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Monday, December 2,1996
Seminoles slip past Gators, lead in championship chase
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The goal
posts were gone, and so was a good
portion of the Doak Campbell Stadium
turf. Just an hour earlier, thousands of
fans poured out of the stands and cel
ebrated No. 2 Florida State’s 24-21 win
over No. 1 Florida.
And out of the south end zone came
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who
surveyed the scene as he walked across
the field.
It seemed as if he was making his own
personal victory march.
“It’s just nearly too good to be true
that you can end up with a 1-2 and win
that darned thing in front of our home
fans,” Bowden said after his Seminoles
(11-0) set themselves up to win the na
tional title in the Sugar Bowl at New
Orleans on Jan. 2.
It was Warrick Dunn who was too
good for the Gators (10-1). Dunn ran for
a career-best 185 yards and Pooh Bear
Williams scored on two short TD runs in
the 31st meeting between teams ranked
1-2.
The Seminoles, meanwhile, slowed
down the high-powered Gators, who
came into the game leading the nation at
49.3 points per game.
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his Heisman Tro
phy hopes, was
23-of-48 for 362
yards, three TDs
and three intercep
tions. He was
sacked six times.
“It seemed like
we confused
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them,” FSU’s defensive end Reinard
Wilson said. “The inside guys came to
play football and I think they didn’t ex
pect that.”
Although the Seminoles managed only
317 yards, most came on the ground, and
they managed a game-winning 75-yard
drive against the wind in the fourth quar
ter that sealed the victory.
“We made enough plays,” said
Bowden, who less than a month ago
publicly handicapped his team a 25-point
underdog.
Florida State evened its record in 1-2
matchups at 2-2 with Saturday’s win that
put the Seminoles into the top spot.
Bowden says he’ll give the Seminoles
a week off before resuming practice, but
that he’s already looking to the Jan. 2
Sugar Bowl.
“Now I start thinking, yeah, let's try to
win a national championship,” he said.
And if the opponent is third-ranked
Nebraska, Bowden knows the
Comhuskers would have plenty of moti
vation. Bowden is 4-0 against Nebraska
in bowl games, including an 18-16 vic
tory in the 1994 Orange Bowl that gave
Florida State its only national title.
And Bowden isn’t interested in a
rematch with Florida should Nebraska
lose in the Big 12 title game Saturday
against Texas.
“You don’t like to play people you’ve
beat,” he said.
Harley rant over Wotfpack
CHARLOTTE North Carolina
State’s decision to resume its series with
East Carolina looked like a grave mis
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Harley rushed for 351 yards and scored
three touchdowns Saturday, helping East
Carolina roll up 640 total yards on the
way to a 50-29 victory over die Wolfpack
(3-8).
“It was fun,” said Harley, a sopho
more fullback who broke his own school
single-game record of 291 yards rushing,
set earlier this season against South Caro
lina.
“The offensive line was happy. Every
thing was going right for us. It always
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feels good when things are going right
for you.”
Harley, who carried 42 times and
scored on runs of 75, 60 and 3 yards,
wound up with 1,745 yards this season,
also a school record.
“I’mgoing to haveto break anNCAA
rule and maybe buy Scott Harley a din
ner," coach Steve Logan said. “I told
him if he ever ran one over 50 yards, I’d
have to buy him a dinner.”
The Pirates concluded their schedule
with an 8-3 mark. Because ofthe school’s
lack of bowl tie-ins, East Carolina is
unlikely to get a postseason invitation.
“Ifthere’s anybody out there running
a bowl who wants a damn good 8-3
football team with about 25,000 mani
acs that’ll come and spend a million
dollars,callme,”Logansaid. “Andwe’ll
show up.”
Logan’s success at East Carolina has
made him a hot commodity on the an
nual end-of-season job market.
His name has been mentioned in con
nection with several vacancies already
this year, including the one at Boston
College.
After Saturday’s victory, Logan was
asked about the possibility of leaving
East Carolina.
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Yellow Jackets' slide continues
ATHENS, Ga.—Georgia had anew
coach and endured a roller-coaster sea
son, but some things never change: The
Bulldogs always seem to beat Georgia
Tech.
Mike Bobo threw a 47-yard scoring
pass to Juan Daniels and the Georgia
defense didn’t allow a touchdown Satur
day as the Bulldogs won 19-10 for their
sixth consecutive victory over Tech.
“It was wonderful to go out like this,”
said Daniels, who caught five passes for
126 yards.
Georgia finished 5-6 in coach Jim
Dorman’s first season, a topsy-turvy ride
that includes impressive wins over Au
burn and Texas Tech and awful losses to
Kentucky and Mississippi.
Tech (5-6) had the same record as the
Bulldogs, but was left searching to ex
plain its monumental collapse in the sec
ond half of the season.
The Yellow Jackets closed out with
five losses in their last six games.
Coach George O’Leary pointed to the
injuries which kept linebacker Ronßogers
out of uniform Saturday and Hamilton
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I Team Record Pts P v 1
1. florid* to* pi) ive u 2
2. Arrow Stt (6) 11-0 1,609 3
3. Nabraaka {t> 10-1 1.626 4.
4. Florida 10-1 1.484 \
6. Ohio Sat) 10-1 1483 6
6. Brigham Young 12-1 1274 7
7. Colorado 9-2 1,250 6
8. Perm State 10-2 1433 8
9. Tennessse 9-2 1.043 g
10. Northwsstem 9-2 990 11
11. 10-1 947 17
12. Washington 9-2 916 12
13. North Cmiaa 92 918 11
14. Kansas State 92 867 14
15. Alabama 92 829 16
16. 93 667 18
17. Louisiana Stato 92 640 19
18. Notre oam 93 636 10
19. Miami 93 464 23
20. Wyoming 10-1 460 21
21. lowa 93 306 22
22. Syracuse 93 280 16
23. Army ' 91 144 24
24. West Vagina 93 96 25
25. Virginia 74 76 26
Others rscewtg votes: East Carolina 82, Texas 47.
Diego Sate 2, Utah 1, Wisconsin 1.
Syracuse early in the season, Virginia
Tech might have saved its biggest state
ment of the season for the end and in
state rival Virginia.
Jim Druckenmiller threw two touch
down passes and completed a 72-yard
pass to set up another score Friday as the
17th-ranked Hokies kept their Bowl Alli
ance hopes alive with a 26-9 victory
against the No. 20 Cavaliers.