Players Of The Week

OFFENSE: Alabama tailback Siran Stacy, who last year led all junior college players in scoring, rushed for 169 yards on 14 carries and scored four TDs (on runs of six, 44, one and 64 yards) as the Tide opened its season by beating Memphis State 35-7.

DEFENSE: George Barlow, a junior safety at Marshall, tied a 48-year-old school record for interceptions in a game by picking off three passes, all in the first 22 minutes, to lead the Thundering Herd to a 31-21 victory over East Tennessee State.

SPECIAL TEAMS: Sophomore Raghib Ismail paced Notre Dame to its 14th consecutive victory—the longest winning streak in the nation—by returning two second-half kickoffs for TDs in a 24-19 defeat of Michigan. The first covered 88 yards, the second 92.