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Ohio State has onemore test before BCS rankings Seminoles run away with win
BY STEVE YANDA
With its 35-21 loss to South Carolina on Saturday, Alabama cleared a path for Ohio State to claim the top spot in the initial Bowl Championship Series rank- ings, which will be released Oct. 17. First, however, the Buckeyes— whomovedupone spot toNo. 1 in the Associated Press top 25 poll Sunday — will have to defeat No. 18 Wisconsin on the road. Wisconsin possesses two high-
JONATHAN DANIEL/GETTY IMAGES Quarterback Terrelle Pryor wearsNo. 2, but the Buckeyes areNo. 1 following Alabama’s defeat. ASSOCIATEDPRESSTOP25
Rec. Pts Pv T25 Opp. Rec. Extra Points
1. Ohio St. (34) 6-0 2. Oregon (15)
6-0
3. Boise St. (8) 5-0 4. TCU (1)
5. Nebraska
6-0 5-0
6. Oklahoma (2) 5-0 7. Auburn
8. Alabama 9. LSU
10. S. Carolina 11. Utah
12. Arkansas
6-0 5-1 6-0 4-1 5-0 4-1
13. Michigan St. 6-0 14. Stanford 15. Iowa
16. Florida St. 17. Arizona
18.Wisconsin 19. Nevada
5-1 4-1 5-1 4-1 5-1 6-0
20. Oklahoma St.5-0 21. Missouri 22. Florida 23. Air Force
5-0 4-2 5-1
24. Oregon St. 3-2 25.West Virginia 4-1
1,453 2 1-0 13-13 Tressel’s 100th win OSU 1,427 3 1-0 11-14 Highest rank since ’07 1,395 4 2-0 13-10 10-0 vs. San Jose State 1,304 5 1-0 14-10 Posted 2 straight shutouts 1,236 7 0-0 9-7 1,225 6 2-0 17-6
1,104 8 1-0 17-10 Leads SEC in total offense 1,021 1 3-1 16-11 22-1 vs. Ole Miss at home 999 12 3-0 19-8 First game vs. McNeese 978 19 2-1 16-4 Ten straight wins vs. Cats 926 10 1-0 7-17 68 pts, most since 1983 813 11 0-1 11-7 806 17 2-0 16-7
Thomas’s INT sealed win 9-1 last 10 vs. Illini
732 16 0-1 17-8 Whitaker’s 30-yd FG wins it 648 15 1-1 11-8 Top rush defense in Big Ten 547 23 1-1 13-9 4-4 vs. Boston College 472 9 1-0 12-5 Stoops 4-1 vs. Cougars 410 20 0-1 11-14 8-3 in home night games 376 21 0-0 8-16 7-7 vs. Rainbows
348 22 0-0 12-10 4-6 last 10 vs. Red Raiders 298 24 0-0 12-5 1-4 at College Station 209 14 0-2 20-9 Lowest rank since ’04 187 25 0-1 12-11 7-5 at San Diego State 186 — 1-2 19-3 7-3 last 10 vs. Huskies 141 — 0-1 11-7
2-3 vs.USF
Others receiving votes: Michigan 137, Miami 63, N.C. State 31, Virginia Tech 17, Northwestern 5, Texas 5, Kansas St. 1.
COACHES’TOP25 Rec. Pts Pv
1.Ohio State (49) 2.Oregon (6)
Five straight losses to Texas 67-5-2 vs. Cyclones
3.Boise State (1) 4.Nebraska (2) 5.TCU (1)
6.Oklahoma 7.Auburn
8.Alabama 9.LSU
10.Utah
11.Michigan State 12.South Carolina 13.Arkansas 14.Iowa
15.Stanford 16.Wisconsin
17.Florida State
18.Oklahoma State 19.Missouri 20.Arizona 21.Nevada 22.Florida 23.Air Force 24.Michigan
25.West Virginia
6-0 1455 2 6-0 1388 3 5-0 1335 4 5-0 1272 6 6-0 1213 5 5-0 1193 7 6-0 1060 8 5-1 1029 1 6-0 1021 9 5-0 940 10 6-0 838 16 4-1 835 20 4-1 780 13 4-1 710 15 5-1 618 18 5-1 542 19 5-1 496 24 5-0 478 21 5-0 434 22 4-1 367 11 6-0 329 23 4-2 242 12 5-1 151 — 5-1 137 17 4-1 88 —
Others receiving votes: Miami 66, N.C.
State 41, Texas 31, Oregon State 30, Virginia Tech 24, Northwestern 23, Mississippi State 7, Maryland 2.
caliber tailbacks in junior John Clay and freshman James White. The duo rushed for a combined 229 yards and five touchdowns Saturday in a 41-23 win over Minnesota. Ohio State’s defense, however, has not allowed an op- posing running back to rush for 100 or more yards in 29 games. The Buckeyes are giving up an average of 78 rushing yards. Junior quarterback Terrelle
Pryor will lead Ohio State’s run game. He has gained 354 rushing
yards and is the team’s second- leading rusher. He didn’t get much going on the ground Satur- day during a 38-10 win over Indi- ana, though, rushing three times for negative-19 yards one week after he temporarily left a game due to a strained left thigh. The Buckeyes own the nation’sNo. 20 rushing offense. The way Pryor passed the ball
Saturday, he didn’t need to do much work with his feet. He threw for a career-high 334 yards and three touchdowns. But pro- tection has been an issue for Ohio State—which gaveupthree sacks to push its season total to 13. The Buckeyes will need to keep Pryor upright if they plan to snatch a road win at Wisconsin. Alittle further south,Texas will
be trying to steal a victory atNo. 5 Nebraska. The Longhorns are fa- miliar with beating Nebraska, as they escaped last season’s Big 12 title game with a last-second win over the Cornhuskers that vault- ed them into the national cham- pionship game. This time, Nebraska will be
favored, and to say that the Corn- huskers and their followers have been eagerly anticipating this contest for the past 10 months would be a drastic understate- ment. The players have sported wristbands reminding them of the one second left on the game clock when Texas kicked a game- winning, 46-yard field goal last December. A headline over the
BASEBALL Rays top Rangers
to force a Game 5 Longoria, Pena
lead resurgent offense for Tampa Bay
BY STEPHEN HAWKINS
arlington, tex.—EvanLong- oria,CarlosPena and theTampa Bay Rays are headed back to Tropicana Field, one victory away fromanimprobable come- back. Longoria snapped out of his postseason slumpwith a homer
RAYS RANGERS 5 2
and two doubles, Pena scored twice with a pair of extra-base hits and Tampa Bay escaped elimination again with a 5-2 victory Sunday over the Texas Rangers. After losing the first two
games of the American League Division Series at home, the Rayswon twice in Texas to force a deciding Game 5 at Tropicana Field. “I stillwant to believe there is
a home-field advantage and hopefully that’s going to show up,”Manager JoeMaddon said. “The extra game at home, I have been talking about it all along.” Rookie right-hander Wade
Davispitchedinto the sixth, get- ting out of a base-loaded jamin the fifth when he struck out Vladimir Guerrero. Rafael Sori- anoworked a perfect ninth. TampaBay, theAL’sbest team
intheregular season, is tryingto become the only team other than 2001 New York Yankees to advance to an LCS after losing the first two division series
games at home. To do that they’ll have to beat
Rangers ace left-hander Cliff Lee, whomatched a postseason best with 10 strikeouts in a 5-1 opening victory. The Rays send 19-game winner David Price to themoundonTuesdaynight ina rematch of theGame 1 starters. “Get this seriesback to even, I
like our chances with David back on the mound,” Longoria said. The series winner will host
Game 1 of the AL championship series Friday night against Yan- kees. “It’s down to one game,we’ve
got Cliff going and certainly feel good about that,” RangersMan- ager RonWashington said. “We have proved that we can win there.” Texas is still the only current
major league franchise that has never won a postseason series, and still has not won a playoff game in front of its home fans (0-6). The Rays were only five outs
fromelimination in Game 3 be- fore their bats finally came alive Saturdaynight.Andthepositive trend carried over to Sunday. Pena put Tampa Bay ahead to
stay after he tripled off the base of the wall in left-center in the second. He scored when Matt Joyce hit a high popup in shal- low right that dropped near backpedaling second baseman IanKinsler for an error. Longoria, in an 0-for-12 slide
since a single in the first inning of the series opener, had a lead- off double in the fourth and Pena followed with another double. Tommy Hunter struck out the side in the frame be- tween three doubles, including B.J. Upton’s two-bagger that drove home Pena for a 3-0 lead. —Associated Press
SATURDAY’SLATESHOW Florida State tallied one point for each year its first-year head coach,
Jimbo Fisher, has been alive Saturday in a 45-17 win at then-No. 13 Miami (Fla.). The win on Fisher’s 45th birthday pushed the Seminoles into the driver’s seat in the Atlantic Coast Conference and bumped themup seven spots in the AP poll to No. 16. One week after racking up 256 rushing yards in a 20-point win at
Virginia, Florida State rushed for 298 yards against theHurricanes. One tailback—Jermaine Thomas—scored three touchdowns in the
game’s first 21minutes. Another—Chris Thompson—carried the ball 14 times for 158 yards,which included a 90-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. Only one other time in the history of the series has Florida State
scored more points against Miami than it did Saturday. The Hurricanes dropped out of the AP poll released Sunday. OutWest, No. 14 Stanford drove 74 yards in 1minute 2 seconds and
kicked a 30-yard field goal to claim a 37-35 win over Southern California. Cardinal place kicker Nate Whitaker had missed an extra point earlier in the game. It’s a mistake that was amplified when Trojans tailback Allen Bradford scored on a three-yard run that, combinedwith the extra point, putUSC up by onewith justmore than one minute to play. But Whitaker sailed the game-winning kick through the uprights as time expired, and all was forgiven. “I didn’t say anything after themiss and didn’t say anything before
the kick,” Stanford Coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters afterward. “I had faith in Nate.He went in and drilled it. It wasn’t even close.” —Steve Yanda
NEWS&NOTES
Oregon’s Barner released from hospital Oregon tailback Kenjon Barner was discharged from Pullman
(Wash.) Regional Hospital on Sunday after a collision during the Ducks’ 43-23 win Saturday overWashington State led to an overnight stay. Washington State safety Anthony Carpenter hit Barner at full speed during a first-quarter kickoff return. Barner left the stadium in an ambulance after receiving medical
attention on the field formore than 10minutes. Barner, a sophomore, is Oregon’s third-leading rusher. . . . Clemson announced that it plans to retireNo. 28—worn by former
Tigers tailback C.J. Spiller — during halftime of the team’s upcoming game againstMaryland. Spiller will become the third Clemson football player to have his
number retired. The 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, Spiller is one of five players in division I-A historywho compiled more than 7,000 career all-purpose yards. . . . South Carolina may have knocked off then-No. 1 Alabama, 35-21,
Saturday andmoved into the top 10 of the AP poll Sunday for the first time since 2007. But Coach Steve Spurrier made sure to put those accomplishments in perspective. “One big upset does not make a season,” Spurrier told reporters.
“We still have to prove ourselves every week. If we can go on from here, become a real solid teamandmake something happen, then we can look back on it and say it was a big regular-season win.” — Steve Yanda
weekend in the Omaha World- Herald read: “At long last, it’s time to start talking Texas.” Redshirt freshman quarter-
back Taylor Martinez — who has rushed for 737 yardsand12 touch- downs to go along with the 660
GOLF For O’Meara, it all comes together
First Champions Tour major title comes after a difficult stretch
BY KATHY ORTON Turmoil had swirled through
Mark O’Meara’s life the past cou- ple years. A divorce, then a mar- riage. The death of his father in July. The off-the-course issues were taking their toll on the 53-year-old’s golf game. It all came to a head on Sept.
26, when he withdrew from the SAS Championship nine holes into the second round. “My heart wasn’t into it,”
O’Meara said. “I was fighting something I wasn’t going to win, so I just walked away. I didn’t feel good about walking away, be- cause that’s not the kind of per- son I am, but yet I didn’t want to wastemy time and take any more beating that I was.” O’Meara decided he needed a
break to gain some perspective. So the avid fisherman took his new wife on a steelhead fishing trip on the Deschutes River in Oregon. He didn’t even touch a club for several days. The time away turned out to be
exactly what he needed. After finishing second nine times on the Champions Tour, O’Meara finally got the victory he had so long been denied. He made par on the first playoff hole to hold off Michael Allen and win the Senior Players Championship at TPC Po- tomac at Avenel Farm on Sunday. Though the $405,000 check was nice, the first-place finish in one of the major championships was what really mattered to O’Meara. “I just feel very fortunate,”
O’Meara said. “Because a week and a half ago I was as far as you could come from thinking you’re going to win a tournament. . . . It’s
PRESTON KERES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Mark O'Meara, a 16-time winner on thePGATour, starts to celebrate after sinking the winning putt.
a thrill. It’s certainly been a long time coming.” O’Meara, the only player to
shoot under par each of the four days, shot a 68 in the final round to finish at 7-under-par 273. Allen carded a 66, also for a 273. Loren Roberts had a 68 to come in two strokes back at 275. Though O’Meara had won 16
times on the PGA Tour, including the 1998 Masters and ’98 British Open, victories on the 50-and- older tour had proved elusive. And Sunday it appeared it might elude him again. Many of O’Meara’s second-
place finishes were because an- other player had caught fire and passed him rather than his poor play. That almost was the case again on Sunday. Allen started making birdies on the back nine, and suddenly the three-shot lead O’Meara held after No. 13 disap- peared. Allen’s charge began onNo. 14. He flew his second shot past the
green, then hit a rescue club to twofeet andmadethe birdie putt. He missed a six-foot birdie putt on the next hole, but hit nice iron shots into Nos. 16 and 17 greens for eight- and 10-foot birdie putts respectively. Meanwhile, nerves nearly got
the best of O’Meara. He had to scramble tomake bogey onNo. 16 after sending his drive into the left rough. After hitting 31 of 42 fairways his first three rounds, O’Meara hit only 8 of 14 on Sunday. “I was nervous, no question
about it,” O’Meara said. “I don’t look so nervous, but I was churn- ing.”
Allen had a chance to take the
lead on No. 18 but his birdie putt broke to the left more than he expected. O’Meara also could have closed out the tournament on 18, but he left his birdie putt a turn-and–a-half short. O’Meara and Allen played No. 18 again in the playoff. O’Meara
landed his tee shot in the fairway, while Allen sent his drive into the right rough. Although Allen did the best he could with the nasty lie he had, his second shot came up short of the green. He needed to make a 15-footer but sent his putt two feet past the cup. “I had a great day playing
today,” Allen said. “I played well nearly most of the day. And at the end I guess I had a lot of second- place finishes that felt pretty darn good and this one doesn’t feel quite as good.” O’Meara made the four-foot
putt for his first individual tour- nament win since the 2004 Dubai Desert Classic. During an emo- tional trophy presentation, he remembered his father. “I was as close as any son could
be to his father,” O’Meara said. “And I lovemy dad. I miss him. . . . It’s tough. I know this would have been special victory for my dad, too.”
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yards and three touchdowns he has accumulated through the air — will lead Nebraska in its at- tempt to gain some measure of vengeance for being denied last season its first Big 12 champion- ship since 1999.
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