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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 1, 1997
Untested trio to face trial by powerhouses
By Richard Rosenblatt The Associated Press
Preseason follies have ended for No. 11 Iowa, No. 17 Kansas State and No. 21 Texas A&M.
It is time to stop beating up on directional schools such as Northern Iowa, Southwestern Louisiana and North Texas and start facing some genuine competition.
On Saturday, the unbeaten but untested trio hit the road in conference games against ranked opponents. The lineup: Iowa (4-0) at No. 7 Ohio State (4-0); Kansas State (3-0) at No. 3 Nebraska (3-0) and Texas A&M (3-0) at No. 16 Colorado (2-1).
"They may not have played the strongest schedule," Colorado coach Rick Neuehuis said of Texas A&M. "But they are 3-0, and you can't be better than that."
■ Iowa outscored Northern
Iowa, Tulsa and Iowa State 183-
38 before a
38-10 win
against Illin-
sois in its
Big Ten
opener
lowa's victims are 2-13 so far.
Texas A&M beat Sam Houston State, Southwestern Louisiana and North Texas by a combined score 161-16. Opponents' combined record? 2-11.
Kansas State beat the $^{\circ}$M
American Conference teams —
Northern Illinois, Ohio and
Bowling Green — by a combined
score of 128-27. Ohio had
20 of those points in a 23-20 loss.
The trio is 6-8 this year.
"Bowling Green beat Akron," said Nebraska coach Tom Osborne. "We played Akron, and Kansas State certainly beat Bowling Green more soundly than we beat Akron ... and it seemed like Bowling Green played Ohio State fairly tough,
and they really did
d i v e
K a n s a s
State a
h a r d
time."
Osborne, apparently mixing up his Mid America Conference teams — it was Ohio, not Bowling Green that gave K-State a hard time — also said: "I don't know what kind of yardstick we have."
For the record, Bowling Green defeated Akron 31-28, Nebraska defeated Akron 59-14, Kansas State defeated Bowling Green 58-0, Ohio State defeated Bowling Green 44-13 and Kansas State defeated Ohio (not Bowling Green) 23-20.
After Kansas State's win against Bowling Green, Falcons coach Gary Blackney said, "They'll find out how good they are next week." Indeed
Oklahoma players not seeking revenge at upcoming match
Sooners confident of progress
By Owen Canfield The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma's football team is not driven by revenge heading into Saturday's Big 12 opener against Kansas. Instead, coach John Blake said yesterday, the motivation simply is to keep playing well.
Kansas has beaten Oklahoma the past two years, winning 38-17 in 1995 and 52-24 last season.
The 1996 result was due mostly to awful play by the special teams, one of many areas in which Blake said the Sooners had improved.
"Our special teams have made things happen," he said. "Last year, we said we were going to be a more aggressive special teams, we're going to try to make things happen instead of letting a lot of things happen to us. We're doing that now, but I think we've got a long way to go."
Kansas (3-1) made things happen to Oklahoma a year ago. Eric Vann scored on a 100-yard kickoff return,
and Isaac B y r d returned a punt 94 yards for a touchdown.
The Sooners outgained Kansas 538.
368, but those special teams breakdowns and 16 penalties killed them.
Oklahoma (2-2) is more confident this year, buoyed by last weekend's 35-14 victory against Louisville. The Sooners had two backs rush for more than 150 yards for the third time in school history and the defense allowed only two touchdowns.
"I think we've made some major improvements in this football team." Blake said.
Louisville had one of the nation's worst defenses, but tight end Stephen Alexander said that should not diminish the Sooners' performance.
"I think it was just another step," he said. "We went out and I think dominated the football game offensively. That's been our goal from day one. I think we're finally starting to get that mentality and starting to have things click."
Justin Fuente, who played most of the game as quarterback and will start again this week, said the Louisville game showed how good Oklahoma's offense could be. The Sooners accumulated 551 yards.
He tempered his optimism a little bit, however, by pointing out the five turnovers that Oklahoma committed.
"We've got a long way to go before we start patting each other on the back and telling each other what a good job we've been done," he said.
"I don't think there's really a need to get too excited about that game," Fuente said. "We moved the ball up and down the field on them, but we still made some errors that would cost us in a closer ball game."
A victory at Kansas would put Oklahoma above. 500 for the first time since end of 1995, when the Sooners were 5-4-1 before finishing 5-5-1.
Not counting their games against the Sooners, Oklahoma's nonconference opponents are a combined 5-9.
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Blake said if two quarterbacks got hurt, Brandon Daniels would figure into the plans.
Daniels was a star at the position in high school and now plays safety.
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