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8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1985 COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 20 TEAMS Seminoles benefit from opener Trudeau feels the heat as Trojans roll 20-10 6 SOUTHERN CAL vs. 11 ILLINOIS. McManus brought Florida State back with a 15-yard scoring toss to Darrin Holloman, and Derek Schmidt put the Seminoles up 10-7 with a 20-yard field goal early in the second quarter. The Cornhuskers regained the lead on a one-yard run by Doug Du-Bose with 8:05 to play in the half after Florida State had held Nebraska three times at the one.

But the Seminoles grabbed the lead again, 17-13, when Cletis Jones scored the eventual game-winner on a two-yard run with 3:27 left in the second period. That score was set up when Nebraska punter Dan Win-gard tried to run after a bad snap from center and was tackled at the Nebraska six. Nebraska's Dale Klein missed a 31-yard field goal with 10:08 to play, and Paul McGowan intercepted a McCathorn Clayton pass with 3:59 left to snuff two second-half scoring threats. Auaciatad Prats LINCOLN, Neb. What a difference a game makes.

Florida State sophomore quarterback Danny McManus and coach Bobby Bowden credited a game's worth of experience for the difference in a 17-13 victory for the nth-ranked Seminoles over lOth-ranked Nebraska yesterday in a non-conference college football game. Bowden's youthful signal caller had the benefit of game exposure in last week's 38-12 victory over Tu-lane. McManus said the experience helped as he hit 15 of 27 passes for 172 yards and one touchdown against the Cornhuskers, who were playing their season opener. "The fact we have played a game had a very definite impact," Bowden said. "They (Nebraska) couldn't quite put the pieces together, which we learned last week.

If they had played a game and we hadn't, I feel they would have won." riod Illinois turnovers into 17 points, including a pair of touchdown passes by Sean Salisbury, in rolling to its 16th consecutive victory over Big Ten opposition. Matt Johnson's interception an nine-yard return to the Illinois set up Salisbury's three-yard scoring pass to Hank Norman at 6:09. The Trojans made it 14-0 bareljC, 32 minutes later on Salisbury's 46-' yard pass to Randy Tanner. It came on the first play after USC tackle Matt Koart recovered a fumbled nUnhAllt Kir IfAlth lAnH Associated Pre CHAMPAIGN, III. Southern California coach Ted Tollner gave his halftime pep talk before the game and had exactly the right words.

"I told them, 'Let's find a way to win under these adverse conditions and use it as a Tollner said after sixth-ranked USC forced No. 11 Illinois into six turnovers and beat the Illini 20-10 yesterday in the opener for both teams. Those adverse conditions were steamy 89-degree weather and a partisan Illinois crowd of 76,369. But Southern Cal provided some adverse conditions of its own for Illinois quarterback Jack Trudeau, who threw for 310 yards but suffered four interceptions among his 37 passes. "We forced Trudeau to hold on to the ball by giving them different looks in our pass coverage," Tollner said.

"Our defense confused them. We were hoping we could play a football game where we came out ahead in terms of turnovers. We felt like we had to hit hard to force the turnovers." The Trojans also slammed the door on Illinois' rushing attack, yielding just 10 yards on 21 carries. "Someone once told me that when you want to do your best, sometimes you do your worst," Illinois coach Mike White said. "As well as we wanted to do, we did not do a good job, especially on offense." Southern Cal turned three first-pe- T-- 1 1 1 14 ttaAA hirnAWAM ine illini uiauc 11 uiice iuiuutvih in nc mnnv nnssessions on a Stranee 10 NEBRASKA vs.

17 FLORIDA STATE Nebraska opened its season with only four returning starters. "What we were afraid would happen did happen," coach Tom Osborne said. "Any time you have new or inexperienced players at key positions you're apt to have mistakes, and we did." The Cornhuskers started quickly, but second-half turnovers and Florida State's kicking game kept them off the scoreboard in the second half. Nebraska drew first blood in the nationally televised contest when fullback Tom Rathman darted through the line for a 60-yard touchdown run on the Cornhuskers' first series with just 1:40 gone in the game. 7 MARYLAND vs.

19 PENN STATE heat. But they failed to come back a second time when Ramon Par-edes missed two fourth-quarter, field-goal attempts of 34 and 51 yards, and Alvin Blount fumbled away a pass reception on the Penn State 30 with 38 seconds remaining. Penn State quickly turned two pass interceptions into a 10-0 lead and extended its margin to 17-0 early in the second quarter. Penn State's Michael Zordich intercepted a Stan Gelbaugh pass on the second play of the game and returned it 32 yards for a 7-0 lead after just 50 seconds. Another interception by Pete Giftopoulos at the Lions' 11 blunted a Maryland drive and led to a 28-yard field goal by Manca late in the first quarter.

Nittany Lions maintain mastery Statistics At Champaign, HI. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Mil t-M ILLINOIS til 1-lt Sauttwra California Norman I pass from Salisbury (Shattr kick); Sauttwra California Tannar 46 pass from Salisbury (Shafer kick); Southern California FG Shafer as; lllinais -Boso pass from Trudeau (C.White kick); South-am California FG Shafer 23; Illinois FG C. White 21. Southern Cat Illinois First downs 17 15 Rushes-yards (MSI 21-10 Passing yards 164 310 Return yards 27 4 Passes 10-1S-0 21-37-0 Punts 4036 3-3 Fumbles-lost 5-2 7-2 Penalties-yards 3-20 4-31 Time of Possesion 36:25 23:35 At Lincoln, Neb. FLORIDA STATE 7 10 0 1-17 NEBRASKA 7 6 0 t-13 Nebraska Rathman 60 run (Klein kick); Florida State Holloman 15 pass from McManus (Schmidt kick); Florida State FG Schmidt 20; Nebraska DuBose 1 run (kick failed); Florida Slate Cletis Jones 2 run (Schmidt kick).

A 75,943. FSU Nebraska First downs 17 15 Rushes-yards 43-114 55-372 Passing yards 176 40 Return yards 2-4 2-17 Passes 1S-31-0 3-14-1 Punts-eve M0 5-38 Fumbles-lost 1-0 2-2 Penalties-yards 5-40 7-46 Time of Possession 30:58 29:02 At College Park, Md. PENN STATE 7 1 8-20 MARYLAND I 10 I 0-18 Penn State Zordich 32 interception return (Manca kick); Penn State FG Manca 28; Penn State Williams 2 pass from Shaffer (Manca kick); Maryland FG Paredes 22; Maryland Badanjek 8 run (Paredes kick); Maryland Ba- danjek 5 run (Knight pass from Henning); Penn State FG Manca 46. Penn State Maryland First downs 14 23 Rushes-yards 32-105 55-234 Passing yards 182 137 Return yards 72 47 Passes 13-27-2 12-28-2 Sacks by 11-38 6-29 Punts 4-46 6-37 Fumbles lost 4-3 4-1 Penalties-yards 4-35 6-54 Time of possession 24:01 35:59 At Prove, Utah UCLA 10 3 3 11-27 BRIGHAM YOUNG 3 14 0 7-24 UCLA FG Lee 25; Brigham Young FG Webster 24; UCLA Rutledge 65 interception return (Lee kick); Brigham Young Bellini 10 pass from Bosco (Webster kick); UCLA FG Lee 35; Brigham Young Kotlowski 7 pass from Bosco (Webster Kick); UCLA FG Lee 20; UCLA FG Lee 25; Brigham Young Bosco 1 run (Webster kick); UCLA Green 2 run (Green run). UCLA Brigham Young First downs 16 24 Rushes-yards 52-138 26-46 Passing yards 146 340 Return yards 70 9 Passes 12-22-1 29-41-2 Punts 6-42 4-33 Fumbles-lost 2-0 4-3 Penalties-yards 3-30 3-34 Time of possession 32:07 27:53 At Seattle OKLAHOMA STATE 7 3 7 M-31 WASHINGTON 10 7 0 0-17 Washington Hill 26 pass from Millen (Jaeger kick); Oklahoma State Thomas 35 run (O'Don-nell kick); Washington FG Jaeger 33; Oklahoma State FG O'Donneil 38; Washington Hill 8 pass from Millen (Jaeger kick); Oklahoma State Hudson recovered fumble in end lone (O'Donneil kick); Oklahoma State Riley 6 pass from Thomas (O'Donneil kick); Oklahoma State Moore 49 pass interception (O'Oonnell kick).

A 59,205. Oklahoma State Washington First downs 15 21 Rushes-yards 52-240 37-96 Passing yards 109 232 Return yards 69 48 Passes 9-18-1 21-38-3 Punts 7-38 4-44 Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-1 Penalties-yards 9-84 6-31 Time of Possession 29:35 30:25 play. Junior Thurman Intercepted Trudeau's long pass at the USC 24, only to fumble it back to Illinois at the 33. But the Illini were penalized for clipping while on defense during the return, and USC retained possession at its 43. Six plays later, Don Shafer kicked a 46-yard field goal to make it 17-0.

Illinois finally got on the score- board in the third quarter when Trudeau hit tight end Cap Boso, who i broke two tackles in turning the pass into an 83-yard scoring playv Field goals of 23 yards by Shafer I late in the third period and 28 yards by Illinois' Chris White early in the i final quarter ended the scoring. SMU needs rally to win 35-23; South Carolina also struggles 25-game BYU skein two touchdowns before tying the score at 14 at halftime. I Tight end Danny Smith scofed the go-ahead touchdown on a 67-yard pass play and Kent Hagood scrambled for another touchdown as No. 18 South Carolina slipped past persistent Appalachian State 20-13 at Columbia, S.C. Smith, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, was the favorite target most of the game for quarterbacks Mike Hold and Allen Mitchell, catching five passes for 134 yards.

South Carolina, which opened by pounding The Citadel 56-17 last weekend, found itself behind much of the first half as Appalachian State's John Settle bulled his way for 106 yards en route to a game total of 193. Settle, who frustrated the Gamecocks' defense by breaking tackles all evening, gave the Mountaineers an early lead when he scrambled 13 yards around left end for the game's first points. On Penn State's next possession, a 50-yard pass from John Shaffer to Michael Timpson launched an 80-yard drive which culminated with a two-yard TD pass from Shaffer to Bob Williams and a 17-0 advantage. Maryland, which scored its only series victory in 1961, scored on a 22-yard field goal by Paredes. When Blair Thomas fumbled the ensuing kickoff, Danny Swingle recovered for the Terps on the Penn State 30.

Five plays later, Rick Badanjek scored on an eight-yard run, pulling Maryland within 17-10. An interception by Chuck Faucett led to another Badanjek TD, this one from five yards out, and a two-point pass conversion from holder Dan Henning to Chris Knight put Maryland ahead 18-17. The Nittany Lions came right, back with the final score, Manca booting the longest field goal of his career. quarterback Robbie Bosco with 2:54 remaining in the game. But Stevens, a junior who replaced starter David Norrie, drove UCLA 84 yards in six plays, hooking up with Mike Sherrard for a 62-yard pass play to the BYU 22.

Running back Gaston Green punched the ball over from the two and followed with a two-point conversion run. Bosco, who had completed 29 of 41 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns, was prevented from passing deep downfield by a swarming UCLA secondary and was intercepted twice. BYU, a 28-14 winner in its opening game against Boston College in the Kickoff Classic, suffered five covered a fumble by the Huskies' David Toy in the end zone. The Cowboys' defense, which surrendered a pair of Millen-to-Lonzell Hill touchdown passes in the first half, completely throttled the Washington offense in the second half. Jeff Jaeger of the Huskies missed field goal tries of 30 and 49 yards in the third quarter.

Thomas, who rushed for 843 yards as a freshman, had 158 yards on 27 carries in the opening half. His rushing effort fell short of the Oklahoma State single-game record of 270 yards set by Ernest Anderson against Kansas in 1982. Associated Prass COLLEGE PARK, Md. Maryland had control of its own destiny, but the Terps just couldn't break the Penn State jinx. The 19th-ranked Nittany Lions took, the lead on Massimo Manca's 46-yard field goal in the third period, checked three scoring bids by No.

7 Maryland in the final quarter and won 20-18 yesterday. "I didn't feel any jinx out there," Maryland coach Bobby Ross said after the Terps lost for the 21st consecutive time to the Nittany Lions. But Scott Schankweiler, a senior co-captain, indicated he may have been feeling effects of a whammy. "I wasn't sure about anything when we had the ball at the end," he said. "The way things have gone in the past, you can't take anything for granted against Penn State and you saw how it turned out." The Terps overcame a 17-point deficit to go ahead in the 100-degree Bruins end Associated Prass PROVO, Utah Brigham Young coach Lavell Edwards said it was the Cougars' five turnovers against UCLA that spelled the end to his team's 25-game winning streak.

"We knew it was going to be an evenly matched game, and you're not going to beat a great football team with the number of turn overs we naa, towards said yesterday following No. 8 BYU'S 27-24 loss to the 20th-ranked visitors from the Pac-10. i UCLA kicker John Lee booted four field goals and reserve quarterback Matt Stevens drove UCLA 84 yards to a winning touchdown with 1:02 remaining. UCLA coach Terry Donahue said he inserted Stevens into the lineup in the third quarter "because we Thomas runs, Associated Press SEATTLE Sophomore tailback Thurman Thomas rushed for 237 yards and a touchdown and passed for a score last night as the 16th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys came from behind to beat No. 12 Washington 31-17.

Thomas, a 5-foot-ll, 186-pounder, from Missouri City, Texas, was the Most Valuable Player in the Gator Bowl as a freshman last season. Thomas, who carried the football 40 times, snapped a 17-17 tie with 11:22 left in the game when he fired a six-yard scoring strike to Bobby Riley. The Cowboys broke the contest jpiiiiiiiil for Associated Press Shocked Southern Methodist watched a 14-point lead melt away to the aroused Texas-El Paso Miners last night before the third-ranked Mustangs rallied to a 35-23 non-conference victory. SMU, which hasn't lost a season opener since 1971, fell behind 17-14 in the third period on a 33-yard field goal by Chris Jacke. But the Mustangs, who were installed as 42-point favorites by the oddsmakers, charged 62 yards in nine plays with Reggie Dupard scoring from two yards out.

Don King then put the Miners away with a 48-yard scoring pass to Marquis Pleasant with 5:42 to go after freshman John Harvey had dashed 55 yards for a Texas-El Paso touchdown. King added SMU's final touchdown with 38 seconds left on a three-yard run. The Miners, who lost to Air Force 48-6 last weekend, fell behind by Must show this Ad Starting At 8 BRIGHAM YOUNG vs. 20 UCLA needed a change of pace." But he said it took four periods of good football to beat the defending national champions. "One of the impressive things about the team (UCLA) was there wasn't a letdown.

Even when BYU scored, we knew if we played great we could do it," Donahue said. Lee connected on all four of his field-goal attempts, from 25, 35, 20 and 25 yards, before Stevens' game-winning drive. That touchdown came late in the game with UCLA trailing 24-19, following a one-yard dive by Cougars -Ei passes Cowboys over Huskies 31-17 For most cars, plus installation Available at all 4 Louisville Locations: (exhaust" Hikes Point 16th and Broadway St. Matthews 1800 Brownsboro Rd. See yellow pages for details.

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The Huskies' defense moved up to tackle him, but. he stopped and threw over the bewildered defenders to Riley in the end zone. The Cowboys lost their starting quarterback, sophomore Ronnie Williams, with an injury with 10:17 gone in the second half. 5784 583 9771 or I TOLL FREE 800 The I Every ALWAYS THIS 12 WASHINGTON vs. 16 OKLA.

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