Only one month in, college football goes wild
By Michelle Kaufman
Knight Ridder Newspapers
MIAMI (KRT)—The college foot
ball season is barely a month old,
and this much we already know:
• The other FSU (Fresno State) has
a better chance of finishing in the top
five than Bobby Bowden's FSU.
• Penn State icon Joe Paterno will
have a tougher time breaking Bear
Bryant's record than anybody imag
ined.
• Bob Davie might not last the
season at Notre Dame, where the
Fighting Irish are 0-2 for the first
time since 1986.
First things first. The Semi-Noles.
Could anyone have predicted the
North Carolina Tar Heels would
obliterate FSU in football? The Tar
Heels?:A team that was 0-3 before
Saturday? A team that was
outscored 108-48 in its previous
three games?
Saturday's 41-9 loss was Florida
State's worst to an unranked team
since 1976. It was the Semi-Noles'
third ACC loss since joining the
conference in 1992, and it left Mary
land - yes, Maryland - sitting atop
the ACC standings.
How does that happen?
On the same note, what in the
world is going on in Not-so-Happy
Valley? Joe-Pa, who needed just two
wins to break Bryant's record for most
wins by a Division I coach, is 0-2 after
a drubbing by Miami and Saturday's
18-6 loss to Wisconsin.
And the two wins might not
come any time soon.
The Nittany Lions are at Iowa
next week, and then have games
against Michigan, Northwestern
and Ohio State, the top three teams
in the Big Ten.
The once-feared Nittany Lions
are 6-12 since opening the 1999 sea
son 9-0. They lost to Pitt and Tole
do last year. And it is quite possible
they will open this season 0-6.
Bowden and Paterno, two of the
best and most beloved coaches in
history, are baffled this morning,
searching for answers.
What? You have the answer?
The game has passed them by,
you say? Time for the nice old men
to move on?
Don't plan their retirements just yet.
Between them, Bowden and Pa
terno have won 637 games since be
coming head coaches in 1966.
You don't lose all that knowledge
and motivational skill in a year. Or two.
It is possible the Semi-Noles and
Nittany Lions are (gasp!) not the
cream of the crop this year. It is pos
sible they will (gasp!) not end the
season in the top 2 5.
And that's OK. All good things
come to an end, they say. At the very
least, they take a break.
But don't blame it all on those
two coaches, who know what it
takes to win more than any yahoo
caller on sports talk radio.
Meanwhile, out at Fresno State,
the Bulldogs are proving they’re for
real. After beating No. 23 Wisconsin
at Madison three weeks ago, players
held their index fingers to their lips
and said, "Shhhh....", as if to say
their team was a secret.
Not anymore.
Fresno State is 4-0 after beating
Tulsa 37-18. The Bulldogs have al
ready knocked off Wisconsin, Col
orado and lOth-ranked Oregon
State, and jumped from unranked in
the preseason to the top 10.
But even a perfect season - not
impossible considering the rest of
the schedule - will not guarantee
the Bulldogs a spot in a major
bowl. Fresno State plays in the
WAC, which is not considered a
power conference. The BCS gives
berths to the champions of the
ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Pa
cific-lOandSEC.
Fresno coach Pat Hill, formerly
an assistant with the Cleveland
Browns and Baltimore Ravens,
beefed up the nonconference
schedule in an effort to squeeze
into the bowl picture.
It might not happen. And that's a
shame.
It’s a shame because that FSU
didn't lose by 32 to North Carolina,
and yet this FSU has a better chance
of playing in a big bowl.
Fair? No. But that’s college foot
ball.
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 28). Whatever
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leave anything to chance. Get everything in
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