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Kansas 65, Baylor Southern Cal Virginia 35, Michigan btala 32, Brkjham Young 18, South Carolina 18, Purdue 13. Goniia 12, Bowling Green 7, Mississippi State 6, Western Michigan 2, Modest record in tow, Miami faces Florida St. v' ') if) I 7 V- I A. DALLAS (AP) Tht bert taami In tha Southwest Conferenca have a problem most good football teams shouldn't have. They can't stop the run.

The best team, at least the best team eligible to win the conference, appears to have the greatest run-stopping deficiency. Colorado's Rashaan Salaam shredded No. 15 Texas for 317 rushing yards on 35 carries In the No. 5 Buffaloes' 34-31 victory Saturday. That's the most rushing yards gained by one back against Texas in the school's 102-year football history.

Worse yet for the Longhorns (3-1, 1-0 SWC), It's the second time this year they've set the school run-yardage-yielding record. Pittsburgh's Curtis Martin racked up 251 yards against the Longhorns on Sept 3. Things aren't much better for the next-best SWC team, Baylor (4-1, 1-0). One week after Southern California trampled the Bears for 219 rushing yards, Texas Christian's Andre Davis gained 135 yards in Baylor's 42-18 victory in Fort Worth. No.

10 Texas (4-0, 1-0) held Texas Tech to just 48 ground yards in a 23-17 victory. But the Aggies, the league's only unbeaten team, can't win the conference this season because they're on probation. So it looks like whoever meets the SWC champ in the Cotton Bowl won't be filling the air with passes. Chances are Southern Methodist (1-4, 0-1) won't be the SWC's Cotton Bowl representative, but the Mustangs are improving against the run. The Mustangs held No.

14 North Carolina to 158 yards on the ground in a 28-24 loss, tt was the second-fewest yards allowed by SMU, which was averaging 234.5 per game. Using four linebackers, mostly to compensate for the loss of safety Rodney Watkins, the Mustangs had two players in double figures for tackles. Middle linebacker Chris Bordano had 14 solo stops and assisted on four more and linebacker Craig Swann was in on 13 tackles. Don't Blame the Defense TCU knew it would be tough to stop Baylor's potent offense. But the Horned Frogs did just that, holding the Bears to a little more than 300 yards of offense and 21 points.

So Baylor scored every other way in its 24-point victory. On TCU's second possession of the game, Tyrone Smith recovered a blocked punt and went 2 yards for the touchdown. Then in the third quarter, Adrian Robinson picked off TCU quarterback Max Knake and returned it 89 yards for a score. And freshman linebacker Glenn Coy recovered a Knake fumble in the fourth and returned it 15 yards for his first collegiate touchdown. "We just gave them three touchdowns," TCU coach Pat Sullivan said.

"We work on that pass to the tight end a hundred times a week. You just can't force the ball in there, particularly inside the 20. Baylor played good, but we helped them and Robinson's return hurt the most." Close, but For the fourth time in six years, Texas Tech defied the oddsmakers and gave Texas a scare before succumbing to defeat. "I don't know how you can feel you are jinxed," said Tech coach Spike Dykes, whose team came into the game at Kyle Field as 18V5-point underdogs. "We just haven't been able to win." The Red Raiders jumped out to a 17-7 halftime lead, then held a 17-14 lead into the fourth quarter before Rodney Thomas' 1-yard TD gave the Aggies their first lead.

Freshman kicker Kyle Bryant later added a field goal. Last season, Tech took a 6-3 lead and played the Aggies close and trailed 10-6 at the half. The Aggies blew things open in the second half en route to a 31-6 victory. In 1992, the Red Raiders lost 19-17 at TCU running back Andre Davis (6) is swarmed under by Baylor defenders Bryan Tanner (64) and Glenn Coy during the fourth quarter. The Bears, with big plays from their defense, routed the Horned Frogs 42-1 8 Saturday in Southwest Conference football action.

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Both teams had byes after less-than-dazzling starts. Houston (0-4) has been blown out by Ohio State and traditional football powers Kansas, Louisiana Tech and Missoun. Rice (1-2) did manage to notch the first victory under new coach Ken Hatfield, but it came against winless Big Eight doormat Iowa State. The Owls lost a fairly close game to Kansas State and a last-second heartbreaker to Tulane. CVC standings more yards than any individual rusher, passer or receiver in the game.

SMU had a chance to win, but was hit with a holding penalty and an unsportsmanlike conduct foul on Coach Tom Ross-ley, forcing the Mustangs into a first-and-40 from their 21 with no timeouts. The Mustangs and Tar Heels weren't without competition, though. Texas and Texas Tech mucked things up in College Station as the Red Raiders were penalized 10 times for 99 yards and the Aggies lost 107 yards on 13 penalties. Home Streaks: The longest current home winning streak in college football remained intact. Texas now has won 23 straight games at Kyle Field.

The Aggies have a 55-3-1 home record since late in the 1984 season. They haven't failed to win at Kyle Field since Baylor held them to a 20-20 tie in 1990. The last loss was 23-22 to Arkansas in 1989. Another home streak died Saturday, as Texas lost for the first time in 102 years when scoring 25 points or more at home. The streak spanned 251 games.

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Hawaii 2, Bovyling Green 1, Louisiana Stat 1. logical edge when their NCAA-record 58-game home winning streak was ended two weeks ago by Washington, 38-20. Still, it's been 10 years since Florida State beat Miami in the Orange Bowl. The Seminoles have lost four in a row there against the Hurricanes. And when it comes to playing Florida State, the Hurricanes sound as brash as ever.

Following Saturday's 24-3 victory over Rutgers, Miami middle linebacker Ray Lewis predicted that his team will probably blow out the Seminoles. "Florida State can't play with us right now," Lewis said. The Seminoles are certain to make note of that comment. But Erickson, who might be expected to cringe at Lewis' remark, doubts that it will serve as motivation. "I used to worry about that," he said.

"But both teams are going to play as hard as they can, regardless. Both teams can get bulletin-board material if they want it; a guy may say something in the emotion of the moment. It's part of the game." Revenge is also part of the game, and the Hurricanes well remember last year's loss at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. That game cost Miami quarterback Frank Costa his starting spot for the rest of the 1993 season. He regained the job during spring practice and has thrown for 988 yards and eight touchdowns this year.

"That's a game I've been looking forward to for 364 days, since last year after the game was over," Costa said. to hospital AP photo Frazier's replacement, ran for three Berringer later went to the hospital since trailing Oklahoma 14-3 in 1991. Cowboy redshirt freshman quarterback Jeremy Dombek also showed the talents he used to break all of Troy Aikman's high school passing records back in Henryetta, Okla. lie put Wyoming in the end zone on a 39-yard pass to Marcus Harris and another time on a 6-yard toss to Jeremy Gilstrap in the first quarter. "I think Dombek is the type of guy who has a future with us," Wyoming coach Joe Tiller said of his first-time starter.

Dombek hit 17 of 35 passes for 264 yards before he was sidelined by a hard hit in the fourth quarter. But he also was intercepted three times and each of those led to Nebraska scores. Another Nebraska quarterback goes ft- A CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) The Miami Hurricanes soon will either rejoin the national champion-, ship chase or reinforce the impression that their days of dominance in college football are done. It's time to play Florida State.

The Hurricanes go into Saturday night's game at the Orange Bowl with uncharacteristically modest credentials: a 3-1 record and a No. 13 ranking. For only the second time since 1986, the Hurricanes will not be undefeated when they face the third-ranked Seminoles (4-0). "This game is obviously a big game for both teams," Miami coach Dennis Erickson said Sunday. "It's always a big game, and it always will be a big game, whether you have one loss, five losses or no losses.

It's a tremendous rivalry." While Saturday's game lacks the stature of other years in the series, it's nonetheless vital for a Miami program trying to regain lost glory. The Hurricanes, who went 67-5 from 1987 to 1992, are 12-5 since Jan. 1, 1993. A loss to the Seminoles would mean Miami's earliest elimination from the championship race since 1984. "For us to have any thoughts of trying to compete for a national championship, you have to win this game," Erickson said.

"With one loss, there's no question of that." Florida State avenged a series of heartbreaking losses to Miami with a 28-10 victory last year, then went on to the national championship. The Hurricanes lost another psycho "They were playing the pitch a lot on the option," he said. "They weren't playing the quarterback. He was pitching the ball instead of turning it up, and I think that was one reason things weren't happening at the beginning of the game." Berringer, who scored on runs of 5, 24 and 10 yards, said he knew he would play well. "I showed poise and confidence," he said.

He ran 12 times for 74 yards and hit 15 of 22 passes for another 131. Berringer hit seven straight passes in the final two minutes of the first half to lead Nebraska to a late score. Wyoming still led 21-14 at intermission, marking the first time Nebraska had trailed in a regular-season game at the half since being down 7-0 to Oklahoma State in 1993 and the first time at home College Station; they lost 28-24 at College Station in 1990; and in 1989 the Red Raiders beat the Aggies in Lubbock, 27-24. The sole blowout over the past six years was 37-14 victory in Lubbock in 1991. Deja Vu All Over Again Colorado's last-second victory against Texas was a repeat of the Buffaloes' victory over Michigan Sept.

24, won on an incredible 64-yard catch as time expired. But it's also a repeat of the last time Texas started the season at 3-1. That was 1990, when the Longhorns' only loss was to, you guessed it, Colorado. That year, the Buffaloes beat Texas 29-22 in the second game of the season. Texas is hoping this season turns out the same way as 1990, when the Longhorns went to the Cotton Bowl with a 10-1 record.

And the Ugliest Game Goes To SMU and No. 14 North Carolina. The Tar Heels led 21-3 in the third quarter. But they couldn't hold onto the ball, losing four fumbles and allowing the Mustangs to take a 24-21 fourth-quarter lead. UNC lost four of its five fumbles including one at the SMU goal line and SMU fumbled twice, losing one.

The teams also combined for 151 yards in penalties 1 If 4 AP photo plays after Demetrious Maxie stripped the ball from Hawaii running back Tupu Alualu to give the Miners the ball at UTEP's 42-yard line. Gray connected with Black again, this time from 67 yards out, with 4:45 remaining to give the Miners a 34-21 advantage. The drive started with the recovery of yet another Alualu fumble. UTEP had been trailing most of the night until Maxie stripped quarterback Glenn Freitas around Hawaii's 20, picked up the ball and darted in for the touchdown. Gray ran the ball in again for a two-point conversion to tie the game at 21 with 2:13 remaining in the third quarter.

The Miners also scored on 37-and 29-yard field goals by Marshall Young. Hawaii led 14-3 at halftime after taking advantage of two Miner turnovers. Four players scored for Hawaii, including Gerald Lacey, who capped the Rainbows scoring by catching a TD pass to bring the score to 34-28. Freitas also scored on a 2-yard run in the third quarter. Hawaii led 14-3 at the half after taking advantage of two Miner i 1 M'- in I 'J (Mho -c'W -no 1 1 I a 1 -J rr? i -vv A hi.

i I UTEP running back Toraino Singleton, left, tries to stay on his feet as Hawaii defender George Noga attempts to bring him down from behind. The Miners rallied from a 14-3 halftime deficit to beat the Rainbows 34-28 Saturday night in El Paso. UTEP rallies past Hawaii But Osborne says Berringer should return this week LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Brook Berringer has heard the talk. Nebraska can't win a national college football title without Tommie Fra-zier at quarterback.

The way things are going, second-ranked Nebraska (5-0) may not have Berringer, either. Berringer, making his first career start, ran for three touchdowns in leading a comeback from a 21-7 deficit in the second quarter to a 42-32 win over Wyoming (2-3). But his beating in running the Husker option game also sent him to the hospital Saturday night with a partially collapsed lung, Coach Tom Osborne said. However, the injury may not keep Berringer out of this week's Big Eight opener against Oklahoma State, Osborne said. "They're thinking he may be able to return to practice later this week, possibly as early as Tuesday," Osborne said on Sunday.

"It's not an ideal situation, but at least at this point it doesn't look terribly bad." Osborne said Berringer suffered the lung bruise the last play before halftime when Berringer had the ball and scored from 5 yards out. "He complained a little bit about a shortness of breath in the second half, but he didn't seem any worse for wear and I asked him a couple of times if he was OK and he said, yeah, he was fine," Osborne said. Regardless of the injury, Osborne was pleased with Bcrringer's performance. "I think Brook played very well and I think he is certainly capable of helping this football team reach its full potential, wherever that may lead," Osborne said. Berringer echoed his coach's sentiments.

"I try not to listen to negative talk," he said. "Some people say Nebraska cannot win the national championship with Brook Berringer, that the offense hinges on Tommie Frazier. Not to take anything away from Tommie, he's a great player, but I can play, too." It's a good thing or Nebraska wouldn't nave to worry about na- Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer, in his first start as Tommie touchdowns Saturday as the Cornhuskers rallied to beat Wyoming. with a partially collapsed lung but is likely to play this week. EL PASO (AP) Shawn Gray threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to lead Texas-El Paso to a 34-28 Western Athletic Conference college football victory over turnover-prone Hawaii Saturday night.

Gray, who also ran in a two-point conversion, primarily propelled the UTEP offense through the air completing six of 20 passes for 174 yards but was also a focal point of the ground game. He rushed for 151 yards on 21 carries. Toraino Singleton added 193 yards on 43 carries, which included another UTEP touchdown. The Miners' improved to 2-3 overall and 1-2 in the WAC and gave Charlie Bailey, in his first full season as the Miners' head coach, his first WAC victory. Hawaii dropped to'2-3 and 0-3.

UTEP's victory could be attributed as much to Hawaii's inability to hold onto the ball as to Gray's ability at quarterback. Both of Gray's TD's came following Hawaii fumbles. Gray completed a 42-yard bomb to Alvin Black in the end zone with 11:47 remaining in the game to give the Miners their first lead of the game. The TD pass came four tional championship hopes after holding off Wyoming. Frazier was watching the game from the sidelines.

He'll be out at least another week due to a blood clot behind his right knee. Berringer took control of the game late in the first half, also softening the defense for I-back Lawrence Phillips. Phillips, the nation's third-best runner with a 154-yard average entering the game, ended with 27 carries for 168 yards and scored three times himself. He had TD runs of 1, 40 and 8 yards as the Huskers ended with 322 yards rushing, far short of their nation-leading average of 471. Phillips said Berringer started making the Cowboys pay for overplaying the option, and that made all the difference..