European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse A thursday november 3, iji994 sports likes a by it of a mercy i about to be tested. With the same teams listed in different order atop the two polls and no Chance of settling the who s really no. 1 debate on the Field the temptation is there for heavyweights Nebraska and Penn state to make their arguments by beating the daylights out of sparring partners Here s hoping they Don to not much Good and even less of a Reward figures to come from that sort of thing. That was a lesson that should have been Learned this past saturday. In a scene that could easily be repeated in. Any of its final four games of the season Penn state slapped Ohio state with its most humiliating defeat in 40-some years. A few More games like that one and col lege football figures to be the biggest loser. When coach Joe Paterno was asked at midweek whether he would consider running up the score to impress poll voters Penn state s guiding Light sounded insulted and said he d be Happy to win by just one. Yet even after winding up with the decidedly Short end of the stick in a 63-14 rout Ohio state coach John Cooper thought Paterno had been True to his word. I thought Joe was pretty generous to us. In fact t thanked him after the game. He played a lot of Dif Ferent people. We were playing against some third team defensive if this is what Penn state t under orders to hold it Down accomplished against the nation s no. 21-ranked team they Are the Best team not just of this season but maybe this Century. If the reason for the score was anything less Noble say currying Taubr with the voters get used to hearing these kind of testimonials. Jim Litke commentary the remainder of Paterno s schedule reads Indi Ana and Illinois on the Road Northwestern and Michigan state at Home. This would constitute a hellish stretch if we re talking hoops in late january. But the Way the big ten with few exceptions has played football this season Penn state might need just 63 Points total to get through All four games and still have enough left Over for whichever Pac-10 impostor it gets to Pound in the Rose bowl. The Cor huskers Road to the end of the regular season in t much tougher Home against Kansas then Iowa state and Oklahoma on the Road. Their Best Chance to put distance Between themselves and Penn state could come in the Orange bowl where they could face a Miami team that has lost Only once there in the last 10 years. They need to resist the temptation to needlessly stomp somebody sooner. Its pick pm right now. Nebraska has five More first place votes and six More total Points in the associated press Media poll. Penn state has two More first place votes and two More total Points in the Usa today can coaches poll. Neither coach has tried to Sway any votes with his Powers of persuasion. For the moment anyway. _ the Way i look at it you play the season out Paterno said. If we do that and win the rest of our games and i feel we re no. 1, i la say it then. A Mizhen he added ill let you Guys say the real problems will come if one team seeing a big score posted by the other tries to up the Ante by throwing touchdown bombs in the last seconds of what is already a guaranteed result. After All there s Only so Many times you Knock someone Down and then apologize As Ohio state did for running into your fist. When it happens More than once you get labelled a bully. And nobody poll voters included likes a bully. The associated press the staffs and stripes Page 33 no. 1 is. N62 p. In division ii. " \. I. Montgomery Ala. A j people arc Starling to face up to the very real possibility that the top major College teams will never meet on the playing Field. No such problem in division 1u where it s no. I . 2 on saturday a Between the defending National Champion and one of the most dynamic offences the Small College ranks has Ever seen. All year Long this game has been in the Back of our minds Suid Valdosta state coach Hal Mumme whose second ranked team faces no. 1 North Alabama the 1993 Champ. We be been telling the kids Don t look past the next play Don t look past the. Next game All those coaching cliches. So monday when i went out to meet with the of sense i Aid Well Guys let s make sure we Don t Loo Forward to next week s game against Henderson state. We Don t want to Overlook these Guys that kind of Bro Kelham it would be hard to Overlook North Alabama 7-1which has been ranked no. I in division 11 for More than a year while winning 21 straight games against opponents its size. The Lions coached by former Auburn assistant Bobby Wallace would have been perfect this season if they did t have the audacity to take on the defending i a a Champ losing 17-14 at Youngstown state " " " Valdosta state 9-0 has t lost since a 31-21 defeat to North Alabama last season knocked them out of the playoffs this season the blazers have scored More than 60 Points twice and More than 50 on two other occasions led by Chris Hatcher the Odds on favorite to win the Marlon Hill trophy As the top player in Divi Sion 11. ". He s like Joe Montana Mumme said of his quarterback. What makes Montana so Good he s never had the strongest Arm has never been a big imposing Guy. But when he stepped in the huddle everybody else got better. I Don t know How to explain North Alabama officials Are expecting a sellout crowd of More than 14,000 at Braly stadium in Flor ence where the Lions won the division ii championship last year. 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