Extra Points

St. Louis High in Honolulu has produced three quarterbacks now starting at major colleges: Darnell Arceneaux of Utah, Timmy Chang of Hawaii and Jason Gesser of Washington State. That's rare for a high school, but the Crusaders are a perennial power on the Islands and have won 14 consecutive Interscholastic League of Honolulu championships under coach Cal Lee....

Alabama-Birmingham coach Watson Brown thought he would never lose a player to a weirder injury after junior safety Wes Foss broke his ankle last spring while fishing. Even more bizarre: Sophomore scout team quarterback Tommy Babakitis tore a ligament in his right knee last Thursday while playing with his dog. Since the season began, the Blazers have lost 11 players to injury on offense and one on defense....

Syracuse quarterbacks coach Jim Hofher describes sophomore starter Troy Nunes as a "hardhead scrambler." Nunes demonstrated the best and worst of that trait on his final two snaps in the Orangemen's 24-17 double-overtime defeat of previously unbeaten Pittsburgh. On second-and-goal at the 6, Nunes tried to run away from trouble and took a 17-yard sack. On the next play he scrambled as far back as the Panthers' 45 before circling to his left and finding David Tyree in the back corner of the end zone for the winning touchdown. Nunes has completed 30 of 40 passes for 507 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions over the last two games, including a 42-14 defeat of BYU....

The Syracuse- Pittsburgh game had no business going into overtime. Kickers Nick Lotz of Pittsburgh and Mike Shafer of Syracuse combined to miss six field goals and an extra point. The wind must have been blowing hard in the Carrier Dome.