, (12) Penn State 13 Jose Steiner passed for 358 yards and two touchdowns as the top-ranked Wolverines slogged their way past #12 Penn State in a heavy rain in Happy Valley[/i] (2) Florida 37, (16) Mississippi State 30 (2 OT) Wendell Charlton caught a 10 yard touchdown pass from Ricky Alston in the second overtime to lift #2 Florida past upset-minded Mississippi State in Gainesville, overcoming a 20-point second half rally by the Bulldogs that tied the game up at 27 to force the extra sessions (8) Maryland 38, (3) Florida State 35 Stephen Berry hit Eddie Ballinger for 15 yards and the winning touchdown with :42 left in the game as Maryland knocked off #3 Florida State for the second straight year (5) Oklahoma 24, (7) Kansas State 17 William Dorash had seven catches for 178 yards and a touchdown and Winston Raymond scored on a 23-yard touchdown run on the last play of the game to lift the Sooners past the Wildcats in a showdown of Top Ten teams in Manhattan (6) Miami 50, Troy State 0 The sixth-ranked Hurricanes relied on a defense that held Troy State to 132 total yards as Miami stepped out of conference and all over Troy State in Montgomery (10) Mississippi 30, Kentucky 3 Rebel QB Bubba Schuler completed an efficient 18 of 25 passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns as Ole Miss buried the Wildcats in Lexington (14) Notre Dame 48, Western Michigan 3 Irish running back Freddie Stephens rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown as Notre Dame scored the game's first 34 points and rolled to victory in Kalamazoo (15) Texas A&M 49, Kansas 7 Amos McCloud passed for 330 yards and four touchdowns and defensive lineman Amos Peak had 6 tackles and 3.5 sacks as the visiting Aggies blasted the Jayhawks in Lawrence (17) Ohio State 34, (20) Purdue 28 (2 OT) Brian Lagrange rumbled 10 yards for the winning touchdown after the Ohio State defense stopped the Boilermakers in the second overtime, giving the Buckeyes a crucial Big 10 road victory against #20 Purdue Miami (OH) 19, (18) Marshall 17 RedHawk kicker Stan McKeown booted four field goals, giving Miami enough of an edge to hold off Marshall and record and upset victory over the visiting Herd in Oxford (19) Arizona State 35, Oregon State 20 Derrick Perriman caught five balls for 60 yards and three scores and returned a punt 63 yards for another touchdown as the Sun Devils continued their impressive play by downing the Beavers in rainy Corvallis (21) Wisconsin 27, Indiana 14 Harvey Guillen rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns as the visiting Badgers recorded their fourth straight win by defeating the Hoosiers in Bloomington Auburn 41, (22) Tennessee 14 Riddick Tharpe passed for 284 yards and four touchdowns as the homestanding Tigers rebounded from back-to-back losses by sending the Volunteers to their second straight defeat Iowa State 20, (23) Texas Tech 13 (OT) Cyclone running back Morris Van Pelt capped a 99-yard rushing day by running 20 yards for the go-ahead touchdown in the first overtime as Iowa State knocked off previously unbeaten Texas Tech in Ames (25) Michigan State 17, Iowa 6 Jorge Torrance rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown and Paul Durham completed 21 of 36 passes for 296 yards as the Spartans dump the homestanding Hawkeyes in Iowa City Other Scores of Interest Eastern Michigan 27, MSU-Billings 24 In an ugly contest that featured 11 turnovers between the two sides, Eastern Michigan snapped MSUB's three-game winning streak behind Bert Gowan's 121 yards rushing San Diego State 28, Montana-Western 7 The visiting Aztecs put up 14 points in each of the first two quarters and cruised to a comfortable win against the Bulldogs in Kalispell Colorado State 61, Helena 0 Marvin Price rushed 25 times for 165 yards and a score and caught four balls for 52 yards and two more scores as the Rams buried the Saints in Fort Collins Great Falls 14, Idaho 10 The visiting Argonauts racked up 235 yards rushing and benefitted from a costly Vandal turnover at the UGF 27 with 90 seconds left in the game to down Idaho in Moscow Air Force 34, Montana Tech 17 All-America running back Bruce Borders rushed for 216 yards and two touchdowns on 35 carries as the Falcons rolled past the Orediggers in Butte Montana 20, North Texas 10 The Grizzlies opened a 20-0 halftime lead and came away with the victory in spite of four turnovers that allowed the visiting Mean Green to stay in the contest Players of the Week Offense: Riddick Tharpe, QB, Auburn, 24-32-284-4-0 Defense: Norman Milam, DE, Kansas State, 7 tck, 4.0 sck MSU nominated: Wally Bourgeois, WR, 8-128-2 Mitch Fielder, QB, 16-32-221-2-1 Lionel Franz, RB, 15-79-0 Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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Week 7
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Casualty List Wally Bourgeois, WR, O-4, Sprained back (NEW) Hughes, Zach, OLB, O-6, Pulled quadriceps muscle (NEW) Upcoming Opponent Code:
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In-home (Northeast) Curtis (RV), Emerson (+), Fountaine, Henderson (+), Ivy (RV), Langton (+) Visit Offers F. Alston, Clemson, Edens, Fulton, Harris, Phillips Offered None this week Phone calls B. Alston, Baker, Cummins, Cunningham, H. Hall, Humphrey, McCormack, Oliver, Richard, South Committed Elsewhere Brock Covington, DE, commits to Great Falls "The waiting is the hardest part," as the Tom Petty song goes. No new offers this week after some deliberation. We need to see some movement before deciding what else to do, so for now, it's mostly call-backs and re-visits, concentrating on some heavily desired Northeast recruits. We continue to add contacts that have not been contacted by others and we like the new ones we find this week. On the negative side of the ledger, another recruit commits, this one to a conference rival. We did not press very hard for him, though, as he was our lowest-scouted recruit on the board (a 33+) and his stats weren't impressive. Game Time Montana State 10, Montana Tech 6 BOBCATS GUT IT OUT Butte, MT--That audible sigh of relief you heard eminated from the visitors locker room at Montana Tech's football stadium. It was a sigh signifying many things, not the least of which was pulling out a nailbiting win over the Orediggers 10-6. It also means that the Bobcats will avoid going 0-for-2003 in overall and conference records, improving their record to 1-4 and 1-1 in the L&C. The Orediggers, meanwhile, remained winless at 0-4 and 0-2 in the L&C. "This was a gut-check game," said Bobcat coach Norwood Longview afterwards. "We lost our leading receiver and one of our best tacklers last week and we had to make do without them on the road. Our kids responded very well, I think." Even without leading receiver Wally Bourgeois, the offense put up its second consecutive 300-yard game and even without Zach Hughes, the defense held the nation's third-best yards-per-carry offense to 3.6 yards a carry, well below its 5.46 average. Mitch Fielder had another mistake-free afternoon and broke the passing yardage record he set last week by going 20 of 33 for 227 yards and the game's only touchdown, a five-yard pass to Jerald Gamez midway through the first quarter. Lionel Franz finally has gotten things going on the ground after a rough start to the year, gaining a personal-best 80 yards on 10 carries. Without Bourgeois, Fielder spread the ball around to 10 different Bobcat receivers, with Gamez catching four balls for 43 yards and Jamie Mauro, another wide receiver pressed into action, catching another four for 37 yards to lead the way. The game started out very well for MSU as the Orediggers had to punt on their opening possession and MSU was pinned on its own 4. The Bobcats, however, moved the ball with ease down the field as Fielder first connected with Franz for 21 yards on the first play from scrimmage and then Franz burst through the left side of the line for 52 yards, moving the ball to the Tech 23. Three plays later, Fielder found Gamez in the end zone to put the Bobcats up 7-0 with 8:13 left. From there, neither team's offense seemed to generate any momentum as both defenses started flexing muscle, making sacks, and forcing fumbles, sometimes recovered, sometimes not, and the teams went into the halftime with the score 7-0. The teams traded punts to start the third quarter before MSU finally put togther a decent drive that pushed the ball to the Tech 22 before an illegal use of hands penalty killed the drive and the Bobcats settled for a 40-yard field goal by Kyle Garner to extend the lead to 10-0. The Bobcats could not deliver a knockout blow, though, as the Orediggers got a big break late in the third quarter when they forced a Mitch Fielder fumble on a quarterback scramble and recovered at the Montana State 46. From there, they used star running back Rodney Roose (22-98-1), who had been quiet for much of the game, to pound the ball into the end zone, capping it with a three-yard touchdown run. However, kicker Jumbo Lombardo shanked the extra point and MSU had a 10-6 lead with 11:56 left. After that, the Bobcat defense stiffened up and the offense seemingly was salting away the game on a time-consuming drive late in the game when Alvin Rohr fumbled after catching a pass, giving the ball back to the Orediggers at their own 32 with 2:28 left, but Tech could not get a first down and the Bobcats ran out the clock to claim their first victory of 2003. Code:
(1) Michigan 40, Purdue 3 Bo Warren rushed for 143 yards and a score and caught three balls for 29 yards and another touchdown as the top-ranked Wolverines rolled past Purdue in West Lafayette (2) Florida 45, Georgia 14 Gator running back Kelvin Lane for 116 yards and quarterback Ricky Alston carved up the Bulldog defense to the tune of 223 yards and three touchdowns as the Gators dominated Georgia at the self-described "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" (3) Oklahoma 49, Baylor 37 Oklahoma's Dexter Fierro passed for 433 yards and six touchdowns as the Sooners won a wild shootout with visting Baylor that saw the Bears hang close with two interception returned for touchdowns, including a 79-yard return by Baylor's Butch Vaughn that cut the OU lead to 42-37 at the end of the third quarter Pittsburgh 35, (4) Miami 7 Heinz Field is quickly becoming a graveyard of ranked teams as the Pittsburgh Panthers stunned #4 Miami, dominating the Hurricanes and holding them to 168 yards total offense to claim their second nationally ranked victim of the season (5) Nebraska 34, Kansas 18 Walt Everett rushed for 183 yards and four touchdowns as the Huskers allowed a 10-3 deficit midway through the second quarter before erupting for 31 unanswered points (6) Maryland 37, Wake Forest 13 A smothering Terrapin defense held the visting Deacons to just 116 total yards, the only Wake touchdown being a 101-yard kickoff return by Skip Clayton to start the second half (7) Stanford 31, Oregon State 7 Stanford's Dominic Vance rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns as the Cardinal struggled with the Beavers before scoring 17 points in the final quarter to put the game away (9) Arkansas 13, Alabama 10 Alabama quarterback Kenny Allen was knocked out of the game late in the first quarter with torn knee cartiledge, hampering the Tide's chances as Arkansas contained the Alabama offense and survived two game-tying field goal attempts in the fourth quarter to win a crucial SEC West road game (10) Utah 35, San Diego State 10 Clifton Rousell rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns as #10 Utah dispatched the Aztecs in San Diego (11) Notre Dame 72, Utah State 3 Notre Dame quarterback Tyrus O'Donnell pushed his way back into the Heisman race with a national record-tying seven touchdown passes and 387 yards passing as Notre Dame destroyed Utah State in South Bend NC State 34, (12) Florida State 31 Mel Benton hooked up with Billy Joe Garcia for a 27-yard touchdown with 1:21 left to help NC State upset #12 Florida State for the third time since 1998 and handed the Seminoles their second consecutive loss (15) Kansas State 38, Missouri 15 The Wildcats responded well to their first loss of the season by holding the visiting Tigers to just 68 yards of total offense and only allowing the Tigers to score on a 64-yard punt return in the second quarter and a 106 yard kickoff return late in the fourth, both by Deion Young (16) Wisconsin 30, Northwestern 27 Deion Buckner booted a 21-yard field goal as time expired to lift #16 Wisconsin to a 30-27 victory over a determined Northwestern squad in Evanston\ (17) Arizona State 35, UCLA 21 Matthew Collons rushed for 109 yards and sealed the game with a touchdown late in the fourth quarter as the Sun Devils remained unbeaten by downing UCLA in Tempe (19) Michigan State 20, Minnesota 7 #19 Michigan State struggled through a mistake plagued game before subduing the homestanding Gophers with 13 fourth quarter points Boston College 56, (20) Syracuse 14 Roosevelt Wolfe passed for 271 yards and five touchdowns as Boston College scored 14 points in each quarter to blast #20 Syracuse in Boston (22) Brigham Young 52, Colorado State 22 BYU's Kelvin Hatcher tied a national record with three touchdown receptions and QB Michael Reese passed for 362 yards and six touchdowns overall to lead the visiting Cougars in a rout of Colorado State (23) Washington State 54, Arizona 7 Nathan Shepard passed for 340 yards and four touchdowns as #23 Wazzou scored the game's last 47 points to bury Arizona in Pullman (24) Iowa State 35, Colorado 20 Kent Preston passed for 305 yards and five touchdowns and Morris Van Pelt rushed for 108 yards as #24 Iowa State handed the visiting Buffaloes their third straight loss (25) Southern California 45, California 30 Trojan QB Corwin Kiss connected on 26 of 43 passes for 368 yards and five touchdowns as the homestanding Trojans hammered the Bears to remain unbeaten in Pac-10 play Other Scores of Interest MSU-Billings 29, MSU-Northern 24 Yellowjackets receiver Gilbert Decker continued his impressive play, catching nine balls for 130 yards and two touchdowns as MSUB held off the Lights to remain unbeated in the L&C Montana-Western 47, Helena 25 Montana-Western running back Mike Mason racked up 185 yards and a touchdown and Deron Bernard caught eight balls for 101 yards and a score as the Bulldogs overwhelmed the Saints in Helena Montana 36, Great Falls 29 The Grizzlies erupted for 22 points in the first half of the fourth quarter to rally from a 19-14 deficit and kept the Argonauts winless in conference play Players of the Week Offense: Tyrus O'Donnell, QB, Notre Dame, 26-33-387-7-0 Defense: Leon Price, DE, Utah, 10 tck, 2 ast, 4.0 sck MSU nominated: Mitch Fielder, QB, 20-33-227-1-0 Lionel Franz, RB, 10-80-0 Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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Week 8
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Casualty List Wally Bourgeois, WR, O-4, Sprained back Hughes, Zach, OLB, O-5, Pulled quadriceps muscle Other News Lionell Mitchell, DT, wants a scholarship based on his current playing time Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Also Receiving Votes: Southern California, Texas, Mississippi State, Air Force, Bowling Green, Pittsburgh, Clemson, Marshall, Tennessee Dropped out: Syracuse, Southern California NOTE: ARV is based on teams with voter poll average <= 35 but not in Coaches Top 25. Conference Standings Code:
Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home (Northwest) Bautista (RV), Blake (RV), Covington (RV), Gildon (RV), Rodriguez (RV) Visit Offers Emerson, Henderson Offered F. Alston, England, Harris, Phillips Phone Calls Clemons, Dawud, P. Elliott, W. Elliott, Fulton, W. Hall, Jarvis, Prescott, Richard, Sinclair Visiting Campus Baker, Cummins, Curtis, Fountaine, Fuller, H. Hall, Humphrey, Ivy, McCormack, Oliver, South Committed Elsewhere Brett Alston, QB, ID, commits to Virginia Timothy Irwin, C, CO, commits to Montana Dwayne Langton, ILB, NY, is no longer considering Montana State Jamal Shelby, T, OR, is no longer considering Montana State The first big decision week arrives and as expected, stud ILB Dwayne Langton is not considering us anymore. His final five is a who's who of college football: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Texas, and Oklahoma. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted and his recruitment helped pave the way for several recruits we have visiting this weekend. In all, 11 recruits are paying us a visit and we are the only offer on the table for several of them. With four recruits off the board, another four are offered, including two at ILB since we could not come to a decision on which one we wanted more. Hopefully a commit or two will happen next week or the week after. We only have ten scholarships, so we are taking care in limiting the outstanding offers. Game Time Great Falls 38, Montana State 6 ARGOS THRASH BOBCATS Bozeman, MT--It couldn't last. The Montana State Bobcats had been playing the best ball of the Norwood Longview era the last two weeks. It all came to a screeching halt today as the Great Falls Argonauts embarrassed Montana State 38-6 in the Bobcats' 2003 home opener. "It was disgraceful the way we played," said an angry coach Longview afterwards. "We couldn't stop them and we couldn't move the ball. I thought we had turned a corner, but maybe we haven't yet. As coach I take full responsibility for this. We must do better." The Montana State offense that had put up consecutive 300-yard games and set numerous records was completely out of sync, managing only 98 total yards and five first downs. Freshman QB Mitch Fielder had a horrendous afternoon, completing just 6 of 21 passes for 36 yards and was intercepted once. A Bobcat defense that had managed to keep the prior two opponents under control surrendered a whopping 578 yards on the day, a new Lewis and Clark Conference record. UGF's Chris Ratcliff rushed for 165 yards and a touchdown and Marty Rudd passed for 248 yards and four touchdowns, one of them to Ratcliff and two others to receiver Lance Cunningham (8-105-2). It all contributed to an astounding 40:35-19:25 time-of-possession advantage for Great Falls. The game was ugly from the start, as MSU punted twice and was intercepted, with UGF converting all three changes of possession into touchdowns to burst ahead 21-0 by the middle part of the second quarter. It was a score that would hold until halftime as MSU could not pick up a first down, though the defense did get better, forcing a turnover and punt. The whipping continued in the second half as the MSU offense did not get another first down until early in the fourth quarter, while the Argonauts added a field goal and touchdown to expand their lead to 31-0. The game was saved from further embarrassment only because the Bobcats picked off a pair of passes, one returned by linebacker Bert Niles for 24 yards and a touchdown, MSU's only points of the game, the other killing another long Argo drive. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 38, Minnesota 0 Wolverine receivers Gene Givens (9-140-2) and Bernie Madison (4-102-1) recorded 100-yard receiving afternoons as the top-ranked Wolverines, expected to be #1 in the first BCS poll, continued their dominiation of the Big 10 (2) Florida 10, South Carolina 7 A miserable downpour stymied both offenses and turned the game into a slugfest where #2 Florida's better defense forced Gamecock turnovers and shut down South Carolina to allow the Gators to escape Texas 27, (3) Oklahoma 24 Longhorn running back Preston Kirtsey dove in from one yard out for the go-ahead touchdown with 3:49 left and two penalties and an interception on Oklahoma's final drive prevented the Sooners from rallying for a tying field goal, allowing Texas to knock Oklahoma from the ranks of the unbeatens in the annual "Red River Shootout" (22) Iowa State 24, (4) Nebraska 17 Cyclone running back Morris Van Pelt rushed for 94 yards and two touchdowns and DB Mo Ackerman picked off a Cornhusker pass and returned it 66 yards for a game-breaking touchdown early in the fourth quarter as Iowa State upsets #4 Nebraska in Lincoln (5) Maryland 26, NC State 10 Darnell Burns completed 23 of 29 passes for 355 yards and two touchdowns as the Terrapins knocked out visiting NC State in College Park (6) Stanford 38, Oregon 9 The visiting Cardinal struggled initially with the Ducks, leading only 7-3 at the half, before a 28-point outburst in the third quarter put the game out of reach (7) Mississippi 34, LSU 7 The Rebels used a strong defensive effort that held the Tigers to just 131 total yards, Nate Reese picked off a pass and returned it 90 yards for a touchdown, and BJ Crichton rushed for 114 yards as Ole Miss remained unbeaten with a road win in Baton Rouge (8) Miami 51, Rutgers 0 Casey Fortney passed for 241 yards and three scores and the Miami defense utterly shut down the Scarlet Knight offense, holding Rutgers to 23 total yards as Miami bounced back from last week's loss by trashing Rutgers in rainy Miami (9) Arkansas 31, Auburn 14 Arkansas QB Richard Knaack passed for 338 yards and four touchdowns as the #9 Razorbacks remained unbeaten with a 31-14 triumph over Auburn in Fayetteville (10) Notre Dame 55, Navy 0 In a light day of work, Tyrus O'Donnell completed just six of ten passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns as the Irish defense held the Midshipmen to 105 yards of offense on a stormy day in Annapolis (11) Utah 12, Colorado State 10 Utah kicker Vince Garrison booted four field goals, the last one a 27-yarder with 4:55 left as the unbeaten Utes escaped at home against Colorado State Colorado 20, (12) Kansas State 17 (OT) Steve Jacobs kicked a 37-yard field goal with :07 left in the fourth and then put Colorado ahead with a 35-yarder on the first possession of overtime, which stood up as KSU's Reggie Geathers picked off a Stephen McKnight pass in the end zone to lift the Buffaloes to the upset win in Boulder (13) Texas A&M 35, Texas Tech 17 Aggie receiver Carlton Wood caught six balls for 123 yards and two touchdowns as #13 Texas A&M claimed a solid road win at Texas Tech (14) Ohio state 55, Illinois 14 #14 Ohio State put up 592 yards of total offense while holding the visiting Illini to 180 as the Buckeyes ripped Illinois in Columbus (15) Wisconsin 36, Purdue 7 Badger kicker Deon Buckner booted five field goals as Wisconsin raced out to a 30-0 halftime lead and never looked back in whipping the Boilermakers in Madison Southern California 35, (16) Arizona State 27 Trojan QB Corwin Kiss fueled a run of 21 consecutive points by USC in the second half with a 66-yard touchdown scamper as the Trojans erased a 17-14 deficit and then picked off passes on the final two Sun Devil possessions to claim victory and knock ASU from the ranks of the unbeaten (18) Brigham Young 45, UNLV 16 Cougar running back Billy Hoffman rushed 16 times for 131 yards and a touchdown and caught seven passes for 98 yards and two more scores as BYU rolled past UNLV in Provo (19) Oklahoma State 48, Baylor 14 Cowboy running back Hunter Meier rushed for 68 yards and three touchdowns, including a 55-yarder in the first quarter, while backfield mate Tyrone Flannery rushed for 105 yards as Oklahoma State scored 41 first half points and cruised to the win in Waco (20) Florida State 35, Wake Forest 6 Roosevelt Lofton rushed for 163 yards and three touchdowns as Florida State bounced back from consecutive losses by thrashing the Deacons in Winston-Salem (21) Penn State 59, Indiana 14 The Nittany Lions scored the game's first 42 points and Craig Hansen rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns as Penn State cruised past Indiana in Happy Valley (23) Washington State 28, UCLA 21 Hunter McCarthy ran in from 10 yards out with 1:08 left in the game to cap a 21-point second half rally as Washington State came back from a 21-7 third quarter deficit to down UCLA in Pullman Pittsburgh 41, (25) Virginia Tech 26 America's most successful unranked team struck again, this time taking out the #25 Hokies in Blacksburg behind 358 yards and two touchdowns passing by quarterback Marlon Harris Other Scores of Interest Louisiana-Monroe 24, MSU-Billings 21 Dana Lane passed for 320 yards and two touchdowns as the Indians held off MSU-Billings in Monroe Montana-Western 34, Montana Tech 31 Bulldog running back Mike Mason rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown as Montana-Western scored 17 unanswered second half points to turn a 24-17 deficit into a 34-24 lead and then held on for the win and moved into first place in the L&C by a half-game Montana 28, MSU-Northern 23 Montana QB Les Denney hooked up with Matt O'Neal for 59 yards and a touchdown with 3:15 left, then capitalized on an interception by moving the Grizzlies down the field and scoring on a four-yard keeper with :38 left to rally Montana past MSUN in Havre Players of the Week Offense: Corwin Kiss, QB, Southern California, 23-32-369-3-0 Defense: Travis Harter, DE, Washington State, 7 tck, 2 ast, 3.5 sck 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Week 9
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Casualty List Wally Bourgeois, WR, O-3, Sprained back Hughes, Zach, OLB, O-4, Pulled quadriceps muscle Lionel Mitchell, DT, Q-3, Sprained knee (NEW) Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home (Southwest) H. Hall (RV), Humphrey (RV), McCormack (RV), Oliver (RV) Visit Offers None this week Offered R. Covington, Emerson Phone Calls Baker, Bautista, Cummins, Curtis, W. Elliott, Fountaine, Fuller, Fulton, Ivy, Richard Visiting Campus F. Alston, England, Harris, Phillips Committed Elsewhere Steve Blake, DT, MT, has committed to Wyoming Dwayne Langton, ILB, NY, has committed to Michigan Jamal Shelby, T, OR, has committed to Bowling Green AJ Sinclair, WR, CO, has committed to Nevada Shane South, WR, AZ, has committed to Texas Tech Five players whom we had recruited commit this week, though two of them, Langton and Shelby, had removed us from consideration earlier. Neither Blake nor Sinclair were very hard pushes, but losing South hurt. In spite of the fact that he was rated much worse than scouted, he had easily the best numbers of any receiver we were looking at. The two remaining receivers just don't excite us, so we may be digging for one later on. At this point, our effort is concentrated on selling the program to those who have paid a visit and hopefully land some of them. With Langton off the board, the big recruit we want is Fountaine. We've contacted him enough now that further contacts won't benefit us. We are hopeful about several of the recruits, but we have to wait and see what happens. Game Time Montana State 38, Helena 27 FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS Helena, MT--This week, the records for Montana State toppled in great quantities, just as they did in Muncie, Indiana against Ball State three weeks ago. However, unlike what happened at Ball State, the Bobcats can celebrate a victory to go with all their records. In a game that Montana State generally dominated everywhere but on the scoreboard, the Bobcats picked up win number two in a season for the first time under coach Norwood Longview by dumping the rival Saints from Helena 38-27. MSU moved to 2-5 overall, 2-2 in the L&C, while Helena fell to 1-6, 1-2 in conference play. "We played a superb game today, with some exceptions," said Longview. "We still need to correct our penalties. We let them hang around because we kept their drives going or killed our own drives because of stupid penalties." The Bobcats were flagged 13 times for 107 yards, while the Saints were only flagged once for five yards. Freshman quarterback Mitch Fielder bounced back from his horrendous outing last week to break his own team passing marks for attempts, yardage, and touchdowns thrown, going 25 for 43 for 252 yards and three touchdowns, though he was picked off twice. Senior Lionel Franz helped out by rushing for a school record 121 yards and backfield mate Alvin Rohr set a school record by rushing for two touchdowns on 8 carries for 67 yards. Those touchdowns were the first rushing touchdowns of the season for Montana State. The Bobcats got things going early, taking the opening kickoff 91 yards in 10 plays, finishing the drive with a six-yard touchdown pass from Fielder to tight end Kennedy Fulcher to put MSU up 7-0 with 8:39 left in the first. However, the ensuing kickoff was returned 96 yards for a touchdown by Helena's Frankie Chau to tie things back up at 7. The Saints would benefit from good field position after forcing MSU to punt, but could not move the ball and took a 10-7 lead on a 43-yard field goal by Kenny Remington to put Helena up 10-7 with 5:50 left in the first. The failed drive would be an indication of the struggles of the Saints offense for much of the day as Saints QB Edward Stokes passed for just 134 yards and was intercepted four times, while the ground game struggle to break 100 yards for the day. Montana State would respond to the field goal by producing another touchdown drive to go ahead 14-10. The Bobcats then picked off Stokes and converted that turnover into a field goal to go up 17-10. The teams exchanged punts on the next three possessions, leaving MSU with the ball on their own 42 with 8:34 left in the half. Four plays and 1:28 later, Alvin Rohr ran in from the one yard line to push MSU's lead to 24-10 with 7:06 left to go in the half. The Saints finally mustered a solid drive to stay in the game, marching 65 yards in seven plays over four minutes with receiver Melvin Stanford capping the drive with a 2 yard touchdown reception to narrow the lead to 24-17, a score that would hold until halftime. MSU would struggle through the first half of the third quarter as the Saints took the opening kickoff of the half eight plays and 71 yards, finished by a six yard scramble by Stokes, to knot the game at 24. A three-and-out by MSU lead to another Remington field goal and suddenly, in spite of being massively outgained for much of the game, the Saints had retaken the lead at 27-24. Fielder was intercepted on the next possession and it looked as if momentum had shifted completely to the Saints. However, two plays later, Eric Strong intercepted Stokes in the end zone. With the rescue made by the defense, the offense pushed the ball 80 yards in 11 plays, with Fielder hooking up with receiver Jerald Gamez (3-39-1) for eight yards and the go-ahead touchdown with 14:06 left in the fourth. The fourth quarter was a tense affair as neither team could put together a decent drive to put them over the top. Fielder was intercepted once and the Bobcats had three straight three-and-outs when they had drives available to extend the lead, while the Saints could not muster a push to get them into the end zone to take the lead. Finally, Helena got the ball on the MSU 49 with 4:23 left. They pushed down to the 36, but no closer as the Bobcat defense stuffed them and forced a turnover on downs. Rohr then sealed the game with a 44-yard gallop. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 36, (15) Michigan State 31 Wolverine running back Bo Warren had 225 total yards of offense and two touchdowns as the top-ranked Wolverines held off a strong second half rally to down their in-state rivals in Lansing (2) Florida 54, (5) Mississippi 3 A top-five clash in the SEC turned into a laugher for the visiting Gators as they produced the game's first 45 points over the first three quarters North Carolina 20, (3) Maryland 17 For the second straight year, the Tar Heels dashed Maryland's hopes of an undefeated season and perhaps cost them a chance at the national title by triumphing 20-17 in a rainy slugfest in Chapel Hill (4) Stanford 28, (23) Southern California 21 The Cardinal defense contained USC QB Corwin Kiss, sacking him six times and holding him to just 172 yards passing as Stanford remained undefeated with a tough win in Palo Alto (7) Miami 30, Temple 16 Percy Lancaster rushed for 150 yards, while Casey Fortney passed for 229 yards and two touchdowns as #7 Miami rolled past the Owls in Philadelphia (8) Arkansas 31, Tennessee 21 Razorback QB Richard Knaack passed for 224 yards and a touchdown and rushed for another touchdown as a 10-0 first quarter by Arkansas proved to be the difference-maker in the game (9) Notre Dame 52, South Florida 17 Irish running back Freddie Stephens rushed for two scores and caught two passes for touchdowns and Tyrus O'Donnell passed for 353 yards and five touchdowns, but was intercepted four times as the #9 Irish whipped the visiting Bulls in South Bend (10) Utah 33, New Mexico 3 The Utes geared up for the big Moutain West Conference clash with BYU by hammering the visiting Lobos, holding New Mexico to just 75 total yards of offense while Utah put up 352 (11) Nebraska 13, Texas Tech 9 The #11 Huskers got a tougher-than-expected contest from the visiting Red Raiders as both offenses struggled against strong defensive efforts to put points on the board Colorado 42, (12) Texas A&M 39 Buffalo QB Max Benton passed for 283 yards and three touchdowns as Colorado held on to upset #12 Texas A&M in a wild shootout at College Station (13) Ohio State 28, (18) Penn State 24 Lester Lincoln ran 13 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with 2:32 left as Ohio State downed Penn State in a pivotal clash of Big 10 Top 25 teams (16) Brigham Young 45, San Diego State 6 BYU's Kelvin Hatcher had seven receptions for 118 yards and three touchdowns as the Cougars prepped for their MWC showdown with rival Utah by thumping the homestanding Aztecs (17) Florida State 45, Duke 0 The Seminoles rolled to victory with a dominating defense that shut out the visiting Blue Devils and held them to 91 total yards of offense (21) Kansas State 49, (19) Oklahoma State 7 Wildcat QB Stephen McKnight completed 16 of 29 passes for 270 yards and four touchdowns as the Wildcats obliterated the homestanding Cowboys in a Big XII clash (25) Texas 56, (20) Iowa State 31 Robert Kamp's 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown sparked a 21-point binge by the Longhorns in the last half of the fourth quarter to stop a very hot Iowa State squad in Austin (24) Boston College 41, West Virginia 14 BC quarterback Roosevelt Woolfe passed for 326 yards and four touchdowns as the visiting Eagles spotted West Virginia a 14-0 lead before blowing past the Mountaineers with 41 unanswered points Other Scores of Interest Montana-Western 35, MSU-Northern 6 Bulldog DB Lincoln Lester intercepted two passes, returning one for a touchdown as the defending champion Bulldogs remained undefeated in the L&C and evened their overall record at 4-4 Montana 14, MSU-Billings 7 The Grizzlies rode a strong defensive performance that included a fumble return for a touchdown to hand the Yellowjackets their first conference loss and third loss in four games overall Great Falls 31, Navy 24 Chris Ratcliff punched in from two yards out with :09 left in the ballgame as the visiting Argonauts collected their third non-conference win in four tries Nevada-Las Vegas 41, Montana Tech 10 UNLV's Adam Wilkerson rushed for 118 yards and a touchdown as the Rebels kept the Orediggers winless on the 2003 season with a 41-10 thumping in Las Vegas Virginia 34, NC State 7 Cavalier quarterback Christian Meier passed for 239 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to Anthony Barrows, who had 100 yards receiving, as Virginia dominated the Wolfpack in Raleigh Players of the Week Offense: Ray Weikel, RB, Alabama-Birmingham, 26-245-3 Defense: Travis Blackburn, DE, Southern California, 9 tck, 4 ast, 3.0 sck MSU nominated: Mitch Fielder, QB, 25-43-252-3-2 Lionel Franz, RB, 11-121-0 Alvin Rohr, RB, 8-67-2 Dwayne Kelley, C, 7-12 blocks, 0 SkA Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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Week 10
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Casualty List Terrell Cage, DE, O-6, Sprained back (NEW) Clay Money, G, D-5, Abdominal strain (NEW) Wally Bourgeois, WR, D-2, Sprained back (UPGRADE) Hughes, Zach, OLB, Q-3, Pulled quadriceps muscle (UPGRADE) Lionel Mitchell, DT, Q-2, Sprained knee (NEW) Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home (Southwest) Baker (RV), Cummins (RV), England (RV), H. Hall (RV), McCormack (RV), Oliver (RV) Visit Offers None this week Offered None this week Phone Calls Alston, Cunningham, Curtis, Dawud, P. Elliott, W. Elliott, Fuller, Harris, Richard Visiting Campus Emerson, R. Covington Coming here *NEW* Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Committed Elsewhere Derrick Ivy, T, NY, commits to Navy Cory Phillips, ILB, MD, commits to Akron We land our first recruit of the year and we think we got a good one. Humphrey is the second Top-1000 recruit we have picked up (the other being Zach Hughes). However, we lose two more. Phillips wasn't too bad as he was a late recruit push, but Ivy stings. We had been after him from week one. We are now bumping up against contact limits on several recruits and not being able to contact Fountaine anymore hurts. We think our chances to get him are fading. Game Time Montana State 23, Louisiana-Lafayette 10 BOBCATS BAG SECOND WIN IN A ROW Bozeman, MT--To paraphase an ever-running joke about struggling teams, "Break up the Bobcats!" Montana State benefitted from five Cajun turnovers to defeat Louisiana-Lafayette 23-10 and have now won consecutive games for the first time in coach Norwood Longview's tenure. Montana State (3-5, 2-2 L&C) also picked up its first non-conference win of the past two seasons. ULL, meanwhile, fell to 4-4. "These young men have shown tremendous character," said Longview. "When we got flattened by Great Falls a few weeks ago, this team without a doubt could have just rolled over. I am proud of the way they overcame that difficulty and have continued to practice hard and play hard." The joy was tempered somewhat as fifth-year senior Mitchell Hanson, the best offensive tackle on the team, had his left leg buckle while trying to hold a block on a pass play in the third quarter. A very clear and audible snap was heard by most of the players on the field. As soon as the play was over, trainers immediately rushed on to the field. Players on both sides kneeled in prayer on their respective sidelines until Hanson was carted off after several minutes. X-rays later confirmed what had been suspected. Hanson had a compound leg fracture, finishing his season and career at Montana State. "Losing him really, really hurts us big time," said Longview. "We had been hoping to redshirt our freshman Johnny Lusk. I don't know right now whether I'll be able to do that as we don't have much depth at that spot." Freshman quarterback Mitch Fielder had a light, mistake-free afternoon, going 16-of-31 for 143 yards, but no touchdowns. Lionel Franz, however, continued his great play of recent weeks by breaking 100 yards for the second week in a row, rushing for 104 yards on 20 carries and scoring two touchdowns, matching a team record. Cajun quarterback Britt Burks, meanwhile, struggled. He completing only 17 of 37 passes for 227 yards and a score, but was intercepted three times. Along with two fumbles by ULL, it was enough to overcome the fact that the Cajuns outgained the Bobcats 322-275. MSU got the early break when ULL fumbled the ball on its first possession, giving the Bobcats the ball at the Cajun 36. Six plays later, Franz ran in from four yards out and the Bobcats lead 7-0. ULL would respond with an 11-play, 69-yard drive that took nearly seven minutes and was finished by a Ricky Jells field goal from 26 yards out to make it 7-3 with 4:09 left in the first. The Bobcats answered back with another touchdown drive. This time, Franz broke through the Cajun defense and raced in from thirty yards out to make it 14-3 with 14:14 left in the half, bringing the sparse crowd of 7,000 to its feet and cheering. The cheering would subside somewhat after an exchange of punts left the Cajuns with the ball on its own 21. ULL would then march 79 yards in 9 plays over 3:03 to score a touchdown when Burks hooked up with Rusty Pickard (4-78-1) to cut the lead to 14-10 with just over seven minutes left in the half. After that, the Cajuns were hit with the turnover bug. First, Bobcat safety Eric Strong would intercept a pass at the ULL 31. The Bobcats turned this into a 25-yard field goal by Kyle Garner to push the MSU lead to 17-10. The Cajuns had a good drive going on the next possession, reaching the MSU 37 before coughing up the football, allowing MSU to kill the clock and end the half. The Montana State offense struggled through much of the third quarter, but the defense was able to bail them out. The Cajuns had put together a strong drive midway into the quarter when they faced a critical fourth-and-four at the MSU 33. Burks completed a short pass to ?? Dirita (), but he was brought down by linebacker Riddick Lynch one yard short of the first down and the ball was turned over on downs. On the next ULL possession, the Cajuns pushed to midfield when freshman outside linebacker Brock Harmon intercepted another Burks pass and returned it to the Cajun 23. The Bobcats would get the ball inside the five yard line, but could not punch it in, settling for another Garner field goal to make it 20-10 with 14:13 left in the fourth. After that, the Cajuns never seriously threatened, missing one field goal attempt early in the fourth, getting stuffed for a three-and-out, and then getting intercepted on their last possession, after Garner had booted another field goal to extend the lead to 23-10. Code:
(1) Michigan 45, Illinois 10 Bo Warren rushed for 193 yards and five touchdowns as top-ranked Michigan piled racked up 606 yards of offense to Illinois's 157 in thrashing the Illini in Ann Arbor (2) Florida 34, Tennessee 7 Florida dominated Tennessee as Gator QB Ricky Alston shrugged off rainy conditions in Knoxville to carve up the Volunteer defense for 350 yards and four touchdowns UCLA 49, (3) Stanford 21 Lamar Buckley rushed for 134 yards and three touchdowns including a 99-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter as the Bruins took advantage of an early injury to Stanford's star running back Dominic Vance to upset the #3 Cardinal in Los Angeles Mississippi State 27, (5) Arkansas 20 Mississippi State running back Antoine Oliver rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown as the Bulldogs go into Fayetteville and hand the #5 Razorbacks a surprise defeat (16) Kansas State 37, (8) Nebraska 7 The Wildcats knock off the Cornhuskers in rainy Manhattan behind 144 yards rushing and three touchdowns by running back Dennis Swiderski (9) Oklahoma 35, Texas Tech 16 OU's Cornell Humphries returned a kickoff 102 yards in the second quarter, sparking the Sooners to 28 consecutive points after Oklahoma initially trailed 10-0 (10) Maryland 37, Georgia Tech 24 Terrapin QB Stephen Berry went 22 of 28 for 322 yards and three touchdowns as Maryland bounced back from their first defeat of the year by downing Georgia Tech in College Park (11) Ohio State 31, Indiana 21 Buckeye running back Lester Lincoln rushed for 97 yards and a score and also caught four passes for 94 yards and a touchdown as the visiting Buckeyes built a 21-0 halftime lead and cruised past Indiana (25) Michigan State 20, (12) Wisconsin 19 Spartan quarterback Paul Durham completed an 11 yard touchdown pass to Patrick Cheyne with 1:37 left to lift the Spartans to a Big 10 road victory over the #12 Badgers Auburn 45, (13) Mississippi 35 Auburn's Clay Unutoa rushed 19 times for 159 yards and three touchdowns, including a 61-yard run in the latter half of the second quarter as the Tigers go into Oxford and hand the Rebels their second straight defeat (14) Brigham Young 66, Utah State 0 The Cougars scored in most every conceivable way, with three interceptions returned for touchdowns, a blocked punt recovered for a touchdown, a rushing touchdown, and four passing touchdowns as BYU prepared for their Mountain West showdown with Utah by routing Utah State in Logan (15) Florida State 34, (24) Clemson 24 FSU's Darren Gunn passed for 306 yards and two touchdowns with Frankie Tyler catching six of those passes, including both touchdowns, for 114 yards to overcome a 136-yard, two-touchdown receiving performance by Clemson tight end Mitch Hetherington (17) Washington State 28, (23) Arizona State 18 Nathan Shepard passed for 138 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for another score and Leroy Rees rushed for 163 yards as Washington State knocked off Arizona State in a Pac-10 clash in Tempe (18) Texas A&M 48, Oklahoma State 3 Amos McCloud passed for 155 yards and four touchdowns in a light day of work as the Aggies handed the visiting Cowboys their second straight whipping in two weeks (19) Boston College 55, Rutgers 17 BC had a 300-yard passer (Timothy Emmons, 22-26-315-2-1), a 100-yard rusher (Jose Hamilton, 20-106-2), and a 100-yard receiver (Lamont Emmons, 7-113-1) as the Eagles thumped Rutgers in New Brunswick (20) Texas 48, Baylor 14 Stud receiver Marlon Rayfield caught eight passes for 136 yards and three touchdowns, leading the visiting Longhorns in a 48-14 pasting of in-state rival Baylor (21) Pittsburgh 63, Temple 7 The Panthers buried the visting Owls with two rushers and one receiver breaking 100 yards on the afternoon, while the defense smothered Temple, holding the Owls to just 19 yards on the ground and 187 yards overall (22) Air Force 41, Nevada-Las Vegas 13 Star running back Bruce Borders rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown as the Falcons drubbed the Rebels in a Mountain West tilt in Las Vegas Other Scores of Interest Great Falls 27, MSU-Billings 21 Chris Ratcliff rushed for 113 yards to help Great Falls rally from a 14-3 second quarter deficit to defeat the Yellowjackets, who have now lost four of their last five since starting 3-0 Montana Tech 35, Helena 21 The Orediggers finally picked up their first win of the season at the expense of the Saints in Butte behind Rodney Roose's 169 yards and two touchdowns rushing North Carolina 41, NC State 28 North Carolina's Gabe Hill rushed for 225 yards and two touchdowns and Marty Dela Cruz had six catches for 129 yards and two scores as the Tar Heels stayed on top of the ACC by slogging their way past archrival NC State in rainy Chapel Hill Players of the Week Offense: Bo Warren, RB, Michigan, 22-193-5 Defense: Justin Knight, DE, Alabama, 6 tck, 3.5 sck MSU nominated: Mitch Fielder, QB, 16-31-143-0-0 Lionel Franz, RB, 20-104-2 Brock Harmon, OLB, 3 tck, 1 ast, 1.0 sck, 1 int Made to Be Broken--Game records set 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Week 11
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-38, Compound leg fracture (NEW) Terrell Cage, DE, O-5, Sprained back Lee Burks, DT, D-9, Hip pointer (NEW) Clay Money, G, D-4, Abdominal strain Wally Bourgeois, WR, D-2, Sprained back Hughes, Zach, OLB, Q-2, Pulled quadriceps muscle Lionel Mitchell, DT, P-1, Sprained knee (UPGRADE) Upcoming Opponent Code:
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In-home (Great Lakes) Atteberry (-), Farmer (++), Giles (-), Lister (-), Ramsey (+), Sheldon (+) Visit Offers None this week Offered None this week Phone Calls R. Covington, Cummins, Emerson, England, Ruller, Fulton, Harris, Jarvis, Oliver, Richard Visiting Campus None this week Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) *NEW* Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA Committed Elsewhere Frank Alston, ILB, WV, has committed to Indiana Wes Hall, WR, MT, has committed to Montana-Western Tyrus Rodriguez, DT, MT has committed to Montana Tech Dennis Dawud, CB, CA, is no longer considering Montana State Peter Elliott, DT, NY, is no longer considering Montana State Shawn Messer, G, NY, is no longer considering Montana State Another recruit commits in cornerback Dwayne Baker. With the youth currently at the position, we probably will not get another CB recruit for at least two years unless Herb Hall decides to commit. We leave his offer on the table because we like his numbers. Otherwise, the recruiting is getting tighter as six other targets go elsewhere or drop us from consideration. As a result, we once again go foraging for new targets and find several good possibilities in the Great Lakes region. We are particularly enthused about a tall wide receiver and a massive tackle we uncover and think we have a good chance at getting them if the scholarship offers on the table fall through or aren't acted on. Game Time Montana-Western 34, Montana State 9 BULLDOGS THUMP BOBCATS Bozeman, MT--Montana-Western's Mike Mason rushed for 122 yards and Lenny Randle returned a kickoff 89 yards in the fourth quarter as the Bulldogs defeated Montana State 34-9 in a game that was closer than the scoreboard indicated. The Bulldogs (5-4, 5-0 L&C) remained one game ahead of Montana in the chase for the Lewis and Clark Conferench championship with the two leaders meeting in Kalispell next week. The Bobcats, meanwhile, dropped to 3-6, 2-3 in the L&C, eliminating them from the conference championship race and guaranteeing a second straight losing season overall. "I thought we did play well," said Bobcat head coach Norwood Longview. "They're just a better team. They showed why they are the defending conference champions today." While the Bobcats played a generally clean game with only one turnover and three penalties, MSU still had a rough time on offense. Mitch Fielder had an unspectacular game, passing for 163 yards and an interception, while Lionel Franz was stuffed for 11 yards on ten carries after putting up consecutive 100-yard rushing games the last two weeks. Up until Randle's return, the game had been a tight affair where the Bobcats could not do enough offensively to get more than field goals, but were doing just enough defensively to keep them in the game. The Bulldogs broke ahead first, benefitting from a roughing the kicker penalty on one field goal attempt to get a shorter field goal attempt, a 39-yard field goal by Jim Davies. The Bobcats responded with a solid drive that knotted the game at three with a 34-yard field goal by Kyle Garner. On the next possession, the Bulldogs began asserting themselves, slamming the ball down the field on a 17-play, 65-yard drive that took a whopping 9:03 off the clock and resulted in a touchdown pass from Carl Rose () to Kerry Moye to put Montana-Western up 10-3 with 10:45 left in the half. Montana State went three-and-out on the next possession and another time-consuming drive by the Bulldogs resulted in another Jim Davies field goal to put Montana-Western ahead 13-3 by halftime. The Bobcats would close to 13-6 on another Kyle Garner field goal, this one from 41 yards away with 11:08 left in the third, but that would be as close as they would get. The Bobcat defense would force the Bulldogs to punt on two consecutive possessions, but could not apply the needed pressure as the Bobcats would move into Bulldog territory, only to fail on fourth down on each of the two resulting possessions. The Bulldogs would then move 63 yards in 12 plays, chewing up a valuable 6:13 from the clock and finishing it with a seven-yard run by Norm Walters to put the Bulldogs up 20-6 with 6:58 left. MSU put together a drive that resulted in another Kyle Garner field goal, his third, which tied his own team record, to close to 20-9. However, on the next kickoff, Randle made his 89-yard gallop and put the game away. After a failure to convert on downs late in the game, Montana-Western's Alonzo Allen capped the game with an eight-yard touchdown run to make the final margin with 1:08 left. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 42, Iowa 10 Michigan's Jose Steiner passed for 464 yards and five touchdowns as the visiting Wolverines scored the game's first 35 points to bury the Hawkeyes (2) Florida 27, (12) Florida State 3 Ricky Alston completed 21 of 38 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns as #2 Florida had a surprisingly easy time with arch-rival Florida State in Tallahassee (11) Brigham Young 28, (3) Utah 3 Michael Reese of BYU passed for 349 yards and all four of BYU's touchdowns as the Cougars thumped third-ranked and previously unbeaten Utah in Provo to take sole possession of first place in the Mountain West Conference (4) Oklahoma 45, (24) Iowa State 24 OU's Dexter Fierro made a national record-tying 59 pass attempts, completing 30 of them for 310 yards and five touchdowns as #4 Oklahoma whipped #24 Iowa State in Ames (5) Miami 35, Virginia Tech 7 The Hurricanes utilized a 46-yard punt return for touchdown by Carl Bornstein and a 65-yard fumble return for touchdown by Jonathan Kinney to help subdue the visiting Hokies (6) Notre Dame 62, Troy State 0 Jerry Furlong rushed 14 times for 118 yards, including a 51-yard touchdown run in the first quarter as the Irish ripped Troy State in Montgomery (7) Maryland 34, Virginia 6 Terrapin QB Stephen Berry passed for 277 yards and two touchdowns as #7 Maryland remained one game behind North Carolina, 13-7 winners over Clemson, in the ACC championship race (8) Ohio State 28, Minnesota 0 The Buckeyes kept pace with Michigan in the Big Ten with a solid performance in shutting out the Golden Gophers in Minneapolis (9) Stanford 20, Washington 14 Dominic Vance rushed for 103 yards and the Cardinal held on to defeat the Huskies, despite a 98-yard kickoff return for touchdown by Washington's Lonnie Schraeder with 5:54 left in the game (10) Arkansas 42, Vanderbilt 10 Razorback receiver Nate Reese had five catches for 125 yards and a touchdown, a 66-yard strike in the first quarter as #10 Arkansas bounced back from their first loss by trashing Vanderbilt in a downpour in Fayetteville (13) Nebraska 24, Baylor 20 Walt Everett ran nine yards for the winning touchdown with 1:51 left as the Huskers overcame upset-minded Baylor in Waco (15) Washington State 31, Oregon State 21 WSU's Marshall Fisher scored on a seven-yard touchdown run with just :50 left and Kelly Lahr intercepted a pass and returned it 29 yards for a score with :22 left as the Cougars kept pace with Stanford in the Pac-10 by racing past Oregon State in a wild finish in Corvallis (17) Boston College 37, Temple 0 BC's Jose Stanton rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown as the Eagles shut out the visiting Owls and held them to 142 yards of offense, including -5 rushing, while racking up 579 total yards Colorado 45, (18) Texas 16 Colorado's Max Benton had one touchdown passing and two touchdowns rushing, while Jerome Ross had a 95-yard touchdown on a punt return and Broderick Watkins returned a Texas fumble 72 yards, allowing the Buffaloes to hammer #18 Texas in Boulder (19) Pittsburgh 37, West Virginia 7 Marlon Harris completed 17 of 33 passes for 240 yards and a touchdown and Pittsburgh's Christian Schneiter intercepted a pass and returned it 51 yards for a touchdown as the Panthers remained unbeaten in Big East play by stuffing the Mountaineers in the "Backyard Brawl" in Morgantown (20) Air Force 45, San Diego State 13 Air Force's Bruce Borders rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns and the Falcon defense shut down the visiting Aztecs as Air Force moved into a second-place tie with Utah in the Mountain West Conference (23) Penn State 31, (21) Wisconsin 14 Penn State's star running back Craig Hansen rushed a national record 47 times for 198 yards and two touchdowns as the Nittany Lions defeated the Badgers in Happy Valley (22) Michigan State 41, Northwestern 24 Jorge Torrence rushed for 77 yards and one touchdown and caught six passes for 50 yards and another score to lead the Spartans past visiting Northwestern and kept Michigan State one game back of conference co-leaders Michigan and Ohio State in the Big 10 (25) Mississippi 34, Toledo 8 Ole Miss running back Sammie Blanchard rushed 31 times for 149 yards and two touchdowns as the Rebels routed the homestanding Rockets in a late-season non-conference matchup Other Scores of Interest Montana 27, Montana Tech 7 Bert Shea rushed for 164 yards and a touchdown as Montana drilled Montana Tech to stay one game back of Montana-Western with a clash with the Bulldogs set for next week in Kalispell Great Falls 14, MSU-Northern 3 Chris Ratcliff rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown as the Argonauts employed a time-consuming ground attack to defeat the Lights in a snowstorm at Havre MSU-Billings 34, Helena 14 MSUB's Devin Weaver passed for 208 yards and three scores and the Yellowjacket defense set a conference record by holding the visiting Saints to just 32 yards passing, enabling MSU-Billings to snap a three-game losing streak NC State 38, Georgia Tech 21 NC State's Terrell Alstott intercepted two passes and returned both of them for touchdowns as the Wolfpack snapped a three game losing streak by downing the visiting Yellow Jackets in a rainstorm in Raleigh Alabama 49, Georgia 20 Calvin Morton rushed for 229 yards and two touchdowns as the Crimson Tide buried the Bulldogs in Athens, clinching the SEC Eastern Division for the undefeated Florida Gators Players of the Week Offense: Karl Hall, RB, Syracuse, 23-282-4 Defense: Jermaine Mulligan, DE, Texas-El Paso, 11 tck, 4 ast, 4.0 sck MSU nominated: Alvin Rohr, RB, 8-52-0 Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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Week 12
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-37, Compound leg fracture Terrell Cage, DE, O-5, Sprained back Lee Burks, DT, D-8, Hip pointer Clay Money, G, Q-3, Abdominal strain (UPGRADE) Wally Bourgeois, WR, Q-1, Sprained back (UPGRADE) Hughes, Zach, OLB, P-1, Pulled quadriceps muscle (UPGRADE) Lionel Mitchell, DT, has recovered Other Team News Lionel Mitchell, DT, wants a scholarship based on his current playing time Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home (Great Lakes) R. Covington (RV) Visit Offers Atteberry, Farmer, Giles, Lister, Ramsey, Sheldon Offered Fulton Phone Calls Clemons, Edens, Gildon, Henderson, Jarvis, Prescott Visiting Campus None this week Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA *NEW* Kenneth Emerson, TE, from James Madison HS in Brooklyn, NY *NEW* Dixon Fuller, ILB, from Reynolds HS in Troutdale, OR *NEW* Deon Richard, QB, from Cupertino HS in Cupertino, CA Committed Elsewhere Cornelius Bautista, WR, OR, commits to Virginia Walter Cunningham, DT, CO, is no longer considering Montana State Dennis Dawud, CB, CA, is no longer considering Montana State Peter Elliott, DT, NY, commits to Mississippi State Walter Elliott, CB, VT, is no longer considering Montana State Maurice Harris, QB, NJ, commits to Baylor Emmanuel Hopkins, T, NY, commits to Vanderbilt Marvin McCormick, DE, NM, commits to New Mexico Shawn Messer, G, NY, commits to Vanderbilt Antoine Oliver, T, CA, commits to Brigham Young Another three commits roll in as we gather up a solid ILB, a probable backup QB, and a decent tight end. However, a whole stack of other targets end up committing elsewhere, though none are to conference rivals. Most were not heavily targeted, but the one we wish we got was Oliver as he is a pretty good tackle and we have need for such players. We now have five scholarships left in this year's class and things are getting tight in terms of who we want and whether we want to start pulling offers back at some point. Game Time Montana State 27, MSU-Billings 6 BOBCATS SMOTHER YELLOWJACKETS Billings, MT--The Montana State Bobcats rode a strong defensive performance to their fourth win in six games, setting a team record for yards allowed (191) and forcing four Yellowjacket turnovers in defeating MSU-Billings 27-6 in snowy Billings. The Bobcats moved to 4-6 and 3-3 in the L&C while the Yellowjackets continue their late-season slide, falling to 5-5 and 3-3 in the L&C after winning their first three games of the year. "Our defense is playing great football right now," said Bobcat coach Norwood Longview. "In our wins, they've absolutely stuffed our opponents for the most part. The individual components, offense and defense aren't the best individually, but together they do what it takes to win. I'd say we have a good chance to win back the painting next week against Montana." The Bobcats will face arch-rival Montana in Bozeman for the Grizzly-Bobcat Painting, won by Montana last year in a 45-3 drubbing. It was not a game that would be called a classic by any stretch of the imagination as the messy field conditions caused by the weather hampered both offenses. Montana State would get the early break as quarterback Devin Weaver (12-29-95-0-1) would fumble at midfield on the second play from scrimmage and MSU linebacker Pete Joseph scooped it up and returned it to the MSUB 41. Freshman QB Mitch Fielder (16-20-121-1-1) then hit tight end Kennedy Fulcher (3-43-0) for thirty yards on the first play from scrimmage. Two plays later, Monty Knox (6-27-1) would burst into the end zone from eleven yards out to make the score 7-0 Bobcats with 12:06 left in the first. The teams then exchanged punts and turnovers over the next four possessions before the Yellowjackets finally broke onto the scoreboard with a 32-yard field goal by Arnold McCormack to close to 7-3 with 14:08 left in the half. With the offenses having their troubles, it was a score that would hold until halftime. The Bobcats finally got their offense going with a strong opening drive in the second half. MSU took the opening drive and hammered down the field behind the running of Lionel Franz (16-61-0) and Alvin Rohr (6-32-0). Thirteen plays, 65 yards, and 7:12 later, Rohr would barrel in from the three to push the Bobcat lead to 14-3 with 7:48 in the third. The Yellowjackets continued to struggle as they punted on their next possession and then suffered their third fumble of the game when Jeremy Hiscock caught a pass from Weaver, only to lose the ball at the Yellowjacket 23. Zach Hughes, in his first game back in the starting lineup since suffering a pulled quadriceps a month ago, pounced on it and MSU moved in for the kill. Five plays later, Fielder hooked up with Jamie Mauro (2-22-1) for eight yards and MSU, given the conditions and the ineffectiveness of the MSUB offense, had a virtually insurmountable 21-3 lead with 12:50 left in the game. The Yellowjackets would add another McCormack field goal on the next possession, but could not convert fourth downs on the following two possession, both of which would be turned into Kyle Garner field goals to finish the scoring. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 41, Indiana 7 Michigan's Bo Warren rushed for 92 yards and two touchdowns as the top-ranked Wolverines remained unbeaten by thrashing visiting Indiana, setting up a showdown with Ohio State in Ann Arbor to decide the Big 10 championship next week (2) Florida 87, Kentucky 0 The Gators continued their march to through the SEC by embarrassing the Wildcats in Gainesville, forcing nine Wildcat turnovers during the game, scoring on their first seven possessions to build a 63-0 halftime lead and tying the national record for points in a game (18) Texas A&M 48, (3) Oklahoma 17 A&M's Jerald Long rushed for 151 yards and three touchdown and Ty Carnes rushed for 102 yards as the Aggies crushed the Sooners in Norman, destroying any chance at a national title for Oklahoma (4) Miami 13, (14) Boston College 10 Miami's Kris Carlisle had ten tackles and two interceptions as the Miami defense bailed out their struggling offense to claim a road win at Alumni Stadium (6) Maryland 34, Clemson 13 The #6 Terrapins rode a 24-point fourth quarter to move into a first place tie in the ACC and must now hope that North Carolina, which defeated Maryland earlier but lost to FSU this week, loses against Virginia next week to claim the conference title outright and the ACC's automatic berth in the BCS (7) Ohio State 31, Iowa 3 Buckeye running back Brian LaGrange rushed six times for 57 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes kept pace with #1 Michigan by drilling Iowa in Columbus (8) Stanford 35, Arizona 7 Cardinal running back Kerry Dishman carried the ball 19 times for 145 yards as Stanford stayed atop the Pac-10 by whipping the homestanding Wildcats (9) Arkansas 24, Louisiana State 17 Arkansas's Randal Rose scored on a three-yard touchdown run with :57 left as Arkansas rallied from a 14-0 halftime deficit to down LSU and take the Golden Boot in stormy Baton Rouge (17) Air Force 38, (10) Brigham Young 15 The Falcons overcame a tough day for star running back Bruce Borders by intercepting two passes for touchdowns as the Falcons move into a first place tie in the Mountain West with BYU and Utah, whom they play next week and can clinch the title with a win (11) Nebraska 47, Missouri 21 In Lincoln, the Huskers retained the Missouri-Nebraska Bell behind 198 yards and two touchdowns rushing by Walt Everett and outscoring the Tigers 30-0 in the second half (12) Utah 38, Wyoming 6 The Utes bounced back from their first lost of the season against BYU and kept pace with both BYU and Air Force in the Mountain West by stuffing the Cowboys at Rice-Eccles Stadium (13) Washington State 13, Oregon 10 WSU's Troy Frederick booted a 44-yard field goal with 4:20 left and Oregon's Jermaine Clancy missed a tying chance with 1:38 left, allowing the #13 Cougars to escape the visiting Ducks and keep a first place tie with Stanford in the Pac-10 Iowa State 44, (15) Kansas State 14 Cyclone QB Kent Preston completed 19 of 28 passes for 291 yards and four touchdowns as the Cyclones surprisingly routed #15 Kansas State in Ames and moving into a three-way tie for first in the Big XII North with Colorado and Nebraska with K-State dropping one game back (16) Pittsburgh 79, Rutgers 0 Panther DB Luke Brodie intercepted two passes, returning one for a touchdown and the Panther defense held visiting Rutgers to 120 yards total offense in the shellacking, keeping Pittsburgh undefeated and a game ahead in the Big East (19) Michigan State 30, Purdue 14 MSU's Jorge Torrence rushed for 99 yards and caught nine passes for 68 yards and a touchdown as the Spartans defeated Purdue in Lansing (20) Florida State 38, North Carolina 35 FSU's Luke McIntyre kicked a 30-yard field goal with 3:33 left to help the Seminoles hand North Carolina their first ACC loss of the year, forcing the Tar Heels to have to win against Virginia next week to claim the ACC title by virtue of a tiebreaker win over Maryland earlier this season (21) Penn State 38, Illinois 35 Craig Hansen piled up 234 yards on 31 carries as the Nittany Lions held off upset-minded Illinois in Champaign Alabama 35, (22) Mississippi 7 The Crimson Tide used a smothering defense that held the Rebels to 128 total yards as Alabama handed the slumping visitors from Ole Miss their third loss in four games (23) Mississippi State 17, Auburn 14 Ellis Tartabull connected with KC Terry from a yard out with 1:34 left to lift the homestanding Bulldogs past Auburn and kept Mississippi State's slim SEC West title hopes alive (24) Texas 49, Oklahoma State 21 Longhorn QB Neil Lester passed for 398 yards and four touchdowns as the Longhorns drubbed the visiting Cowboys and moved into a second-place tie in the Big XII South with Oklahoma, one-half game behind rival Texas A&M (25) Marshall 21, Central Florida 11 Marshall's Deon Miller rushed 23 times for 158 yards and a touchdown as the Thundering Herd defeated the Golden Knights in Orlando Conference Games Montana-Western 34, Montana 10 The Bulldogs claimed their second straight Lewis and Clark Conference Championship and a trip to the New Orleans Bowl despite losing star running back Mike Mason early in the first quarter, piling up 360 yards on the ground behind Alonzo Allen's 206 yards and two touchdowns and Norm Walters's 138 yards and one score Montana Tech 23, Great Falls 0 Oredigger running back Rodney Roose rushed for 209 yards and three touchdowns as Montana Tech shut out the Argonauts in Butte Helena 40, MSU-Northern 21 Saints quarterback Edward Stokes passed for 217 yards and two touchdowns as Helena won the battle of L&C basement dwellers over the Lights in Helena Rivalry Games Kent State 17, Akron 14 Kent State's Gerald Coles made a 32-yard field goal with 10 seconds left, enabling Kent State to defeat Akron and retain The Wagon Wheel Minnesota 61, Wisconsin 24 The Golden Gophers had a 100-yard rusher (Russell Becker, 26-115-2), a 300-yard passer (Tommy Kennedy, 15-26-302-3-1), and a 100-yard receiver (Antonio Donaldson, 3-137-2) and even had a 79-yard interception return for a touchdown by DB Keith DeMarco as Minnesota had a stunning rout of Wisconsin to pick up their first Big 10 win of the season and claim Paul Bunyan's Axe and the Slab of Bacon from the Badgers Tennessee 27, Vanderbilt 7 Vols running back Phillip Randolph rushed 28 times for 199 yards and a touchdown as Tennessee thumped in-state rival Vanderbilt in Nashville Virginia Tech 24, West Virginia 12 Rich Matthews carried the ball 18 times for 136 yards and two touchdowns as the Hokies retained possession of the Black Diamond Trophy by dumping West Virginia in Blacksburg Other Scores of Note NC State 23, Wake Forest 20 Wolfpack kicker Carlton Meier nailed a 54-yard field goal as time expired to lift NC State past rival Wake Forest in Winston-Salem Players of the Week Offense: Karl Hall, RB, Syracuse, 28-293-4 Defense: Isaac Porter, DE, Northern Illinois, 6 tck, 1 ast, 4.5 sck MSU nominated: Mitch Fielder, QB, 16-20-121-1-1 Nate Hill, T, 5-12 blocks, 0 SkA Lionel Franz, RB, 16-61-0 Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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I realized that I was missing something from my national reports: rivalry games. There have been several played already this season and if anyone wants to know what happened for certain games, chime in and I'll let you know. Do bear in mind with the quirkiness of the schedule setups in the game there will be matchups (namely USC-Notre Dame) that won't happen with any regularity like they do in real life. I went to a site (www.1122productions.com, I think) and got my list of rivalry games from there. If that list doesn't contain a rivalry that you think it should have (regardless of how one-sided it is, which is a criterion that site uses for rivalries), let me know and I'll add it to my spreadsheet that I'm using to track these matchups.
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04-13-2003, 09:36 PM
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Week 13
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-36, Compound leg fracture Terrell Cage, DE, O-4, Sprained back Lee Burks, DT, Q-7, Hip pointer (UPGRADE) Clay Money, G, Q-2, Abdominal strain (UPGRADE) Kyle Schneider, DE, P-3, Bruised Ribcage (NEW) Wally Bourgeois, WR, has fully recovered Zach Hughes, OLB, has fully recovered Upcoming Opponent Code:
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Also Receiving Votes: Miami (OH), Boise State, Mississippi, Middle Tennessee State, Iowa State, Texas Christian, Syracuse, Alabama, Bowling Green, Virginia Tech Dropped out: Mississippi NOTE: ARV is based on teams with voter poll average <= 35 but not in Coaches Top 25. BCS Standings Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home None this week Visit Offers None this week Offered Farmer, Lister, Sheldon Offers taken back Fulton Phone Calls None this week Visiting Campus None this week Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA Kenneth Emerson, TE, from James Madison HS in Brooklyn, NY Dixon Fuller, ILB, from Reynolds HS in Troutdale, OR Deon Richard, QB, from Cupertino HS in Cupertino, CA *NEW* Riddick Covington, G, from Central Linn HS in Halsey, OR *NEW* Richie Cummins, DT, North HS in Kingman, AZ (All-State) *NEW* Barry Curtis, C, from Lewiston HS in Lewiston, ME (All-State) Committed Elsewhere Walter Elliott, CB, VT, commits to North Carolina State Herb Hall, CB, CA, commits to Tulsa Leonard Henderson, DE, NY, is no longer considering Montana State Tommie Ramsey, C, PA commits to Minnesota Another good week of recruiting brings us three more players. We're especially pleased to land Barry Curtis, whom we've been after since the start of the year. We have a real need at center with Dwayne Kelley graduating and Jumbo Tubbs not developing as hoped. The players lost were not a big deal as they were mostly second-choice type targets. Game Time Montana 41, Montana State 14 NOT A PRETTY PICTURE Bozeman, MT--The Montana Grizzlies took advantage of seven Montana State turnovers, including two that were directly converted to touchdowns and soundly defeated the Bobcats 41-14 in the regular season finale for both squads. The victory also enabled the Grizzlies (6-5, 5-2 L&C) to retain the prized Grizzly-Bobcat Painting, awarded annually to the game's winner. Montana State, meanwhile, had a disappointing finish to the 2003 campaign. Even so, the Bobcats improved dramatically on their 1-10 performance in coach Norwood Longview's first year, finishing 4-7 and 3-4 in the L&C. "It seemed like we were destined to lose this one," said Longview. "Nothing seemed to work after that opening possession, especially on special teams. Shanked punts, fumbled kick returns, a blown 20-yard field goal--it was just a very strange day." Indeed, the Bobcats lost in spite of outgaining the visitors 268-264 and holding the Grizzlies to a team record 43 yards passing. However, with the running of Bert Shea, it didn't matter much. Shea rushed for 198 yards on 25 carries and scored two touchdowns. By contrast, Bobcat quarterback Mitch Fielder had perhaps his worst outing of the season, completing just 11 of 27 passes for 122 yards, one touchdown, and was intercepted three times. Even so, the freshman did well in his first season and now holds team season records in all the major passing categories. In the early going, however, it seemed that it was going to be Montana State's day. After forcing a Montana punt on the opening possession, the Bobcats moved 53 yards in five plays, capping the drive with a 32-yard touchdown run by Alvin Rohr () to put the Bobcats up 7-0 early in the first. After that, nothing went right for the Bobcats. Even though they forced a punt on the next possession, Fielder was sacked and lost the football at the MSU 17. On the very next play, Shea broke loose for a 17-yard touchdown run and the game was tied at 7. On the ensuing kickoff, Lionel Franz muffed the ball and the Grizzlies fell on it at the MSU 12. This time, the Bobcats rose to the challenge and held Montana to a 27-yard field goal by Peter Newton to make it 10-7 with 4:39 left. Both teams punted on their next possession, but it was the punt by Montana that decisively shifted the momentum to the Grizzlies. On that play, Bobcat returner Neil Windham made a critical mistake by attempting to return a punt inside his own 10 yard line. He failed to handle the kick and Desmond Franz scooped up the loose ball at the 3 yard line and barreled his way in to make it 17-7 with 1:05 left in the first. As an indication of just how unfortunate MSU's luck seemed to be, the Bobcats seemingly had a touchdown in hand early in the second quarter when they had the ball first-and-goal at the Grizzly two yard line. A touchdown would have drawn the Bobcats to 17-10 and perhaps have gotten momentum back from the Grizzlies. However, they could not punch it in on three straight plays and then watched normally reliable Kyle Garner, who had drilled a 45-yard field goal in a snowfall last week in Billings, absolutely shank a 20-yard attempt and the Bobcats came away from a first-and-goal with no points to show for it. The Grizzlies then promptly pounded the ball down the field and put up their own field goal to make it 20-7 with 3:00 left in the half. The bad luck would continue into the second half as on the first possession of the half, Fielder was intercepted by Vinny Webb, who returned the ball 43 yards for a touchdown and a 27-7 lead. From there the Grizzlies coasted to victory. Code:
Coaches Top 25 (1) Michigan 28, (5) Ohio State 3 Top-ranked Michigan claimed the Big Ten championship and punched their ticket for the national title game in New Orleans by drubbing arch-rival Ohio State in Ann Arbor behind 211 yards and four touchdowns passing by quarterback Jose Steiner (2) Florida 51, Vanderbilt 0 Winfred Humphries caught six passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns as #2 Florida dominated the visiting Commodores to remain on track for a potential national championship rematch with Michigan (3) Miami 24, West Virginia 17 Miami's Carl Bornstein returned a punt 72 yards for a touchdown with 8:05 left and Roderick Mathis intercepted a pass in the Miami end zone with :49 left to seal the victory and gave the Hurricanes a share of the Big East title with Pittsburgh's loss to Syracuse (4) Notre Dame 77, Connecticut 7 The Irish outgained the Huskies 633-108 behind 211 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns by running back Teddy Stephens Mississippi 34, (8) Arkansas 21 Sammie Blanchard rushed 23 times for 116 yards and a touchdown as the Rebels upset #8 Arkansas in Fayetteville and put Arkansas's SEC West title hopes in jeopardy depending on the outcome of the Egg Bowl next week (25) Colorado 27, (9) Nebraska 14 The Buffaloes downed #9 Nebraska in a downpour in Boulder, enabling them to tie Iowa State for the Big XII North title, but losing the tiebreaker to the Cyclones due to a lose to Iowa State earlier in the season (11) Utah 38, (14) Air Force 7 Ute quarterback Leon Hartman passed for 189 yards and four touchdowns while the Ute defense held Air Force running back Bruce Borders to -7 rushing yards in whipping the Falcons in Salt Lake City, giving the Mountain West title to Brigham Young Washington 38, (12) Washington State 23 The Huskies simultaneously captured the Apple Cup and ruined any chance Washington State had at the Pac-10 title and a BCS berth by outscoring the Cougars 24-3 in the second half in Pullman Syracuse 21, (13) Pittsburgh 13 Karl Hall rushed for 133 yards and had a receiving touchdown as the Orangemen ruined a perfect season in the Big East by Pittsburgh, though the Panthers do clinch the Big East's BCS berth by virtue of a victory over co-champion Miami earlier in the season (15) Texas A&M 55, Baylor 3 A&M's Andrew Buckley caught nine passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns as the Aggies prepared for their showdown with Texas by flogging the Bears in Waco (19) Penn State 45, (16) Michigan State 10 Lion running back Craig Hansen piled up 220 yards and a touchdown rushing as the nineteenth-ranked Nittany Lions retained the Land Grant trophy by smashing #16 Michigan State in Happy Valley (17) Brigham Young 58, Wyoming 0 BYU's Terrance Mosier caught seven passes for 147 yards and three touchdowns to lead BYU in a 58-0 shutout of Wyoming and giving the Cougars a share of the Mountain West Conference title and the conference's berth in the Gator Bowl by virtue of an earlier win over Utah Georgia Tech 35, (18) Florida State 24 A disastrous fourth quarter for the Seminoles contributed to 14 Yellow Jacket points and enabled Georgia Tech to pull a stunning upset of the Seminoles in Atlanta (21) Kansas State 38, Kansas 10 Wildcat running back Dennis Swiderski rushed for 163 yards and three touchdowns as the Wildcats retained the Governor's Cup by ripping rival Kansas in Lawrence Virginia Tech 23, (23) Boston College 15 Hokie QB Sedrick Morey passed for 312 yards and two touchdowns to lead Viginia Tech over #23 Boston College in Blacksburg (24) Marshall 45, Ohio 0 Deon Miller ran the ball 26 times for 156 yards and two touchdowns as the Thundering Herd blasted the visiting Bobcats and retained The Bell Conference Games Montana-Western 41, MSU-Billings 13 The Bulldogs completed their defense of the Lewis and Clark Conference Championship and a return trip to New Orleans by defeating the visiting Yellowjackets behind 237 yards and four touchdowns passing by QB Carl Rose Great Falls 52, Helena 10 Marty Rudd completed 21 of 35 passes for 219 yards and a touchdown as Great Falls finished a strong 2003 season by whipping the Saints in Great Falls Montana Tech 28, MSU-Northern 17 Trent Hirsch rushed for 165 yards and a touchdown and Rodney Roose rushed for 106 yards and another touchdown as the Orediggers defeated the Lights in Havre Rivalry Games Western Michigan 37, Central Michigan 10 WMU's Ian Childress had a nearly flawless day, completing 30 of 36 passes for 344 yards and two touchdowns as the Broncos buried their arch-rivals in Kalamazoo Illinois 26, Northwestern 23 (OT) Lincoln Tabar booted a game-tying field goal with 1:35 left in regulation and then booted the game-winning field goal in overtime as the Illini retained the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk in their rivalry with Northwestern Indiana 24, Purdue 14 Indiana's Irv Foster caught four passes for 129 yards and a touchdown as the Hoosiers sprung the upset on arch-rival Purdue and took the Old Oaken Bucket in Bloomington Iowa State 41, Missouri 13 Cyclone receiver Blake Sherman caught four balls for 139 yards and two touchdowns as the Cyclones retained the Telephone Trophy and more importanly took the Big XII North title on a tie-breaker against Colorado, whom they defeated earlier in the year North Carolina 42, Virginia 0 UNC's Herman Montgomery passed for 252 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for another as the Tar Heels shut out rival Virginia and captured at least a share of the ACC championship for the second straight year, winning the conference's BCS berth by virtue of their defeat of co-champion Maryland earlier this year UCLA 45, Southern California 14 The Bruins retained the Victory Bell by sending the Trojans to their fourth straight defeat in a 48-14 thumping at the LA Colisseum behind 349 yards and three passing touchdowns by quarterback Harvey Turnbull Other Scores of Note NC State 23, Duke 13 Wolfpack receiver Billy Joe Garcia had seven catches for 112 yards and defensive back Gene Harrison intercepted a pass and returned it 19 yards for a touchdown as the Wolfpack defeated the Blue Devils in a downpour in Raleigh Texas Christian 24, Louisville 14 The Horned Frogs scored 17 fourth-quarter points to break a 7-all tie and defeat the visiting Cardinals to capture the Conference USA title and the league's berth in the Queen City Bowl for the second straight year Boise State 17, Fresno state 10 The Broncos scored 10 points in the final 2:47 to rally past the Bulldogs in Fresno to capture the Western Athletic Conference title and the league's berth in the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose North Texas 28, Middle Tennessee State 10 Duane Cobb rushed for 151 yards and a touchdown to lead the Mean Green past the Blue Raiders in Mufreesboro, though the victory was not enough to offset MTSU's tiebreaker advantage in giving the Raiders the Sun Belt Conference title and a spot in the New Orleans Bowl opposite Montana-Western Players of the Week Offense: Ian Childress, QB, Western Michigan, 30-36-344-2-0 Defense: Martin Sawyer, DE, Colorado State, 7 tck, 1 ast, 4.0 sck, 1 int MSU nominated: Alvin Rohr, RB, 6-52-1 Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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04-13-2003, 09:49 PM
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Week 14
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-35, Compound leg fracture Terrell Cage, DE, D-3, Sprained back (UPGRADE) Lee Burks, DT, Q-5, Hip pointer Kyle Schneider, DE, P-2, Bruised Ribcage Clay Money, G, P-1, Abdominal strain (UPGRADE) Upcoming Opponent None, season over Coaches Top 25 Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home None this week Visit Offers None this week Offered None this week Offers taken back None this week Phone Calls Farmer, Lister Visiting Campus None this week Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA Kenneth Emerson, TE, from James Madison HS in Brooklyn, NY Dixon Fuller, ILB, from Reynolds HS in Troutdale, OR Deon Richard, QB, from Cupertino HS in Cupertino, CA Riddick Covington, G, from Central Linn HS in Halsey, OR Richie Cummins, DT, North HS in Kingman, AZ (All-State) Barry Curtis, C, from Lewiston HS in Lewiston, ME (All-State) *NEW* Van England, FB, from Capistrano Valley HS in Mission Viejo, CA Committed Elsewhere Eugene Fulton, C, NJ, commits to Texas-El Paso Les Giles, WR, MI, commits to Colorado Ty Prescott, G, NY, commits to Notre Dame Mercury Sheldon, ILB, MI, commits to Alabama-Birmingham We pick up one more recruit, a fullback we liked from California. We agonized over whether to pull the offer since we were very interested in other recruits with only two rides left to give, but we ultimately decided to keep it on the table because he has good size relative to our current crop of fullbacks. We are now down to probably our last three choices in Fountaine (whom we've been waiting on for weeks now), Farmer and Lister. We want all of them but we can't do so as we have only one scholarship left in the class. If we somehow land more than one of them, we're going to have to figure out who to cut from the scholarship rolls unless one of the players does something stupid to give us an excuse to cut him. This could get interesting. Game Time None, season over Coaches Top 25 (4) Notre Dame 27, Boston College 10 #4 Notre Dame retained the Ireland Trophy in their annual battle with Boston College by scoring 17 unanswered points in the second half (6) Stanford 59, California 21 In the Big Game at Berkeley, the Cardinal hung on to the Stanford Axe behind Peter Watkins's 160 yards and three rushing touchdowns (7) Utah 48, South Florida 3 Utah's Leon Hartman passed for 226 yards and three touchdowns as Utah completed an impressive 2003 campaign by flogging South Florida in Tampa (8) Oklahoma 44, Oklahoma State 7 Oklahoma's Dexter Fierro passed for 412 yards and five touchdowns as the Sooners routed the Cowboys in the Bedlam Game played this year in Stillwater (10) Texas A&M 31, (22) Texas 14 Everett Stickney's 49-yard interception return for a touchdown early in the third quarter fueled a 24-point run by the Aggies in the second half at College Station, clinching the Big XII South title for the Aggies, who will play Iowa State in the Big XII title game next week (21) Mississippi State 17, Mississippi 7 Ellis Tartabull raced 60 yards for the game-clinching touchdown with 1:26 left as Mississippi State defeated Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl at Oxford, giving the Bulldogs a berth in the SEC title game opposite Florida by virtue of a tie-breaking win over Arkansas Idaho 38, (23) Boise State 10 Dana Graham rushed for 196 yards on 21 carries and scored three touchdowns as the Vandals rocked #23 Boise State in a steady rain in Moscow[/i] Conference Games Utah State 38, Montana Tech 10 Utah State's Josh Russell passed for 244 yards and three touchdowns as the Aggies buried the Orediggers in Logan Akron 14, MSU-Northern 3 Kirk Taylor rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown as the Zips beat the visiting Lights in a rainy quagmire in Akron Rivalry Games Auburn 42, Alabama 21 Auburn's Riddick Tharpe threw for 218 yards and two touchdowns as the Tigers whipped arch-rival Alabama in the Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium Arizona State 23, Arizona 13 ASU running back Matthew Collons rushed 25 times for 133 yards and a touchdown as the Sun Devils took the Territorial Cup in Tempe Navy 34, Army 31 (OT) Robbie Shannon booted a 38-yard field goal to lift the Midshipmen to victory in overtime in a classic in the long-running series between the two service academies Miami (OH) 38, Cincinnati 7 RedHawk QB Marty Scogin completed 20 of 33 passes for 265 yards and four touchdowns as Miami defeated arch-rival Cincinnati in Oxford to retain the Victory Bell South Carolina 38, Clemson 17 Gamecock running back Glen Byrnes rushed for 162 yards and three touchdowns, including a 71-yard jaunt in the second quarter as the Gamecocks drubbed Clemson in the Battle of the Palmetto State in Columbia Georgia Tech 24, Georgia 14 The Yellow Jackets capitalized on four Bulldog turnovers to down arch-rival Georgia and lock up a bowl berth in Atlanta Rice 34, Houston 14 Rice's Norman Kirkland racked up 215 rushing yards and two touchdowns, including an 80-yard run in the second quarter, lifting Rice to victory over Houston in the annual battle for the Bayou Bucket between the two cross-town rivals Louisville 28, Kentucky 7 Louisville's Kirk Pomerantz threw for 240 yards and two scores and ran for another score as the Cardinals whipped the homestanding Wildcats to retain control of the Governor's Cup UNLV 43, Nevada 30 Edwin Humpries returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown late in the second quarter, starting a run of 27 unanswered points by the visiting Rebels, enabling them to win the game and retain Fremont's Cannon New Mexico State 27, UTEP 19 In the Battle of I-10 from Las Cruces, New Mexico State picked off two passes and returned both for touchdowns as NMSU built a 24-6 halftime lead and then hung on, claiming the Silver Spade and Brass Spittoon from the Miners, who won them in last year's contest Oregon State 41, Oregon 23 The Beavers scored 24 points in the fourth quarter to break open what had been a tight 17-15 contest in the renewal of the Civil War in Eugene Virginia Tech 49, Virginia 10 Virginia Tech's Sedrick Morey passed for 451 yards and five touchdowns as the Hokies routed the Cavaliers in Blacksburg to retain possesion of the Commonwealth Cup Other Scores of Note Northern Illinois 25, Toledo 24 NIU's Scottie Shepard rushed for 126 yards and a touchdown and Randy Monaghan scored a touchdown with 2:58 left to lift NIU to victory over the Rockets in DeKalb, giving the MAC's West Division title to Bowling Green, who will face East Division champion Miami University in the MAC title game next week Players of the Week Offense: Peter Watkins, RB, Stanford, 40-160-3 Defense: Irving Dole, DE, Georgia, 6 tck, 2 ast, 3.5 sck Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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Week 15
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-34, Compound leg fracture Lee Burks, DT, Q-5, Hip pointer Terrell Cage, DE, Q-2, Sprained back (UPGRADE) Kyle Schneider, DE, P-1, Bruised Ribcage Clay Money, G, has recovered Upcoming Opponent None, season over Coaches Top 25 Code:
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Recruiting New Contacts None this week In-home None this week Visit Offers None this week Offered None this week Offers taken back Lister Phone Calls Farmer, Lister Visiting Campus None this week Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA Kenneth Emerson, TE, from James Madison HS in Brooklyn, NY Dixon Fuller, ILB, from Reynolds HS in Troutdale, OR Deon Richard, QB, from Cupertino HS in Cupertino, CA Riddick Covington, G, from Central Linn HS in Halsey, OR Richie Cummins, DT, North HS in Kingman, AZ (All-State) Barry Curtis, C, from Lewiston HS in Lewiston, ME (All-State) Van England, FB, from Capistrano Valley HS in Mission Viejo, CA *NEW* Britt Fountaine, DT, from Victor HS in Victor, NY (All-State) Committed Elsewhere Nicky Farmer, WR, PA, commits to Kansas Leonard Henderson, DT, NY, commits to East Carolina Finally, after months of waiting, we get positive word from Britt Fountaine that he's coming here. He makes the third Top 1000 recruit in this year's ten-man class. He is also its final member. As a result we have to pull the one outstanding offer from Lister and cease further contacts with everyone else as we reach our limit of players. We're most pleased by this small class considering our reputation hurdles grew this year. Each of these players has been rated better or much better than scouted, as well. With Humphrey, Fountaine, and Cummins joining Haggans and Burks on the defensive line next year, we hope our fortunes on the defensive side of the ball will improve. Game Time None, season over Coaches Top 25 (2) Florida 40, (16) Mississippi State 3 #2 Florida cemented the rematch with #1 Michigan by pounding the Bulldogs in the SEC Championship behind 246 yards and two touchdowns passing and one rushing touchdown from quarterback Ricky Alston (9) Texas A&M 38, (25) Iowa State 21 Amos McCloud passed for 262 yards and three touchdowns to help Texas A&M win the Big XII Championship and a spot in the Bowl Championship Series Other Scores of Note Miami (OH) 17, Bowling Green 7 RedHawk QB Marty Scogin passed for 260 yards and rushed for 40 yards and a score to lead Miami past Bowling Green in the MAC Championship game Made to Be Broken--Game records set this week Code:
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BCS MATCHUPS ANNOUNCED
New Orleans, LA--The Bowl Championship Series announced its matchups for the 2003 season Sunday. As expected, the Michigan Wolverines and Florida Gators, the last two unbeaten teams in the nation, will square off for the national championship in this year's Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. It will be a rematch of the 2002 BCS championship game in which Michigan triumphed over Florida to claim its first national title since 1998. The two teams spent most of the year 1-2 in the polls. The Orange Bowl selected hometown favorite Miami, co-champions of the Big East Conference, to face Pac-10 champion Stanford at Pro Player Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Miami just missed making the championship game this year. Had Florida lost to Mississisppi State in the SEC championship game Saturday, it would have been possible that the Hurricanes would have moved to #2 in the BCS rankings. Notre Dame and Big East co-champion Pittsburgh will clash in this year's edition of the Rose Bowl. It is an intriguing matchup that features an Irish team that lost only once this year, to the Wolverines, against a Pittsburgh Panther team that handed the Hurricanes their only loss of the season and beat ranked teams Texas A&M, Boston College, and Virginia Tech during the course of the year. Finally, in the Fiesta Bowl, Big XII champion Texas A&M will face a team many people think should not be playing in the BCS, the North Carolina Tar Heels. UNC lost all their non-conference games, but did go 7-1 in ACC play to finish 7-4 on the season. They got the ACC's berth in the BCS for the second straight year by winning the head-to-head contest against ACC co-champion Maryland, who was just edged out by Notre Dame for the last BCS spot and had to settle for a Gator Bowl bid against Mountain West Conference champion Brigham Young. |
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CHAMPIONSHIP QBS HEAD HEISMAN LIST
New York, NY--The Downtown Athletic Club in New York City has announced this year's finalists for the Heisman Trophy. The award is presented annually to college football's most valuable player. Both quarterbacks in this year's national championship game at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Jose Steiner of Michigan and Ricky Alston of Florida, are on the list, as well as last year's runner-up in the voting, Tyrus O'Donnell of Notre Dame. Joining these three are another Heisman finalist from a year ago, Texas A&M QB Amos McCloud, and a running back who lead the nation in rushing yards this year, Craig Hansen of Penn State. Here are the nominees in alphabetical order with statistics for their primary position: Ricky Alston, Sr*, QB, FLA, 198-306-3113-32-11 Craig Hansen, Jr, RB, PSU, 323-1537-20 Amos McCloud, Sr**, QB, TAMU, 205-309-2987-34-10 Tyrus O'Donnell, Sr**, QB, ND, 151-236-2364-31-8 Jose Steiner, Sr*, QB, MICH, 222-355-3380-34-12 This year's leading candidates seem to be Alston, O'Donnell, and Steiner, as McCloud and Hansen played for teams that lost more than one game, which dims their chances somewhat. After standing in the shadows of Earnest Lindsay, the quarterback who guided Michigan to last year's national title, Jose Steiner has stepped out on his own in a big way this year, leading what many consider an even better team than last year's squad back to the promised land. As a result, Steiner is considered to be a slight favorite. On the opposing sideline in this year's Sugar Bowl will be Ricky Alston, a redshirt senior who exploded this year after guiding last year's team to the title game, improving in just about every area of his play. He is considered the dark horse of the three. Finally, there is the sentimental favorite Tyrus O'Donnell, who has spent the last two years returning the Irish to its former glory in college football, but both years coming up just short of the big game. Of the three, only O'Donnell is in his final year of eligibility and his narrow loss last year may persuade some voters to give it to him based on his body of work over the years. The Heisman Trophy will be presented this Saturday in New York. |
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STEINER TAKES HOME HEISMAN
New York, NY--In a tight vote, Michigan quarterback Jose Steiner was awarded the 2003 Heisman Trophy in New York on Saturday. The redshirt-senior has passed for 3380 yards and 34 touchdowns in guiding the Wolverines back into the national championship game. He was top choice on 123 ballots. Losing by three votes was surprise runner-up Amos McCloud of Texas A&M. Tyrus O'Donnell, last year's runner-up came in third with 114 votes, Florida quarterback Ricky Alston was fourth with 113 votes, and Craig Hansen was last among the finalists invited to New York with 109 votes. "I am grateful to my team and the fans of Michigan football," said Steiner afterwards. "Without the team's effort and the support of the fans, this year could not have been as good as it has been. We look forward to bringing home another national title." |
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Bowl Season
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Casualty List Mitchell Hanson, T, O-33, Compound leg fracture Terrell Cage, DE, has recovered Kyle Schneider, DE, has recovered Lee Burks, DT, has recovered Other Team News Louie Warner, G, is put on academic notice Upcoming Opponent None, season over Coaches Top 25 Code:
Also Receiving Votes: Texas, Virginia Tech, Bowling Green, Arizona State, UCLA, Auburn, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Miami (OH), Boise State Dropped out: Iowa State NOTE: ARV is based on teams with voter poll average <= 35 but not in Coaches Top 25. Final BCS Standings Code:
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2003 Conference Champions ACC: North Carolina (7-4, 7-1 ACC, Fiesta Bowl) Big 10: Michigan (12-0, 8-0 B10, Sugar Bowl) Big XII: Texas A&M (10-2, 7-1 B12, Fiesta Bowl) Big East: Pittsburgh (9-2, 6-1 BEC, Rose Bowl) Pac 10: Stanford (10-1, 7-1 P10, Orange Bowl) SEC: Florida (12-0, 8-0 SEC, Sugar Bowl) MWC: Brigham Young (9-2, 6-1 MWC, Gator Bowl) C-USA: TCU (8-3, 7-1 USA, Queen City Bowl) WAC: Boise State (8-3, 7-1 WAC, Silicon Valley Classic) MAC: Miami (OH) (9-3, 7-1 MAC, Las Vegas Bowl) Sun Belt: Middle Tennessee State (7-4, 4-2 SBC, New Orleans Bowl) L&C: Montana-Western (7-4, 7-0 L&C, New Orleans Bowl) Bowl Matchups Code:
Recruiting Coming here Troy Humphrey, DE, from Boulder City HS in Boulder City, NV (All-State) Dwayne Baker, CB, from King City HS in King City, CA Kenneth Emerson, TE, from James Madison HS in Brooklyn, NY Dixon Fuller, ILB, from Reynolds HS in Troutdale, OR Deon Richard, QB, from Cupertino HS in Cupertino, CA Riddick Covington, G, from Central Linn HS in Halsey, OR Richie Cummins, DT, North HS in Kingman, AZ (All-State) Barry Curtis, C, from Lewiston HS in Lewiston, ME (All-State) Van England, FB, from Capistrano Valley HS in Mission Viejo, CA Britt Fountaine, DT, from Victor HS in Victor, NY (All-State) *NEW* Terrell Atteberry, ILB, from Delta HS in Muncie, IN (Walk-on) *NEW* Mitch Clemons, C, from Willingboro HS in Willingboro, NJ (Walk-on) *NEW* Travis Gildon, C, from Whitefish HS in Whitefish, MT (Walk-on) Committed Elsewhere Kirk Jarvis, ILB, RI, commits to Washington Raymond Edens, K, VA, commits to Ohio State Rickey Lister, T, commits to Michigan State We are pleasantly surprised when three of our former contacts decide they want to walk on at Montana State. After the typical stiffs usually handed out for walk-ons, they will be a welcome change in that regard. Can never have too much depth. Game Time None, season over Non-BCS Bowls New Orleans Bowl: Middle Tennessee State 36, Montana-Western 26 In an offensive showcase in New Orleans, William Booker passed for 342 yards and five touchdowns, while game MVP Ty Sheppard rushed for 85 yards, caught six passes for 98 yards and two touchdowns, returned three punts for 70 yards, and even returned a kickoff eighteen yards (MVP: Ty Sheppard, MTSU, 10-85-0 rush, 6-98-2 recv) Motor City Bowl: Colorado State 41, East Carolina 0 Rams QB Stanley Bulluck passed for 239 yards and four touchdowns as Colorado State shut out East Carolina in Detroit (MVP: Stanley Bulluck, CSU, 18-22-239-4-0) Alamo Bowl: Texas 31, (18) Air Force 3 The Longhorns returned two interceptions for touchdowns in the fourth quarter to blow open a hard-fought contest and overcome 129 yards rushing by Air Force's Bruce Borders in his final game (MVP: Preston Kirtsey, UT, 18-79-0 rush, 6-64-0 recv) Humanitarian Bowl: (7) Utah 51, Louisiana Tech 7 Leon Hartman completed an efficient 11 of 12 passes for 148 yards and three touchdowns and the Ute defense returned two interceptions for touchdowns in the rout of overmatched Louisiana Tech (MVP: Jesse Pounds, UTAH, 10 KeyRBlk) Mobile Alabama Bowl: Mississippi 52, (19) Marshall 15 Kendrick Sales returned two punts for touchdowns in the first half and running back Sammie Blanchard hammered his way for 134 yards and three scores in a rout of #19 Marshall in Mobile (MVP: Sammie Blanchard, MISS, 18-134-3 rush, 2-24-0 recv) Las Vegas Bowl: Washington 31, Miami (OH) 24 Washington's Kris Bradley rushed for three touchdowns over a nine minute stretch of the second half, the last one putting the Huskies ahead 28-24 with 6:33 left after the Huskies had trailed 24-7 midway through the third quarter (MVP: Earl Dirita, UW, 8 KeyRBlk) Music City Bowl: Auburn 38, (25) Virginia Tech 30 Auburn's defense held the Hokies to -2 rushing yards while the offense reeled off 28 unanswered points during one stretch to build a 38-14 lead, a lead that nearly evaporated during the last minutes of the fourth quarter (MVP: Roy Holmes, AUB, 7 tck, 3 ast, 3.0 sck) Independence Bowl: (14) Nebraska 45, Navy 7 Nebraska's Kyle Dowd returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown and returned an interception 56 yards for another touchdown as the Huskers routed Navy in Shreveport (MVP: Butch Randle, NEB, 7 KeyRBk) Tangerine Bowl: Georgia Tech 38, Bowling Green 0 Georgia Tech's Ron Sanderson passed for 303 yards and three touchdowns and Dean Holdman rushed for 120 yards and two scores as the Yellow Jackets buried Bowling Green in Orlando (MVP: Dean Holdman, GT, 29-120-2 rush, 7-65-0 recv) Queen City Bowl: Boston College 63, Texas Christian 7 The Eagle ground attack racked up 348 yards and seven touchdowns and the offense as a whole put up 615 yards of offense as BC destroyed Conference USA champion TCU in Charlotte (MVP: Kris Flowers, BC, 16-154-2 rush, 1-35-0 recv) Sun Bowl: (20) Colorado 31, UCLA 13 Max Benton passed for 211 yards and a touchdown and rushed for another score while Jerome Ross rushed for 160 yards and a score as the Buffaloes dumped the Bruins in El Paso (MVP: Lawrence Campbell, CU, 5 tck, 2.0 sck) Silcon Valley Classic: Wisconsin 48, Boise State 7 Wisconsin's Ian Dawson passed for 409 yards and five touchdowns as the Badgers easily overwhelmed WAC champion Boise State in San Jose (MVP: Ian Dawson, WISC, 22-29-409-5-0) Peach Bowl: (16) Kansas State 24, (23) Florida State 14 The Wildcats scored 21 straight points to close out the game and rally from a 14-3 third quarter deficit in defeating the Seminoles in Atlanta (MVP: Dennis Swiderski, KSU, 2 tck, 1 fumble recovered for touchdown) Cotton Bowl: (22) Michigan State 31, (11) Arkansas 21 Spartan running back Jorge Torrence rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns, leading the Spartans past #11 Arkansas in Dallas (MVP: Jorge Torrence, 35-119-2 rush, 4-51-0 recv) Copper Bowl: (8) Oklahoma 17, (21) Syracuse 13 Oklahoma QB Dexter Fierro passed for 278 yards and two touchdowns as the Sooners held off a late rally by the Orangemen in Phoenix (MVP: Winston Raymond, OU, 23-57-0 rush, 8-93-0 recv) Gator Bowl: (12) Brigham Young 24, (5) Maryland 9 The Cougars broke out to a 21-0 lead thanks initially to a 68-yard punt return for touchdown by Chester Kinder and held the ACC co-champs to 202 total yards, overcoming four turnovers committed by BYU (MVP: Andre Fazande, 6 KeyRBlk) Outback Bowl: (13) Penn State 35, Arizona State 27 Heisman Trophy finalist Craig Hansen shredded the Sun Devils for 278 yards and four touchdowns rushing as the Nittany Lions utilized a 14-0 third quarter to blow open a game that was 14-10 at the half, only allowing two ASU scores very late to make the game closer than it was (MVP: Craig Hansen, PSU, 46-278-4 rush, 1-19-0 recv) Holiday Bowl: (24) Mississippi State 49, (15) Washington State 21 The Bulldogs scored the last 29 points of the game to blow open a tight contest against the Cougars in San Diego (MVP: Steven Newman, MSST, 8 tck, 3.0 sck) Citrus Bowl: Iowa State 24, (10) Ohio State 9 Iowa State's defense forced four Buckeye turnovers and Morris Van Pelt rushed 37 times for 162 yards and two touchdowns as the Cyclones dispatched #10 Ohio State with surprising ease (MVP: Morris Van Pelt, ISU, 37-162-2 rush, 3-34-0 recv) Last edited by Wolfpack : 04-14-2003 at 07:35 PM. |
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Fiesta Bowl: North Carolina 19, (9) Texas A&M 14
HEELS LEAVE AGGIES BLUE Tempe, AZ--The whole week leading up to the Fiesta Bowl, a lot of the talk had centered around whether North Carolina belonged in a BCS bowl. The Tar Heels had come to Tempe brandishing an ugly 7-4 mark, claming the ACC's BCS berth only by virtue of having beaten co-champion Maryland head-to-head. It hardly seemed BCS-worthy. With a stunning 19-14 victory over ninth-ranked Texas A&M, that talk can be put to rest. Early on it looked as if the pundits would be proven correct, though. Texas A&M (10-3) took the opening kickoff and marched 77 yards in eight plays, completing the drive with a three-yard touchdown run by Ty Carnes (16-41-2) to make the score 7-0 just over three minutes in. North Carolina (8-4), meanwhile, foundered. On its first possession, the Tar Heels lost the ball when Harvey Howe (7-28-0) was stripped and A&M's Darnell Blanchard recovered at the UNC 42. Fortunately for the Heels, the defense rose to the occassion. After giving up a first down on the first play of the new drive, the Tar Heels stuffed A&M on back to back run plays and forced a pass incompletion on third down. A&M elected to go for it on fourth down at the 30, but came up empty as Amos McCloud (12-25-209-0-0) was hurried into a bad throw. However, the Heels would wind up giving the ball back when they, too, went for it on fourth down at the A&M 29 and failed. This time, the Aggies would capitalize as the running of Carnes and the passing of McCloud moved the ball to the UNC 22. From there, Carnes broke through the center of the line and ran the ball to the end zone to make the score 14-0 with 14:08 left in the half. North Carolina finally got a drive going on the next possession as they moved the ball from their own 20 to the A&M 14 before the drive stalled out. The Heels settled for a 31-yard field goal from Gus Sampson to get on the scoreboard trailing 14-3. However, A&M got excellent field position on the next drive when Shaun Occean returned the kickoff to midfield. The Aggies moved it to the 31 before Carnes was swarmed under in the backfield on second down. After a short completion, the Aggies once again faced a fourth down in the tricky area of the field where it was too far for a field goal and too short for a punt. So, they went for it again and again they failed. UNC would capitalize by moving the ball back down the field, converting three separate third down attempts on the drive, only to have the drive stall at the A&M 7, where Sampson booted his second field goal to make it 14-6 with :26 left in the half. Both offenses struggled to start the second half as the teams exchanged punts on four consecutive possessions, leaving the Tar Heels with the ball at their own 37 with 7:10 left in the third quarter. The Heels then embarked on a time-consuming 16-play drive that chewed up the remaining time in the third quarter and included a successful conversion of a fourh down gamble at the A&M 36. Finally, on the second play of the fourth quarter Gabe Hill (31-136-1) ran around left end and into the end zone from four yards out and suddenly the Heels were trailing by two. However, the Heels failed the two-point conversion to tie, so the score remained 14-12 with 14:28 left. The Aggie offense continued to sputter as they went three-and-out and punter Sammie Frick shanked a 26-yard punt, giving the Heels the ball at the A&M 47. Eight plays later, Herman Montgomery (14-22-134-1-0) hooked up with Hill from six yards out and the Heels got their first lead of the game at 19-14 with 8:17 remaining. The Aggies could never get their offense untracked again even though the Heels twice turned the ball over on downs at the A&M 31 as they continued to go three-and-out each possession and ultimately ran out of time. Code:
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Rose Bowl: (4) Notre Dame 31, (17) Pittsburgh 28
IRISH BEAT BACK PANTHERS Los Angeles, CA--In a game of scoring streaks, Notre Dame's 31 unanswered points during the second, third, and early fourth quarters enabled the Irish to withstand a late rally by the Panthers and win the 2004 Rose Bowl 31-17. The win capped a season in which the #4 Irish (11-1) lost only once, to undefeated and top-ranked Michigan, who will play Florida for the national title in the Sugar Bowl. The Panthers (9-3), meanwhile, lost the last two games of a season that saw them pick off several ranked teams, including handing Big East co-champion Miami their only loss of the season. In the early going, it looked like Pittsburgh was going to beat yet another ranked team as they've done several times this season. Pittsburgh's opening possession covered 80 yards in ten plays and took 5:33 off the clock, capped by Skip Weaver's (22-68-2 rush, 2-13-1 recv) first touchdown, a short five yard burst. Notre Dame, meanwhile, went three-and-out on its opening drive, giving the ball back to the Panthers at their own 48. Six plays later, Weaver made another five-yard touchdown run and the Panthers were suddenly up 14-0 with 4:30 left in the first quarter. The euphoria on the Pittsburgh side did not last as the Irish got their act together on the ensuing possession. Notre Dame embarked on a 9-play 65-yard drive that consumed the rest of the first quarter and was finished by a 21-yard touchdown pass from Heisman candidate Tyrus O'Donnell (15-23-231-3-0) to Brad Minor (2-30-1) to cut the lead in half. At this point, the Pittsburgh offense began to sputter. During the second quarter, the Panthers could muster just 39 yards of offense and three punts, less yards than on their shortest touchdown drive in the first quarter. Meanwhile, the Irish offense kept clicking, finishing one drive with a three-yard touchdown pass from O'Donnell to freshman tight end Reuben MacWhirter (4-48-1) and the next drive with another O'Donnell touchdown pass, this one going for 17 yards to Freddie Hartman (4-64-1). A 14-7 Pittsburgh lead was thus turned into a 21-14 Pittsburgh deficit with 4:13 left in the half and the lead perhaps would have grown had the Irish not run out of time on their last drive before halftime. The halftime did nothing to jump-start the Panthers and seemed to take the steam out of the Irish. Notre Dame opened the third quarter with a three-and-out, though Pittsburgh would punt it back to Notre Dame. The Irish would then move to the Pittsburgh 37 where the Panthers forced them into a fourth-and-13. The Irish went for it and failed to convert, giving Pittsburgh the ball back at the Panther 36. Three plays later, on 3rd-and-13, Pittsburgh QB Marlon Harris (15-30-255-2-1) was picked off by game MVP Teddy Minor at midfield. Once again, however, the Irish could not move the ball, getting only one yard in three plays and punting again. The Panthers still were ineffective with another three-and-out, giving the Irish the ball back at the Pittsburgh 49 with 1:18 left in the third. This time, the Irish pushed deep into Pittsburgh territory, getting a first down at the Pittsburgh 12. The Panther defense stood tall, though and the Irish eventually settled for a 23-yard field goal from Todd McGregor to expand their lead to 24-14 with 12:12 left in the game. Six minutes later, it looked like the Irish had the game won when Freddie Stephens (32-105-1) dashed in from 49 yards out to expand the Irish lead to 31-14 with just 6:08 left. The Panthers were not about to go quietly, however. A lightning drive that included a 51-yard bomb from Harris to Joey Gardner (1-51-0) resulted in a three-yard touchdown pass to Weaver to make the score 31-21 with 4:45 left. The two teams exchanged punts on short three-and-out drives, leaving Pittsburgh with the ball at the Panther 40 with just 2:01 left. Less than a minute later, they were back in the end zone as Cary Cooper (7-125-1) caught a perfect 28-yard touchdown pass from Harris to close the lead to 31-28 with 1:06 left. The Panthers ran out of time and luck, though, as the ensuing onside kick was recovered by the Irish and Notre Dame ran out the clock. Code:
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Orange Bowl: (3) Miami 28, (6) Stanford 3
CANES SQUEEZE STANFORD Ft Lauderdale, FL--The Miami Hurricanes utilized the effective running of Percy Lancaster and David Butler and a strong defense to dominate the Stanford Cardinal in the 2004 Orange Bowl 28-3. The Big East co-champions finished the 2003 season 11-1, their only loss to Big East co-champion Pittsburgh. Stanford, the Pac-10 champion, dropped their second game of the season and finished 10-2. After an initial exchange of possessions, the Hurricanes had the ball at their own 36. After a couple of runs, the Hurricanes caught a break on an incomplete third down pass when Stanford was flagged with unneccessary roughness, moving the ball to the Stanford 45. Casey Fortney (12-15-215-1-1) then completed a 41-yard pass to tight end Jerry Halton (1-41-0) and the Canes were knocking on the door. Two plays later, David Butler (10-36-3) scored on a five-yard touchdown to make it 7-0 with 6:05 to go in the first. While Miami picked up a touchdown in short order, the Cardinal offense continued to have its problems. The Cardinal had to punt on each of the next three possessions they had in the half, picking up a meager 72 yards by halftime. For the game, the Hurricanes would hold Stanford to just 172 total yards. The Hurricanes, meanwhile, kept up the pressure. Though they punted on their next possession after the touchdown, they would get the ball back on their own 11 with 9:56 left in the half. They proceeded to sledgehammer their way down the field behind the running of Percy Lancaster (25-116-0), pushing the ball to the Stanford 9 where they had a 3rd-and-3 with 3:45 left. However, Fortney made an errant pass into the end zone and the pass was intercepted by linebacker Herb Laporte in the end zone to kill the scoring chance. The score would remain 7-0 through halftime. Both offenses picked up where they left off to start the second half as Stanford punted on its opening possession. The Hurricanes then went on a seven-play, 74-yard drive, concluded by a Fortney touchdown pass to Amos Hammond (3-64-1) that covered eight yards to put Miami up 14-0. The Cardinal finally got a sustained drive going on their next possession behind the running of Dominic Vance (18-59-0) and included a successful conversion of a fourth-and-four at the Miami 39 to keep the drive alive. However, after the fourth down conversion, momentum was quickly killed as Cardinal fullback Norbert Kaplan broke his fibula on second down while feinting through the line on an option play. The resulting delay and concern for their fallen teammate seemed to hurt Stanford as they could only manage a feeble incompletion on third down and settled for a 40-yard field goal from Gilbert Mallory to make the score 14-3 with :12 left in the third quarter. Miami immediately responded with a seven-play drive capped by the second of Butler's touchdowns, this one from 11 yards out and Miami increased its lead to 21-3 early in the fourth quarter. Stanford's struggles continued as they went three-and-out and Miami went in for the kill. Starting from their own 49, they marched down the field in six plays and 2:52, finishing the drive with Butler's final touchdown on a two-yard lunge off tackle and the Hurricanes had an insurmountable 28-3 lead with 7:18 left. The Cardinal made one last push on the next possession, getting to the Miami 30 before Kris Clancy (7-13-81-0-1) was intercepted by defensive back Carl Bornstein at the Hurricane 12 to end the threat. Code:
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04-16-2003, 09:54 PM
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Sugar Bowl: (2) Florida 27, (1) Michigan 21
SWEET REVENGE New Orleans, LA--In a classic affair in New Orleans, the Florida Gators outgunned the Michigan Wolverines 27-21 for their second ever national title and first since 1996, also won at the Sugar Bowl against the Florida State Seminoles. The Gators (13-0) also handed the Wolverines (11-1) their first loss in 21 games overall and avenged the loss they suffered at the hands of the Wolverines in last year's title game. The 2004 Sugar Bowl resembled an air show rather than an actual football game as both teams let fly with the passes and neither side could move the ball effectively on the ground. The Gators managed only 99 yards on 44 carries, a miniscule 2.2 yards per carry, while the Wolverines fared much worse, getting only 32 yards on 25 attempts for a microscopic 1.2 yards per carry. However, both quarterbacks, Heisman Trophy winner Jose Steiner and Heisman Trophy finalist Ricky Alston put up 300-yard passing days. Steiner connected on 21 of 31 passes for 359 yards, three touchdowns and was intercepted once, faring just a little better head-to-head against Alston, who completed 18 of 27 passes for 300 yards, three touchdowns and an interception, both Heisman calibre performances on college football's biggest stage. Both were upstaged, however, by the remarkable performance of Michigan wide receiver Norm Page, who caught 10 balls for a whopping 229 yards and amazingly failed to score a touchdown. Even so, Page was awarded MVP honors for his efforts. Florida punted on its first possession, giving the ball to the Wolverines at midfield after a short punt and good return. Steiner went right to work, completing three straight passes, one to Bernie Madison (2-30-1) for 16 yards, one to Page for 30, and finally going to Gene Givens (1-4-1) for the remaining four yards and the touchdown. The entire drive took all of forty-three seconds and gave Michigan a 7-0 lead. The teams traded punts, leaving Florida with the ball on its own 7 after the Gators were flagged for illegal use of hands on the punt return. It didn't seem to bother the Gators, though. Alston completed a pass to fullback Daniel Samuels (2-6-0 rush, 1-10-0 recv) for a first down on the first play, then picked up a third-and-ten by hooking up with running back Kelvin Lane (26-64-0 rush, 2-14-0 recv) for the needed yardage. After Alston was dumped for a three yard loss on an attempted draw, the Gators faced 2nd-and-13 at their own 24. Alston dropped back and found a streaking Deron Jenkins (5-152-2) break free over the deep middle. Alston hit him perfectly in stride and Jenkins sailed into the end zone to complete the 76-yard play and tie the game at 7-7 with 13:39 left in the half. Michigan went three-and-out and punted. The Gators took over at their own 14, but got flagged for holding on a second-down run play. After an incompletion on the replayed second down, Alston was dumped for a sack back at his own four, forcing the Gators to punt, giving the Wolverines the ball in excellent field position at the Florida 44. The Wolverines lost a yard on first down, then Steiner hooked up with Page for a 31-yard strike. The very next play, Steiner went to Madison for fourteen yards and a touchdown and just like that the Wolverines broke ahead 14-7. The Gator response was not long in coming as Alston completed all four of the passes he threw on the next drive, concluding it with a 34-yard touchdown strike to Jenkins to tie the game at 14 with 5:43 left in the half. Both teams seemed content to slow things down and let everyone catch their breath as neither team made a great push for the rest of the half and went into the locker rooms still tied at 14. The halftime layoff seemed to have cooled off both offenses. Michigan opened the second half poorly by going backwards on the first drive and punting, giving the Gators excellent field position at the Michigan 48. However, the opportunity was lost when the Gators failed to convert a fourth down at the Michigan 31. The Wolverines cranked their offense up again as after running back Bo Warren (19-47-0 rush, 4-53-1 recv) was stuffed on first down, Steiner hit five straight passes, three of them to Warren, including the final one, a 20-yard touchdown pass to Warren to put Michigan ahead 21-14 with 6:37 left in the third quarter. Florida's offense still hadn't emerged from halftime as they went three-and-out, but the Gators got a break as Warren was drilled by Marlon Blanchard on a running play and lost the ball. Brent Strayhorn came up with the ball and the Gators were in business with the ball at the Michigan 45. They converted a fourth-and-one at the Michigan 36, but couldn't pick up a third-and-eight at the 29 and ultimately settled for a 43-yard field goal by Mitch Page to close the gap to 21-17. Adding further woes was the fact that Samuels was knocked out of the game and was later determined to have broken ribs. Florida's offense was still having trouble and now Michigan's offense began to experience the same issues as Steiner was intercepted on one possession, though the Gators could not move the ball and capitalize. An exchange of punts occurred and then it was Alston's turn to be intercepted, this one a deep ball that pinned the Wolverines back at their own 2. The Wolverines managed to push out of the shadow of their own goal posts but ultimately had to punt when they reached their own 32. That left the Gators with the ball at their own 47 with 6:56 left in the game. Alston ran a draw for 15 yards and then later completed a 20-yard pass to Jenkins to convert a fourth-and-eight, moving the ball to the 16. However, the Gators were hit with another illegal use of hands penalty in the backfield which pushed the ball all the way back to the 35. Alston shrugged it off by hitting wide receiver Winfred Humphries (4-65-1) for 10 yards and then 25 yards for the touchdown and Florida took the lead for the first time at 24-17 with just 3:06 left. Michigan failed to respond on its next possession, turning over the ball on downs deep in its own territory. Mitch Page then added a 38-yard field goal to extend the lead to 27-21 with just :44 left in the game. But, it wasn't over. The Wolverines started out at their own 20. Steiner completed a short five-yard pass to tight end Kenny Serna (3-38-0). Then Steiner hit an in-stride Norm Page for 40 yards, moving the ball to the Gator 35 with just enough time for one more play. Steiner dropped back and fired a rope to Page again, but he was forced out-of-bounds at the Florida 15, ending the game and giving the Gators their second national title. Code:
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04-16-2003, 09:59 PM
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Post-Bowl Wrapup
2003 National Champions Florida Gators (13-0) 2003 Heisman Trophy Winner Jose Steiner, Sr*, QB, MICH, 123 votes 2003 Players of the Year Offense: Jose Steiner, MICH Defense: Trent Bennett, GT 2003 Rookies of the Year Offense: Timothy Henderson, MEM Defense: Wally Linquist, CONN 2003 National Coach of the Year Leon Ballard, Michigan Final 2003 Coaches Top 25 Code:
Also Receiving Votes: Iowa State, Mississippi, Marshall, Syracuse, North Carolina, Florida State, Washington, Boston College, Virginia Tech, Miami (OH) Dropped Out: Syracuse, Florida State, Virginia Tech 2003 1st and 2nd Team All-Americas Code:
Montana State Players on 2003 All-America Teams Mitch Fielder, QB, All-Rookie Team Brock Harmon, OLB, All-Rookie Team Montana State Players That Won National Awards None Montana State Players on 2003 All-Conference Teams Pete Joseph, ILB, 2nd Team All-Conference Brock Harmon, OLB, 2nd Team All-Conference Cory Peterson, CB, All-Academic Team Montana State Players That Won Conference Awards Mitch Fielder, QB, Offensive Rookie of the Year National Top Prospect Check-In Where Are They Going? Top 10 in HS Class of 2003 #1 Greg Dukart, G, Ridgefield HS in Ridgefield, CT, NOTRE DAME #2 Johnny Gurley, DE, Westbury HS in Houston, TX, TEXAS A&M #3 Dwayne Langton, ILB, Ward Melville HS in Setauket, NY, MICHIGAN #4 Jeffrey Childs, G, Hastings HS in Alief, TX, TEXAS #5 OJ Ramsey, QB, Pleasant Valley HS in Brodheadsville, PA, MICHIGAN #6 JJ North, DE, Durant HS in Plant City, FL, FLORIDA STATE #7 Wade Newton, QB, Edgewater HS in Orlando, FL, SOUTH FLORIDA #8 Bo Drake, T, Goldsboro HS in Goldsboro, NC, NORTH CAROLINA STATE #9 Darren Brandt, S, Richard Montgomery HS in Rockville, MD, MARYLAND #10 Lincoln Hawkins, T, Conemaugh Township Area HS in Davidsville, PA, MICHIGAN Where Are They Now? Top 10 in HS Class of 2002 #1 Jeremy Langdon, QB, New Milford HS in New Milford, CT, ALABAMA redshirted 2003 #2 Graham Lynn, G, Chardon HS in Chardon, OH, GEORGIA redshirted 2003 #3 Donnie Skelton, DE, Lebanon HS in Lebanon, OH, OHIO STATE redshirted 2003 #4 Randall Jenkins, T, Cook HS in Adel, GA, FLORIDA STATE 11 GP, 11 GS, 18-57-31.5 KRB, 6-365-1.6 SkA #5 Eugene Humphries, QB, Parkdale HS in Riverdale, MD, WEST VIRGINIA redshirted 2003 #6 Hunter Pettine, QB, Simi Valley HS in Simi Valley, CA, VIRGINIA TECH redshirted 2003 #7 Kelly Delgado, S, San Jacinto HS in San Jacinto, CA, UCLA redshirted 2003 #8 Johnny Walton, T, Savanna HS in Anaheim, CA, UCLA 8 GP, 0 GS, 0-0-0.0 KRB, 0-10-0.0 SkA #9 Karl Gunn, TE, Fitch HS in Youngstown, OH, OHIO STATE redshirted (by default, didn't play a down) 2003 #10 Conrad Bush, QB, Orem HS in Orem, UT, NEBRASKA 1 GP, 0 GS, 7-10-131-0-1, 160.0 Made to Be Broken: Season Records Set in 2003 Code:
Final Grades for 2003 Team Performance: 79 (up from 48) Academic Performance: 33 (up from 28) Recruiting Performance: 100 (up from 86) Television Revenue: 46 (down from 51) Alumni Donations: 77 (up from 0) Attendance/Stadium: 0 (unchanged) Final Grade: 55 (up from 31) |
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04-16-2003, 10:04 PM
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Thus endeth the year 2003 in this shadowy reflection of the real world. I'm currently in the staff hiring phase of 2004 and let's just say there's a bit of a plot twist on the way for Montana State football. You should be able to determine it from the title I'll give the 2004 thread.
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04-17-2003, 12:09 AM
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Great Dynasty. Go Canes. No National title, but at least we won our Bowl Game.
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04-17-2003, 09:35 AM
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You shouldn't feel too bad about the Canes. Their only loss was to a team (Pittsburgh) that made a habit of chopping down Top 25 teams this year, though two of the four were fellow Big East members in the low Top 25 (BC and VT), and pushed Notre Dame a bit in the Rose Bowl. I haven't looked at the Canes roster closely to see if they're going to have any difficulty in 2004, but I think the preseason poll has them at #3, once again behind the Gators and Wolverines (who reeled in the #1 recruiting class, so Michigan may be set up for a long time to come at the top).
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04-17-2003, 10:24 AM
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Great dynasty! One of my favorite reads on the board. I was glad to see my Colorado Buffaloes rebound from an early season slump to finish in the top 15.
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04-17-2003, 10:50 AM
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Hadn't noticed the Buffs strong play until you mentioned it. They did indeed struggle a bit early (I am at work so I can't verify the schedule they faced at that point), but really came on as you noted, beating K-State, Texas, A&M, and Nebraska. A shame they lost to Iowa State, though. Took them out of the Big XII championship and any shot at a BCS berth. They beat A&M at College Station, so they might have been the favorite in the championship game.
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04-20-2003, 11:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Wolfpack, how could you allow TCU to get blasted so badly in the Queen City Bowl. I mean, 63-7. Sounds like they let the cheerleaders play on defense.
 On a brighter note, it's always nice to have the QB rookie of the year. That's 3 more years (hopefully) of quality leadership for Montana State. Good Luck.
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04-21-2003, 09:42 AM
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Thanks, man. The kid did pretty well, though anything (if it involved a new quarterback, that is) was a staggering improvement over last year. 2004 is going to be very interesting to say the least, though I am momentarily taking a break so I can set about fixing the weather in the game. Being from NC, I know for a fact that it does not rain nine out of eleven weekends during football season in that part of the country. I'm also going to put up "dome-like" weather for places like Syracuse and New Orleans so that'll make sense again. (70 degrees, no volatility, no rain, etc.)
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