Ohio State hurdles Miami in latest poll
Omar Kelly
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (KRT)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The
demise of four of the eight unde
feated college football teams Satur
day has simplified the national
championship picture, hut that
doesn’t mean Miami has a direct
path hack to the title game.
The latest Bowl Championship
Series standings, which have Ohio
State moving up three positions
and jumping over Miami for the
No. 2 spot, show that UM (8-0, 4-0
Big East) could he left outside
looking in, even if the Hurricanes
finish undefeated.
Even though Miami stayed un
beaten and posted its school
record 30th straight win Saturday
with a 42-17 victory over Rutgers,
UM’s struggles during that game
(trailing in the fourth quarter to
the Big East’s perennial doormat
before rallying) cost the Hurri
canes dearly.
Miami, which plays Tennessee
on the road Saturday, dropped to
No. 2 in The Associated Press poll,
and as a result of its fall, Ohio
State moved into second in the
BCS with 5.57 points, 0.44 points
ahead of Miami’s 6.01. Oklahoma
remains No. 1 with a 2.04 rating.
A component of the BCS stand
ings includes the average of the AP
media and coaches’ polls. Miami is
No. 1 in the coaches’ poll, giving it
a 1.5 poll average. If UM had
stayed No. 1 in both polls, its poll
average would have been 1 and
that would have been enough to
put UM 0.06 points ahead of the
Buckeyes.
Even though the new standings
might disappoint UM fans, Miami’s
players and coaches aren’t fazed
that they have been unseated from
one of the top two spots that de
cide which teams play in the Fies
ta Bowl, which will be held in
Tempe, Ariz., on Jan. 3.
“I can’t be too overly concerned
with what the pollsters do,” coach
Larry Coker said earlier in the day
before the BCS standings were re
leased. “We didn’t play as well as
we can play, but we’re not going to
apologize for a 25-point win.”
The final BCS standings are re
leased Dec. 8, and UM’s players be
lieve that gives them plenty of
time to regain the voters’ respect.
Ohio State has games remaining at
Purdue (4-5), at Illinois (3-6) and
against No. 13 Michigan (7-2).
“If we win all our games, we
should be (playing in the Fiesta
Bowl),” junior receiver Andre John
son said. “We are the defending na
tional champions. We should be put
in the game to defend our title.”
(c) 2002 South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Pac-10
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urday, then hit the road for the last
two games of the season in Eugene
and at Washington State.
Ticket tomfoolery
If you were lamenting the long
lines for Oregon-Washington tickets
Monday or depressed about your
inability to score tickets to the Civ
il War, be thankful you don’t have
to live through the red-tape night
mare that is
Beaver student _
ticketing.
Oregon State
students are able
to pick up tickets
today for the Nov.
23 game against
Oregon at Reser
Stadium. If, that
is, they could
produce ticket
stubs from all six
of the Beaver
home games to
this point.
Been to all the
games, but lost a —
ticket? If there’s
any left, students
with rive stubs can pick up their
Civil War tickets Thursday. Four
stubs? They can pick up the Fri
day leftovers.
By the way, this does include
games that were played before
school was in session.
If an Oregon State student has
not been to one single game this
season, or washed all their ticket
stubs in their jeans, he or she can j
scrounge for available tickets on
Nov. 12, when it will be a ticket
free-for-all.
So the moral of the story is, if
you’re trying to work an Oregon
State friend for Civil War tickets,
make sure it’s a responsible friend
who saved all of his or her stubs.
Here’s to you, Wazzu
After creaming Arizona State on
Saturday and watching several top
teams lose, the
Washington State
Cougars found
themselves in
unfamiliar terri
tory: the nation’s
top five.
Washington j
State jumped to I
No. 5 in both na- !
tional polls, a |
school record.
The Cougars j
were ranked
No. 7 in the
ESPN/USA Today
Coaches Poll in
1997, but before
now have never
been ranked
higher than that.
The Cougars are alone in first
place in the Pac-1(), with a 5-0 con
ference mark. Washington State is
the only team in the Pac-10 that
has one loss overall. USC and Ore
gon have two losses.
Contact the sports editor at
peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Volleyball
continued from page 9
A look back
A close look at statistics from
Friday’s match against Oregon
State proves that the Ducks were
not only the better team, but also
that the team that wanted the
win more.
While the Beavers won the kills
battle, 65-64, they also had more
errors than the Ducks, 40-32. In
addition, the Ducks outhit — per
centage-wise — their in-state ri
vals, .177 to .134.
“Oregon played really well.
They took care of the ball and did
some nice things defensively,”
Oregon State head coach Nancy
Somera said.
Oregon also received general
output from every player who
stepped on to the court, ranging
from junior Diana Blank’s timely
block in the end for the win to jun
ior Heather Gilmore’s single solo
block and four block assists.
As a team, the Ducks totaled 13
total blocks, highlighted by senior
Lindsay Gloss’ seven block assists.
According to Ferreira, Oregon’s
talent had been showing through in
recent matches. The win was the
Ducks coming together as a whole.
“I think we’ve been playing well
for a lot of weeks,” he said. “I think
we are a very, very good volleyball
team that maximizes its potential,
and that’s the ultimate compliment
that I could ask of any team. We’ve
done that in a week in, week out
"We just have not
made the plays that
we've made over
the years in the times
when we need to
make them_It's a
difficult pill to
swallow."
Rick Neuheisel
Washington football
coach
Adam Amato Emerald
Oregon head coach Carl Ferreira led the Ducks to their first 2002 Pac-10 win.
basis. I’m really impressed with the
character of our athletes.”
On the radar
Oregon’s schedule doesn’t get easy
after its victory over Oregon State.
On Friday, the Ducks return to
McArthur Court for a match against
No. 1 USG, slated to begin at 7 p.m.
No. 18 UCLA visits Saturday, with
the match set to begin after the
women’s basketball contest, which
begins at 5 p.m.
Contact the sports reporter
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
Emerald
The members of the Club Tae Kwon Do team say they want to start scheduling competitions outside Oregon.
Tae kwon do
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Oregon, because recently, the team
hasn’t traveled outside of the state.
“We have tournaments in Wash
ington, one at Stanford and Long
Beach State,
and they all -
have really de
veloped tae
kwon do
teams,” Cowan
said. “We are
changing things
a lot this year.”
Competing in
tae kwon do is
more open than
other sports.
Members of re
spective local
clubs can par
ticipate as inde
pendents
against Oregon
team members. -
The age group
most commonly represented is 18
to 34 year olds..
Competitions consist of sparring
and semi-choreographed routines.
“Competitions are based on
form,” Cowan said. “Basically we
have what’s like a dance routine, a
set series of martial arts tech
niques with blocks, kicks. Com
petitors have a sequence that they
perform which is then judged.”
For those who don’t know any
thing about tae
kwon do, it is a
Korean disci
pline that has
recently be
come an
Olympic sport.
“We empha
size kicks and
also incorpo
rate a great
deal of self-dis
cipline,” Cow
an said. “Tae
kwon do is real
ly structured.
You learn a lot
of leadership,
personal
growth, self
control. Everyone has a great time
doing it; it really is a lot of fun.”
Scott Archer is a freelance writer for the
Emerald.
"We emphasize kicks and
also incorporate a great
deal of self-discipline_
Tae kwon do is really
structured. You learn a
lot of leadership,
personal growth, self
control. Everyone has a
great time doing it; it is
really a lot of fun"
Samantha Cowan
Tae kwon do coordinator
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