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'4 V. 4 1 I i Section Upset City, baby! Texas takes care of unbeaten Nebraska, and Illinois surprises Michigan at the Big House. Stories, C-2 Check out the NFL match Lips and Jerry Greene's picks. Pages D-8, D-9 -ijT frtn i i OLLEGE FOOTBALL Tl The Orlando Sentinel ainnie Day CENTRAL FLORIDA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1999 r. i BOBBY 1 7, TOMMY 14 BOWDEN vs.

BOWDEN qI WWuu uw" mm 0-V An historic victory in father-son game By Steve Elling OF THE SENTINEL STAFF it Lw. 1 XI CLEMSON, S.C. For 2'i hours, the Bowden Family Fend was an orgy of orange not the color of choice for a father trying to celebrate his 300th victory. Burnt orange eventually burned out. Top-ranked Florida State salvaged a jU.f i i fv, 17-14 victory over uemson, not to mention a season, Saturday night with a frantic second-half rally a dizzy, vocal and riled crowd of 86,200.

After all the hubbub, familial ribbing and newspaper ink, the Bowden generation gap was three points and only after Clemson redshirt freshman Tony Lazzara missed a 41-yard field-goal attempt with 1:57. left. Instead, the winner was FSU kicker Sebastian Jani-kowski, who had missed two of three attempts. Jani-kowski knocked through a 39-yard kick with 5:26 to play to put the sputtering Seminoles (8-0, 6-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) in front for the first time all night. Some folks were selling commemorative T-shirt with 300 on them, but they were almost collector's items for the wrong reason.

"Everybody's printing up shirts," Bobby said. "I thought, 'You ought to put 299 on No doubt, it might have gone either way, either to offspring Tommy or sire Bobby in the first-ever face-off between coaching father and son. If all 300 of the elder Bowden's wins were like this, he would never have lived to be 69. "You felt like you were losing, losing, losing," Bobby said. "You feel like you're not going to win it.

We did, but I don't know how." It was a struggle throughout for FSU, which entered the game ranked fourth in the nation in scoring (40.1 points a game). But Clemson, wedging linebackers into every gap in an ailing FSU offensive line, kept quarterback Chris Please see FSU, C-7 7 (if i i i 'ii tk BEES'1 I cm Years School Wins Coach 38 i 44 Alabama Carlisle Penn State Chicago, Pacific W. Virginia, FSU 323 Paul Bear Bryant 319 Pop Warner 315 Joe Paterno 314 Amos Alonzo Stagg 300 Bobby Bowden 111 PHELAN M. EBENHACKTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL 38 57 33 I- Pregame talk. Clemson Coach Tommy Bowden (center) and FSU's Bobby Bowden (right) converse before their historic father-son game.

Miami uses a huge rally to edge Boston College By Chris Perkins Reggie Wayne on fourth-and-17 from the Eagles' 35-yar line. The nine-play, 44-yard drive capped i MIAMI BUREAU CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. One of the most miraculous comebacks in college football history was delivered by two of the University of Ooh la la, Tech outscores UCF Of all the great quarterbacks the Knights have faced this year, Tim Rattay performed the best. By Javier Solano OF THE SENTINEL STAFF The University of Central Florida faced some decent quarterbacks in September: Purdue's Drew Brees, Florida's Doug Johnson, Georgia Tech's Joe Hamilton and Georgia's Quincy Carter. If that seems like an understatement, blame it on Tim Rattay.

He blew them all away and the Golden Knights, too. Rattay threw for 561 yards on 46 completions, both record figures for a UCF opponent, and five, touchdowns. In the battle of the next-best Division I-A independents, the Knights could not keep pace with Rattay and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, 46-35 winners Saturday. TWh had three receivers catch 10 a 31-point, 17-minute scoring spree that saved the season 23 Miami, 3-3 overall and 1-0 in the Big East. The Hurricanes, who had 101 yards in the first half and 295 in the second half, scored on five of their last six possessions to pull out the victory.

Boston College, which had 250 yards in the first half and 126 in the second half, was held scoreless on its final six Dossessions. Miami most maligned players Saturday at Bos- i. mix: VJJJ- ton College. iPj i Quarterback Kenny fLJ Kellv and kicker Andy It Crosland, who have been targets for disgruntled Hurricanes fans, helped "It's amazing how close we were to disaster," Miami center Ty Wise said. The Hurricanes, who snapped a three-game losing streak, jumped to life just in time to record one of the biggest comebacks in college football.

The biggest comeback in college football history was in 1984, when UM blew a 31-0 halftime lead against Ma- the 'Canes overcome a 28-0, third-quarter deficit and escape Alumni Stadium with a 31-28 victory. The winning points came on Cros-land's 30-yard field goal with three seconds remaining. Crosland's field goal was set up one play earlier when Kelly, limping around on a badly twisted left ankle, fired a perfect 22-yard strike to '0 ii rflli III. mill i nil ASSOCIATED PRESS or more passes, led by Sean Cangelosi with 14 recep- Please see UCF, C-7 Please see MIAMI, C-6 Sandwiched. UCF receiver Charles Lee gets twice the attention from Louisiana Tech defenders Roderick Pernetter (left) and Bobby Gray.

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