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SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS College football Arkansas manages 142 yards i in a loss to Georgia. 9C Bill Walsh is a genius again: as Stanford stuns Notre Dame. 6C Washington's defense shines in 17-10 over Southern Cal. 6C Georgia Tech pulls life a miracle in win over N.C. State.

9C OLERUN Two in a row for Blue Jays It's Toronto vs. Oakland for the American League title as the Blue Jays clinch the AL East title with a 3-1 victory over Detroit. 2C ALSO Pro football Buffalo vs. Miami in a battle of unbeatens and Denver vs. Kansas City in a clash of division leaders highlight Week 5 of the NFL.

11C High school football North Augusta running back Calvin Owens is fast on the field and quick in committing to play for South Carolina. 12C Auto racing After his chances to catch points leader Bill Elliott hit the wall at Dover, Alan Kulwicki is regrouping for a stretch run beginning today. 3C The State Sports ed Columbia, South Carolina Sunday, October 4, 1992 SPEAR Miami gives Seminoles the boot again By ED SHERMAN Chicago Tribune MIAMI It was almost an hour after the game, and a sweat-soaked Bobby Bowden still was standing in the corner of the locker room answering questions. Reality had set in again, and all Bowden could do was force a smile. "It's unbelievable it didn't happen," said the 62-year-old coach.

"I mean, unbelievable." Or was it? The heartbreak script has been Scores COLLEGE FOOTBALL Miami. 19 South Carolina 7 Florida 16 .....54 Newberry .28 3 Chas. 12 31 North Carolina ...28 Vanderbilt Navy. 14 The Citadel. ........25 Georgia.

27 App. State ...........0 41 .31 13 W. .17 Jackson Ga. 21 S. Carolina St.

3 Savannah St. 7 BOB Sports S.C. State to meet unable challenge Jackson State wins Classic, 4C Their professional players range from Aldridge to Zeigler, and their football tradition replete with all-stars and All-Americas and AllPros and a case laden with championship trophies is one to admire. But these are not the best of times for South Carolina State's Bulldogs. They let two games slip away on consecutive weekends and stood Saturday at the crossroads of the season.

They got into this vise by failing to put away Florida and allowing Southern to win a race against the clock for a game-winning Jeffries field goal. Now this. Now a date with the Jackson State Tigers, an offensive machine averaging 34 points a game. Bulldogs coach Willie Jeffries could commiserate with South Carolina's Sparky Woods; an imposing roadblock, awaits at a time a confidence-building win would work wonders. At least Jeff and his Bulldogs would be among friends and not in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

And there are a lot of friends. This is the second Palmetto Classic at Williams-Brice Stadium, and more than 25,000 turned out despite threatening skies. If the Bulldogs could only find a way to defuse quarterback Ricky Jordan they would be even at 2-2 and maybe, just maybe, primed to challenge for another MidEastern Athletic Conference championship. Alas, their performance matched the gloomy weather. Inability to move football Sometimes a coach can blame a loss on bad luck, sometimes on officials, sometimes on his team's poor execution.

But credit this one Jackson State's 41-3 victory to the better team winning. Jackson State served notice with a first-play-from-scrimmage bomb that covered 60 yards. The Tigers scored in less than three minutes. The dam did not really burst until the second half, but you knew it would. The Bulldogs simply could not move the football, and only when the avalanche would start remained State took possession at the Tigers' 28-, 21-, 42- and 38-yard lines in the final 10 minutes of the second period.

They converted those golden opportunities into one field goal. A fumble early the second half set up the Tigers for an easy score and signaled the end for the Bulldogs. About now, Florida State's Bobby Bowden watched his hopes against Miami sail wide right again, and South Carolina's Woods saw his team behind three touchdowns in the first quarter. Neither coach felt more frustrated than Jeffries. Big play hurts again Jeffries came to town fretting about how his team would rebound from the last-second loss to Southern after a week off.

"It's hard to live with the way we lost that ballgame," he said earlier in the week. His worst nightmares came true. "They're a real tough football team, and they out-toughed us," he said. See Spear, 7C written so many times before, it seems as if the Florida State-Miami game is played on a VCR instead of a football field. In the 17 games between the intrastate rivals, Florida State has had a lead going into the fourth quarter, and 13 times, Miami has come back to win.

Just change the names to tell the story of Miami's 19-16 victory over the Seminoles Saturday at the Orange Bowl. The Hurricanes (4-0) make the big plays in the fourth quarter, and Florida State (4-1) misses a field goal at the end. Last year, it was Florida State blowing a 16-7 lead in the fourth quarter and then watching Gerry Thomas miss a 34-yard field goal in a 17-16 loss. This year, it was the Seminoles blowing a 16-10 lead, and then watching Dan Mowery miss a 39-yard game-tying field goal. Both kicks went wide right.

"Wide right," said Miami linebacker Jessie Armstead. "That's my new best Tide drowns USC 48-7 USC's Brandon Bennett meets the Alabama Tigers wear out Moccasins with backups Game statistics, 10C Mocs profit in defeat, 10C By MARK R. McCALLUM Sports Writer CLEMSON Clemson fans caught a glimpse of the future as the 25th-ranked Tigers crushed Division I-AA UT-Chattanooga 54-3 Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. Reserve quarterbacks Louis Solomon and Patrick Sapp debuted and combined to help produce six of Clemson's nine scoring drives. If drive is the appropriate noun.

In compiling 606 yards of total offense, third best in school history, and rushing for 440 yards, fifth best in school history, Clemson only once needed more than 1:54 to score. Nine times, Clemson gained more than 20 yards on a play, including 91 yards on linebacker Michael Barber's fumble return, 77 yards on Sapp's TD pass to Terry Smith, 55 yards on Solomon's second-quarter scamper and 45 and 32 yards on Larry Ryans' reverses. See Clemson, 16C "Wide right" and but he played Miami" are becoming Bowden's epitaph. Florida State now has lost six of seven to the Hurricanes, six losses that have kept the Seminoles from winning the national title. This year, though, Bowden thought he would at least get a tie.

In the final 95 seconds, Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward engineered a drive from the Seminole 19 to the See Miami, 16C Editor 92 48-7 SEC loss. Alabama rolls past youthful Gamecocks Game statistics, 8C Tradition rich at 'Bama, 8C By DAVID NEWTON Sports Writer TUSCALOOSA, Ala. A rain-soaked group of Alabama fans waited for South Carolina quarterback Steve Taneyhill following Saturday's 48-7 SEC loss to the No. 9 Crimson Tide. They showed little compassion for the freshman from Altoona, whose team fell to 0-5 (0-4 in the SEC) with its ninth straight "You chose the wrong school," the fans yelled from the stands above the northwest corner of Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Taneyhill, drenched from the steady rain, yelled right back. "I'll see you in two years when the tide is turning," said Taneyhill, who chose USC over Alabama in February. Never mind USC and Alabama won't play in two years, unless they meet in the SEC championship game. That wasn't Taneyhill's point. The message he and most in garnet and black tried to relay on this cool gray day was the gap between USC and Alabama might be wide now, but wait until the young players are juniors and seniors.

"As frustrating as it is, I'm not discouraged," USC coach Sparky Woods said. "I'm not out there with a bunch of old players. I'm out there with a bunch of young players. "I believe in two years we'll have the same look as Alabama." Alabama linebacker Antonio State See USC, 16C Tim defense in the third quarter of Saturday's Pam State Clemson's Terry Smith ojan't get handle on ball as UT-C's Tony Ballard defends. 0 my! Citadel goes to 5-0 with shutout 24 Bulldogs maul ASU with 520 total yards State college roundup, 4C By NEIL WHITE Sports Writer BOONE, N.C.

The Citadel offered plenty of evidence Saturday that this team may be the school's best ever. After defeating Appalachian State 25-0 at Kidd Brewer Stadium, the Bulldogs moved out to their best start ever at 5-0, topping the 4-0-1 openings of the 1928 and 1989 teams. The way the Bulldogs, ranked No. 6 nationally in the I-AA poll, did it was most impressive, although not unlike what they've done all season. The Citadel, 2-0 in the Southern Conference, beat an ASU team that had lost only three times in its past 39 regular -season games at Kidd Brewer Stadium.

Tie last time the Mountaineers were shut out at home came in 1979, a span of 68 games. The Citadel posted its first shutout since the 1987 opener against Wofford, Charlie Taaffe's first game as head coach, and first on the road against a Southern Conference opponent since 1975. Taaffe called this win the team's most important of the season. "The more success you have, the higher the stakes get each week," Taaffe said. "This was the biggest win of the year because it was this week, but it also carried a lot of importance because of the lack of success we've had up here." The Bulldogs won for only the third time in Boone, the first since 1984, and they did it before 24,233 fans, the second-largest crowd in Kidd Brewer history.

They had lost the last three games here by an average of 22 points. The Citadel rolled up 520 yards of See Citadel, 7C.