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i jyj Buckeyes Disney preview Guide to this week's Disney Classic T7- Do you have a gripe? Try our new call-in line. Details, C-20 get a scare Florida State 34, Miami 16 Florida 56, LSU 13 UCF 33, Samford 6 Howard 61, B-CC 21 FAMU 24, N.C. 23 Arizona St. 42, UCLA 34 Notre Dame 54, Waoh. 20 Alabama 24, N.C.

State 19 vs! Dhin RtatP rallies tops Wisconsin, 17-14 C-G Section 072-7200 The Orlando Sentinel SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1996 Soccer, C-1 7 D.C. United eliminates the Tampa Bay Mutiny from the MLS playoffs. NBA, C-3 'RMJfftS METRO Let It Rip! 1 -y I AwnilftaiMi) ail 4a4ll "irtMiufi imj-iuTT -inffiff 'Noles get the dirt on 'Canes this time Gat rs veasi on i igers IAMI When this latest edition of one of college football's most spirited and meaningful rivalries had ended early Saturday evening, Florida State senior receiver.Wayne triumphantly held aloft two large chunks of Orange Bowl sod. Photographers jock oi' Ml. ida's swarming defense stonewalled LSU's vaunted running game in a 56-13 Southeastern Conference bludgeoning that coach Steve Spurrier called "maybe the best all-around game" in his seven seasons at UF.

In thoroughly dominating one of the favorites to capture the Southeastern Conference Western Division, the Gators (6-0, 4-0 SEC) cranked out a season-high 635 yards and school-record 36 first downs against the team that held UF to its lowest offensive output (321 yards) of the 1995 regular season. The 85,567 on hand might as well have come to see Akron, Southwestern Louisiana or any other recent homecoming foe. It was that lopsided. "Hopefully, LSU's defensive coordinator won't be giving clinics on how to the stop the Gators all next Please see GATORS, C-10 LSU was supposed to present a challenge, but Danny Wuerffel was on fire as UF won in devastating fashion, 56-13. By Chris Harry OF THE SENTINEL STAFF GAINESVILLE It may not have looked like it, but that was 12th-ranked Louisiana State in the "The Swamp" Saturday.

Swear it was. The Tigers, though, did their best Northern Illinois impersonation for the record homecoming crowd. Of course, the No. 1-ranked Gators had a little something to do with it. Danny Wuerffel passed, his tailbacks ran and Flor eyed for position to record the emotional moment while Mes-sam beamed and explained the drill.

For years, FSU has designated "sod games," important road tests that, if passed, call for a small JOHN AAOUXTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL 5 Good job. UF coach Steve Spurrier congratulates running back Terry Jackson after he scored on a 2-yard rushing touchdown. THE SPORTS COLUMN i A 7 1 1 FSU buries Miami, 34-16, in haunted Orange Bowl By Alan Schmadtke clump of enemy ground to be interred in a sacred cemetery of special conquests just off the 'Noles' practice field. This was a two-clump game. "I got 'em right over there off the 'IT gushed Messam, motioning toward an excavation in the University of Miami emblem painted at midfield.

"It's been 12 years, so this calls for two." By a convincing 34-16 count, unbeaten and No. 3-ranked FSU had at last exorcized the Ghost of Ibis, that UMiami jinx that seemed to doom the Seminoles each time they arrived in the Orange Bowl towing a season of high promise. Five consecutive sad flights home, nothing for the sod cemetery. Messam retrieved the trophy sod, but two hands that will belong on a shovel are those of FSUs giant-hearted water bug of a tailback, Warrick Dunn. The little senior may have spurted back into the Heisman race with 163 rushing yards.

Giving FSU the early 17-0 breathing room it needed, Dunn popped through a blitzing Miami defense, juked one defender to the ground and scooted 80 yards for the longest touchdown run of his career. When he had outrun everyone to the West end zone, Dunn cocked his helmet toward the stunned home crowd and cupped one hand around an ear hole. "That was probably something I shouldn't have done," he blushed afterward. "But there was a lot of trash-talking before the game fans cursing and being rude. I wanted to see what they had to say then." Reinard Wilson and Peter Boulware, FSU's incomparable wrecking-ball defensive ends, each deserve a hand on the shovel for doing their usual: Four of the six sacks that kept digging a hole for plucky Miami QB Ryan Clement And give FSU coach Bobby Bowden a turn on the shovel for the loose, confident aura he and his staff conjured before a game that So often has produced tight collars and soprano tones on the flight to Miami.

And finally, put Altamonte linebacker Daryl Bush on the shovel for his example of leadership and grit returning to the with a rattle between his ears and a gash across the middle of his once-handsome face. The heart and brains of the FSU defense, Bush split open a small cavern on the bridge of his nose two OF THE SENTINEL STAFF the Hurricanes. History is FSU's string of first-year starting quarterbacks who failed to beat Miami at home. Forgotten are the previous national championship hopes that FSU left in Dade County. "It's our stadium now," FSU senior linebacker Henri Crockett said.

"It's been that way for a while. We've won three Orange Bowls and a national championship in this stadium, and we won today. It's our stadium. Miami just occupies it." It's a stinging reality for No. 6 Miami (4-1), which lost at home for only the fourth time in 75 games but now has lost three times in four tries against the Seminoles (5-0).

Florida State's two-game winning streak is its first over UM since 1978-79, a time when FSU coach Bobby Bowden was still trying to Please see SEMINOLES, C-8 MIAMI Came the fourth quarter, the Miami Hurricanes thrust four fingers into the air and talked to third-ranked Florida State about ghosts. Specifically, FSlTs failures at the Orange Bowl. This morning, the Seminoles can hold up two fingers, for them a sweet symbol of their new and rare winning streak over Miami. For FSU, Miami Mystique is dead, buried in the wake of the Seminoles' 34-16 victory on a gray, blustery Saturday before a stunned 75,913 at the Orange Bowl. "We have to move on," Miami coach Butch Davis said Gone is Miami's 11-game winning streak, longest in Division I-A Ended is FSU's 12-year losing streak at the 59-year-old home of ASSOCIATED PRESS Well Dunn.

Florida State's Warrick Dunn, running 80 yards for a touchdown, helps set the pace for the Seminoles with 163 of the team's 222 rushing yards in a 34-1 6 victory against Miami, It takes Samford to bring out winner in Central Florida By Jerry Greene OF THE SENTINEL STAFF The Knights ended a four-game slide and played at home for the first time in six weeks in a 38-6 victory against the I-AA Bulldogs. The game began with a cannon shot from the Army ROTC when Todd Cleveland took, the opening kickoff and raced 93 yards for a touchdown. Said Cleveland: "That's the only way to start a party with a bang." UCF coach Gene McDowell agreed: "That took a lot of the air out of Samford and was a Please see KNIGHTS, C-11 from a small private school in Birmingham, but that did not matter on a cool, invigorating Saturday afternoon to the Knights (2-4), who were playing at home for the first time in six weeks. i What mattered is that they ended a four-game losing streak and proved to themselves that they can play winning football. They were sloppy but dominant in front of a modest crowd of 12,122 at the Florida Citrus Bowl.

Don't even try to spoil this coming-home party for the entertainment-starved Central Florida Golden Knights. All they care about is that they beat somebody and beat them good. UCF 38, Samford 6. Yes, Samford (3-3) is a Division I-AA team Cards stop Braves, 3-2, and it feels fine to Gant Yankees swing big, have Series in sight weeks ago and broke it open again last week. Then barely three minutes into Saturday's epic, Bush tore out all the stitches again on a Richter-scale collision with 280-pound Miami guard Richard Merrier during an interception return by teammate Troy Saunders.

Bush spent the next half-hour peering through the fog and asking team doctors, "Did I get the best of the block?" They assured him he had, but suggested he sit out the rest of the first half. 1 The technical diagnosis was later provided by Bowden: "Daryl was knocked crazy." Bush wobbled about the bench area until Dr. Bowden dramatically upgraded his condition late in the second period. The coach could tell Daryl was better because Miami had just moved to first-and-goal. "How you feeling?" shouted Bowden, knowing Bush would lie.

'Tm OK" Bush lied. "Get your helmet, then, and get in there!" 7 Bush snatched his helmet, pulled it on over his swollen and throbbing face and ran onto the field for a goal-line stand. He played the rest of the game, poking that wounded mug into Miami's business time and again until the 'Noles were 5-and-0 and the Orange Bowl jinx was dead. "You work up to this point and you want to be in there no matter what your situation," Bush said, his face a Halloween mask Projecting out from under the bandage between his eyes were grotesque bruises in assorted shades of blue and green. Plastic surgeons may submit sealed bids this winter.

"I guess," Bush mused, "this ends my modeling career." Also the ghosts of MiamiIbisOrange Bowl. uf30 Four home runs, including two by Darryl Strawberry, lift New York to a 3-1 ALCS lead. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinal rule. Ron Gant is geeted after hitting 2nd home run. AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES helped me because the feelings have been so deep.

In the past, I've tried to do too much against these guys." Saturday, in leading St. Louis to a 2-games-to-l lead in the best-of-7 series, Gant just tried to make good contact against left-hander Tom Glavine. It was good enough to drive a two-run home run over the left-center fence in the first inning and good enough to lead off the sixth with a shot to dead center field that traveled 420 feet. "This year, I've tried to calm down against them, tried to just cover the whole plate and get base hits. Sometimes the ball goes out of the park," Gant said.

It doesn't usually go out against Glavine, however, who Please see NLCS, C-4 Ron Gant hit two home runs to put St Louis ahead of his former team, Atlanta, 2-1, intheNLCS. By Bob Ford PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ST. LOUIS The only thing Ron Gant couldn't do Saturday was lie. He could hit two home runs to provide all the St. Louis scoring in a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series.

But he couldn't pretend it wasn't sweet revenge a long time coming. "There have been bitter feelings," Gant said. "But in the past, it has hurt me more than World Series. Despite a wretched performance by Kenny Rogers, the Yankees were powerful, resourceful and successful once again. They halted the Orioles in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series and marched to within one victory of qualifying for their first World Series since 1981.

Only two teams have ever rebounded from 3-1 deficits in the ALCS since the seven-game format was instituted in 1985: the 1985 Kansas City Royals and the 1986 Boston Red Sox. "This is what it's all about the major-league level and being in the postseason and trying to get in the World Series," said Strawberry, rescued by the Yan- Please see YANKEES, C-4 GAME 4: New York 8, Baltimore 4 Yankees load best-of-7 series, 3-1 BGAiVE 5: New York at Baltimore, today, 4 p.m. BALTIMORE When Darryl Strawberry's second homer of the night vanished into the left-field seats in the eighth inning Saturday night, hundreds of Baltimore Orioles fans streamed out of Camden Yards and went home. They felt no need to stick around for the end of New York's 8-4 victory. If the Orioles lose again today, they will follow their fans home and the Yankees will follow their own magical path to the NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 1 GAME 3: St.

Louis 3, Atlanta 2 Cardinals lead best-of-7 series, 2-1 GAME 4: Atlanta at St. Louis, today, 7:30 p.m. 9.