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How AP Top 20 fared 1. Alabama (7-0) defeated Vir-. ginia Tech. 31-7. 2.

Nebraska (7-0) defeated Colorado, 38-1 0. 3. So. California (7-0-1) defeated California, 24-14. 4.

(tie) Arkansas (6-1) lost to Houston, 13-10. Ohio State (8-0) defeated Michigan State, 42-0. 6. Houston (7-0) defeated Arkansas, 13-10. 7.

Oklahoma (6-1) defeated Iowa State, 38-9. 8. Florida State (7-0) defeated LSU, 24-19 9. Texas (5-1) defeated Southern Methodist, 30-6. 10.

Michigan (7-1) defeated Indiana, 27-21. 11. Brigham Young (7-0) defeated New Mexico, 59-7. 12. Pittsburgh (6-1) defeated Navy, 24-7.

13. Auburn (5-2) lost to Wake Forest, 42-38. 14. Notre Dame (5-2) defeated South Carolina, 18-17. 15.

North Carolina (5-1-1) was tied by East Carolina, 24-24. 46. Purdue (6-2) defeated Northwestern, 20-1 6. 17. Navy (6-1) lost to Pittsburgh, 24-7.

18. Wake Forest (7-1) defeated Auburn, 42-38. 19. Tennessee (4-2) did not play. 20.

Washington (6-2) defeated UCLA, 34-1 4. Crenshaw-Burns lead by 4 shots By JERRY GREENE Scnllnal Star The meek almost always inherit the National Team-Championship at Walt Disney World but that was before Ben Crenshaw and George Burns really took this thing seriously. Gentle Ben and Sir George combined for a 10-under par 62 Saturday for a 26-under total of 190 four strokes ahead of their closest challengers going into today's final round on the windy Magnolia course. If this were a boxing match, 90 towels would have already been thrown into the ring from the other 45 teams chasing the $45,000 first-place prize out of the $250,000 purse. If it were chess, 90 opponents would have toppled their kings.

If it were a swimming meet, everybody else would already be out of the pool. But it's golf and team golf at that so "Give me an eight-shot lead," said Crenshaw, "because four isn't enough. Crazy things happen." However, Burns added: "When you're playing with Ben, I think four is enough." It would seem that way. The best known twosome in the 46-team field blitzed its way through the course and the opposition Saturday. Only former champions Grier Jones and Gibby Gilbert could match the 10-under 62 and pulled into a four-team tie for second.

Golf, Page 3-C UCF suffers first setback 48-0 Page 5-C Bethune holds off Norfolk St. Page 4-C 1 Jl Andrtw J. HlcfcrnanSfnllntl SUr Burns, left, and Crenshaw: can anyone catch them? Sentinel Star Orlando, Florida tt Sunday, October 28, 1979 Sports Financial Fey Js JoMami sjpars.LSy Larry Guest Sports Editor By BILL BUCHALTER Attocit Sports Editor BATON ROUGE, La. Jimmy Jordan, the rifleman, bagged Florida State's biggest game Saturday. It was a 17th-ranked Tiger in his own lair.

First, Jordan rifled a scoring pass to Sam Piatt, then he rifled one to freshman Hardis Johnson, finally he rifled one to Jackie Flowers. When the firing was finally fin- ished at Tiger Stadium, FSU had bagged LSU 24-19. Some 67,167 fans, scouts from nine postseason bowls and a regional television audience that covered 84 percent of the country, discovered what many had whispered but more chose to disbelieve that: FSU, indeed, is worthy of its 7-0 record; its No. 7 national ranking; its 11-game winning streak over a two-year period. The Seminoles did what they had to do.

They converted two LSU miscues into quick touchdowns. They controlled the scrimmage line when necessary and they dared to beat the "Soul Patrol" deep and did. "Jordan was super," smiled George Henshaw, the offensive coordinator. "He played like he practiced all week. On the money." "01' Jimmy's like a flock of quail," beamed Bobby Bowden, FSU's head coach.

"He never lets anything bother him. He's our TV star. I told him to drop back there and keep firing because he was gonna haye all day. We wanted to throw deep on 'em, we thought we could and we did." Did he ever. Jordan fired 31 times, completed 14 for 312 yards and the three TDs.

But he had long plays of 53, 44, 40, 30 and 25 yards. "The big plays were vital," summed up Henshaw. 'They won it for us." Of course, the three biggest were the touchdown passes. Monk Bonasorte, who constantly takes admonishment from his defensive buddies "for being lucky, rather than good," recovered a Danny Soileau fumble at the 32-yard line on LSU's first offensive possession. It took Jordan just six plays, crisply executed, to produce the touchdown, a three-yarder to Piatt.

The junior was hurt on the play and never returned. In fact, on FSU's next possession, Jordan quickly hit Flowers for 25 yards and it looked like a rout, but offensive pass interference was rul This coupled with some short punts and a missed 27-yard fioM anal hir riairo PnnAlan Seminole game plan: go long! BATON ROUGE Florida State went into Louisiana Saturday vith the same game plan the Allied Forces carried into the Third Reich. Baton Rouge saw more bombs than Dusseldorf. Slug this production, "Seminole Go Long." Dr. Longball made a house call and Florida State football is looking very, very healthy.

It was FSU's most important football game only since the beginning of time and Seminole Coach-Prince Bobby Bowden failed the cardinal rule of coaching. He went liberal. Here was a guy with an unbeaten record and on the road against the toughest team on his schedule. This was the Florida State-Louisiana State Football Biggie and Bowl Scout Convention, obviously a time any self-respecting coach would revert to cave man offense. Any coach knows when you get to The Big One, you break out the Arthur Murray offense.

Step here, step there, two-handed handoffs. Hold the ball, son, like it's your grandfather's ashes in an urn. Bowden gushed when finally allowed to descend his players' shoulders after the 24-19 victory. "Our game plan was to come out firin. We decided we couldn't come in here and play scared.

We felt we could throw long on LSU. And we were going to do that good enough to win br do that and lose." All around the jubilant Bowden was a team stricken with a terminal case of giggles. Seminoles were pounding each other on the backs, chanting, "TIGER BAIT! TIGER BAIT! Scouts from nine bowls filed by to grovel at Bowden's toenails, including two from the lofty Orange Bowl, a postseason classic that Florida State football had known only in storybooks. "Magnificent! Magnificent!" as. sessed Orange Bowl committeeman Steve Hudson, clasping Bowden's hand firmly.

Hudson stuck an Orange Bowl emblem on the coach's chest. Earlier in the week, an Orange Bowl official had pooh-poohed the contention that the Miami game would never turn its back on an undefeated Florida State. "FSU could whip the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys on successive weekends and we still wouldn't invite them," the Orange officer was quoted. Early Saturday, the two Orange reps here huddled with Bowden to assure him the quote was not reflective of that bowl's selection committee. Florida State has never been to one of the New Year's Day bowls and Bowden harbors no illusions about what it will take to get this team into one.

"We know we can't do it by leading the nation in passing or leading Guest, Page 10-C Gtorg RwiaimSMidiMl Star Florida State's Hardis Johnson beats LSU's Chris Williams, gathers in second-quarter TD pass. 20 10 ators poached the momentum around. Finally, Chris Williams scooted 44 yards with a punt to the FSU five and LSU was back in the ball game. Hokie Gajan got the TD from the one and Don Barthel tied it with his PAT. Ariother short Dunt Drecederl a teaching," Pell said after the Gators stumbled to 0-5-1.

The last Florida winless season came in 1946 when it posted an 0-9 record. "It's not the people, but it's the way we are teaching them. Right now we have a mighty down group of men, as they should be." With the offense not being able to generate any kind of movement in the first half in which Tulsa took a 3-0 lead, Pell switched quarterbacks to open the second half-Freshman Johnell Brown came in for classmate Tyrone Young, who had picked up 44 yards rushing but was 0-for-6 passing. Brown was not the answer. Two minutes into the half he committed one of Florida's three fumbles.

This was the only fumble Tulsa recovered but it set the Hurricane up to take a lead it would never relinquish. Tulsa noseguard Steve Cox fell on the ball at the Florida 34. Five plays later Kenny Jackson plunged over from the one to give Tulsa a 10-0 lead. Gators, Page 10-C By MIKE ETZKIN SanUnal Star GAINESVILLE It took only 16 seconds, but it broke Florida Saturday afternoon as the Gators fell to Tulsa 20-10 before 60,126 homecoming fans. One 16-second play exemplified what was wrong with the Gators all afternoon.

The play was an 83-yard kickoff return by Tulsa freshman Kenneth Lacy in the third quarter. He fielded the ball on the fly on his own 17 and headed for the left sideline. There the action slowed as he was hit by a quartet of Gators. Like a spent top which will wobble but not fall over, Lacy bounced off the pack and out ran for the end zone to give the Tulsa Golden Hurricane a 17-3 lead with 5:51 left in the third quarter. Missed tackles killed the Gators in critical situations.

So did their lack of deep pass protection and their fumbles. In all those areas disgruntled Coach Charley Pewll shouldered the blame. "I just haven't done a good job pp 1 TV j0 L)Ti I rv v. lit. uu-yai iigci skiing uuve iiuuway through period two.

David WooHW and got the TD himself from the -two-yard line. But Barthel missed the PAT and it was 13-7 with 7:22 ieii until nairtime. FSU appeared fortunate to get to the lockerroom trailing hv a TO Aaaodatad Praaa But before you could say Scott McLean, FSU got the ball back on 4 lUmDie at Its 4 With thrw minute to play. Gator Coach Charley Pell, Scot Brantley (right) embrace during retirement ceremony for Brantley's jersey No. 55.

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