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Points for division I-AA Jacksonville University in an 86-7 win over Valparaiso. The Dolphins, whose previous single-game high was 55 points, scored 38 in the second quarter.
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Points allowed by TCU in its last three games combined. The Horned Frogs followed shutouts of Colorado State andWyoming with a 31-3 victory over BYU on Saturday.
STAROFTHEDAY CamNewton, QB, Auburn
The junior announced his presence in the Heisman Trophy race with a flourish, as he rushed for 189 yards, passed for 138 yards and accounted for four touchdowns (three rushing, one passing) in the No. 7 Tigers’ wild 65-43 win over No. 12 Arkansas. Newton has now topped 100 rushing yards in three of Auburn’s last four games and four times total this season.
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Robinson left Michigan’s game against Iowa in the third quarter after aggravating a shoulder injury.
Denard Robinson, QB, Michigan Saturday Season
Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State Saturday Season
Cameron Newton, QB, Auburn Saturday Season
Terrelle Pryor, QB, Ohio State Saturday Season
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“Iamgoing to start holding people’s feet to the fire.”
Ralph Friedgen, Maryland coach, after the Terrapins’ 31-7 loss to Clemson. Maryland committed numerous mistakes, committing 10 penalties and throwing three interceptions, and Friedgen said that until his team figured out how to avoid such errors: “We will always be mediocre. At best.”
Badgers topple No. 1
BY RALPH D. RUSSO
madison, wis.—John Clay ran for two touchdowns and James White darted in for the clincher in the fourth quarter as No. 18 Wisconsin took down No. 1 Ohio State 31-18 Saturday night.
WISCONSIN OHIO STATE 31 18 For the second week in a row,
there will be a new No. 1 in college football, with the Buck- eyes (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) falling in a similar fashion to the way Ala- bama was beaten last week—on the road and in conference. Wisconsin hadn’t beaten a No.
1 since 1981, when the Badgers knocked off Michigan, 21-14, at Camp Randall. The Badgers (6-1, 2-1) ran over
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST Fullback Alexander Teich, who started in place of injured VinceMurray, scores the game-winning touchdown with 1:38 left in the game.
Teich’s late TD rallies Navy past SMU 28 21
Simmons’s interception sets up another dramatic finish
BY GENEWANG Facing itsmost daunting defi-
cit of the season, the Navy football team completed anoth- er stirring comeback to beat Southern Methodist, 28-21, on Saturday when senior fullback Alexander Teich scored from four yards in the closing min- utes before 33,924 at Navy-Ma- rine CorpsMemorial Stadium. The Midshipmen had gotten
the ball at the Mustangs 13 moments earlier after senior linebacker Tyler Simmons stepped in front of quarterback Kyle Padron’s pass on first down. The interception came shortly after Southern Method- ist tied the score at 21 with 2 minutes 51 seconds left in regu- lation. Navy needed just two plays
for the decisive points that came when Teich ran untouched
through a gaping hole with 1:38 to play. Mustangs Coach June Jones said afterward he elected to let the Midshipmen score in order to get the ball back right away, but time ran out after Southern Methodist advanced to the Navy 41. The Midshipmen (4-2) got
their second straight dramatic win despite injuries to a slew of starters. Missing were safety Emmett Merchant, nose guard Shane Bothel, right tackle Matt Molloy and fullback Vince Mur- ray, who left with a knee injury in the first half of last week’s 28-27 win against Wake Forest. In that game, Navy scored with 26 seconds to play. “I’m starting to run out of
adjectives for our team,” Coach Ken Niumatalolo said. “These guys are amazing.” Trailing SMU by 14, the Mid-
shipmen came storming back in the second half with touch- downs on their first two posses- sions, then took their first lead when Teich (95 yards, 21 car- ries), starting in place ofMurray, scored on a two-yard run with 12:52 to play. That finished a
drive that began at the Southern Methodist 31 when linebacker Jerry Hauburger forced the scrambling Padron to fumble and defensive end Jabaree Tuani fell on the loose ball. The Mustangs’ ensuing drive
started at their 43 in part be- cause of a personal foul on Navy immediately after the kickoff return. SMU had a false start before its first snap, but un- daunted, itmarched 57 yards on 10 plays capped by a 10-yard touchdown pass fromPadron to wide receiver Aldrick Robinson in the back of the end zone. Navy, which last season beat
the Mustangs in overtime, 38- 35, after trailing 21-7, got the ball with 2:51 to play but managed just six yards before punting. AfterBennie Thomas’s fair catch at the 22, teammate Justin Smart was called for a personal foul for a late hit away from the ball. The penalty moved the Mustangs back to the 11, and on the first play of the series, Padron’s errant throw landed in the arms of the opportunistic Simmons. “You know at Navy it’s going
to be tough, and it’s not always going to go your way. It’s really the measure of a man how you respond to that,” Simmons said when asked about the Midship- men scoring a pair of exhilarat- ing wins following a 14-6 loss at Air Force on Oct. 2. “We take that to heart. We take pride in that.” Navy avoided near disaster to
start the second half when kick returner Marcus Thomas mis- handled the kickoff but recov- ered it and got to the 19. Soon after, a holding call had
the Midshipmen facing third and 17. Navy defied the odds, though, when quarterback Ricky Dobbs completed a 51- yard pass over the middle to slotback Aaron Santiago to the 37.With runs of 10 and 12 yards, Navy had first and goal fromthe 10.
Then came a critical moment
on fourth down from the 3. Niumatalolo went for it, and Dobbs validated the bold deci- sion with a touchdown pass to Santiago for Navy’s first points. The reception was in many ways vindication for Santiago,
NAVY SMU
who dropped a pass in the end zone during the first quarter. The Midshipmen didn’t need
long to tie the score at 14. After forcing a punt into the end zone, Navy went 80 yards in nine plays, with wide receiver Greg Jones’s end-around for 33 yards the longest gain in the series. Southern Methodist got
called for a face-mask penalty at the end of Jones’s run to put Navy at the 20, from where five consecutive carries left theMid- shipmen with third and goal fromthe 1. Sophomore slotback Gee Gee
Greene did the honors, taking a pitch around the right and leap- ing to break the plane with 1:57 to play in the third quarter. “This was a huge win,” said
Dobbs,who ran for 62 yards and passed for 84. “Guys were kind of down, but when we came out for the second half, we knew what we had to do.”
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Wisconsin’s win over Jermale Hines and the Buckeyes is its first over a top-ranked opponent since it beatMichigan in 1981.
the Buckeyes to take a 21-3 halftime lead behind Clay’s pow- erful running and David Gil- reath’s 97-yard return for a touchdown on the opening kick- off.
Terrelle Pryor guided Ohio
State on two long scoring drives in the second half and Dan Herron capped them both with touchdowns to cut theWisconsin lead to 21-18 with 11 minutes 38 seconds left in the fourth. But Wisconsin responded and
No. 1 is up for grabs again. — Associated Press
Buckeyes
Hokies make good things happen quickly in blowout victory over Deacons 52 21
BY MARK GIANNOTTO
blacksburg, va. — Virginia Tech Coach Frank Beamer isn’t the bombastic type, no matter the situation. When the Hokies face an inferior opponent, like in Saturday’s 52-21 homecoming blowout of Wake Forest, Beamer insists that his players forget about what others think should happen and instead focus on “what wemake happen.” The advice escaped Virginia
Tech just five weeks ago, when division I-AA James Madison defeated the Hokies at Lane Stadium in the biggest upset of this college football season.More recently, Virginia Tech had seen itself fall behind early in three of its four games since that setback. But after theHokies racked up
605 yards — 434 of which came before halftime — scored touch- downs on seven of their first eight possessions and rewrote some of Virginia Tech’s offensive record book against the over- matched Demon Deacons, con-
sider themessage received. “I’d been telling the guys all
week that we need to start early from play one, get on top of [Wake Forest] and kind of con- trol the game and that’s what we did,” said quarterback Tyrod Tay- lor, who finished 19 of 27 for 292 yards with three touchdown passes before being pulled mid- way through the third quarter. “Seven out of eight, we’ll take that, but I think there’s still a better game out there for us.” Cornerback Jayron Hosley en-
sured that the Hokies would avoid another slowstartwhen he took his first punt return of the afternoon 58 yards to set up Virginia Tech inside the Demon Deacons 10-yard line. Then, on third and goal, 6-
foot-6 backup quarterback Lo- gan Thomas lined up at wide receiver and made a one-handed catch on a fade route in the back of the end zone to give theHokies a 7-0 lead. Later in the first quarter with
Virginia Tech nursing a 14-7 lead, Taylor engineered perhaps his
best passing play since his mem- orable game-winning touch- down throw to beat Nebraska last year. After heading to the sideline
for a play following a gruesome- looking high-low hit that result- ed in a Wake Forest late-hit penalty, Taylor scrambled to his right, escaped a sack attempt by a Demon Deacons defender, re- versed field and then found wide receiver Danny Coale all alone along the left sideline for a 25-yard touchdown pass. From there, the rout was on as the Hokies built a 49-14 lead before halftime. With injured running back
RyanWilliams not in uniformfor a fourth straight game, junior Darren Evans and sophomore David Wilson again made his absence a non-factor. Evans had 57 yards and a career-high three touchdowns, while Wilson fin- ished with 107 yards on the ground. Taylor threw touchdown pass-
es to Coale (five catches, 103 yards) and wide receiver Jarrett
Boykin. Taylor also had a one- yard touchdown plunge that tied him with Bob Schweickert for themost rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in program histo- ry (21). “When we’re clicking on all
cylinders, it just feels good, no extra stress,” said junior wide receiver Dyrell Roberts, who fin- ished with a career-high six catches for 134 yards. “Whatever play is called, you just go out there and try to execute it.When we have a game like we have today, everything is justworking, so it felt great.” The lone blemish for Virginia
Tech came in the form of a defense that allowed a few too many big plays. Wake Forest running back Josh Harris had first-half touchdown runs of 87 and 33 yards and finished with 20 carries for 241 yards, themost by an opposing player in Virginia Tech’s history. Early in the sec- ond half, Demon Deacons wide receiver ChrisGivens scored on a 78-yard catch. It extended a puzzling trend
for defensive coordinator Bud Foster’s unit, which still forced Wake Forest to go three and out on five possessions and allowed just four completions the entire game. The Hokies have allowed 35
plays of 20 yards or more this season. The big plays were about the
only negatives in a game thatwas out of reachmidway through the second quarter. Virginia Tech’s 49 points before halftime tied for the second-most ever under Beamer. The Hokies have scored more than 40 points in three consecutive games for the first time in five years. “We’ve moved the ball, we’ve
had some great drives. . . . We just haven’t been consistent,” offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring said. “It was good to see us have a little fun today.” These types of offensive fire-
works were what many expected from Virginia Tech this year, before it began the season with two straight losses. Since then, the Hokies have
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WAKE FOREST
toiled in relative anonymity when it comes to national recog- nition. That, though, could soon change with Virginia Tech atop theACC’s CoastalDivision stand- ings and riding a five-game win- ning streak. The three Coastal Division
teams that sit just one loss behind the Hokies — Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Miami — will face Virginia Tech in consecutive weeks during No- vember. First, though, is another home
game against Duke next week- end, a contest in which the Hokieswill once again be heavily favored. They can only hope it goes as well as Saturday did. “I wish it could be homecom-
ing every week if we play like this,” senior cornerback Rashad Carmichael said.
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