College Football

Just before his team took the field for the third quarter, the usually mild-mannered Willingham pointedly and angrily asked his players if they were afraid. "When someone calls you out for being afraid," Stanback said on Sunday, "any man has to respond."

Jittery and ineffective for most of the first half, Stanback was soothed by a halftime confab with former Huskies quarterback Warren Moon. "He told me to calm down and to just start hitting my easy throws and that everything else would start to flow," he said.

Moon got that right: Stanback threw three touchdown passes in the second half. Of his team's 249 yards of total offense in the game, Stanback accounted for 248.

Stanback had help from the Huskies' defense, which yielded a mere five first downs in the second half, and from the loudest crowd a Washington team has played before since at least 2003. There's bad news for teams coming into Seattle. As Stanback said, " Husky Stadium is up and rocking again."
-- Austin Murphy

Working Overtime

Arkansas and Alabama went to two overtimes in last Saturday's 24--23 Hogs victory—courtesy of a successful extra point by Jeremy Davis (right) and a missed one by Crimson Tide kicker Leigh Tiffin. The SEC programs have been nearly at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to playing overtime. Here are the teams that have the best and worst OT records since Division I A instituted the tie-breaking procedure in 1996 (minimum five wins or losses).

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