The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 224

1B OCTOBER 2, 1994 SPORTS Sooners' Victory a Rush Job Big 8 Standings PpPp itiwMafflLHiLiLfe. '-pStif -rtraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLBaaaLaaaaawT iHHIVn'. 1 Conference All Qamei WLTPteOPWLTPti OP Oklahoma 1 0 0 34 6 3 1 0 95" 82 Nebraska 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 234 90 0 CO 0 0 4 0 0 164 07 Kansas St 0 0 0 3 0 0 96 24 Kansas .....0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 145 54 Okla. St 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 94 72 Missouri 0 .0 0 0 0 1 3 0 43 96 Iowa St 0 1 0 6 34 0 5 0 66 150 Saturday's Result Thursday's Game Oklahoma 34, Iowa St. KmSLJla.

Oklahoma St. 36, N. Texas 34 Saturday's Game Colorado 34, Texas 3t pu vs. Texas at Dallas W. Virginia 34, Missouri 10 Oklahoma St at Nebraska Nebraska 42, Wyoming 32 Colorado at Missouri OU Runs By ISU, 34-6 By Bob Hersom Staff Writer NORMAN Oklahoma broke out of its rush limbo with a liberal sprinkling of offensive formations Saturday.

The Sooners, who had been averaging only 3.8 yards on running plays, averaged 5.9 yards on runs (and 11.5 on pass completions) while beating winless Iowa State 34-6 on Owen Field. With a wide variety of offensive sets from the wishbone to the I formation to the shotgun to split-backs the Sooners rushed for a season-high 334 yards and completed 11 of 14 passes for 126 yards. The victory gave OU a 3-1 record, left ISU at 0-5 for the first time since 1930, and boosted the Sooners' winning streak to 54 straight games when rushing for 300 yards or more. "I think this game all goes back to our ability to run the football better," said OU coach Gary Gibbs, whose Sooners have had only two 300-yard rushing games in the last two seasons. "We still have to be balanced and able to pass, but our running game was really the key to the ballgame." OU's dormant running game was helped by the multiple formations, including the wishbone on 24 of the Sooners' 71 plays.

UntU Saturday, OU hadn't use the wishbone, except in goal-line or short-yardage situations, since 1989. Tailback-halfback James Allen had a career-high 111 yards on 16 carries. He also scored two touchdowns in a game for the first time since his Wynnewood High School days. Tailback-halfback Jeff Frazier, in by far his best game for OU, had a career-high 72 yards on 10 carries. And tauback-turned-fullback Jer-ald Moore carried 10 times for 73 yards and one TD.

The Three Tailback Tandem was more than complemented by quarterback Garrick McGee, who completed 11 of 13 passes for 126 yards. McGee's first passing attempt was intercepted. His second attempt was incomplete, but it See OU, Page 7-B Buffs Slip Past Texas AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Colorado didn't need a miracle this time just Rashaan Salaam, Herchell Troutman and Neil Voskeritchian. One week after beating Michigan on a last-second, 64-yard pass, the fifth-ranked Buffaloes downed No. 16 Texas 34-31 on Saturday behind Salaam's 317-yard rushing effort, Troutman's three TD runs and Voskeritchian's 24-yard field goal with one second left.

"A lot of people think Colorado is lucky because they keep winning at the buzzer. They are not," Texas coach John Mackovic said. Page 10-B College Summaries College Football "They are a very good football team." "I hope the guys don't think they need to make it exciting just for me," Colorado coach Bill McCartney said. "I'll take a boring win any time. I feel like I've aged 10 years in seven days." Salaam carried 35 times and gained the most yards ever against the longhorns, topping the 251 by Pittsburgh's Curtis Martin in Texas' season opener and Southern Cal's C.J.

Roberts in 1956. It was the second-most rushing yards by a Colorado player, 25 yards less than Charlie Davis' record against Oklahoma State in 1971. "He ran with resolve and toughness, and he just kept coming back," McCartney said. Salaam, who scored on a 6-yard run and caught five passes for 45 yards, was modest about his spectacular performance. "I don't see myself as the hero.

I think the offensive line is the hero," said the junior tail-See BUFFS, Page 6-B Big Eight: Huskers Rally Past Wyoming Top 25: Wheatley Sparks Michigan SWC: Texas Avoids Upset State Colleges: Roundup of Games Heroes: Good News, Bad News for OU Stories, Roundups, Pages 4-B 10-B im.M:tatwmmmmmm-mw --r--T Ma fhoto kv Paul HrfWwn Page 8-B More on OU vs. ISU Leading the way Is outside Iowa Slate running back Troy Davis It gang tackled by the OU defense Saturday in Norman linebacker uomn Hosenoerg ci ano aviejnsivv nm wwn, i-w rjjjmET- Aska Goes OSU Cancels Eagles' Upset Division l-AA's UNT Takes Cowboys to the Limit Wild Again For UCO By Murray Evans Staff Writer EDMOND Last week, Central Oklahoma tailback Joe Aska showed flash, setting a school single-game rushing record. On Saturday afternoon against 13th-ranked East Texas State, he showed a little smash. The senior from Putnam City High School carried a school-record 45 times for 241 yards and two touchdowns as the lOth-ranked Bronchos won 16-7 before 1,350 football fans at Wantland Stadium. Aska's rushing total, the fourth-best effort in UCO history, came against the Lone Star Conference's top rushing defense, which had allowed just 85 yards per game.

As a result, the Bronchos won their LSC opener for the first time since joining the league and NCAA Division II in 1988. UCO, which snapped a seven-game losing streak against ETSU, extended its winning streak to See BRONCHOS. Page 8-B goal, but North Texas took a safety on a fourth-and-13 situation with 1:33 remaining. "By all rights, and I sincerely mean this, we probably didn't deserve to win the football game," said Cowboy coach Pat Jones. "I told (UNT coach) Matt Simon that.

But we probably deserve some of this stuff now, we've been on the flip side of it, basically since we went on probation (in 1989). "I was really proud, though. From our firess box to our side-lne to our huddle, that was about as cool, By Mac Bentley Staff Writer STILLWATER The University of North Texas no longer refers to itself as the Mean Green. Perhaps it should. The Eagles were downright ornery Saturday night on Lewis Field.

It was Oklahoma State, the Cowboys of the Big Eight and Division I-A, that got bullied around, not the Southland Conference, Division I-A A Eagles before 31,107 fans. It was the Eagles who piled up 364 yards through the air, and 440 overall, and cmroH turn nf rhnir aua Mala hv Daua Met 1 OSU'i Jerold Johnson had lots to eelebrata Saturday night. The cornerback blocked num. which was raturntd lor a TD. and returned an Interception 49 yards lor a TD.

tnnnlirlitima nn AR. nnrl SO.vnrrt nfl.lfi tllflVS who were able to pull off a 36-34 victory. A in ail honesty, as i ve seen us. "Vnii'va crnr tn an to Tone Jones) when aue Mau a Mem Mane you talk about cairn," said Rafael Denson. ftHe told everybody in the huddle we were 13-play, 37-yard drive in the final minute and a half, lead to a 43-yard, game-winning field goal by Lawson Vaughn with seven seconds left on the clock.

It might have been a game-tying field It was the Eagles who rallied from a 24-10 deficit to a 24-24 tie at the half, and it was the Eagles who took a 34-31 lead on a field goal with just 2:58 left In the game. At the end, however, it was the Cowboys UCO running baek Joe Aska uses a high step to escape the grasp of East Texas Slate's 8teve Holland to scots TD on Saturday. See OSU, Page 7-B InsldB Sports Golf Top 25 ,.10 ,.37 UCLA Washington (12) Oregon State Arizona (6) North Carolina (18) ,.28 Southern Methodist ,.24 Oregon 22 Southern Cal (19) 7 Miami (13) Colorado State (24) .38 New Mexico 31 Purdue 22 Illinois (25) 18 Roundups, Page 4-B .24 ...3 Florida (1) Michigan (7) Iowa .38 .14 Huiflora Mississippi ..28 14 .15 ,.34 Thorp Run Frankle 8lmon, 20-year-old Oklahoma City Community College student, and Liz Scanlon, formerly a distance runner for OU, were Saturday's 10K winners at the Jim Thorpe Runners' Frstlval. lory, Page 1t 17 15 Ohio State (20) Northwestern Wvomlna Virginia Tech (14) ....20 Syracuse 28 8tanford Notre Dame (8) Vantage Champlonehlp Dent, Gilbert Tied Bulok Southern Open Elklngton Pads Lead LPOA Heartland Neumann Leads by 1 Roundup, Page 18-B .32 .42 Nsbrasks (2) 3-B 7-B 12-B 1 3-B 1 4-B 16-B 18-B 18-B Mailbox Greenback Ballot Slate Fair Rodeo Painter on Rodeo NHL Baldwin on NFL Prep Sports Plus Outdoors Horse Racing Decade of Football Bowling .,8 ,.34 ...10 ...29 Iowa State Oklahoma (21) Wisconsin (15) Michigan State Psnn State (4) Temple ,.17 ,.23 .28 ,29 TeasTeoh Texas (10) Georgia Alabama (11) ,.48 ,.34 ,.31 lMtll13 21 9 ...10 Georgia Tech N.C. State (22) Wash.

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