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All-Star break With season halfway through, it's time to size up the stars
Posted: Thursday October 14, 1999 01:38 AM
By Stewart Mandel, CNN/SI Halftime already? That was quick. Didn't even notice the five-minute television timeouts. Rather than wax poetic about the season's first month-and-a-half, rather than spew out several pages worth of prose about the mechanics of a Corey Moore sack, let's review the college football season to date the way most Internet readers prefer: Lists, lists and more lists. Top 5 surprise teams1) Michigan State2) Syracuse 3) Maryland 4) Minnesota 5) Kansas State
Three disappointments1) Arizona2) Arizona State 3) The Phoenix Suns
Four games we wished we taped1) Florida State 41, Georgia Tech 352) Alabama 40, Florida 39 (OT) 3) Michigan 26, Notre Dame 22 4) Oregon 33, USC 30 (3 OTs)
Six coaches who deserve a(nother) raise1) Bob Pruett, Marshall2) Bill Snyder, Kansas State 3) Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech 4) Butch Davis, Miami 5) Hal Mumme, Kentucky 6) George O'Leary, Georgia Tech
Two who deserve a good duct taping1) Steve Spurrier, Florida2) John Cooper, Ohio State
Top 7 newcomers1) Josh Heupel, QB, Oklahoma2) Michael Vick, QB, Virginia Tech 3) Lucas Staley, RB, BYU 4) Donate Walker, RB, Mississippi St. 5) Calvin McCall, QB, Maryland 6) Derek Watson, RB, South Carolina 7) Cedric Cobbs, RB, Arkansas
Four improved QBs1) Kevin Feterik, BYU2) Bill Burke, Michigan St. 3) A.J. Feeley, Oregon 4) Deontey Kenner, Cincinnati
Three best players you've still never heard of1) Deonce Whitaker, RB, San Jose State2) Trevor Insley, WR, Nevada 3) Steven Pulley, WR, San Jose State
Eight players heretofore unmentioned who deserve some love1) David Terrell, WR, Michigan2) Dusty Bonner, QB, Kentucky 3) Hodges Mitchell, RB, Texas 4) Ken-Yon Rambo, WR, Ohio State 5) Dez White, WR, Georgia Tech 6) Ken Simonton, RB, Oregon State 7) Jamie Wilson, RB, East Carolina 8) Tim Lester, QB, Western Michigan
Five teams we expect to shake up the second half1) Texas2) Miami, Fla. 3) Tennessee 4) Notre Dame 5) Kentucky
Four that should just go away already1) UCLA2) Georgia 3) Ohio State 4) Ole Miss See something you like? Someone we forgot? React here.
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