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Page edited by Joe Culpepper, 435-8552 after 5 p.m. Monday, September 5, 2005 Pensacola News Journal 3D COLLEGE FOOTBALL This Week in the GAMES OF THE WEEK NO. 9 MIAMI SATURDAY'S GAMES vs. NO. 14 FLORIDA STATE j-Va.

Tech at Duke, 1 1 Ptr- e-Clemson at Maryland, 1 1 Weeks of hype and A 11:30 antjcipation finally come a.UNCyat Ga Tech 2:30 a climax tonight when eu-Citadel at FSU, 5:45 to, ClaSh t-Wake Forest at Nebraska, 6 in Tallahassee. The winner VhelnWaTd i-Jefferson Pilot; e-ESPN; reaching the ACC Champi- Ckjssi eu-ESPNU; onship Game on Dec. 3 at a.abc; t.TBS Jacksonville. WEEK 1 OUTSTANDING PLAYERS P.J. DANIELS, RB, MICAH ANDREWS, RB, GEORGIA TECH WAKE FOREST The senior from Houston, The sophomore from Texas, gained 1 1 1 yards Duluth, rushed for a and scored on a two-yard career-high 254 yards on burst to lead the unranked 34 carries in the Demon Yellow Jackets to a 23-1 4 Deacons' 24-20 loss to upset of No.

1 6 Auburn on Vanderbilt on Thursday. Saturday night Daniels also Andrews also caught a caught one two passes for pass for 33 yards. 15 yards to help end Au- Andrews was an ACC All-bum's 1 5-game win streak. Freshman pick last year. ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE STANDINGS No.

8 Hokies turn back Wolfpack ATLANTIC DIVISION ACC All Boston College 0-0 1-0 Clemson 0-0 1-0 Florida State 0-0 0-0 Maryland 0-0 1-0 Wake Forest 0-0 0-1 N.C. State 0-1 0-1 COASTAL DIVISION Virginia Tech 1-0 1-0 Duke 0-0 0-1 Georgia Tech 0-0 1-0 Miami 0-0 0-0 North Carolina 0-0 0-0 Virginia 0-0 1-0 Saturday's results Georgia Tech 23, Auburn 1 4 Boston College 20, BYU 3 Clemson 25, Texas 24 Maryland 23, Navy 20 Virginia 31, Western Michigan 19 East Carolina 24, Duke 21 Sunday's results Virginia Tech 20, N.C. State 16 Today's game (CT) a-Miami at Florida State, 7 p.m. a-ABC their only league setback in their inaugural ACC campaign. In that game, N.C.

State had 10 sacks and held Virginia Tech to 36 yards on the ground, but got out of Blacksburg with the win after a missed 43-yard field goal from Brandon Pace. This time, Pace connected on two field goals. And the offense outgained 438-232 in total yards kept plugging away at the stout N.C. State defense, which led Division I-A teams in fewest yards allowed in 2004. Vick, a junior who was suspended last season for a variety of legal issues, made his biggest impact in the second half.

With his brother, Atlanta Falcons quarterback and former Hokies star Michael Vick, watching from the sideline, Vick completed 10 of 21 passes for 108 yards and ran for 31 more. expired. With his team trailing 13-10, made two big plays on the Hokies' first drive of the third quarter including a dazzling in which he sidestepped defenders in a collapsing pocket and broke free for a 24-yard gain on third down. That up Pace's tying 28-yard goal with 2:19 left. Then, after the Hokies got 19-yard punt return from Royal to give the Hokies the ball at the 20, Vick scrambled left and connected David Clowney for a 19-yard touchdown and a 20-13 early in the fourth.

Finally, with his team protecting a four-point lead, Vick had 17-yard gain on a scramble a 1-yard keeper on fourth to move the chains with 3V6 minutes to play. i ii T'li mini fi Gerry BroomeAssociated Press Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick scrambles away from North Carolina State's Mario Williams. Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. Marcus Vick threw for one touchdown and made several key second-half runs in his first collegiate start Sunday, leading No. 8 1 Virginia Tech to a 20-16 victory over North Carolina State.

The Hokies avenged their only Atlantic Coast Conference loss and handed the Wolfpack another disappointing result against a Top 10 team. Mike Imoh added a 5-yard first-quarter touchdown run for the Hokies. Jay Davis threw for 311 yards for the Wolfpack, which had won eight straight openers. The loss drops N.C. State to 1-7 against Top 10 teams under sixth-year coach Chuck Amato.

The Hokies came in looking to avenge last season's 17-16 home loss to the Wolfpack, I FLORIDA STATE: The Noles last beat the Canes in 1999. Veteran tailbacks Leon Washington and Lorenzo Booker will help freshman quarterback Drew Weatherford settle in. I MIAMI: The Canes look to continue mastery over Noles. Freshman quarterback Kyle Wright makes his first career start. Defensive end Thomas Carroll leads a fast veteran unit.

Kentucky quarterback ArdreVfoodson connected on 17 of his 27 passes for 278 yards against Louisville. But his three lost fumbles were costly as the Wildcats dropped their opener. The stats weren't impressive, but Vick avoided any momentum-killing mistakes. The same couldn't be said of the Wolfpack. N.C.

State, which ranked next to last in the ACC in penalty yards last year, committed 12 penalties for 105 yards including a 5-yard infraction for running into Pace on a missed 46-yard field goal that gave the Hokies a first down with about two minutes left. That allowed the Hokies to run more time off the clock. And once N.C. State burned its timeouts trying to stop the clock, the Wolfpack were left with virtually no time remaining for a game-winning drive. N.C.

State, starting from its own 20, got to midfield before Aaron Rouse intercepted a heave from Davis at the 6 as ATLANTIC I CLEMSON: Jad Dean kicked a six field goals including the 42-yard game-winner to squeak the Tigers past Texas 25-24. Next: at Maryland. COASTAL I GA. TECH: Led by four and P.J. Daniels' 111 rushing yards, the Yellow Jackets upset Auburn on the Plains 23-14.

The win ended Auburn's 1 5-game win streak. Rivalry puts FROM ID "That kind of exposure is huge," Bowden said. As always, so is the game's implications. With both teams together in the expanded Atlantic Coast Conference but in separate divisions, the winner leaps in the polls and gains a sizeable step toward the league title game in December. Both teams will be starting first-time quarterbacks.

Both teams have strengths resting on their defense. Both teams are coming off three-loss seasons that were only slightly eased by bowl victories. The No. 14-ranked Seminoles are starting a season with their lowest poll position since 1985. "I don't like being an underdog," said offensive guard Matt Mein-rod, referring to Miami being a 3-point pick of oddsmakers.

"We're Florida State. We're not supposed to be underdogs." For the No. 9 Hurricanes, they seemed on their way last season toward a possible third national title game appearance in four years. But a shocking loss at North Carolina on Oct. 30 ended an unbeaten record.

Two more ACC losses followed. Miami supporters began to growl. "We've been spoiled, but that's OK," said Miami coach Larry Coker, who enters his fifth season. "You want to be spoiled. I think we've had so many good things happen.

Out of the last time Vick run two set field a Eddie with lead a and down about I N.C. STATE: The Wolfpack committed 12 penalties for 105 yards in their ACC opener at home against Virginia Tech. Jay Davis threw for 31 1 yards. The defense had 10 sacks. I VIRGINIA: XV, The Cava- 4 vA hers compiled 440 yards of total offense 188 on the ground in their 31 -1 9 win over Western Michigan.

Virginia next travels north to Syracuse. quarterbacks ami receivers)." Coker is hoping Wright's tenure in the program will provide an edge. "It's not like he's just shown up. Kyle has been here 2V4 years," he said. It's been an enternity, or at least seems that way for FSU, since the Seminoles have left a Miami game victorious.

The last time was 1999, back when Chris Weinke was the quarterback. Should the Seminoles lose again tonight, it will be a seventh consecutive loss a record in the series. The Seminoles know they can't claim a return toward elite status without beating Miami. "If swagger is a definition of finishing (against Miami), then we have not been finishing," said senior linebacker A.J. Nicholson.

"The past couple years, we've been losing games on one play, two plays, or it's been a couple plays. It hasn't been a situation where we didn't have opportunity to win." FLEETCO I WAKE FOREST: Suspended tailback Chris Barclay a 2005 Doak Walker Award candidate will return for next week's game in Lincoln against Nebraska. I VIRGINIA TECH: Despite being outgained 438-232, the Hokies outlasted the Wolfpack in Raleigh 20-16. Marcus Vick threw for 108 yards and one TD and ran for 31 yards. GOLF ANO COUNTRY CLUB iil mc rnuucn nun Of THE EMERAU) COAST AGreat Month for GolJ 'St i pliftaf.

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Non-conference games against Wisconsin, Louisville and Utah add to a strengthened ACC slate. pressure on 22 years, we won five national championships and played for five more. "We are spoiled. It's my job to continue spoiling our fans. We expect to recruit at a high level, play at a high level.

We weren't doing that last year." Spoils of victory likely will be afforded tonight to whichever team's new quarterback is most effective. Miami starter Kyle Wright, a third-year sophomore, played in two games last season. He's thrown nine passes. That's nine more than FSU starter Drew Weatherford, a redshirt freshman who was injured on the only snap he took last season. "Both teams are going to find out a lot about their quarterback," Bowden said.

"It's a tough start because both (quarterbacks) are going against good defenses." The Hurricanes return 10 defensive starters, figuring to make Weatherford's challenge more imposing. The past three games between these teams have been headlined by punishing hits more than big plays. "This game is all about winning. There's been some ugly games, some shootouts, some games in the middle," said Miami's Eric Winston, a senior offensive tackle who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the fourth game last season. "Toil don't know how it will go until you get into the flow.

"(Wright) will figure it out. He doesn't need to throw for 350 yards or make all these amazing passes. Just get the ball to (Mi Simper wort 1J (deposH $150) itat I BOSTON COLLEGE: Quinton Porter com pleted 27 of 35 passes for 232 yards and two TDs against BYU. The Eagles open ACC play in two weeks at home against FSU. I DUKE: Justin Boyle rushed for two TDs, and Ronnie Drummer returned a kickoff 100 yards in the Blue Devils' 24-21 loss to ECU.

Duke had 19 first downs to the Pirates' 11. Ed ReinkeAssociated Press and the Wildcats quickly reached the 7-yard line. Quarterback Andre Woodson fumbled the football at the 2 while making a second effort to reach the end zone, and Louisville's Brandon Johnson recovered with 6:21 left. The SEC is using instant replay this season, but game officials chose not to review whether Woodson was down when he fumbled. The Wildcats never got the ball back, as the Cardinals converted three times on third down on their ensuing drive.

Woodson went 17-of-27 for 278 yards but lost three fumbles. Kentucky receiver Glenn Holt was taken off the field on a stretcher in the fourth quarter after landing hard on bis left shoulder. Holt was being defended by cornerback William Gay when he leaped to make a catch along the Louisville sideline. He dropped the ball and appeared to land on his left shoulder. Holt lay motionless for about 5 minutes.

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12 Louisville held off Kentucky 31-24 on Sunday. Bush scored on runs of 11 yards and 1 yard and helped the Cardi-nals (1-0) grind out the SEC clck aer Kentucky (0-1) rallied within a touchdown in the fourth quarter. It was Bush's fourth career 100-yard rushing effort, and the Cardinals' sixth win in seven years against their in-state rival. Louisville's heralded sophomore quarterback, Brian Brohm, went 19-of-27 for 179 yards and rushed for two touchdowns in his first collegiate start. Kentucky rallied from a 28-7 halftime deficit and pulled to 31-24 with 11:52 left on a 15-yard touchdown pass from Andre Woodson to Jacob Tamme.

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