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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 6F Press Sun-Bulletin Sunday, October 17, 1999 A 0 kcksbur 1 For ack nig BY JOSEPH WHITE Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. Virginia Tech hung the biggest shutout ever on a ranked team on Saturday night. Despite being ranked No. 4, even the unbeaten Hokies were surprised at the ease of their record-setting "I never imagined this," said receiver Andre Davis, shaking his head with a big smile. "It should erase the doubts.

Some people may still be doubtful a little bit, but Syracuse was the 16th-ranked team in the nation. To beat a ranked team in 1936. The previous largest shutout was No. 1 Army's 61-0 victory over No. 6 Penn State in 1945.

The largest losing margin for a ranked team is 63 points No. 11 Texas was beaten 66-3 by unranked UCLA in 1997, "Would you be embarrassed when you get beat this bad?" SU guard Frank Giufre said. "Of course, we are." Virginia Tech (6-0 overall, 2-0 Big East) continued its best run since 1967 and got its biggest victory margin since a 73-0 victory over Catholic in 1922. The defense did much of the damage, scoring two touchdowns and allowing Syracuse just three first downs until the second-stringers took over in fourth quarter. The Orangemen gained just 120 yards against the Hokies, who are allowing an average of eight points per game.

Juking and swiveling to turn losses into big plays, Hokies freshman quarterback Michael Vick was 8-for-16 for 135 yards and one touchdown. In his last three games, Vick is 26 of 37 for 605 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions. It was humiliating for the Orangemen (5-2, 2-1), who matched a 62-0 loss at Princeton in 1912. "Sometimes when you're not playing well and things go wrong, it gets to be a snowball type of thing," coach Paul Pasqualoni said. "And that's what happened tonight." Syracuse has been outscored 169-34 in its last four trips to Blacksburg.

Everything turned ugly for Syracuse in the second half, when the defense seemed to give up as Shy-rone Stith rambled for long runs up the middle. Punter Mike Shafer fumbled two snaps, a fumble was lost on a kickoff return and a personal foul penalty killed a drive after a rare first down. Pasqualoni stuck to his quarterback rotation of Madei Williams and Troy Nunes and even let WORST SU LOSSES The loss was the worst in SU history since 1 91 2, when the Orangemen bowed to Princeton, 62-0. The only three more lopsided defeats came before the turn of the century 75-0 to Union and 68-0 to Cornell in 1 891 then 66-0 to Union in 1 893. Most recent worst losses were 63-7 at Nebraska, Oct.

23, 1983; and 61 -6 to Alabama in the Orange Bowl, Jan. 1,1952. like this, it should say a lot." It was the largest shutout loss by a ranked team in the history of The Associated Press poll, which began tailback Dee Brown handle some snaps but nothing any of them could do was effective. Williams and Nunes combined for six completions on 22 attempts for 43 yards with two interceptions. Tech cornerback Anthony Midget, who punished the Syracuse receivers with big hits, created the first touchdown when he poked the ball away from Quinton Spotwood after a completed pass.

Cory Bird scooped it up just before it hit the grass and ran 26 yards down the sideline to make it 7-0. Taking the ball on punts, the Hokies marched downfield for touchdowns on their next three drives. MIDWEST CD Is off em State pu deceptive win 5 Lions dominate; margin only 13 BY RICHARD ROSENBLATT Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Don't be deceived by the final score: No. 2 Penn State's 23-10 victory on Saturday over No.

18 Ohio State was a rout, plain and simple. I lad the Nitta ny Lions not stubbed their toes nearly every time they moved inside the Buckeyes' 25-yard line, who knows how large the winning margin would have been? "We should have put 40 on the board," said fullback Mike Cer-imelem who caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Thompson on the game's opening possession. "We had two field goals blocked, we stopped ourselves inside their 25 all day." Then he pointed to his noggin: "Stupid head problems. We have to cut them out or it will catch up to us." Penn State Big Ten) wasn't about to be caught by Ohio State (4-3, 1-2), which managed only 11 first downs and 143 total yardswhile the Nittany Lions were rolling up 422, including 306 on the ground. Eric McCoo slipped tackles from the get-go and finished with a career-best 21 1 yards on 22 carries, including runs of 53, 43, 24 and 22 yards.

He also caught four passes for another 47 yards as the Lions won their ninth straight game the second-longest winning streak among major schools behind Marshall's 10 in a row. "We didn't do anything different," said McCoo, a sophomore whose previous top game was a 206-yard effort against Michigan State last season. "Everybody thinks 1 --T- i --v 4 mtr pt "4 ASSOCIATED PRESS Penn State's defense was tough all game Saturday. Tom Westbrooks for a loss in the second quarter. Host Penn State Mumphrey, left, and James Boyd put a halt to Ohio State's Jerry won, 23-10, Ohio State's TD coming on a defensive play.

we're fooling people. We're just him for third place with Amos 319. running off tackle." Alonzo Stagg for most victories Paterno, in his 34th season, was The Nittany Lions also gave Joe amongmajorcollegecoaches.Bear more concerned with mistakes than Paterno career win No. 314, tying Bryant has 323, and Pop Warner history. The Lions were penalized Rejuvenated back's Colgate by Cornell Brees'TD spree fuels Purdue win ASSOCIATED PRESS Purdue had the right combination to snap Michigan State's perfect season.

Chris Daniels was on the receiving end of the combination, setting Big Ten records for receptions and receiving yardage as No. 20 Purdue upset No. 5 Michigan State 52-28 Saturday to knock the visiting Spartans from the undefeated list. Daniels had 21 catches for 301 yards and three touchdowns. That helped Drew Brees finish with a season-high 509 yards and five touchdowns.

Brees threw all five of his TD passes in the first half when Purdue (5-2, 2-2) opened a 35-14 lead. Daniels had 12 catches in the first half for 200 yards, with TD receptions of 51, 10 and 4 yards. Brees hit 40 of 57 attempts and ended the game just short of his career high of 522 yards. Daniels topped the record for receiving yards of 285 set by Thomas Lewis of Indiana in 1993. Michigan State had six turnovers and gave up five sacks.

"It was hard to be better than we were in the first half," Purdue coach Joe Tiller said. No. 9 Kansas St. 40, Utah St. 0: Joe Hall, a 300-pounder subbing for the injured David Allen, rushed for 195 yards and two touchdowns to lead Kansas State (6-0) past visiting Utah State (2-4).

Hall ran for 143 yards in the second half, including a 47-yard gallop after the Wildcats had taken a 26-0 lead. His 6-yard run with 4:08 left in the third period put Kansas State on top 19-0. No. 17 Wisconsin 59, Indiana 0: Ron Dayne ran for 167 of Wisconsin's school-record 705 yards of total offense as the Badgers (5-2) beat visiting Indiana (3-4). It was 38-0 at the half.

Dayne, who had just 17 carries and sat out the second half, became the fourth player in Division I history to record four rushing seasons. The others are: Amos Lawrence of North Carolina, Tony Dorsett of Pittsburgh and Denvis Manns of New Mexico State. Dayne needs 697 yards in Wisconsin's final four games, or an average of 174.3 per game, to break Ricky Williams' major college rushing record. Elsewhere: Quarterback Zak Kustok scored on a keeper on fourth-and-2 with four seconds left to give Northwestern (3-4) a 23-21 victory over visiting Iowa 1 -5). Thomas Hamnerrushed for 184 yards and a touchdown, and quarterback Billy Cockerham added another 100 yards rushing as Minnesota (5-1) won at Illinois (3-3), 37-7.

Minnesota scored on three straight possessions within eight minutes in the first half. Notre Dame stages another rally, wins ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jabari Holloway recovered Jarious Jackson's fumble in the end zone with 2:40 left to cap a 22-point comeback as Notre Dame beat Southern Cal on Saturday 25-24 to snap a three-game losing streak to the Trojans. Much like two weeks ago when they rallied from 16 down to beat Oklahoma, the Irish (4-3) seemed out of it after David Newbury hit a 29-yard field goal to put the Trojans (3-3) up 24-3 on the first drive of the second half. But then Notre Dame began its biggest comeback since a 35-34 win over Houston in the 1979 Cotton Bowl.

On the winning play, Jackson dropped back to pass at the USC 18. He scrambled up the middle and was hit at the 1, fumbling into the end zone where Holloway came up with it. 10 times for 85 yards and Kevin Thompson fumbled in the end zone to hand the Buckeyes their only TD of the game. "We were in scoring position and then our own carelessness and bad plays took us right out of it," Paterno said. "There was absolutely no reason for (the blocked field goals).

That could have cost us the game." But the Lions' best defensive effort of the season made sure Ohio State and quarterback Steve Bel-lisari couldn't take advantage. Bel-lisari ran for his life as the Beaver Stadium crowd of 97,007 roared in approval. Bellisari was sacked eight times 27z credited to linebacker La Var Arrington and was 7-f or-21 for 78 yards and an interception. Penn State led 13-3 with 3:40 left in the half, but was backed up to its own 6 when Thompson was slammed from behind by linebacker Na'il Diggs and fumbled, with free safety Gary Berry recovering in the end zone for a touchdown. Thompson sustained a slightly separated right shoulder and sat out the rest of the game.

With Rashard Casey running the offense in the second half, Penn State scored on its first possession to take a 20-10 lead. Casey, who has alternated with Thompson all year, capped a seven-play, 62-yard drive with a 5-yard TD run on a perfectly executed bootleg, faking two handoffs, putting the ball on his hip and rolling left past a baffled Buckeyes defense. Casey was 11 of 15 for 109 yards. Travis Forney, who had field goals blocked in the first and third quarters, converted from 38, 39 and 28 yards, the final one coming early in the fourth quarter. The Buckeyes are three-game losers this early for the first time since coach John Cooper's first season in 1988.

yards and two short touchdowns as West Virginia (2-4) used a41-point first half to whip visiting Rutgers (0-6), 62-16. Quarterback Phil Stambaugh passed for 410 yards and three touchdowns as Lehigh (6-0) defeated visiting Delaware (4-2), 42-35. The non-league victory extended Lehigh's win streak to 18 games, the longest streak in regular season in NCAA Division I play. Lehigh, the defending Patriot League champion, made it 35-14 on a 6-yard scoring toss from Stambaugh to Rick Moore with 8:21 left in the third quarter. Delaware rallied, but with 10:21 left, Sam Per-ryman blocked Ryan Bleiler's punt at the Delaware 8-yard line and Avon Mack recovered the fumble in the end zone to increase the Mountain Hawk lead to 42-28.

Rowan 30, Cortland St. 9: Justin Wright rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown, and linebacker John Gavlick had four sacks and returned an interception for a score as third-ranked Rowan (6-0) clobbered host Cortland State (2-4). The Profs outscored the Red Dragons 17-0 in the fourth quarter. Cortland took a 3-0 lead three plays into the second quarter on a 38-yard field goal by Nicholas Coursen. Rowan took the lead for' good, 6-3, with 6:59 to go in the first half on Gavlick's 21-yard interception return.

Wright's 17-yard TD run with 6:46 left in the third made it 13-3. Sean Chavious' 2-yard burst for Cortland cut it to 13-9 later in the quarter. Rowan held Cortland to just 28 yards rushing on 31 carries. EAST BC edges Pitt with late touchdown 3 TDs lead the season by hitting 94 of 169 passes for 10 touchdowns, was unable to click with any consistency. He finished 10 of 20 for 131 yards and one TD and was intercepted once.

"We didn't execute, and they did," said Rahne, who entered the game with 1,279 yards passing and managed to get untracked only once with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Justin Bush late in the first half. The Red Raiders closed with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Vena scored on a 1-yard run, Joseph tallied on a 2-yard run and Ed Weiss added a 4-yard scoring run. The loss didn't hurt Cornell's first-place standing in the Ivy League the Big Red is 3-0 in its quest to win the championship outright for the first time since the league was formed in 1956. "You don't forget getting beat that bad," second-year coach Pete Mangurian said.

"If you're a competitor, you don't ever forget it. I'm not a believer that you've got to lose to learn something." 'Wick hangs UPSTATE DIVISION III to 25-10 with 1:24 to play in the third quarter. Martineau fumbled at his own 5 and Dan Craven recovered for the Hawks. On the next play, John Breedy ran 5 yards to the end zone. Welch, a freshman from Ithaca, scored on TD runs of 1 1 and 4 yards in the first half as the Hawks took an 18-10 halftime lead.

Both of Welch's scores were set up by Norwich turnovers. Norwich is 3-4. Hartwick quarterback Mike Young, a Vestal High graduate, was 3-for-10 for 36 yards. He had 3 3-yard scoring run in the second quarter that gave the Hawks a 12-7 lead. Ithaca Col.

43, St. Lawrence 14: Tommy Giorgio ran 1 1 times for 1 14 yards and two touchdowns to help 1 Oth-ranked Ithaca College (6-0) to a victory at St. Lawrence ASSOCIATED PRESS Tim Hasselbeck, inserted after starter Brian St. Pierre, suffered a concussion early in the second half, threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Dedrick Dewalt with 1:48 to play to lift Boston College over visiting Pittsburgh 20-16 Saturday. The Eagles (5-1, 2-1 Big East) have their best record since 1992, when they won their first seven games and finished 8-3-1 Pittsburgh (3-3, 1-2) dropped its second straight.

Hasselbeck, sidelined with a separated shoulder suffered in last week's 24-14 loss at Temple, completed 13 of 24 passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns. Pittsburgh broke a 13-13 tie on Nick Lotz's third field goal of the game, a 25-yarder with 13: 17 to play. Elsewhere: Redshirt freshman Avon Cobourne rushed for 141 BY JOHN KEKIS v- Associated Press HAMILTON Tailback Randall Joseph rode the Colgate bench for the first two games of the season and part of the third. Now he's running roughshod over everybody. On Saturday, he made Cornell his latest victim, gaining 217 yards on 29 carries and scoring three touchdowns to lead the Red Raiders to a 55-16 victory.

It was. Joseph's third 200-yard game of the season and boosted his season total to 845 yards On just 103 carries, an average of 8.2 yards per carry. The loss knocked the Big Red (4-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten and kept Colgate (6-1 on target for its third straight postseason berth. The Red Raiders, who led 21-10 at halftime, sent Cornell reeling with two touchdowns in a one-minute span midway through the third quarter a 12-yard pass from quarterback Ryan Vena to Chris Rossi and Joseph's 11 -yard run. "Coming into halftime, we knew Mt.

Union mark: 48 straight wins ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLIANCE, Ohio Mount Union won a record 48th consecutive game Saturday. The Purple Raiders (6-0) relied on their cutting-edge offense to beat Otterbein 44-20 Saturday and surpass Okla-homa's42-year-old all-division record of 47 consecutive wins. The three-time defending Division III national champions built a 28-7 lead. The game was played before a record crowd of 7,132 in. Mount Union Stadium, capacity 5,000.

Mount Union, a school midway between Canton and Youngstown in northeastern Ohio, has won 70 of its last 71 games. that they were a team that's capable of coming back," said Joseph, who lost his starting job after one too many fumbles at the end of last season. "We knew that we had to come out in the third quarter and keep pouring it on and ease the pressure on our defense." The anticipated quarterback duel never materialized between Cornell's Ricky Rahne and Vena, who played for rival high schools in Colorado but had never faced one another in a game. Vena was 12 of 15 for 175 yards and one touchdown, and rushed for 40 yards and two TDs. Colgate used its defense to foil the high-powered attack of the Big Red and win its fifth straight game.

The Red Raiders, who gained 545 yards on offense, held Cornell to 198 yards on offense and sacked Rahne three times, sending him to the bench early in the second half. The Big Red managed just 24 yards rushing on 28 carries. Rahne, a sophomore who had sparkled in the first four games of Opportune Back from Ithaca powers Hawks FROM STAFF AMD WIRE REPORTS Clarence Welch rushed for two touchdowns and Norwich University committed four turnovers as guest Hartwick College hung on against the Cadets, 25-22, Saturday at Northfield, Vt. Trailing 25-22 with about a minute to go in the game, Norwich drove to the Hartwick 31 -yard line. But on fourth-and-2, Norwich quarterback Todd Martineau's pass was incomplete and the Hawks ran out the clock.

Hartwick gave up two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Matt Nelson's 2-yard TD run cut it to 25-16 and Zach Dyer went 29 yards to make it 25-22 with 4:35 to go. Hartwick (4-2) extended its lead on to win at Norwich University (0-6) in Canton. Giorgio averaged more than 10 yards per carry in the rout that began with his 35-yard TD run early in the first quarter. Late in the second quarter, he added a 16-yard TD run.

Ithaca built a 28-0 halftime lead with a 1-yard pass by Brian Young, who wasl6-for-18forl63 yards, to Jeff Erne and Dave Maddi's 1-yard run that capped a 67-yard, 10-play drive. Ithaca's Billy Feldmaier hit Ted Sullivan with a 28-yard pass for a score and, after the extra-point kick was blocked, Erne ran the ball in for a two-point conversion. Maddi later ran 25 yards for a score. St. Lawrence was down 43-0 before scoring twice in the fourth quarter, one of the TDs on Pat Nesci's 56-yard fumble return..