SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010
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STAROFTHEDAY Alexander Teich, Navy
Takeaways for Maryland safety Antwine Perez in the Terrapins’ 24-21 win over Boston College. The senior had two interceptions and a fumble recovery against the Eagles.
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The last time Virginia Tech scored 40 points in four consecutive games. The Hokies, now thoroughly rebounded from a dismal start to the season, did it again Saturday in a 44-7 whipping of Duke.
The Midshipmen had a pretty simple game plan against Notre Dame on Saturday: Give the ball to their burly junior fullback, and let him do the rest. Teich finished with 210 rushing yards and also caught one of Navy’s two completions, a 31-yard touchdown grab in which he stretched about as far as possible to snare the pass from Ricky Dobbs and then rumbled into the end zone. “It’s the biggest stage I’ve ever been on,” Teich said after the Midshipmen defeated the hapless- looking Fighting Irish for the third time in four years.
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D9 HEISMANWATCH
Newton’s 49-yard touchdown run in the third quarter Saturday against LSU likely will be the crowning moment of his Heisman campaign.
CamNewton, QB, Auburn
Saturday (also rushed for 217 yards) Season
Terrelle Pryor, QB, Ohio State Saturday Season
Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State Saturday Season
LaMichael James, RB, Oregon Thursday Season
COMP. 10
COMP. 16
COMP. Idle 105
ATT. YARDS 16
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90 138 1,364 ATT. YARDS
22 270
134 203 1,775 ATT. YARDS
— — 151 1,567 134
123 971
TD 0
13 TD
3
18 TD
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ATT. YARDS AVG. 20
6.2 7.2
INT 0 5
INT 2 6
INT — 1
TD 2
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“Iowa State is a program to be reckoned with.”
—Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, puffing out his chest a bit after the Cyclones’ 28-21 upset of No. 22 Texas. He must have missed Iowa State’s previous two games, a 68-27 loss to Utah and a 52-0 loss to Oklahoma. Or its 35-7 loss to in-state rival Iowa on Sept. 11.
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Newton, Auburn help their causes
Heisman candidate leads way for only unbeaten team in SEC
BY JOHN ZENOR
auburn, ala. — Cam Newton ran for 217 yards and Onterio McCalebb sprinted 70 yards for the go-ahead score with 5 min- utes 5 seconds left to lift No. 5 Auburn to a 24-17 victory over sixth-ranked LSU on Saturday. The host Tigers (8-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) moved on as the powerful league’s last unbeaten team after gutting out yet another close win. LSU (7-1, 4-1) finally had a Les Miles gam- ble backfire in an adventurous season. Newton didn’t do anything to
set back hisHeisman Trophy can- didacy against the SEC’s top de- fense.He ran for twotouchdowns and broke the league’s single-sea- son rushing mark for a quarter- back of 1,006 yards by Auburn’s Jimmy Sidle in 1963. He also toppedHeisman winnerPat Sulli- van’s 40-year-old school mark of 26 touchdowns rushing and pass- ing in a season. “Going into this game, we
knew it was the No. 1 offense vs. theNo. 1 defense [in the SEC], the clash of the titans,” Newton said. “There was licks I was taking from different people left and right.We knew that was going to be the case going into this game.” Miles, meanwhile, stirred up
late-game weirdness yet again, this time in defeat. He opted to go for it on fourth
and six from the LSU 30-yard line with 3:27 left. The Tigers took a timeout and still seemed unsure of what they wanted to do on the pivotal play. Jarrett Lee, the pass- ing portion of his team’s quarter- back tandem, tried to scramble for the firstdownbutwasstopped well short byNeiko Thorpe. The game predictably went
down to the final minutes for two teamsthathavebeenlivingonthe edge. And the fans of an improba- ble national championship con- tender mostly lingered in the stands to celebrate after living in defending national champion Al- abama’s shadow the past two seasons. Miles had been saved by a few
inches on a fake field goal that worked and a mulligan after a Tennessee penalty allowed the winning touchdown.This time he just gave it back to Newton and Auburn. The huge quarterback ran for two first downs before taking akneetwice to let the clock run out. He was just a decoy on the
decisive scoring play. McCalebb came across on a sweep that Newton often fakes on and keeps for some of his biggest runs. This time he gave it away and the speedy McCalebb made one cut and won the sprint to the end zone. With that, Auburn had cov- ered 90 yards in three plays. Newton ran 28 times, turned in
a highlight-reel 49-yard touch- down and completed 10 of 16 passes for 86 yards.Hewasnearly tripped up but reached his right hand down to catch his balance, juked two defenders and took LSUstarPatrickPeterson into the end zone.Newton leaped into the stands to celebrate with fellow students after the win. Newton got plenty of big-play
help.FreshmanMikeDyer ran for 100 yards on 15 carries andMcCa- lebb ran four times for 84. —Associated Press
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Nebraska’s Brandon Kinnie, bottom, catches one of his three touchdown passes. TheHuskers rebounded from a loss to Texas.
Hokies clear last hurdle before key stretch
After dispatching Duke, Virginia Tech awaits Coastal contenders
BY MARK GIANNOTTO
blacksburg, va.—It’s hard to prove anything of significance based off a blowout victory against an overmatched oppo- nent, especially one that hasn’t beaten a division I-A football program in close to a year. But more important to No. 23
Virginia Tech after its workman- like 44-7 win overDuke on Satur- day are the stakes facing the Hokies with four games left in the regular season.Heading into its bye week, Virginia Tech con- trols its own destiny in the race to make the ACC championship game in December, a notion that seemed inconceivable after an 0-2 start to the season. The Hokies (6-2) are in the
midst of their first six-game win- ning streak since 2006, have a 4-0 conference record and are the ACC Coastal Division’s only remaining unbeaten team in conference play. The only teams that could overtake theHokies— Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Miami — also happen to be their next three opponents. “I think any time you’re in that position, not having to rely on someone else with four games to go in your season, that’s a good position to be in,” Hokies Coach Frank Beamer said following his 235th career win, moving him ahead of Bo Schembechler for ninth all-time among I-A coach- es. “We need to rest our bodies, rest our minds, and then play a critical stretch cominguphere— the first being against Georgia Tech.” If there was one development
of note on an afternoon in which Virginia Tech scored 34 points to begin the game, it was the brief reappearance of sophomore run- ning back Ryan Williams. The Manassas native played two se- ries, finishing with six carries for 10 yards and a one-yard touch- down run on fourth and goal to give theHokies a 14-0 lead. It was his first action since
suffering a right hamstring inju- ry in the first half of the Hokies’ victory over East Carolina on Sept. 18. After Saturday’s game, Williams revealed that he had actually suffered aGrade 1 tear of his hamstring, a more serious
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Virginia Tech running back Darren Evans goes over the top of Duke’s Lee Butler as part of his eight-carry, 36-yard, one-touchdown day. VIRGINIA TECH
ailment than the pulled muscle Virginia Tech officials had indi- cated while Williams sat out the past four games. “It was more my decision to
comeout there, just to kind of get a feel for the game and just get hit,” said Williams, who later declared himself to be “80 or 85 percent” healthy now. “Glad I scored a touchdown, but I wasn’t even thinking that. I was just thinking get a couple carries, pick up a couple blitzes and then get out the game.” Williams’s touchdown was a
direct result of a 61-yard punt returnbysophomorecornerback Jayron Hosley that set Virginia Tech up inside Duke’s 20-yard- line. Two defensive series later, Hosley snagged his ACC-leading fifth interception of the season and appeared to return it for a touchdown before officials ruled he stepped out of bounds on the Duke 24-yard line. Junior running back Darren
Evans (eight carries, 36 yards) quickly made it a moot point when he dived across the goal line for his ninth touchdown of
the season, giving VirginiaTech a 21-0 lead. It was an encouraging day for
Virginia Tech’s defense, which bounced back after allowing Wake Forest running back Josh Harris to rush for 241 yards last week. Virginia Tech allowed just one play that went for longer than 20 yards, and Duke’s lone touchdown came midway through the third quarter,when theHokies were playing much of their second unit. “Coach had been emphasizing
that we needed to put together four quarters of complete de- fense,” said redshirt freshman Antone Exum, who started in place of free safety Eddie Whitley (foot). “I think we put together a complete game.” One setback for the Hokies
was the running game, which provided few highlights. Aside froma36-yard scrambleby quar- terback Tyrod Taylor in the sec- ond quarter, the Hokies gained just 123 yards on the ground and averaged 3.2 yards per carry. That didn’t stop Virginia Tech’s third running back, soph-
omore David Wilson, from pro- viding another explosive play when he caught a 65-yard touch- down pass from Taylor to give theHokies a 41-7 lead in the third quarter. But in the process, Wil- son gave the remainder of the sellout crowd of 66,233 flash- backs to former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Leon Lett. Wilson coasted all alone into
the end zone only to have Duke’s Ross Cockrell sprint from behind and jar the ball out of his hands as he crossed the goal line. After a review, officials confirmed the play was a touchdown, but not before Wilson caught an earful from Taylor on the sideline. “I never went full speed,” Wil-
son admitted. “If it wasn’t a touchdown, I would have felt so bad.” On the field, Taylor provided
another strong performance, leading Virginia Tech to its fourth straight game with at least 40 points, the first time that has happened since the Michael Vick-led team accomplished the feat to begin the 2000 season. Despite leaving the game for
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good midway through the third quarter,Taylorcompleted 13 of 17 passes for 280 yards, ran for another 47 yards and had touch- down passes to three receivers. Place kicker Chris Hazley also
hit three field goals for Virginia Tech, including one from 44 yards, but ultimately the margin of victory against Duke (1-6, 0-4) meant little for the Hokies’ out- look on this season. Virginia Tech appeared to be
in store for a forgettable year just six weeks ago, but now the Hok- ies are in prime position to claim their fourth ACC title since join- ing the conference seven seasons ago. “It’s black and white. We win
those [remaining games], we’ll go to Charlotte. If we don’t, we’ll go down a different road,” Exum said. “But our goal is to go out there and win those games so we’ll win the ACC.”
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Martinez passes Huskers to win over previously unbeaten Cowboys
BY JEFF LATZKE
stillwater, okla. — Taylor Martinez set a Nebraska fresh- man record with 323 yards pass- ing and threw a career-high five touchdown passes and the 14th- ranked Cornhuskers knocked No. 17 Oklahoma State from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 51-41 win on Saturday. Martinez, who came in trail-
ing onlyMichigan’sDenardRob- inson in yards rushing by a quarterback, showed off his arm while also running for 112 yards on 19 carries. Brandon Kinnie caught the
first three touchdown passes of his career, including an eight- yard lob from Martinez that made it 51-34 in the final 5 minutes. Oklahoma State’s Kendall
Hunter ran for 201 yards. But Nebraska (6-1, 2-1 Big 12) forced the Cowboys (6-1, 2-1) to go three-and-out on three of their four drives in the second half while pulling ahead. Martinez had only three
touchdown passes and had not thrown for more than 150 yards in his first six starts.He even got benched in favor of Zac Lee after
the Cornhuskers fell behind Tex- as in a 20-13 loss last week. He proved more than capable
of picking on anOklahoma State defense ranked 114th in the country against the pass. Martinez rallied the Huskers
for the go-ahead score with 55 seconds left before halftime, de- livering a nine-yard touchdown pass to Kinnie for a 31-27 lead. Then he keptNebraska ahead by evading the Cowboys’ pressure with some impressive throws downfield. Kyler Reed beat Andrew Mc-
Gee, themost experiencedmem- ber of the Cowboys’ young sec- ondary, deep for a 41-yard touch- down pass from Martinez that made it 41-27 midway through the third quarter and even Okla- homa State’s high-powered of- fense couldn’t recover. Hunter scored fromone yard,
his second touchdown of the game, on the Cowboys’ ensuing drive. But Oklahoma State then went three-and-out on its next two possessions as Nebraska added to its advantage. Alex Henery hit field goals
from 52, 32 and 45 yards to surpass Kris Brown’s school re- cords with 17 straight successful field goals and 59 makes for his
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career. Niles Paul, who was responsi-
ble for two of Nebraska’s four dropped passes that could’ve gone for touchdowns against Texas, bounced back with a ca- reer-high 131 yards receiving and Nebraska’s first 100-yard kickoff return for a score since 1949. Justin Blackmon, the nation’s
leading receiver, caught five passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns. However, Blackmon was a
non-factor in the second half until he caught a 25-yard touch- down pass with 1:24 left that only got OSU back within 10. He also had an 80-yard scoring catch on a flea flicker pass from BrandonWeedenthat gaveOkla- homa State its only lead at 27-24. Weeden finished with 283
yards on 18 for 35 passing with two touchdowns and one inter- ception. The Cowboys were trying for
just their third 7-0 start in school history.
—Associated Press
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