European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 21,1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 Michigan coach is not taking Navy lightly he also blasts officiating he Berns tide s defense Nebraska s Rick Berns smashes through for a gain against Alabama during their clash at Lincoln neb. A College ratings Berns third touchdown of the game enabled the Cor huskers to upset the Crimson tide 31-24. Up photo Ann Arbor Mich. Up Michigan coach to Schembechler More irked at the officials than with his players cautioned the wolverines that Navy was going to win eight or nine games this season and one of them could be saturday. How can i say that when they be got Michigan Pittsburgh and notre Dame on their schedule Schembechler asked monday at his weekly press luncheon. Well they re going to get one of the three. Maybe two of the three. The rest of the teams on their schedule they can beat. I be seen a lot of Navy teams. There s something there. And i like this team. I talked with George Welsh Navy coach before last year s game. He told me he had a half dozen real Good players who were not quite ready to play a team like  the Michigan coach also noted Navy played notre Dame a Tough game last season won their last three games of the season and Are 2-0 so far this year the same As his wolverines. Schembechler warned by big ten com missioner Wayne Duke earlier in his career to Lay off the officials lambasted the Atlantic coast conference officials who worked the Duke Michigan game last sat urday. Half the Crew was from the bitten. I Don t accept those three delay of Michigan s. Cal. Retain top spots by Herschel Nissenson a sports writer Michigan and Southern California held onto the top positions in the associated press College football poll monday but Oklahoma and Ohio state moved into the 3 4 spots setting up saturday s Long awaited clash in Columbus Ohio. Meanwhile notre Dame and Houston dropped out of the top ten while Alabama plummeted to 10th. Michigan a 21-9 Winner Over Duke received 42 of 64 first place votes and 1,094 of a possible 1,280 Points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Southern California which beat Oregon state 17-10, received five first place votes and 1,032 Points. Oklahoma the preseason 4eader but Only no. 5 in the first regular season poll last week climbed to third with seven first place votes and 955 Points by Wallop ing Utah 62-24 while Ohio state Rose from sixth to fourth with two first place votes and 877 Points by trouncing Minnesota 38-7. Perm state an impressive 31-14 Winner Over Houston jumped from 10th to fifth with five first place ballots and 717 Points Penn state Texas Register biggest gains in up poll new York up the University of Michigan retained its no. 1 ranking and Southern Cal was again rated no. 2 monday but there was a great Deal of re shuffling in up s top 20 teams selected by its Board of coaches. Michigan received an overwhelming 27 first place votes compared with five for us and four for Oklahoma. The sooner moved from sixth to fourth in this second week of ratings but the biggest leaps were made by Penn state which moved from ninth to fifth and Texas which went from 13th to ninth. Alabama and notre Dame took the greatest plunges in the ratings As they were both upset on saturday. Notre Dame which was the no. 1 team in the preseason balloting and dropped to fourth last week fell to 15th As the result of saturday s 20-13 loss to Mississippi. Alabama which was no. 3 last week dropped to 12th following its 31-24 loss to Nebraska. Ohio state moved from fifth to third and Colorado and Florida moved into the top 10 Colorado no. 8 and Florida no. 10. Texas tech beat out Texas a & m for the sixth spot by just five Points. Several teams which were a ranked last week moved into the top 20. They Are Nebraska 11 Washington state 13 Arkan Sas 14, and West Virginia 19. The up Board of coaches top 20 teams after the second week of the College foot Ball season. Team 1. Michigan 27 2-0 2. Southern Cal 5 2-0 3. Ohio St. 2 2-0 4. Oklahoma 4 2-0 5. Penn St. 1 2-0 6. Texas tech 2-0 7. Texas a4m 2-0 8. Colorado 2-0 9. Texas 2-0 10. Florida 2-0 it. Nebraska 1-1 12. Alabama 1-1 13. Washington St. 2-0 14. Notre Dame 1-1 15. Arkansas 2-0 16. Mississippi St. 2-0 17. Brigham Young tie 17. Pittsburgh tie it 19. Oklahoma St. 1-1 20. West Virginia 2-0 2-0 Points 370 303 279 2s3 223 169 164 94 82 42 31 22 19 17 16 11 8 8 7 6 note by agreement with the american football coaches association teams on probation by the Mcaa Are ineligible for top 20 and National championship consideration by the up Board of coaches. Those teams currently on probation for 1977 Are Kentucky Michigan state Redlands Cali Western state Colo. While the losers dropped from ninth to 19th. Penn state edged past Texas am which Defeated Virginia tech 27-6 and went from seventh to sixth with 708 Points. Texas tech moved up from eighth to seventh with two first place votes and 631 Points after trimming new Mexico 49-14. Colorado which hammered Kent state 42-0, joined the top ten for the first time this season shooting from 12th to eighth with 435 Points. Texas flattened Virginia 68-0 and also cracked the top ten vaulting from 18th to ninth with one first place vote. Alabama dropped from fourth to 10th after losing to Nebraska 31-24 while the Triumph enabled the Cor huskers to move Back into the top 20 in 14th place. Notre Dame fell from third to Lith by losing to Mississippi 20-13. Rounding out the second ten Are Mississippi state Flor Ida Nebraska Washington state Arkan Sas West Virginia Urcla Houston and Brigham Young. Washington state Arkansas and West Virginia appeared for the first time. Washington state a first week Winner Over Nebraska Defeated Michigan state 23-21 while Arkansas knocked off Oklahoma state last week s no. 15 team 28-6 and West Virginia upset no. 11 Maryland 24-16. Last week s second ten consisted of Maryland Colorado Mississippi state Urcla Oklahoma state Pitt Georgia Texas Florida and by. The a top Twenty College football teams with first place votes in Paren theses season records and total Points. 1. Michigan 42 2. Southern Cal 5 3. Oklahoma 7 4. Ohio state 2 5. Penn state 5 6. Texas am 7. Texas tech 2 8. Colorado 9. Texas 1 10. Alabama 11. Notre Dame 12. Mississippi St. 13. Florida 14. Nebraska 15. Washington St. 16. Arkansas 17. West Virginia 18. Urcla 19. Houston 20. Brigham Young 200 20-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 20-0 20-0 200 2-0-0 2-00 1-1-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 10-0 1-1-0 200 2 pm 200 1-1-0 1-1-0 100 1,094 1,032 955 877 717 708 631 435 287 219 206 204 190 161 129 108 83 80 73 64 game penalties Schembechler said. I Don t think we delayed. That fellow has a defective watch. He ought to get it  Michigan has t had a delay of game penalty Schembechler said since Howard Wirtz a Good official called one on a wolverines extra Point try in 1969, his first season. This business of being Nice to the officials i Don t buy he said. Nobody says be Nice to to they should be subject to the same sort of criticism everybody else is subject to. If they can t do the Job. They should t be out  sooner Grid ticket policy change urged Oklahoma City a a newspaper says the Mcaa has recommended changes in the football ticket policies at the University of Oklahoma that have in the past allowed players to sell their own tick ets for profit. The daily oklahoman says in its tues Day editions that it was told by a source that the Mcaa has recommended that of take internal action to prevent abuse of its player ticket policies and to initiate a review of some coaches recruiting prac  the action follows a National collegiate athletic association investigation of okla homa that began in september 1976, focus ing on allegations that football players sold their own game tickets at inflated prices through coaches the newspaper said. Reported recommendations the newspaper Story quoted the unnamed source As saying the Mcaa recommendations Are believed to specifically include a Sharp reduction or virtual elimination of player tickets including the prac Tice of providing an entire season s tickets in  the recommended internal action if accepted by Oklahoma would end chances that the Mcaa investigation might Lead to probation for Oklahoma the newspaper said. The newspaper reported that the investigation is said to have substantiated player ticket abuses but did not obtain enough evidence to warrant formal charges without first giving of officials a Chance to make their own  one source said the investigation turned up some evidence of Rule infractions involving ticket scalping and other improprieties involving Cash clothes cars and apartments the oklahoman reported. The newspaper also said that the investigation also turned up evidence support ing allegations made last fall by then Texas University food will coach Darrell Royal that of had spied on opponent practices the source  Billie Jean mayor named map in wet 2nd year in Row new York a bile Jean King and Sandy Mayer of the Champion new York apples were named the world team Tennis most valuable players for 1977, commissioner Butch Buchholz has announced. It is the second straight year the two have captured map honors Mayer beat out Ray Ruffels for the men s award while King edged teammate Virginia Wade and Chris Evert for the women s award