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MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER SKCTION f' SUNDAY i PJ UBTC College scoreboard 9. Florida 41 U.Penn State 31 Cimiptcie scores mi 2C 5. Tennessee 34 Iowa 0 2. Alabama 43 6. Syracuse 21 15.

Arizona 16 Arkansas 3 Texas 21 Illinois 14 3. Miami 21 8. Nebraska 14 16. Texas 73 Virginia Tech 2 UCLA 13 Missouri 0 4. Notre Dame 36 11.

Ohio State 63 Auburn 34 Michigan State 14 Pittsburgh 28 LSU 10 Sept. 19, 1993 LJ-i II VUU 11 11 PULlll II. J.JJILUJ. Jsl it is st Jim Johnston Sports Editor Tigers may opened p- i- a fe 1 I T- i A 'V some eyes ATON ROUGE, La. The Louisiana State band closed its halftime show with its No contest: The Tide built a 30-3 halftime lead and cruised home from there By Tommy Sims ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER TUSCALOOSA It lasted just a little longer than a quarter, and it was all Alabama needed to shoot down Arkansas' upset aspirations at Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

After holding Alabama to a 22-yard Michael Proctor field goal for the first 14 minutes here Saturday, Arkansas fell victim to a Crimson Tide explosion. The flurry started with Alabama quarterback Jay Barker scrambling to his left with seemingly nowhere to turn as the Razorbacks' defenders closed in. But when Barker pulled up and flipped a 25-yard touchdown pass across the field to fullback Tarrant Lynch with 21 seconds left in the first quarter, it was the beginning of the end for Arkansas. The Tide added 14 points in the final seconds of the opening quarter, and when the offensive assault finally subsided, the Tide was on its way to a 43-3 win over the Razorbacks in a Southeastern Conference game, much to the ANDY HAILSSTAFF Arkansas' Tyrone Chatman attempts to bring down Alabama's Sherman Williams, who rushed for 148 yards on 24 carries. The Tide finished with 437 yards of total offense, 303 coming on the ground.

Upstart Auburn manhandles Bayou Bengals delight of most of the 70,123 fans. After Alabama had improved to 3-0 on the year and run its winning streak to 26 games, Tide coach Gene Stallings left the stadium liking what he had seen. "I thought we played better," Stallings said. "A win is a win. Arkansas is a rebuilding program, we all realize that.

I thought we improved as a football team over last week and that was what I was looking for. I am happy with the overall performance of the team." Alabama's first touchdown drive was a perfect example of how even when things went wrong for Alabama, the Tide found a way to make them right. With Alabama facing fourth-and-14 at its own 32-yard line, punter Bryne Diehl was ready to give the ball back to the Razorbacks when Arkansas nearly made something happen. Arkansas' Dean Peevy was coming on the rush and appeared to be in position to block Diehl's punt, but Diehl had other ideas. The senior pulled the ball in, avoided Peevey, and ran 17 yards for the first down.

"He made an excellent decision, it was not a called play," Stallings said, "to pull the ball down and run with it for the first Please turn to BAMA, 6C So Steve Spurrier did. "He's our quarterback until something happens to change that," the coach said after a 41 34 victory left the Gators (3-0, 2-0) as the only unbeaten team" in the SEC's Eastern Division. I "He took care of the ball vefy well. I had hoped to play Terry Dean, too, and I feel bad I didn't. But the way the game took off, it was just a matter of sticking with one quarterback and keeping whatever momentum we had to try to win the game." Wuerffel, who came off the Please turn to GATORS, 5C rendition of the old Aretha Franklin favorite, "Respect." i It must have been a tribute to the Auburn football team.

The Auburn Tigers came to fabled Tiger Stadium on Saturday night as a team in search of respect. They wanted to be described as something other than probation-plagued, average or just mediocre, the labels they have worn for the past two seasons. Auburn did away with those descriptions against Louisiana State, whipping the Tigers 34-10 in a game that should have been even more of a blowout than the final score suggests. 'i Despite being penalized 13 times for 1 10 yards, Auburn still knocked its Southeastern Conference counterparts all around deathly quiet Tiger Stadium on Saturday night. Perhaps Auburn coach Terry Bowden is just taking after his father, Bobby.

Florida State was the most penalized team in the nation last season, and has shown signs of defending that title this fall. White, Bostic do Jobs The Tigers bore a resemblance to the Seminoles in more favorable ways than in just the penalty department. Much-maligned Auburn quarterback Stan White did more than just break Pat Sullivan's all-time school record for passing yardage, which he was expected to do. With the exception of a fumble, he played a nearly flawless game, hitting 20 of 28 passes for 282 yards. He performed like a seasoned senior, in much the same man- ner he wowed Auburn fans dur-' ing his freshman year in 1990, the Tigers' last winning season.

Junior tailback James Bostic. Well, he played like he always does, running stubbornly and stopping only when three or more tacklers have tag-teamed him to the ground. Perhaps the biggest surprise oLthe game was the manner in which the Auburn offensive line chewed up the LSU defensive front. On nearly every third- and-short play Saturday night, the offensive line surge gave White or every other short-yardage ballcarrier a free ride to the first down. It was the first time in two years the Tigers have whipped an SEC opponent up front as soundly.

Defense stubborn The Auburn defense did its job as well, with a little less of the dominance shown by the offense. It gave up a handful of big plays to LSU quarterback Jamie Howard via the pass and a 53-yard run to Germaine Sharp. But the defense excelled where it was supposed to on the scoreboard. Despite the yardage the Tigers allowed, they became stubborn near the goal line and never let LSU get back into the game. In the final analysis, all faces of Auburn's football team gained a measure of respect in dominating LSU.

Curley Hal-. lman's Tigers are certainly not world-beaters, but to enter Tiger Stadium and destroy LSU be-fore its own fans is worthy of note. It's also worthy to add that Auburn is now 3-0, at a point when some thought the Tigers might be 1-2. The Auburn football team won't go to a bowl game this season and it might not perform nearly as well against the class programs of the SEC. But the Tigers won a road game here Saturday night, and with it, some well-deserved respect.

1 'ii'T Iff i 0 1 1 "tL i litis i A A XJ recorded by an LSU seismograph. But the fans who remained in the final minutes of Saturday's game couldn't have set off a voice-activated tape recorder. Auburn rebounded from a slow start and poured it on the rest of the game as the Tigers and first-year head coach Terry Bowden improved to 3-0 overall and 2-0 in the SEC. LSU fell to 1-2 and 1-1. Auburn struggled with the loud LSU crowd early in the game, but took that advantage away from LSU with a devastating second-quarter performance and cruised to victory.

"We are as good as I could possibly hope for at this time, but I'm concerned that we didn't have the knockout punch at times," said Bowden, who watched his team pile up 554 total offensive yards, by far the highest total of the season. "This is obviously a great win for Auburn and the football program at this time." Please turn to AUBURN, 8C 1 fviif'iMffli wr" mmm i irlinm ri mi to ir i mi ti i mirn iinlri 'i it inilni i i 'i iffi Imfinii iMimimiwiiirwuiiiiiaffl PATRICIA MIKLIK STAFF Auburn's James Bostic (33) rushed for 110 yards on 13 carries against LSU on Saturday night. Impressive: The Tigers compiled 554 yards of total offense en route to a 34-10 victory By Brian Bourke ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER BATON ROUGE, La. The last time Auburn and Louisiana State met here in Tiger Stadium, the earth moved. But there was no such action on the Richter scale on Saturday as Auburn thoroughly embarrassed the Bayou Bengals 34-10 in front of bewildered fans.

Saturday's Southeastern Conference Western Division game was billed as "Rock the Earth" in reference to the 1988 matchup here in which Tom Hodson hit Eddie Fuller for a touchdown in the final minutes for a 7-6 LSU victory. The resounding cheer was loud to say the least, and it was McNair leads Alcorn State past Hornets By Kelvin Sims ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER If Alabama State was into moral victories, it would have found plenty to cheer about Saturday night. The Hornets intercepted Alcorn State Ail-American quarterback Steve McNair four times, twice in the end zone to thwart two Brave scoring opportunities. The offense, which failed to show much life last week, came to life this week and brought the Hornets back after they had fallen behind 21-0. Please turn to HORNETS, 5C Wuerffel propels Gators past Vols i (( cv Job claimed: The redshirt freshman completed 19 of 38 passes for 231 yards and three TDs By Fred Goodall ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GAINESVILLE, Fla.

Even after leading ninth-ranked Florida past No. 5 Tennessee, Danny Wuerffel was hesitant to say he had settled Florida's quarterback controversy. -'I ASSOCIATED PRESS Florida's Errlct Rhett (33) races past Tennessee's George Kldd to score one of his two touchdowns on Saturday..