ROAD TO THE ROSE BOWL: BAD CASE CLEARS UP MIAMI SHOULD MOVE INTO TOP TWO IN BCS.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer Miami's football team isn't equivalent to a computer virus anymore. The top-ranked Hurricanes (7-0), after a 38-0 victory over Temple, should finally work their way into the top two in the Bowl Championship Series rankings, which will be released today. The only rankings, of course, that really matter in college football these days. Nebraska, which beat Kansas 51-7, should maintain its No. 1 BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. ranking. Miami players said the computer rankings considered them a virus this season. Miami, although ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. poll and ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll, couldn't seem to recover from its weak preseason schedule, which included a struggling Penn State, Rutgers and Troy State. Early in the season, there was speculation that Miami could finish the season ranked first in both polls but not play in the national-championship game. When five undefeated teams lost the week before last, the Hurricanes moved up in the BCS rankings. Miami received 55 first-place votes in the AP poll released Sunday and Nebraska had 17. Barring an upset, Miami and Nebraska should play for the national title at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 3. Miami still has to play Virginia Tech - although the Hokies just lost to unranked Pittsburgh 38-7 for their second loss of the season. The Hurricanes have to play No. 8 Washington, which also should be ranked eighth in the BCS. The Miami-Washington game was rescheduled because of the September terrorist attacks. Miami, which has the nation's longest winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" at 17 games, was ranked fourth in the first BCS rankings, but probably would have been ranked 13th had the BCS rankings come out a week earlier as scheduled. The postponement was due to the many games rescheduled because of the terrorist attacks. It's not too early to start talking about the quarterback matchup between Heisman Trophy Heisman Trophy Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach candidates Ken Dorsey Kenneth Simon Dorsey (born April 22, 1981 in Orinda, California) is an NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Dorsey is a former college football star at the University of Miami, where he was a Heisman Trophy finalist in both 2001 and 2002. of Miami and Nebraska's Eric Crouch Eric Eugene Crouch (born November 16, 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American and Canadian football quarterback who played collegiately for the University of Nebraska, and most recently played professionally with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. . Dorsey set Miami's career touchdown-pass record at 50 against Temple. --BCS no more: First, there was talk of UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in the national-title game. After a loss to Stanford, there was talk of the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members title, which would have put the Bruins in another BCS game - the Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. . A BCS bowl game is out of the question after Washington State, now ranked 11th, had five interceptions in a 20-14 win over UCLA in Pullman, Wash. --Pac-10 up for grabs: Washington (7-1) and Oregon (7-1) appear to have the inside track to the Fiesta Bowl. The Pac-10 champion gets an automatic berth in the Fiesta Bowl, as long as the conference champion isn't No. 1 or 2 in the BCS rankings. That's not likely to happen now. Last week, four Pac-10 teams - UCLA, Oregon, Washington and Stanford - were ranked in the top 10. This week, it's just No. 7 Oregon and No. 8 Washington. Oregon beat Arizona State 42-24 but still has to play at UCLA. And Washington has to play Miami. Stanford (5-2), which beat UCLA last week, looked ready for Tempe, Ariz., but not after a 42-28 loss to Washington on Saturday. EXPERTS' consensus: WOLF'S PICKS Daily News Staff Writer Scott Wolf is an Associated Press top-25 voter this season. Here's how he voted this week: 1. Nebraska 2. Miami 3. Florida 4. Oklahoma 5. Texas 6. Oregon 7. Florida State 8. Tennessee 9. Washington 10. Michigan 11. Washington State 12. Maryland 13. Stanford 14. Georgia Tech 15. Brigham Young 16. Virginia Tech 17. UCLA 18. Auburn 19. Illinois 20. South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. 21. Syracuse 22. Colorado 23. Georgia 24. North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. 25. Michigan State CAPTION(S): 2 boxes Box: (1) EXPERTS' consensus: WOLF'S PICKS (see text) (2) AP TOP 25 |
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