European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 23, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 when dust settles it la be b by Rick Warner a football writer the last played Colorado Bill Mccartney was in his first year As a wolverines assistant coach under to Schembechler. Mccartney will do on the other Side saturday when fourth ranked Michigan meets no. 7 Colorado in Ann Arbor. And the Colorado coach will be rooting for a different outcome than 1974, when the buffaloes were blanked 31-0 at Michigan stadium. This year s game should be much closer. Delayed until 11 . Get saturday on an to both teams Are 2-0, including victories Over nationally ranked teams in their last game. Michigan has t played since beating no. 9 notre Dame 26-24 on sept. 10. Colo Rado crushed no. 16 Wisconsin 55-17 last saturday. Mccartney is impressed by the wolverines. This is a very very Good Michigan team one of their Best in recent years he said. We will have to play a great game in All phases of the game to beat w. A a i. Michigan coach Gary Moeller who was an assistant with Mccartney on Scher Bechler s staf has similar Praise for Colorado. They have Talent All Over Moeller said. In my opinion they Are much More athletically talented than notre Dame. We Are going to have to play our greatest game. To win.". The game will feature two of the most versatile of lenses in the country. Colorado has Kordell Stewart the nation s second rated passer and Rashaan Salaam who leads the Mcaa in scoring and is among the Lead ers in Rushing and All purpose yardage Michigan has Todd Collins whose 65 percent com liter ponders axing football Elpaso Texas a Texas Elpaso s football program is facing an Uncertain future As University officials grapple with ways to cover a $700,000 athletic department budget deficit. The shortfall has step officials studying the possibility of killing football which at $2.1 million is the school s costliest athletic program said athletic director John Thompson. / the shortfall can t be covered by eliminating smaller programs like the Golf or Rifle teams Sai Thompson. The University can also consider dropping its athletic programs from division 1-a to division 1-aa. Both moves would carry tremendous financial ramifications however. If we lose football we lose everything said Robert Heasley a financial planner who has raised Money for step athletics for decades. We lose the wac West Ern athletic conference and if we lose the wac we sure won t draw people to see step play lesser teams. A. -. / the University would lose the $545,000 from television bowl game payments and other sources it currently receives for being a wac member Thompson said. Last year step shifted $500,000 from other univer sity accounts to cover athletic department deficits. The department s $6,5 million budget this year included Money from those same accounts but that source of funding has been exhausted Heasley said. College football predictions Cletion rate is the Best in school history Amani Toomer the big ten s leading receiver and Tim Biaka Butu a who has rushed for Over 100 Yards in both games As a fill in for injured Star Tyrone Wheatley. Wheatley the preseason Heisman trophy favorite who has been sidelined with a separated shoulder is practising this week but his status for saturday s game is still Uncertain. Whether he plays or not it s going to be a High scor ing shootout that won t be decided until the closing minutes. Michigan is a 3v-Point favorite but the pick Here is. Colorado 35-31. Pacific plus 49 at no. 2 Nebraska Cor huskers 11-0 is. Big West. Nebraska 71 0. No. 13 North Carolina plus 21 at no. 3 Florida St. Seminoles Lead nation in total offence. Florida St. 44-21. 1 30 . Get sunday on an radio Rutgers plus 32 at no. 5 Penn St. Lions Lead series 20-2. Penn St. 55-17. No. 17 Washington plus 13v at no. 6 Miami teams shared 1991 National championship. Miami 24-17. 9 30 . Get saturday on an radio no. 8 Arizona minus 6vi at Stanford wildcats have won last two games at Palo Alto. Arizona 21-20. Purdue plus 22 at no. 9 notre Dame boilermakers 2-0 for first time since 1978notre Dame 48-21. File photo Michigan anticipates a part time Tyrone Wheatley. East Tennessee St. No line at no. 10 Auburn / tigers defense scored four ads against leu. Auburn44-14. Tulane plus 29 is. No. 11 Alabama at Birmingham tide Rolls Over Green wave Alabama 31-0. " Southern Mississippi plus 21 at no. 12 Texas am aggie have won 24 of last 25 regular season games Texas am 44-14. No. 15 Texas minus 7vi at Texas Christian horned frogs pulled upset in their last meeting at fort Worth. Texas 28-24. No. 25 Indiana plus 9 at no. 16 Wisconsin hoosiers averaging 380 Yards per game on ground. Wisconsin 27-17. Delayed until 8 30 . Sat urday on an to no 22 Washington St. Plus 7vi at no. 18 Urcla Bruins rebound from loss to Nebraska. Urcla 24-10. ,v-.,. ,.---. Baylor plus 11 at no. 19 Southern Cal trojans hand bears their first loss. Southern Cal 21-17. Vex to Houston plus 37vi at no. 20 Ohio St. First meeting Between schools Ohio St. 48-7. No. 23 Tennessee minus 5 at Mississippi St. Vols coming off worst Home defeat in 70 years. Tennessee 24-17. I Western Carolina no line at no. 24 North Carolina St. Wolf pack won last two meetings by combined 112-6 score. N. Carolina St. 45-0. Last Veek 10-3 straight 8-5 spread. Season 4140 straight 25-24 spread. For Buff Kickoff Ann Arbor Mich a Michigan tailback Tyrone Wheatley won t Start saturday against no. 7 Colo Rado but should play for the fourth ranked wolverines coach Gary Moeller said. Ash Manga Biaka Butka will Start and Wheatley should be Able to play unless some new soreness devel Ops Moeller said wednesday. Wheatley a preseason Heisman trophy favorite has missed Michigan s first two games with a separated shoulder. The right shoulder does t feel like it used to and not As Good As the left one Wheatley said. But interns of Progress it feels a lot better. I m doing Good doing Moeller said he doubted Wheatley could carry the. Ball 20 times saturday. We just have to see How he handles it if he s in a Groove Moeller said and he s not yet going to betide a Veteran in there Reading his keys and if he says i want to do it then i m going to say of and i m going to watch him hang on to a football Moeller said. I m going to watch him do those things. I m going to go Back to the doctors. I m going to see How Strong and How physical he is in practice. See the thing you can t do is Send a kid out there with one injury and he protects that and gets another one. That s Why you be got to know As a coach. For the team he can t lose the Ball. For him he can t receive another husky Hurricane match up arrives 3 years ate Nyji scour Seattle a it was College foot Ball s dream game three years ago. Fans demanded to see Don James Washington huskies and Dennis Erickson s Miami hurricanes meet. They argued heatedly which team was better. Washington and Miami each finished the 1991 season ranked no. 1 in the polls. The huskies were the top team in the Usa today can coaches ratings and Miami in the associated press rankings. On saturday the 17th-ranked huskies minus the retired James visit no. 6 Miami at the Orange bowl where the hurricanes have won an Mcaa record 58 consecutive games. Washington is a 13vi-Point underdog. Coach Jim Lambright said the huskies 1-1 face the same Challenge they faced in 1986 in their last trip to Miami a 28-17 upset of Oklahoma in the Orange bowl. The huskies players also Are ignoring the Odd makers who have tabbed Miami 2-0 such a big favorite. I Don t care tailback Napoleon Kaufman said. It s not like we re not getting the Opportunity to go out and win the game. To me it does t Kaufman rushed for a career Best 211 Yards on 32 carries in Washington s most recent game a 25-16 Home Victory Over no. 20 Ohio state. He had 156 Yards on 26 carries in an season opening loss to Southern Cal. The huskies offence starts and stops with Kaufman. Lambright knows Miami s defense will be focused on his Star. I think it s going to be hard for them to Stop Napoleon Lambright said. They re going to find out that will be very hard for them to do and not give up huge gains to our other Good Kaufman does t feel he has to Rush for 200 Yards in order for Washington to win but he knows the huskies can t afford turnovers or be intimidated. On both sides of the Ball we can t make any mistakes Kaufman said. If you say Pooh we be got to play against Miami you tend to press a Little bit too much. When people come to husky stadium they get the same feeling that we re going to have when we go Down there. But there s no reason Why we should t beat Kaufman would like to get at least 78 Yards which would make him washing ton s career leading rusher. Joe Steele 1976-79 has the record at 3,091 Yards. I
