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SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 1994 Oft THE HERALD OU COLLEGE FOOTBALL jiiumni I'MIMMiT A statistical comparison of Penn State and Nebraska who will be Nos 1 and 2 in the nation when the polls are released today Neb Penn St 503 177 5427 3617 28-27-2 388 12 6 4792 260 4 38-35-1 Pt8gm Pts allowedgm Ydsgm Yds allowedgm record i -lL23 fwrii in n-i j'tiilifi mjfhrMf a- 4 1 i LINCOLN Neb Nebraska offensive lineman Rob Zatcchka who has a 40 grade-point average in biomedicine has a paper due in his endocrinology class Friday It is titled Hormones and Insulin-like Effects on Protein Zatechka wants to become a doctor So doc you understand playing the University of Miami in the Orange Bowl is hazardous to your health right? deny it: I want to play Miami in the Orange Zatechka said after 24-7 victory over Colorado increased the likelihood of that happening has to be the loudest place in the world I remember when we played there in 1992 when Gino Torretta was the quarterback never heard anything like that My ears literally hurt rather play someone else other than Miami in the Orange Bowl but not our not But the Comhuskers continue to linger around Miami like a foul smell The team nobody loves looks like headed for another January engagement in the Orange Bowl and unfortunately it is bringing along that caveman offense Run the ball up the middle Throw an occasional pass to the tight end Hope to take the home crowd out of the game by putting 80000 people to sleep rather be boring and 9-0 than flashy and Zatechka said are you going to send down to Miami in our place? A Colorado team whose butt we just kicked? We deserve to be there kind of like the Buffalo Bills: back Associated Press MOUTHFUL: Dwayne Harris gives Colorado's Zach Wiegert a shove in the face on his way to pressuring quarterback Kordell Stewart 03 curse Osborne is a big reason the Orange Bowl game is being moved to Joe Robbie Stadium He has complained loudly about how unfair it is to play a national-championship game in another home stadium Maybe he finds it unfair because he has lost his past seven bowl games four of them in the Orange Bowl Osborne hates home-field advantage so much that in 1992 he personally requested that the Hurricanes not be allowed to enter the field through their traditional smoke Um Tom not the smoke that offense of yours It keeps getting you Big Eight championships but then you get to Miami and realize your running backs quick enough to get around the corner against a fast defense Nebraska has only two reasons for hope this year: 1) Washington pushed Miami around earlier this year using little more than running and tight-end passes and 2) Miami be playing in the Orange Bowl unless it wins at Syracuse unfair that we have to play Miami in its home Comhuskers linebacker Troy Dumas said what can we You can do what you always do Lose They say this publicly of course They have to be gracious hosts But as four of them walked from tailgate party to tailgate party Saturday afternoon wearing their loud orange jackets they kept hearing the same questions from terrified Nebraska fans: Who are we going to have to play? Not Miami right? As recently as this week Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Byrne lobbied privately for the OB committee to look into selecting three-loss Notre Dame instead of a one-loss Miami One OB member joked that he was going to meet Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne after game and bring him an autographed picture of UM Coach Dennis Enckson Live with Hoping against hope Do we have to? A Miami-Nebraska rerun is no more appetizing in prime time than a rerun of The Love Boat Heck even members of the Orange Bowl Committee five of whom were in attendance Saturday were quietly rooting for Colorado to beat Nebraska Before game I phoned one OB member and asked how many of the Orange 200-plus members would be rooting for Nebraska he said Rodriguez University of Nebraska Class of And even him not sure about His son is a freshman at 24-7 Comhuskers up mark to 9-0 INJURIES I Todd Collins Michigan QB sat out most of the first quarter with a hip pointer Collins came back and completed 14 of 25 passes for 172 yards in a31-19 loss to Wisconsin PI MILESTONES rfy Allegheny gained an NCAA Division Ill-record 774 yards of total offense and had five players rush for at least 60 yards in a 62-7 defeat of Wooster Wisconsin recorded its first victory in Ann Arbor Mich since 1962 with a 31-19 defeat of Michigan The Badgers had lost 1 1 straight at Michigan Stadium 0 HEROES Vin Ferrara Harvard QB completed 16 straight passes and threw for 302 yards and three TDs in a 35-12 victory over Dartmouth Simeon Rice Illinois LB dominated a 28-7 victory over Northwestern Rice had three sacks and deflected two passes Rice leads the nation with 16 sacks and has 33 in 31 games for his career COSTS special teams allowed one punt to be blocked and another to be deflected fumbled a punt return and had a botched point-after try result in two points for Kansas State in a 37-20 loss Brad Bobich of Purdue missed a 30-yard field-goal attempt wide left with seven seconds to play allowing Iowa to escape with a 21-21 tie SPEAKING Napoleon Kaufman Washington RB on the Heis-man rophy: you said the Heisman Trophy would give me a million dollars then be upset over not winning it) But look at the past two Heisman winners Charlie Ward and Gino Torretta and tell me where they are right js FLORIDA REPORT i Nigea Carter Michigan State WR from Coconut Creek caught a school-record 93-yard touchdown pass in a victory over Indiana Marc Renaud Michigan State RB from Deerfield Beach ran for 181 yards on 36 carries to set a school single-game freshman rushing record 4 -K 4 I O' £3 I'- Sr i la- aft- Istaart Associated Press POSTING DOWN: Nebraska fans try to hang on to a greased goalpost in the celebration following the 24-7 victory over Colorado -a NEBRASKA FROM ID oranges at the Colorado bench Then they tore down the goalposts They quite as destructive as their team had been Using an abusive offensive line Nebraska (9-0 4-0 in the Big Eight) pushed Colorado (7-1 3-1) out of the stadium through the parking lot and into a different area code In the huddle through labored breathing offensive linemen were telling jokes The score was 17-0 at the half been looking for respect since been said senior offensive tackle Zach Wiegert been getting bashed by the press because we win a big game Well was there a bigger game in college football than this one? At least no one will give us a hard time now at least not for a couple of weeks You have to like us But you have to respect defense handcuffed one of the most explosive offenses by from all defensive tackle Christian Peter said putting the quarterback under great Quarterback Kordell Stewart finished 12 of 28 for 150 yards but he completed only two passes defenders practiced intimidation this week purposely picking fights with the scout-team quarterback who was supposed to be imitating Stewart in practice could see in eyes that he didn't want to be out there Dumas said has a history of that If you get inside his head not going to function Hit him hard and break Salaam will return One bit of good news did come out of the game for Colorado Heisman candidate Rashaan Salaam says the loss was so sour that he will return in 1995 for his senior season he said Salaam the leading rusher with an average of nearly 180 yards per game rushed for 134 yards Saturday but 96 of them came after Colorado was already down 17 points is the real he said first I thought mabe they were overrated playing teams like Pacific and He paused shaking his head guess he said Mail call Nebraska players embracing an us-against-the-world philosophy say they were motivated by a pile of nasty letters they received this week linebacker Donta Jones said was postmarked from everywhere from Colorado from Miami from Califor- Nebraska 24 Colorado 7 Neb 20 53-203 M2 9 12-17-1 -38 1-0 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Col 18 37-155 159 7 13-30-0 6-38 OO 4-30 Ml Penalties-Yards Time of Possession 38 24 21 0 0 7 0-7 7 10 7 0-24 Colorado Nebraska (including 14 on a second-quarter TD run) Nebraska had disguised its game plan the previous two weeks against Kansas State and Missouri running little more than a play called 44 Iso a between-the-tackles running play But the Comhuskers added almost a half-dozen new plays Saturday confusing Colorado with everything from option offense to play-action passing put in quite a bit of stuff we used Coach Tom Osborne said Osborne wasn't in the mood to lobby for his team to be No 1 don't much care about he said given up on ma Telling us that we any good that we were boring that w-e were going to lose 58-0 So this game was for all the Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer playing with a partially collapsed lung completed 12 of 17 passes for 142 yards All but one of his completions went to the tight ends including a 30-yard touchdown to Eric Alford who caught five passes for 78 yards The one pass that go to a tight end went to a running back The Comhuskers much like the community that surrounds campus lived off the land 1-back Lawrence Phillips ran for 86 yards on 25 carries and fullback Cory Schlesinger added 65 more Neb-Schiesmger 14 run ISieler Kick) FGSieler 24 Childs 2 run (Sielerkick) Alford 30 pass from Berringer (Sieler kick) -Col-Salaam 6 run Voskeritchian kick) 76131 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Colorado Salaam 22134 Stewart 14-24 Troutman 1 (minus 3) Nebraska Phillips 25-86 Schlesinger 8-65 Makovicka 332 Bennm-ger 7 19 Childs 514 Benmng 31 Muhammad team Wmmus 15) Passing Colorado Stewart 12 28-4M50 Detmer 12 0-9 Nebraska Berringer 12 17 1-142 Receiving Colorado Westbrook 6-80 Lepsis 2 18 Carruth 2 28 Salaam 2 24 Savoy 19 Nebraska Alford 578 Gillman 4 46 Muhammad 2 14 Phillips 14 for nine yards in the first half 1 While Lawrence Phillips of Nebraska was battling with Kordell Stewart and Rashaan Salaam in Nebraska Ki-Jana Carter was leading Penn State to a big victory and running into the lead in the Heisman race with 137 yards and four TDs Quarterbacks STl MV- £4 Jr 4 I 4 J4r A 5 a v-- What every mom wants for her son When an elementary school seem good enough many mothers will find another Not Khalada mother of the top running back Rashaan Salaam of Colorado This mother started her own school aimed at providing African Americans with strong role models from their culture She still works there Football never was what this mother wanted for her son even though her first husband biological father played for the Cincinnati Bengals According to family lore Teddy Washington (now Sulton Salaam) tossed a football to his son the cradle But she's happy about the success of Rashaan a Heisman Trophy contender think a she said as a mother I'm thinking he handle all know his life will be peaks and valleys I wish it could be all Vi scheduled us for wins Well broken up three homecomings already TIM HUGHES Northwestern sophomore QB on Wildcats 3-4-1 record 1 -V Associated Press TOUCH OF FALL Nebraska freshman Steve Harry works on homecoming decorations at his fraternity house in preparation for game against Colorado Snubbed In 1932 Colgate was undefeated unscored on and uninvited to the Rose Bowl Unbeaten Pitt instead got the invite to the only major bowl of that time losing to Southern Cal 35-0 Get out your pencils For those of you scorirg at home a Big Ten team was ranked No 1 just once in the previous 132 AP polls Michigan in 1 990 before Penn State gained the top spot two weeks ago MCNair also nos yaiu carries Stewart also has 467 yards rushirg and five touchdowns on 90 carries.