Pac-10 Football
continued from page 5
Stanford cracks top 25
Saturday’s 21-16 victory over
Southern California propelled
Stanford into both the AP and
coaches polls for the first time since
the end of the 1999 season.
The Cardinal (3-0, 1-0), ranked
22nd by the AP and 24th by the
coaches, are off to their first 3-0
start in 15 years.
“I don’t worry about the rank
ings,” Cardinal head coach Ty
rone Willingham told Knight Rid
der. “We worry about winning
football games.”
Quarterback Randy Fasani,
who was 11 of 25 for 194 yards
against USC, had a different
thought about the recognition,
though.
“I don’t think we get respect go
ing into any season,” Fasani said.
“We’re always ranked 30, 40. We
talk about that and it gives us a lit
tle motivation.”
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Golfers 7th after two rounds
■Atthe Husky Invitational, the
Oregon men’s golfers are 18
strokes behind leader UW
By Jesse Thomas
for the Emerald
The Oregon men’s golf team has
had a rough start after the first two
rounds of the Husky Invitational
played Monday, where the Ducks
sit in seventh place out of 10 teams
The Ducks started with rounds of
373-374 for a 747 total at the 7,035
yard, par-72 Olympic Course at
Gold Mountain. The team has a dif
ficult climb ahead to work its way
to the top of the team standings, as
it was 18 strokes off the pace set by
Washington, who came out firing
with a 729.
Defending
team champion
Pepperdine is
not far off the
pace, as the team
was five strokes
back with a 736,
with Washington
State and Neva
da close behind at 739. Colorado sits
in fifth with a 742 and Oregon State
is sixth at 743.
Individual standings have the
Huskies’ John Robertson in first af
ter tying the course record with an
opening-round 67. On his next 18
holes, he shot 71 to give him a
three-shot lead entering today’s fi
nal round.
Oregon junior John Ellis, the
defending individual champion,
shot just under par with a 1-under
143 to tie for fourth after rounds
of 72-71. Ellis is five strokes back
from Robertson. Other Oregon
highlights include senior Aaron
Byers’s two-over 146, tying him
for 12th place.
The Ducks final round began this
morning at 7:30 a.m.
Sports briefs
Texas’ Brown faces career test
Saturday against Oklahoma
FORT WORTH — Texas coach
Mack Brown didn’t sleep Satur
day night despite the warm after
glow provided by a 42-7 romp
over Texas Tech.
Sure, the fifth-ranked Longhorns
turned in their most complete per
formance of 2001 while rushing for
209 yards, passing for 224 and
holding the Red Raiders 35 points
below their season scoring average.
But Brown, like Texas fans, is
haunted by a recurring question:
Is that enough to bridge the
chasm that separates Texas from
Oklahoma?
He’ll find out Saturday in the
Cotton Bowl when the fifth-ranked
Longhorns (4-0, 1-0) and third
ranked Sooners (4-0,1-0) meet in a
contest that could decide both the
Big 12 and national champi
onships. Win or lose, Brown’s
coaching skills will be tested and
scrutinized to a level unseen in his
four seasons at Texas.
Brown said Sunday he’s ready
for the challenge of atoning for last
season’s 63-14 black eye that ignit
ed the Sooners’ march to a nation
al title and relegated the Long
horns to the role of pursuer in the
Red River Rivalry.
“As far as pressure, if you coach at
Texas and feel pressure every day,
you won’t enjoy yourself, and you’re
not going to win,” Brown said. “I
plan to enjoy this week and make
this team the best it can be. I fought
my whole life to get a job at a school
where winning was really important.
To me, that’s a good thing.”
If Brown’s team falls flat for a sec
ond consecutive year in Dallas, he
may want to rethink how good that
is. No matter how much Brown at
tempts to downplay it, everyone
wearing orange in the Cotton Bowl
will define the success of this sea
son by Saturday’s outcome.
Because of a user-friendly sched
ule, antsy Texas fans view the Okla
homa game as a make-it-or-break-it
proposition in returning the Long
horns to national prominence in the
college football world. That’s not
entirely true, but there is no ques
tion that avenging last year’s
trouncing at the hands of the Soon
ers has been uppermost in the
minds of Texas players for the past
360 days.
“I still think about that game
every day,” said linebacker D.D.
Lewis, reflecting on last year’s De
bacle in Dallas. “It’s what drove
me to prepare myself the whole
off-season. We have a mission we
need to complete.”
Brown, in turn, can silence his
critics by becoming the strategist
who ends the Sooners’ 17-game
winning streak. That would allow
Brown to shake the “ Coach Febru
ary” label that pays homage to his
recruiting skills but raises ques
tions about his abilities at the
chalkboard.
— Jimmy Burch
Knight Ridder Newspapers
(c) 2001, Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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