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Baseball brOKlb Georgia opens up in win over TCU HOW THE TOP 20 ARED Rank Team Result Score Opponent Next 1 Miami la idle at Michigan 2 Nebraska Lost 41 28 UCLA Idle 3 Clemson Won 23 3 urman lorida State 4 Oklahoma Won 28 0 North Carolina Arizona 5 UCLA Won 41 28 Nebraska Long Beach St 6 Southern Cal 24 20 Stanford Idle 1 7 Auburn Won 1 20 10 Kentucky Kansas 8 Georgia Won 38 10 CU at Miss State r'fl 9 Michigan Night Notre Dame Miami la 10 lorida State1 Won 49 13 So Mississippi at Clemson 1 1 Louisiana State Idle at Tennessee 12 West Virginia Won 45 10 ullerton St Maryland 13i Notre Dame Night Michigan at Michigan St 14 Alabama Won 37 0 Temple at Texas 15 Michigan State Lost 17 13 Rutgers Notre Dame 16 South Carolina Won 38 0 Carolina East Carolina 17 Iowa' Won 4510 Kansas State Colorado 18 Penn State Won 42 14 Virginia Boston College 19 Texas Lost 47 6 Brigham Young New Mexico 20 Washington Won 20 6 Purdue Army 1 By Guerry Clegg Staff Writer ATHENS Ga Some razzle here some dazzle there as it appeared the Georgia Bulldogs were content to exper iment in defeating Texas Christian 38 10 Saturday But to hear them tell it the Bulldogs opened up their offense not purely for fun but out of necessity "Thank goodness for the big said Georgia coach Vince Dooley certainly glad we made a lot of big plays today because we have many successful drives I think we realized that TCU has a potentially very good football team We certainly knock them off the line of scrimmage espe cially on The Bulldogs excited the 72680 fans scant by Sanford Stadium standards with five big plays that set up a 38 3 lead Their most sustained scoring drive See GEORGIA 5 TJ Edwards bursts through a hole against Tennessee Chattanooga fa Tech rallies past Moes By Chuck Thompson Knight Ridder Newspapers ATLANTA Bobby Ross said his team needed a game like this Down 10 0 entering the fourth quarter Georgia Tech rallied Io defeat Tennessee Chattanooga 24 10 Saturday afternoon in the Yellow season opening game at Bob by Dodd StadiumGrant ield i flh ycar senior quarterback Todd Rampley came off the bench to engineer all four of fourth quarter scoring drives lie replaced red shirt freshman starter Lee Wil liamson who was ineffective in his college debut The Jackets also benefitted from an See TECH 9 Tigers celebrate 20 10 victory Joe Strauss Lx ri Whatever it was was weird AUBURN Ala Be it mystical ability to lose close football games slightly used starting quarterback or Jordan Hare indifferent setting Saturday was preordained to be weird Spooky weird Turnover every minute weird The kind of weird that happen to polished teams picked to win the Southeastern Conference Larry Curly and Moe should have been team captains James Joseph served as the perfect hero ask how Auburn beat Kentucky ask how Auburn almost lost This is a column not a novel To catalogue each mistake of mind and body would keep us here until Thanksgiving Auburn yet polished of course It brought out Reggie Slack as quarterback for more than one play suspended its starting kicker for missing team meetings and prayed that its defense worked In short Auburn look like Auburn With school out the Tigers couldn field a band a student section or anything more than a mildly enthused collection of alumni When Kentucky rallied the place sounded like Lexington on the Plains Auburn led 17 0 won 20 10 yet gave itself every opportunity to be tied or worse If any less weird Kentucky is perhaps 2 0 and Auburn catatonic But the won a six point or less game since 1985 Rutgers twice included Playing with the discipline of spoiled children the two received 23 penalties worth 182 yards and teamed for nine turnovers Joseph formerly of Central High and more recently of knee rehab became the symbol of extremes Second Quarter: Missing a block he left Slack naked to take a blindside hit that resulted in a fumble Clued to the impending disaster Joseph recovered to gather the ball for an 8 yard gain Third Quarter: Still leading by 14 Slack had a pass deflected into the hands of a Kentucky beefster at the 18 saw it was a pretty big guy but we seemed to have him stopped" said Joseph who came from behind to pick the lineman's taped hands possibly saving further damage Chevy Chase would kill for this material ourth Quarter: Caught within a five minute flurry of five turnovers Joseph fumbled away a critical fourth quarter possession at 23 only to see his defense retake the ball two plays later think we can be satisfied with what we did today said Joseph his afternoon of weirdness including 1 10 yards and two touchdowns a fumble a caused fumble and a 37 yard burst going to have to do better than The Tigers must be good On one drive they suffered a sack had a 79 yard touchdown turned into a 43 yard gain See STRAUSS 8 By Mike HaskeyLedger Enyuirer A a zM 1 ffi Kentucky tailback Ivy Joe Hunter (32) is stopped in mid air by Auburn defense during Saturday's game By Charles Odum Staff Writer AUBURN Ala Auburn won the football game Saturday afternoon but only the scoreboard supported that A reported crowd of 67000 al Jordan Hare Stadium was quiet through much of this damp game The Auburn coaches and players delivered their postgame thoughts with emotionless self critical comments usually reserved for a loss They spoke of from of Clearly Saturday's 20 10 victory over the visiting Kentucky Wildcats was not cause for the season opening party the Auburn faithful planned Such is life for the defending Southeastern Conference champion and the seventh ranked team in the country When the opponent is best known for its basketball prowess a win is not enough A decisive bone jar ring demolition is expected See AUBURN 8 Alabama routs Owls By Donnie Webb Special to the Ledger Enquirer PHILADELPHIA They just come apart a little The Temple Owls got mad let it take them out of the game and proceeded to get embarrassed 37 0 by Alabama Saturday night It all turned so quickly a missed field goal a controversial fumble and the unraveled Owls worth a hoot the rest of the game The Alabama defense then went on a rampage stuffing chasing and harrassing Temple ball carriers A shutout had been dangled in front of their carriage and the Crimson Tide would get its carrot The Owls would finish with a measly 131 yards of offense and were a pathetic 0 for 14 on third down conversions With no pass ing game to speak of once See ALABAMA 9 Graf slams Open shut Press NEW YORK Steffi Graf slammed her way to the grandest feat in tennis Saturday The West German wonder won the first Grand Slam in 18 years by beating teen age rival Gabriela Saba tini 6 3 3 6 6 1 in the US Open final glad to have the talk over about the Grand Graf said a nice relief to not have any pressure on me No one else will have to tell me I have to do it Graf 19 became the first player to sweep the Australian rench Wim bledon and US championships in the same year since Margaret Court in 1970 very thrilled a very happy feeling at this said Graf See GRA 4 BuiUr Steffi Graf holds the US Open women's singles trophy alcons face the franchise they would most like to be By Guerry Clegg Staff Writer ATLANTA ew NL rivalries are bom in blood in fact most are predicated on the divisional standings But the Atlanta alcons New Orleans Saints feud is as hot as Cajun crawfish gua ron TEE About 20000 Who Dats are expected to journey up to Atlanta ulton County Stadium today Although the rivalry is one of the NL strongest today gam will be a new experience for 15 alcons on the 45 man active roster Have the new players grasped the rivalry? sure hope said alcons coach Marion Campbell been telling them about it as much a rivalry as you can In some ways Atlanta could use New Orleans as a model Efficient offense plus big play defense and productive special teams equal a winning formula The Saints proved it last year They enjoyed their finest season at 12 3 making the playoffs for the first time in their history While the Saints finished second in the NL with 422 points intense and special teams contribute Mvily They scored or 136 with turnovers punt and kickoff returns "Last week every single Leam that had the most turnovers said CampbeliyfEtfefy oe You cango right ilown "the line Whaf to tell our defense (is) let's get On the takeaway The alc'bns were last in the league in this category in 1987 with a minus 22 giveaway ratio They created only 27 takeaways and committed a league high 49 giveaways The alcons pulled a rare sweep finishing last by record and in the four major categories total offense total See See ALCONS 3.