College football's halftime report
Posted: Thursday October 15, 1998 06:40 PM
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North Carolina State's 24-7 victory over Florida State has been the biggest upset of the college football season AP |
NEW YORK (AP) -- With the Prairie View A&M marching band providing the entertainment, it's time for the college football halftime report.
The Best and Biggest awards:
Best Play: Ortege Jenkins, the Arizona quarterback who somersaulted over three stunned defenders and landed in the end zone with four seconds left to lift the Wildcats to a 31-28 victory over Washington.
Best Game: Tennessee, 34, Syracuse 33 at the Carrier Dome. Jeff Hall's 27-yard field goal on the game's last play gave the Volunteers the win.
Best TV moment: Watching Virginia Tech beat Miami 27-20 in overtime, followed immediately by Tennessee's 20-17 OT win over Florida.
Best Performance, Quarterback: Quincy Carter, Georgia, who completed his first 15 passes and finished 27-of-34 for 318 yards and two TDs in a 28-27 win over LSU.
Best Performance, Running Back: Ricky Williams, Texas, ran for a school-record 350 yards and five TDs in a 54-33 victory over Iowa State.
Best Performance, Wide Receiver: Troy Edwards, Louisiana Tech, caught 21 passes for an NCAA-record 405 yards, including TD catches of 94, 80 and 52 yards, in a 56-27 loss to Nebraska.
Biggest Upset: North Carolina State 24, Florida State 7. Runner-up: Texas A&M 28, Nebraska 21.
Biggest Surprise: Tennessee, 5-0 without Peyton Manning and with a win over Florida. Runner-up: Oregon State, 4-2 and bidding for its first winning record in 28 years.
Biggest Disappointment: Michigan, loser of its first two games after winning the '97 national championship.
Best Quote, Winning Coach: (tie) "This is not a joyous locker room." -- Kansas State's Bill Snyder after his team beat Colorado 16-9 for its first win in Boulder since 1973.
"The Gators don't play like champions anymore." -- Florida's Steve Spurrier after a 16-10 victory over Alabama.
Best Quote, Losing Coach: "We're down and hurt right now. We're not accustomed to taking a loss." -- Nebraska's Frank Solich after his Huskers lost to Texas A&M 28-21, ending streaks of 19 wins in a row and 60 straight in the conference.
Best Conference: The Big 12, with half of its teams in the Top 25 this week -- No. 4 Kansas State, No. 8 Nebraska, No. 10 Texas A&M, No. 19 Colorado, No. 20 Missouri and No. 22 Texas Tech.
Best Bet: The Bowl Championship Series won't end up with a clear-cut No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup in the Fiesta Bowl.
The rest of the awards:
Archie Griffin Half-a-Heisman: Ricky Williams, Texas, who has 1,225 yards in six games and moved from 37th to third on the NCAA career rushing list, 703 away from Tony Dorsett's 22-year-old record.
Daryle Lamonica Bombs Away: Drew Brees, Purdue, who set an NCAA record with 83 attempts and tied another with 55 completions in a 31-24 loss to Wisconsin. Brees passed for 494 yards, but threw four interceptions.
Randy Newman Lonely At The Top: Ohio State, ranked No. 1 since the preseason and beating its opponents by an average score of 37-8.
Cathy Bates Misery Loves Company: (tie) Nine winless teams: Cincinnati, Hawaii, Kent, Memphis, UNLV, Northern Illinois, Southwestern Louisiana, Temple and Vanderbilt.
Tootsie Makeover: Texas Christian, 4-1 under new coach Dennis Franchione after going 1-10 under Pat Sullivan in '97.
Denny Brauer Gone Fishin': Arizona State, 2-4 after starting the preseason ranked No. 8 and hoping to play for the national title on their home field.
Gary Cooper High Noon: Prairie View, which ended an NCAA-record, 80-game losing streak with a 14-12 win over Langston at Oklahoma City on September 26. The win wasn't secured until officials took 15 agonizing seconds to unpile players and rule Langston's 2-point conversion try was stopped at the goal line with 34 seconds left.
Bruno Sammartino Backbreaker: Brock Huard, the Washington quarterback who threw a 63-yard TD pass to Reggie Davis on fourth-and-17 with 28 seconds left in a 42-38 win over Arizona State.
Steve Spurrier Run It Up: Kansas State, for playing three patsies in Indiana State, Northern Illinois and Northeast Louisiana and outscoring them 201-14.
Burt Reynolds Longest Yard: Oklahoma State's failure to score from the 1 on the final play of a 24-17 loss to Nebraska.
Cornelius Ryan Longest Game: Bethune Cookman's 63-57 eight overtime win over Virginia State, which took 4 hours, 50 minutes.
Muddy Waters Last-Play Blues: Vanderbilt, which lost its last two games on the final play -- 27-24 to Western Michigan on a 37-yard field goal, and 19-16 to TCU on a TD in the second overtime.
Lou Saban Coaching Hotseat: John Blake, Oklahoma.
Peyton (Re)place: Tee Martin, Tennessee, who, coincidentally, replaced Peyton Manning.
Bear Bryant Big Win: Joe Paterno, Penn State, who became the fourth major-college coach to win 300 games after a 48-3 victory over Bowling Green.
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