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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 6, 1997
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LINCOLN, Neb. "The nation's top-ranked team is getting better. Nebraska is coming off its best game of the season and remains among the national leaders in several statistical categories.
Nebraska holds on to No.1 rankings
The Associated Press
Last week's 69-7 defeat of Oklahoma helped the Cornhuskers remain on top in two areas: the No. 1 ranking and the No. 1 offense.
While the score was impressive, coach Tom Osborne said he used various goals to measure Nebraska's performance. Even those standards didn't look bad to him.
"We set a lot of goals for the Okla.
h o m a gAME,
"Osborne
said Tuesday.
"I think we
met 10 out of
12 on offense, 10
out of 12 on
defense and maybe five out of seven on the kicking game."
"That's really the best measure I have to see how we played," he said. "Sometimes the score is the index most people look at, but it really doesn't tell me how we played."
Entering Saturday's contest at
Missouri (6-3, 4-2 Big 12), Nebraska (8-0, 5-0) is averaging a nationalbest 508 total yards per game.
The Huskers' 400-yard per-game rushing average also leads the country, as does their 45.3 points per game.
Meanwhile, the Nebraska defense is third in the total number of yards allowed, surrendering 217.8 yards per game. The Huskers are fourth against the run, giving up 88.4 yards per game.
With things looking solid on both sides of the ball, Osborne wants improvement on special teams. Against the Sooners, Nebraska partially blocked two punts to end a season-long drought in that department.
"One of the things we like to do is block a kick every other game or so," Osborne said. "We hadn't had any, even partially blocked, until this week, so that part was good."
As in the Oklahoma game, Osborne said the Huskers needed another complete performance to beat a Missouri team that has won three straight and has been a surprise team in the Big 12.
"A couple of turnovers, a couple of things in the kicking game, and it can go against us," he said. "We've got to be good, we've got to be motivated and we've got to be lucky. So we'll hope those things happen together."
Seminoles could break North Carolina early
The Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Mack Brown has some advice for television viewers planning to watch Saturday's showdown between No. 5 North Carolina and No. 3 Florida State — be seated by kickoff and don't change the channel.
The Seminoles (8-0) bolted to first-quarter leads of 21-0 and 27-0 in their past two games. The Tar Heels (8-0), meanwhile, have had a hard time scoring before halftime, leading Brown to believe his team also will fall behind Florida State in the first quarter Saturday night.
North Carolina has been blanked in the first 15 minutes in five of its victories. A 10-0 lead against Texas Christian is the only advantage the Tar Heels have enjoyed after the first period.
Meanwhile, the Seminoles have scored 104 points in the first quarter of their eight games, including three touchdowns on the first five plays against Virginia three weeks ago.
"If we can't score,maybe we can kill the clock in the first quarter and then start."
"It doesn't look good for the first quarter." Brown said.
However, the Tar Heels have held the ball for nearly three minutes longer than their opponents.
Mack Brown North Carolina football coach
"We are moving the ball," Brown said. "If we can't score, maybe we can kill the clock in the first quarter and then start."
Keeping focused is a concern for Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. His team at times this season has appeared to turn it on and off at will, becoming disinterested in the second half of some games after charging to big leads.
"Are we playing so many young guys on our second unit that we can't hold people and we have to put our first team back in?" Bowden said. "Does it mean we have a lack of depth that we used to have? Or does it mean that our kids turn it on and off?"
"Those answers we're going to find out Saturday, but you can't turn it off against North Carolina and win."
Penn State changes may cost players spots
The Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State coach Joe Paterno is fed up with the fumbles, interceptions, penalties and sacks, and he is considering some substantial changes in personnel.
What changes? He won't sav.
"We've had sacks because people are careless," Paterno said Tuesday. "We've had holding penalties — four holding penalties in one game (Saturday against Northwestern). We've gone five, six games without four holding penalties."
Last Saturday in Evanston, Ill., the second-ranked Nittany Lions held a 30-13 lead late in the fourth quarter before a Northwestern rally made it 30-27 with 28 seconds left. Penn State recovered an onside kick to preserve the victory.
The week before, at home against Minnesota, Penn State needed 13 fourth-quarter points to edge the Golden Gophers. That win dropped them from No. 1 to No. 2 in the Associated Press poll.
Going back to the 31-27 win against No. 7 Ohio State on Oct. 11, Penn State now has won three consecutive games by four points or less for the first time in its 111-year history.
"We're getting better physically, but we're not getting any better intellectually, I'm afraid." Paterno said. "I'm worried about this. We really in many ways played fine football against Northwestern. We just don't seem to have the intensity for 60 minutes that you really have to have. And we are making dumb plays."
Make mistakes like that against Michigan this Saturday, he said, and the team is in for a long day. For the season, Penn State has fumbled and been intercepted four times more than it has forced turnovers.
And with Charles Woodson roaming the backfield for the Wolverines, tiny mistakes can become big problems.
"Unless we can eliminate those things, I don't think we can think of ourselves as being a really big football team," Paterno said.
Now, he said, it's time to consider some concrete changes.
"If you can't fix them (the mistakes), you gonna get rid of the people that are making them," Paterno said.
Paterno declined to discuss specific player moves, saying he would review performances during practice this week.
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