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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 5, 1968
Big 8 clubs figure in biggest upsets
NEW YORK (UPI)—Football coaches insist there's no such thing as an upset, but something sure was rocking the stadium through the 1968 college season.
The top shocker came on Oct. 12 when mighty Houston, favored by 21 points, fumbled its way to a 21-17 defeat against Oklahoma State and thereby became the year's strongest beaten favorite on the books prepared by the little old odsmaker.
On that basis it rates as Upset-
of-the-Year, but not by much.
Nebraska, favored by 18 points, lost to Kansas State on Nov. 9 by 12-0. In one way, that's a bigger upset. It represents an error of 30 points on the oddsmaker scale compared to 25 points for Houston-Oklahoma State.
But how about this one? Washington was favored by 10 over Washington State and lost 24-0 for a 34-point differential.
Many coaches, setting up a defense mechanism against the howling of the grandstand wolves, keep repeating that upsets are not for real but only a trick of oddsmakers, writers, and broadeasters.
Some, including John McKay of Southern California, Ara Parseghian of Notre Dame, and Bear Bryant of Alabama, concede modern recruiting has spread a wealth of talent across the nation.
"There are 30 or 40 teams in the country that can knock off somebody at any time," McKay noted recently. There were at least 40 teams that beat the favorites during the 1968 campaign. What's more, there were 21 games in which teams favored in double figures—10 points or more—went down in what most
Aim boycott at Kuharich
PHILADELPHIA (UPI)—A boycott campaign, aimed at ousting the "unbelievably inept regime" of Philadelphia Coach Joe Kuharich, heads for a show-down Sunday when the Eagles play host to the New Orleans Saints.
"If empty seats is the only language management understands, then let us communicate with them on that level," said Sheppard, a sales representative from Cherry Hill, N.J.
The boycott, organized by Frank Sheppard and John Sarian, staunch Eagles' rooters since boyhood, singled out the team's next-to-last home game of the season for a demonstration of "gate power" by fans dissatisfied with the Eagles' 1-11 record this season.
In effect, Sheppard, Sarian and their Committee to Rejuvenate the Philadelphia Eagles (CRPE), are urging approximately 30,000 season ticket holders to tear up their ductats in disgust over a "four-year record of defeat, discouragement and alibing."
call "upsets" and others call "games of emotion."
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Baylor was the busiest upsetter, causing two against 10-point favorites. The Bears beat Texas Tech (42-28) and Texas A&M (10-9), both times an underdog by 10.
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Washington, Auburn, Cornell and Purdue all were upset twice while picked by 10 or more. Florida was beaten and tied once under similar circumstances.
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These odds seem odd now, but on the same weekend Houston lost to Oklahoma State. Purdue was favored by 13 over Ohio State. The Buckeyes, later to become the nation's No.1 team, doubled the spread by turning in a startling 13-0 shutout.
There was more for Purdue later. Favored by $13\frac{1}{2}$ at Minnesota, the Boilermakers were whacked by 14 on Nov. 9 with a vast television audience in at the kill.
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KU's Orange Bowl opponent, the undefeated and third-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions, play Syracuse Saturday in their final game of the season to be televised nationally by ABC.
The game, which was moved from its original date, Oct. 19, to accommodate ABC, is the 46th clash between the two schools in one of the closest rivalries in college football. Kickoff time is 11:05 a.m.
Both Penn State and Syracuse have 20 victories apiece and have tied five times. Syracuse, though, has dominated the series in recent years, winning four of the last five games.
Penn State pulled into the 20-20 deadlock last year by defeating the Orangemen, 29-20. But stangely enough, Syracuse has been able to defeat the Nittany Lions in Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pa., where the game will be played. Not since 1962 has Penn State beaten Syracuse there, and that was by a 20-19 score. In two Beaver Stadium meetings since 1962, Syracuse won 21-14 in '64 and 12-10 in '66.
Penn State faces tough Syracuse
Like the series, the scores have also been close between the two Eastern football powers-five points the biggest margin of difference in the past five meetings.
Syracuse (6-3-0) is the last team before the Orange Bowl clash with an opportunity to ruin the Lions perfect 9-0 record and undefeated season.
The two teams have played five common opponents this year—Navy, UCLA, Maryland, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia. Penn State won all five, but Syracuse was upset last Saturday 23-6 by West Virginia. They won the other four games.
Head coach Joe Paterno said
the upset would make the job "all the tougher against Syracuse." Paterno is 1-1 in the series with Syracuse coach Ben Schwartzwalder.
The last time the Lions won 9 games was in 1962, when they finished 9-1, to then lose to Florida in the Gator Bowl (7-17). That year they finished ninth in both the AP abd UPI polls.
In '62 the Lions won their first three games, lost their fourth to Army by a 9-6 score, and went on to win six straight.
If Syracuse doesn't defeat the Nittany Lions it will be all up to the Jayhawks to ruin their perfect record on New Year's Day.
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