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The Red and Hlack
Monday, November 10, I9HI
30-95 rule has eliminated great teams
In the real world they call it communism A repugnant idea
it is. despised by all red blooded, freedom-loving Americans
In sports, that beloved real-life microcosm of red-blooded,
freedom-loving Americans, there is another term for it. And
it is embraced as a sanctified panacea destined to save
athletics from un Americanisms like inequality and op
pression by the powerful.
They call it parity In college football it is cloaked in an
atrocity called the 30-95 rule Fred Akers, coach of the Texas
l.onghorns, one of many powers raped by the rule, calls it
"imposed mediocrity." Take a look at college football in 1981
and you will agree
Only two ranked teams boast unblemished records after
nine weeks One of them barely beat Boston College, and the
other is Clemson! Clemson? Undefeated'’
Five No. 1 teams have lost already. The Rose Bowl could
pit Washington State and Wisconsin. And Southern
Mississippi tied Alabama!!
Of course, this isn't a totally new phenomenon For a
couple of years now the traditionally mighty have been
slipping to a level on a par with just average teams. Southern
Methodist is no longer a sure win for Texas Mississippi State
has. in recent years, been one of the better teams in the
Southeastern Conference.
The great disparity between haves and have-nots began to
disappear upon the arrival several years ago of the
aforementioned 30-95 rule Schools are allowed to award only
30 scholarships for football each year And no more than 96
members of a given team can be scholarship athletes.
The intent was to keep the wealthier programs from
scooping up all the best players and to make the game more
exciting by enabling some less endowed teams to be more
competitive.
The result has been the elimination of any truly great
teams and a proliferation of barely average teams rising to
national prominence. Surely the games are closer Of course
there are more upsets Indeed teams at such institutions as
Vanderbilt and Baylor have been revitalized. But the games
lack the excitement that was formerly there when Southern
Cal, Notre Dame. Alabama. Oklahoma and Ohio State could
dazzle fans and foes alike with splendid play after splendid
play
What we have now is innumerable mistakes and im-
Frank Reiss
precisions which lead to stunning upsets. Actually, it is more
stunning these days when there is no upset
The once magical match-up between Southern Cal and
Notre Dame a few weeks back was a ho-hummer. Oklahoma
and Nebraska will meet this Thanksgiving with at least live
non-wins between them. The thought of a national cham
pionship will be nowhere near when Ohio State tangles with
Michigan this year
Yes, even the Georgia Bulldogs have been affected by the
revolution They won the national championship last season
with a perfect record and may very well have been the best
team in the land. But they couldn't even compare to the
legendary assemblages at Southern Cal under John McKay,
the fabulous Texas teams of the late ‘60s or Bear Bryant's
record-setting Alabama Crimson Tide.
This year’s Bulldogs could win another national title,
although it lost nine turnovers to Clemson and yielded 21
points to Vanderbilt!
The Robin Hoodian rule has given more fans the taste of
victory. It has all but eliminated embarrassing 60-point
spreads But for fans interested in seeing awe-inspiring
performances by teams flirting with perfection, 30-95 comes
up a big zero.
It is a great irony that a rule intended to improve com
petition has produced the very antithesis of open competition
in the communistic society that college football now is.
Everybody is relatively happy, but the pursuit of greatness is
not a basic right.
It is the era of parity. And the Clemson Tigers could
become card-carrying national champs
Frank Reiss is a sophomore in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Herschel Walker i
and the run
for th(
Win over Gators moves Dogs closer
to first-ever back-to-back SEC titles
By STEVE CORRIGAN
Red and Hlack Staff Writer
The only game with any
significance in the
Southeastern Conference
title race was played
Saturday in Jacksonville's
Gator Bowl. And what a
game it was.
Herschel Walker showed
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that he could do much more
than just run the ball. He
caught four passes for 55
yards and two touchdowns.
Walker also added two more
TDs on the ground.
But it took a 95-yard drive
with 10:16 to play for the
Dogs to win. Walker capped
the 17-play drive with a one-
yard leap over the Florida
defense. Georgia went for
two, but the conversion
failed.
Florida still had a shot at
the game with less than
three minutes to play. But
Steve Kelly ended all hopes
of a Gator victory when he
racked Spencer Jackson
with 2:27 left to force a
fumble at the Florida 27.
Eddie Weaver pounced on
the loose ball.
Georgia has a chance to
win the SEC with a victory
over Auburn Saturday —
their second in as many
years. If the Dogs manage to
win back-to-back SEC titles,
it will be the first time in
their history that they have
done so.
In the only other con
ference game, Kentucky
beat Vanderbilt for the
Wildcats' first SEC win of
the year. Andy Molls
returned a punt 87 yards
with 5:29 to play to break a
10-10 tie and give the Cats
their win.
The largest crowd to ever
witness a sports event in
Mississippi — 64,112 —
turned out to see Southern
Mississippi upset Mississippi
State, 7-6. MSU, coming off
an emotional loss to
Alabama last week, was
completely shut down by the
Southern Miss defense.
Southern Miss stopped
MSU twice in the second half
on short yardage situations.
The second came with 1:26
remaining at the Southern
Miss 33-yard line.
Auburn staged its first
shutout of the year 20-0 over
North Texas State. Only
13,000 of the 63,000
homecoming fans stuck
around for the finish.
As mentioned before,
Georgia has a chance to win
its second SEC cham
pionship in a row Saturday
at home against Auburn. The
Tigers spoiled the Dogs'
hopes of the title in 1979 when
James Brooks and Joe
Cribbs ran all over Sanford
Stadium.
Other games pit Kentucky
against Florida. Mississippi
State against Louisiana
State and Ole Miss against
Tennessee
HEISMAN
HERSCHEL WALKKR..RB. GEORGIA pounded Florida
for 192 yards on 47 carries and two rushing touchdow ns as
8-1 Georgia rallied to beat Florida J26 21. Walker also
caught four ’ passes- for 55 yards and the other two
touchdowns The four touchdowns tied the school record
for the second consecutive week Walker now has 1.501
yards rushing for the year, stifl ahead of last year’s pace
and has scored 15 touchdowns. 13 of them rushing
MARCUS AIJ£N, RB, SOUTHERN CAL rolled to bis
seventh 200-yard game and became the all-Ume leading
rusher for a season, as he gained 243 yards on 46 carries
and scored all three Trojan touchdowns on one-yard runs.
USC. now 8-1, whipped California 21-3. Allen now has 1,966
yards with two games left.
ART SCHLICHTER. QB. OHIO STATE was held to 13
completions of 33 passing attempts for 169 yards and one
touchdown Ohio Stale fell out of first place jn the Big 10
with a .35-31 upset' loss to Minnesota The senior
quarterback failed lo reach the. 2.000-yard mark in
passing He has 1,980on 144 of 276and I2TD pisses
JIM MCMAHON, QB, BRIGHAM YOUNG unleashed his
passing arm on Colorado State and broke records as he
went. He became the all-time career total offense leader
after an astounding performance of 44 for 65 passing for
538 yards and seven touchdowns. The Cougars buried
Colorado State 63-14.
DAN MARINO. QB. PITTSBURGH threw three
touchdow n passes lo lead No. 1 Pittsburgh to its eighth
straight win in a 47 :f rout of Rutgers Marino was 18 of 28
for 239 yards and he now has 1.817 yards passing and 24
touchdow ns He has completed 60 2 percent of his passi-s
this season
JOHN ELWAY. QB. STANFORD hit 15 of 20 passes for 245
yards and three touchdowns to pace Stanford's 63-9 win
over Oregon State. Elway is now hitting 57.6 percent of his
passes as he has 175 completions in 309 attempts and has
thrown for 2,202 yards.
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called his team's toughest
test of the season. Georgia,
now 8-1, could not improve
their No. 4 ranking in this
week's United Press
International coaches' poll
All three teams ranked
above Georgia won their
games, but Clemson, a 10-8
winner over previously
ninth-ranked North
Carolina, jumped into
second ahead of Southern
Cal The unbeaten Tigers
now hold the No. 2 slot in
both polls behind Pittsburgh
The Panthers are only the
third team this season to
defend the No 1 position at
least once. They routed
Rutgers 47-3 to hold on to the
top spot. Pitt plays Army at
home this Saturday
Penn State and Alabama,
ranked fifth and sixth this
week, meet Saturday in
Pennsylvania in a
nationally-televised duel
which will have major bowl
implications.
Nebraska jumped to
seventh after routing
Oklahoma State 54-7. The
Cornhuskers will get a test
from Iowa State in Lincoln,
Neb , this week before facing
Oklahoma.
Michigan holds down the
No. 8 slot this week, followed
by Texas, which dropped
from fifth after tying
Houston 14-14.
Southern Mississippi made
the biggest jump of the
week, moving from 16th to
10th on the strength of a 7-6
victory over Mississippi
State, a team that has been
ranked most of the season
The Eagles are 7-0-1 on the
season, with the tie coming
at Alabama.
Oklahoma climbed to the
No. 11 spot this week after
the Sooners rallied to beat
Kansas State 28-21. The
Sooners appear to be
rebounding to form after two
early-season losses.
North Carolina fell to 12th
from eighth last week as a
result of their loss to
Clemson Arkansas moved
back up to No. 13.
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In Georgia cross country competition this
weekend, neither the men nor the women
finished in the top ranks, but two Bulldog
Babes are set for the national meet later this
month
Georgia's Sabina Home took ninth in the
meet with a time of 18:09 and Linda Detlefsen
finished 20th with 18:50 at the Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Kegion
III meet at the University Golf Course. Of five
teams, the women placed fourth behind
E’lorida State, Florida and Alabama Auburn
was fifth behind the Bulldog Babes
The individual meet winner was Shelly
Steely of Florida with a new course record of
16:59, Both Florida and Florida State will
compete as a team at the AIAW Nationals to
be held at Pocatello, Idaho, on Nov. 21.
Alabama will also compete as a team at
nationals as five individuals finished in the
top 10
The men traveled to Gainesville, Fla , for
the Southeastern Conference meet and placed
seventh out of a field of 10 teams. Top in
dividual finishers (or Georgia were Scott
Griffith, who placed 17th with a time of
25:33.1, and David Sailors, who took 29th with
a time of 25:57.8. Tennessee was the meet
winner with 38 points, followed by Auburn.
Mississippi State, Florida, Kentucky.
Louisiana State, Georgia, Ole Miss, Alabama
and Vanderbilt
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