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College football coaches tackle new Bowl Championship Series
Commentary
System allows for match-up of No.1 vs.No.2
By Richard Rosenblatt The Associated Press
Then there's the Rose Bowl, which joins the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl and the Nokia Sugar Bowl in the bowl alliance and brings the Big Ten and Pacific-10 along with it. Along the way, the Rose Bowl found itself with another name for the first time — the Rose Bowl, presented by AT&T.
Get ready for one quirky college football season.
When Ohio State wants to be like Michigan, Tom Osborne watches Nebraska games on TV, and Florida State goes with 26-year-old Chris Weinke at quarterback, this fall could be filled with firsts.
Changes took place on campuses, too. Longtime assistant Frank Solich is in charge at Nebraska after Osborne ended his 25-year coaching career in style. His 255th victory finished off a perfect season and brought a co-national title with Michigan.
Speaking of firsts, the Bowl Championship Series emerged from the bowl alliance with a guaranteed match-up fans have been screaming for — No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the final game of the season at the Fiesta Bowlen Jan. 4 in Tempe, Ariz.
"We're going to do everything we can to keep it going." Solich said. "We'll not change a lot of things, because it makes sense not to."
Solich has plenty of company as a first-year coach. Texas dumped John Mackovic and hired Mack Brown away from North Carolina, which promoted longtime assistant Carl Torbush; Southern California fired John Robinson and went for Paul Hackett; and Arkansas ousted Danny Ford and brought former Razorback Houston Nutt back home.
Also, Eddie Robinson finally retired after 55 seasons at Grambling, and former Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams replaces Robinson to coach his alma mater.
For the first time in what seems like an eternity, Ron Powis is not the quarterback at Notre Dame; Jarious Jackson is. But of greater significance, the Golden Dome was tarnished in the off season when 66-year-old ex-assistant Joe Moore successfully sued over his 1966 dismissal by coach Bob Davie, and an internal investigation turned in
missal by coach Bob Davie, and an internal investigation turned up
two rules violations that could bring NCAA sanctions.
tackle Moseenthal said. "It's never be a distraction."
Joe Paterno is looking at win No. 300. If Penn State beats Southern Mississippi on Sept. 5, Paterno should become the sixth college coach to get 300 wins when the Nittany Lions play Bowling Green on Sent. 12 at State College.
Ohio State is looking to start the season at No.1 for the first time in 18 years.
"We're looking forward to the season, anxious to get it going," said Ohio State coach John Cooper. "For the first time in history, we have a system where No.1 and No.2 will meet on the field in the last game, and I'm all for that."
So is Boby Bowden, whose Seminoles are ranked second.
"Our goal every year is to be No.1 when the season ends," Bowden said. "What does that do to you? It leaves you no room for error, although maybe you get one error. The year we won, in 1993, we lost a game to Notre Dame. But if you go errorless, you get a chance to win the darned thing."
Ohio State, which had its title chances slip away in 1995 and 1996 with late losses to Michigan, hopes to duplicate its Big Ten rivals'
championship season of a year ago. The Buckeyes, though, are 1-8-1 against the Wolverines during the last 10 years.
This could be the Buckeyes' turn. Joe Germaine no longer shares the quarterback spot and could produce a Heisman-type season, especially with David Boston and Dee Miller catching his passes. Linebacker Andy Katzenmover
The Bowl Championship Series, the brainchild of SEC commissioner Roy Kramer, adds a new twist: a complex formula using polls, com-
"For the first time in history, we have a system where No.1 and No.2 will meet on the field in the last game,and I'm all for that."
John Cooper
Ohio State football coach
"I never felt so good about a sophomore quarterback," Bowden said, even though Weinke has thrown only 13 passes in eight years. "He took a couple of shots in practice and came out OK. Now, it's just a matter of gaining a little success, and he should go on from there."
leads a ferocious defense. Ohio State also has a favorable schedule after opening at West Virginia on Sept. 5.
Weinke, a high school All-Americ can who left the Seminoles in 1990 and spent six years playing baseball in the Toronto Blue Jays' system, returned to Florida State at the right time. Expected starter Dan Kendra injured his right knee in the spring game and is out for the season.
Michigan not only has to try to replace Woodson, but Rose Bowl MVP Brian Griese is gone, and either TomBryd or Drew Henson has step up for the Wolverines to have a chance to repeat.
Osborne, whose team went 49-2 with three national titles in his final four seasons, may not even attend the Huskers' opener on Aug. 29 against Louisiana Tech. He was on the Nebraska coaching staff for 36 years.
The Seminoles have a tough road to Tempe. They open against Texas A&M in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 31 and have other non-ACC games against Florida, Miami and Southern California.
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Although the BCS guarantees a national title game between No.1 and No.2, there still can be a split national championship.
The USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll will crown the Fiesta Bowl winner its national champion immediately after the game. The Associated Press' poll of writers and broadcasters operates as usual, releasing its final poll on Jan. 5.
Naturally, there are two schools of thought on the new arrangement that stops short of a playoff.
"I think that controversy is not going to go away," Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said. "It's a way in which we can bring No. 1 and No. 2 together and probably please the most people."
Florida coach Steve Spurrier isn't one of them.
"I think it's so good they ought to take it to basketball, baseball, tennis and golf and make them go through it," Spurrier said. "I've never understood why we're the only sport in the world that doesn't have a playoff."
Some top teams who faltered in 1997 hope to jump back into conference races this season, including Alabama with a 4-7 record, Colorado with a 5-6 record, Miami with a 5-6 record and Texas with a 4-7 record.
Two new bowls have been added to the lineup, bringing the total to 22. There's the Music City Bowl in Nashville on Dec. 29; and a second postseason game in Honolulu, creating a doubleheader dubbed the Aloha Bowl Classics on Dec. 25.
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