SPORT" SGMS i By Hal Brown Sports Editor, The Star NU May Be Prize Plum Don't look now, but if Nebraska can keep winning, Ihe Huskers are going to wind up as the. most sought-after team in the nation when the bowl people begin camping on coaches' doorsteps In a few weeks. As the national wire service ratings now stand, Nebraska is the top-rated team that's on the open bowl market with every team ahead of them at present committed to a bowl and Notre Dame saying they can't go bowling this year because semester exams come at bowl time on the South Bend campus. Top-ranked Ohio State is committed to the Rose Bowl as are third ranked Stanford and fifth-rated Southern Cal, one of whom will drop in the rankings anyway when they meet each other if not before. . . , No. 2-rated Texas is locked to a Cotton Bowl contract' if the tonghorns win the Southwest Conference. ' .. . '.! ' - ' . . . . ." r That means if Ohio State remains unbeaten arid tbey should since they play ah easy schedule,- the Buckeyes Would meet either Southern Cal or Stanford in the Rose Bowl and Texas might play host to Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl in what would amount to a virtual playoff system if all four can remain unbeaten. But at this stage in the season, that's merely dreaming. Last week we were 41-15-3 for a .720 percentage, making the season mark 105-43-4 for .704. This week: The Big Eight NEBRASKA 31, Minnesota 14 . . . But the Gophers will be tough for three quarters. COLORADO 28, Kansas State 20 . . . The Wildcats have Lynn Dickey back, but they've got a probation coming the end of this month and this time it's more than a rumor and knowing that it's coming leaves the K-State gridders with little to play for. MISSOURI 30, Oklahoma State 14 . . . Last week's loss to Air Force was just one of those things and the Tigers will try to prove it the rest of the season. IOWA STATE 24, Utah 20 . . . Like Johnny Majors said this summer, if he didn't have to play Big Eight teams, he'd be one of the winningest coaches in the nation. KANSAS 35, New Mexico .21 . . . This may be the last win the Jayhawks get for a while. The Top Ten OHIO STATE 41, Duke 14 . . . Another breather for the Buckeyes. TEXAS 30, UCLA 14 . . . The Bruins are unbeaten until Saturday. STANFORD 28, Purdue 10 . . . Stanford's Jim Plunkett will have trouble outdoing what Notre Dame's Joe Theisman did to the Boilermakers last week. NOTRE DAME 35, Michigan State 13 . . . The Fighting Irish will be No. 3 in the ratings next week. SOUTHERN CAL 28, Oregon State 14 . . . The Trojans will continue to make the Huskers look good. ALABAMA 28, Mississippi 24 . . . This one will be even more exciting than watching Mannix on Saturday night. MICHIGAN 27, Texas A&M 14 . . . After this one people will realize just how easy the Ohio State schedule really is. AIR FORCE 42, Colorado State 7 ... The Falcons' upsetting of Missouri may have been a fluke, but you won't be able to tell it in this one. The East BOSTON COLLEGE over VMI . . . BOSTON UNIVERSITY over Temple . . . PENNSYLVANIA over Brown . . . MASSACHUSETTS over Buffalo . . . CORNELL over Lehigh . . . DELAWARE over Villanova . . . HARVARD over Rutgers ... DARTMOUTH over Holy Cross . . . PITTSBURGH over Kent State . . . PRINCETON over Columbia ... YALE over Colgate. The South MIAMI, FLA. over Maryland . . . FLORIDA over North Caroline State . .. GEORGIA TECH over Clemson . . . AUBURN over Kentucky . . . LSU over Baylor . . . GEORGIA over Mississippi State . . . SOUTH CAROLINA over Virginia Tech . . . SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI over Richmond . . . TENNESSEE over Army . . . NORTH CAROLINA over Vanderbilt . . . VUtGINIA over Wake Forest. The Midwest TULANE over Cincinnati . . . LOUISVILLE over Dayton . . . ILLINOIS over Syracuse . . . WEST VIRGINA over Indiana . . . SMU over Northwestern . . . TOLEDO over Ohio U. . . MEMPHIS STATE over Tulsa . . . PENN STATE over Wisconsin. The Southwest NORTH TEXAS STATE over Drake . . . CALIFORNIA over Rice . . . ARKANSAS over Texas Christian . . . TEXAS TECH over UC-Santa Barbara . . . TEXAS-EL PASO over New Mexico State . . . WEST TEXAS STATE over East Carolina. The Far West ARIZONA over Iowa . . . PACIFIC over Fresno State . . . IDAHO over Idaho State . . . WASHINGTON STATE over Oregon ... SAN DIEGO STATE over Brigham Young . . . UTAH STATE over Wichita State . . . WASHINGTON over Navy . . . ARIZONA STATE over Wyoming.
