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News Nuggets, 10.13.03
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Compiled from staff reports and electronic dispatches

College football weekend: The good, the bad, the ugly

STARS: Julius Jones, Notre Dame, ran for 262 yards, breaking Vagas Ferguson's single-game school record, and scored twice as the Fighting Irish upset Pittsburgh 20-14. — • — B.J. Symons, Texas Tech, was 45-of-65 for 487 yards and three touchdowns, and ran for two more scores as Texas Tech beat Iowa State 52-21. Symons set an NCAA record for yards passing (2,239) in a four-game span. — • — Mark Clayton, Oklahoma, had a school-record 190 yards receiving and a touchdown as the No. 1 Sooners routed No. 11 Texas 65-13. — • — Michael Turner, Northern Illinois, ran for 199 yards and two touchdowns as the No. 16 Huskies rallied to beat Central Michigan 40-24. — • — Craig Candeto, Navy, ran for two touchdowns, threw for two others and recovered an onside kick as Navy rallied to beat Vanderbilt 37-27.

BOOMING SOONERS: Oklahoma scored at least 50 points for the fourth straight game, routing Texas 65-13. The win set series records for points and most lopsided victory in the 98-game history of the Red River rivalry. The Sooners have won four straight against the Longhorns for the first time since 1985-88.

BACKUP BADGER: Backup quarterback Matt Schabert hit Lee Evans with a 79-yard touchdown pass with 5:20 left as Wisconsin ended defending national champion Ohio State's 19-game winning streak with a 17-10 victory.

RUN STOPPERS: No. 4 Virginia Tech held Syracuse's Walter Reyes, the nation's top rusher, to 40 yards - 130 below his average - in the Hokies' 51-7 win.

HAPPY RETURNS: DeAngelo Hall returned two punts for touchdowns in Virginia Tech's 51-7 win over Syracuse. Hall's four career punt returns for scores ties a school record.

ROCKY TOPPER: Georgia quarterback David Greene improved to 3-0 against Tennessee as the No. 8 Bulldogs beat the No. 13 Volunteers for the fourth straight time, 41-14.

STREAKING: Northern Illinois earned its 13th victory in its last 14 games, beating Central Michigan 40-24. ... Mississippi State beat Memphis for the 10th straight time, 35-27.

SNAPPED: Clemson ended an eight-game losing streak against Top 25 teams with a 30-27 victory over No. 25 Virginia.

SLUMPING: Rutgers' 34-19 loss to West Virginia was the Scarlet Knights' 24th straight Big East loss. Rutgers lost to West Virginia for the ninth straight time. ... Navy beat Vanderbilt 37-27, the Commodores' 10th straight loss to a Division I-A opponent. ... Duke lost to Maryland 33-20, the Blue Devils' 28th straight ACC defeat. The streak includes four losses to Maryland by a combined 157-58.

STRONG IN DEFEAT: J.P. Losman threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores in Tulane's 45-42 loss to Houston.

OFFENSE-DEFENSE: Northwestern State turned four interceptions and a blocked field goal into touchdowns in an 87-27 victory over Southeastern Louisiana. It was the most points ever scored in one game by the Demons, who beat Division II Panhandle State 59-0 last week.

TRIBUTE: At halftime of its 30-13 win over Holy Cross, Towson held a dedication ceremony in which Johnny Unitas Stadium became the formal name of the school stadium. Unitas, a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Baltimore Colts, served as a community liaison with the Tigers before his death in September 2002.

SPEAKING: "They whupped us," Texas linebacker Derrick Johnson after the Longhorns' 65-13 loss to No. 1 Oklahoma. — • — "I showed people today I can play in those big games. This is the most exciting day. I can't wait to get on the bus and call my mommy." - Miami running back Jarrett Payton, who caught a touchdown pass and ran for a career-high 97 yards in the second-ranked Hurricanes' 22-14 win over Florida State. Payton is the son of Hall of Famer Walter Payton.

Record-setting QB, longtime trainer to be enshrined by UC

Danny McCoin, who rewrote the Bearcats passing record book during the mid-1980s, and Scotty Kolp, who served as the school's athletic trainer for 37 years, have been selected for induction into the University of Cincinnati Athletic Hall of Fame. The two will be formally enshrined at the Legion of Excellence dinner on Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Kingsgate Marriott. Reservations may be made by calling the UC Athletic Department (513-556-4884).

McCoin was Cincinnati's all-time passing leader when he concluded his four-season career in 1987. The Livingston, TN, native completed 544 of 899 passes for 6,801 yards and 39 touchdowns. He also owned the total offense records with 6,210 yards in 1,091 plays.

Current Bearcat quarterback Gino Guidugli, who like McCoin wears jersey No. 8, has eclipsed most of McCoin's marks. McCoin set lofty UC season and career records for completion percentage which have still not been surpassed. As a junior, he had the nation's third-highest completion percentage (.642).

A team tri-captain as a senior, McCoin was drafted by the Detroit Lions and spent a season on the team's reserve list before returning to his hometown, where he is head football coach at Livingston Academy.

Kolp arrived on the UC campus in 1927 to tend to the training needs of the sports teams and coach boxing. His career as a pro boxer, in which he fought as a featherweight and won his first 17 bouts by knockout, prepared him for both roles. Well-liked by the succession of student-athletes whom he aided, Kolp also served as equipment manager during much of his tenure.

Kolp also served his country. His boxing career was interrupted by a stint in the Army in World War I. When intercollegiate athletics were suspended on UC's campus during World War II, Kolp helped train U.S. troups training at the UC campus.

Kolp retired in 1964 and died in 1973 at the age of 69.

The new inductees brings the number of members in the UC Athletic Hall of Fame to 137.

Frogs' ascension up the rankings continues

Texas Christian's Friday night victory at South Florida kept the Frogs moving upward in both the writers' and coaches' polls. Tye Gunn threw for 133 yards and one touchdown and Nick Browne kicked two field goals Friday night as TCU held off the Bulls 13-10 to end the nation's second-longest home winning streak at 21 games.

The 6-0 Horned Frogs, off to their best start since since reeling off seven straight victories to begin the 2000 season, moved up from 18th to 16th in this week's Associated Press Poll and leaped four spots from No. 17 to No. 13 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll.

Other Conference USA and Carolinas teams receiving votes were Louisville and Clemson in the coaches' poll and South Carolina in the writers' poll. Following are both sets of rankings, with C-USA and Carolinas teams denoted in bold:

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