November 19, 2010

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Sprint to the FINISH With bowl appearance in hand, Carter, Syracuse will fight for a Big East crown

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Syracuse gets ready for the nation’s No. 2 rusher

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Why Doug Marrone deserves Coach of the Year consideration

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Syracuse announced Wednesday that three players in the Class of 2011 have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Orange. High school seniors Rakeem Christmas, Michael Carter-Williams and Trevor Cooney have all chosen to play for SU. Christmas, the No. 1 center and No. 10 player overall for the Class of 2011 according to ESPNU, is a 6-foot-9 center from Philadelphia. He led his school team, the Academy of the New Church, to the Pennsylvania Independent School Athletic Association last season. Christmas chose Syracuse over Georgetown, Florida and Rutgers, among others, according to ESPNU. Carter-Williams is a 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Hamilton, Mass., who plays for St. Andrew’s School in Rhode Island. He is considered the No. 11 shooting guard and No. 31 player overall in the class. Carter-Williams also garnered interest from Providence, Temple and Virginia Tech before choosing SU. Cooney, the third SU recruit in the ESPNU Top 100 to choose Syracuse, is the No. 17 shooting guard and No. 57 player overall. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard averaged 17.4 points and 9.4 rebounds for Sanford School last season, and he won the 2010 Delaware State Basketball Player of the Year Award. Cooney chose SU over offers from Villanova, Maryland, Notre Dame and West Virginia.

The three recruits give Syracuse the No. 10 recruiting class for next season, according to ESPNU. It’s the third best in the Big East, behind St. John’s (No. 3) and Louisville (No. 6). mcooperj@syr.edu

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ikhail Marinovich knows it’s coming. Right up the gut, downhill, hard-nosed running. The bread and butter of the Connecticut offense.

“They’re going to come out, and it’s no secret what they’re going to do,” said Marinovich, a junior defensive end on Syracuse. “They’re going to run the ball. … That’s what we’re preparing for.”

Being fully ready for Connecticut’s rushing attack will be paramount to Syracuse’s success when the Huskies (5-4, 2-2 Big East) come to the Carrier Dome to take on the Orange (7-3, 4-2 Big East) for a 7 p.m. matchup Saturday.

A win over the Huskies would clinch second place in the Big East for SU in its last conference game of the season. It would also keep the Orange’s dreams alive for a Big East championship and a trip to a BCS bowl. A loss, and things get a little more complicated.

SU head coach Doug Marrone admitted Monday that his team was caught up in the emotions after a 13-9 victory over South Florida on Oct. 9 that, at the time, was the signature win of Marrone’s tenure with the Orange. That led to a 31-point blowout loss to Pittsburgh the next week.

And with the emotions swirling after a bowl-eligibilityclinching victory last weekend at Rutgers, Marrone is trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“I’ve said before,” Marrone said, “where you can never get too high when you win and you can never get too low when you lose. We’ve had that mentality for every game except for right after South Florida. I expect the players to be ready to play.”

And that starts with the most important matchup of the game — Syracuse’s No. 9-ranked defense vs. the nation’s No. 2 rusher.

That’s where the stability in the Huskies’ attack lies — in junior running back Jordan Todman. Whereas the Huskies have started three different quarterbacks this season — Zach Fraser being the latest to earn his original starting spot back — Todman is their offensive rock. He is first in the Big East and second in the nation in rushing, averaging 147 yards in his nine games played this season.

Todman and the departed Andre Dixon helped run over the Orange in last season’s 56-31 blowout win for the Huskies in Connecticut. Todman ran for 123 yards and a touchdown, and UConn had four touchdowns on the ground.

“He has speed, he has power,” SU safety Max Suter said of Todman. “We’re going to have to go out and stop the running game first off, and we’ve been working hard on that from the start of the week here.”

Connecticut’s rushing attack is also predicated on a dominant, bruising offensive line that has paved the way for Todman all season. Suter called it “big and physical.” SU defensive tackle Anthony Perkins called it “terrific.” And Marinovich said the Huskies’ offensive line will “maul you.”

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nate shron | staff photographer mikhail marinovich and the Syracuse defense will have the tough task of stopping Connecticut running back Jordan Todman Saturday. Todman is the No. 2 rusher in the nation, with 1,176 rushing yards to go along with nine touchdowns.

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matthew ziegler | staff photographer Doug marrone and Syracuse have already ensured they will be going to a bowl this season with last week’s 13-10 win over Rutgers, but there is still more to play for. The Orange are now in the hunt for a Big East title and a trip to a BCS bowl in Marrone’s second season.

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oug Marrone doesn’t spend time thinking about which bowl his team will play in at season’s end. He doesn’t lament the significance of what he, his staff and his players have accomplished at Syracuse this season.

The week-to-week rigors have kept him from doing that. Seemingly every week, the same words are uttered from his mouth: “We just need to keep moving forward with our nose to the grindstone.”

It’s not his nature to sit back and dwell on such things in the midst of competing for the Big East crown. This is the same guy who, during SU’s bye week, finally went back and looked at an album New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton made of a playoff run the Saints went on when Marrone was there four years ago.

“There really isn’t a lot of time to talk to someone on the phone, e-mail, text or talk about the season, where it is going, what happened, what we’ve accomplished,” Marrone said Monday.

“We’re on to the next opponent — win or lose.”

Regardless of what happens Saturday against Connecticut — win or lose — what Marrone has restored at SU is quite remarkable, even if he is reluctant to acknowledge it at this

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goin’ hog wild point in the season. This weekend, the Orange can move into a tie for the lead in the Big East standings if it wins and Pittsburgh loses. That’s something few people outside the program ever envisioned back in August.

Marrone’s squad was projected to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason Big East poll. Ten weeks in, the Orange sits in second place in the conference and finished the season 4-0 on the road in the conference. SU has already locked up its best season since 2001 and will be headed to a bowl for the first time since 2004.

Exceeding expectations the way Marrone has this year usually leads to Coach of the Year talk. Though Marrone will undoubtedly balk at the notion, saying he’s just doing his job, he’s no doubt on the verge of getting serious consider-

ation in both the Big East and nationally.

“The sense is that I’m happy for the players, the seniors, people in the community, the faculty and the alumni,” Marrone said. “I try to tell people all the time that I’m really just doing my job. I don’t look at it as being extraordinary.

I’m doing what I was brought here to do.”

The fact is, in just his second year at the helm, Marrone is already exceeding outside expectations. As recently as this week, Marrone admitted he’s not surprised at the early success. After all, he’s just doing his job.

Part of that is convincing people to buy into what he’s doing at SU. And with each win, his concepts and principles are further solidified among those taking this ride with him.

“Winning is important to him,” fullback Adam Harris said. “But it’s important to him to build an all-around program, both on and off the field. … That’s something we’ve all bought into.”

The veteran players who have been around for the darker years of the program see the difference. Memories of the two-win and three-win seasons aren’t so distant. Perhaps that’s partially why what Marrone has already accomplished is so incredible. The Orange only won seven

games in the previous two years. Nine games in the previous three years. And 14 games over the previous five years.

Since he took over last year, Marrone said he and his staff have been “winning battles” here and there, though it doesn’t always show up in the win column. Now they do.

“Everybody that is around the program, from the strength and conditioning coaches to all the assistant coaches, the equipment guys, it’s everybody in the program who has had a part in turning this program into a winning one,” senior center Ryan Bartholomew said. “It starts with Coach Marrone.”

For the first time in years, the SU community is still talking about football three weeks into November. Instead of shifting attention to a local basketball team with Final Four aspirations, people are talking about a team that still has a chance to go to a BCS bowl.

And all this with two games still remaining.

Whether Marrone will admit it or not, that’s quite remarkable around here.

Andrew L. John is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at aljohn@syr.edu.

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56 LAST TIME CONNECTICUT SYRACUSE 31 THEY PLAYED NOV. 28, 2009 With its blowout loss to Connecticut to close the 2009 season, Doug Marrone forecasted what 2010 would become for the Syracuse football team.

The SU head coach, for once, wasn’t engrossed in the moment of what happened on the field. The staggering loss to the Huskies wasn’t the preferred topic of conversation.

Yes, he needed to answer questions about the 56 points Syracuse gave up, the most points for an SU opponent since 2001. But it was all about foundation as Marrone concluded a 4-8 year in his first season.

It was about what would come next.

“We’ve been through a lot of adversity,” Marrone said after the game in East Hartford, Conn.

“And hopefully we won’t go through a lot of that in our future, that’s not what our goal is.”

The future, despite what Marrone and several SU players said following the game, looked bleak. Once again, Syracuse (4-8, 1-6 Big East) failed to muster two wins in Big East play. It would finish near the bottom in conference.

And another tri-state team embarrassed the Orange to end the season, thanks to the Huskies’ 196 yards on the ground from Jordan Todman and Andre Dixon.

Dixon and Todman, though, didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. It was all about the Greg Pauluses and Lavar Lobdells now that Syracuse’s season was over. It was time

to thank them, even though the Orange was blasted by a former SU alumnus in UConn head coach Randy Edsall.

The one-year experiment that was a graduate student at quarterback was over. Paulus concluded his 12-game SU career with a loss on the field. But to Marrone, the former Duke point guard was the ultimate winner. And with the endless praise from his head coach also came SU-best numbers.

Paulus finished the year with the program’s single-season record for completions with 193.

He also set the SU season record with a 67.7 completion percentage, capped off by a 296-yard, two-touchdown performance against UConn (6-5, 2-4).

Paulus, like Marrone, didn’t care about the past.

“As far as a standpoint of ‘are we satisfied and completely happy with the wins and results’ — no,” Paulus said. “But we’ve set the foundation, the culture we’d like all the teams to have ahead of us.”

With the word “foundation” surfacing for the head coach and quarterback who piloted the team to start a new era, SU’s tone was set.

On the field, the Orange’s would-be returnees for the 2010 campaign showed flashes, as well.

Especially two receivers at the end of 16 of Paulus’ 24 pass completions.

Marcus Sales and Alec Lemon had career

games in front of the 40,000 at Rentschler Field.

Lemon went for a surprising 140 yards on the day, hauling in his first touchdown of his career. And Sales went for 89 yards. In all, two quarterbacks — including the Orange’s future starter in Ryan Nassib — and 10 receivers got in on the action.

Nassib’s 64-yard, one-touchdown performance was another solid, yet abbreviated, audition for his future job. And Delone Carter went over 100 yards for the third time in four games.

In the process, he established himself as SU’s premier offensive weapon heading into 2010.

Still, the truth was that the Huskies pulled away for a 25-point win. It may have been the low point in another losing season.

And like any team limping to the finish line, the Orange took solace in next year. The only difference for Marrone and SU linebacker Doug Hogue was that next year, they promised, would be different.

It would be the year of building on what was SU football in 2009. It all ended with optimism forced from a devastating loss in East Hartford.

“We’re Syracuse,” Hogue said. “We always play hard, and going into next year, this game will probably be inspirational for us to work even harder, and we’re going to come back next year better than we were before.”

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stronger UConn offensive line can be negated by SU’s superior technique on defense.

“I think technique will help even the playing field,” he said. “Even if the guy’s bigger, as this offensive line looks on paper — a lot bigger and totally stronger — technique can neutralize a lot of that. A lot of teams get away from what they usually do to try to cope with the physical aspect of UConn’s offensive line.”

Todman and Connecticut’s line has been instrumental in the Huskies’ last two victories, which have surged the team back into the conference picture. After an embarrassing 26-0 loss at Louisville three weeks ago in which Todman only had 80 yards — his lowest output of the season — UConn has stormed back against two of the Big East’s bests.

The first was at home against West Virginia on Oct. 29, when Todman had an astounding 33 carries for 113 yards and a touchdown. Dave Teggart’s 27-yard field goal in overtime won the game for the Huskies.

And last weekend at home, UConn shocked Pittsburgh, which was previously unbeaten in Big East play. Again, Todman carried the load, this time rushing 37 times for 222 yards.

“We just have to fill our holes and try to stop the run,” Syracuse safety Shamarko Thomas said. “They are a great team. You see what they did with Pitt.”

Connecticut head coach Randy Edsall saw, too. And he has no plans to fix what isn’t broke.

Syracuse avoided the Big East’s second-leading and the nation’s No. 5 rusher in Bilal Powell when Louisville came to the Dome two weeks ago. But SU won’t be as fortunate this time around. And the Orange might have to deal with even more.

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Edsall said in his weekly press conference Tuesday that he plans on going with what works. Whether that means a surprisingly efficient pass attack or another 30-plus-carry game from Todman.

“It all depends on how Jordan is doing and how the game is going,” Edsall said, when asked about the likelihood of Todman getting 30-plus carries again this week. “Jordan knows who he is and what he can do. If it takes that many carries from Jordan or if we need to use two guys, we’ll see how it goes.”

Todman’s arrival to the Dome comes a week after the Orange struggled mightily with Rutgers’ unorthodox rushing attack, which was primarily in the Wild Knight formation. Operating as the “quarterback” in the formation, Jeremy Deering ran for 166 yards and a touchdown.

And Todman’s arrival comes two weeks after Louisville’s Jeremy Wright picked up the slack for the absent Powell, rushing for 98 yards and scoring twice.

One of those performances led to an SU loss.

One was a missed field goal away from perhaps leading to the same fate. And with bigger goals in mind than just a bowl appearance now in sight, the SU defense knows it can’t happen again.

“He’s a great athlete, a really great athlete,” Thomas said. “We just have to try to stop him.” bplogiur@syr.edu

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Connecticut head coach Randy Edsall played at Syracuse from 1976-79.

He was a graduate assistant under Dick MacPherson from 1980-82, and he remained as a coach at various positions until 1990.

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The Huskies are a perfect 5-0 at home but have failed to win a single road game this season. By contrast, SU has not won a home game in two tries in Big East play.

Herm Edwards, who Marrone worked under while with the New York Jets, will be the color announcer for the game, which is televised on ESPNU.

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Syracuse 17 Connecticut 13 Another ugly game. Scott Shafer’s defense comes up big again late, and SU avoids a winless home Big East season.

TONY OLIVERO Connecticut 13 Syracuse 10 Todman and Co. scored enough last week to beat the best scoring offense in the Big East. Against a reeling SU offense, it’ll be enough again with the help of the Huskies’ special teams.

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Scouting Connecticut with Adam Harris

By Andrew L. John SPORTS EDITOR

Adam Harris began his collegiate football career as a linebacker at Cornell. After transferring to Syracuse prior to the 2009 season, Harris walked on to the football team and switched to the fullback position during spring practice in 2010. Now the starter at the position, Harris has played in all 10 of SU’s games this season and has helped pave the way for running back Delone Carter, who has 938 yards rushing on the season. On Saturday, the Orange offense faces a challenge in Connecticut, a team that beat West Virginia and Pittsburgh in its previous two games and beat SU 56-31 last season. The Daily Orange spoke to Harris this week to discuss how the unit is preparing for the Connecticut defense:

The Daily Orange: This Connecticut defense was able to neutralize both West Virginia and Pittsburgh in the running game, so what do you guys need to do to have success against them?

Harris: No. 1, we just need to protect the ball.

That’s the biggest thing. We can’t turn the ball over. Last week we had some turnovers and, fortunately, we still came out on top. But one thing that we always talk about is we have to be positive in the turnover ratio. That will be one of the biggest keys this week — win the turnover ratio and picking up your assignments when they bring pressure.

If you were to pinpoint some of the key players and positions on this Connecticut defense from watching film, whom would you say you need to focus on this week?

I know they have some real experienced linebackers — four- and three-year starters.

They’ve got a couple linemen that have been there for a couple of years, too, so we know they’ll be stout against the run, and they’re really good up front.

Some teams have had some success bringing pressure against you guys. Do you expect Connecticut to construct a similar strategy this week?

Yeah, I definitely think they’ll bring a decent amount of pressure at us. The main thing for us is to get into the books this week and make sure everybody knows their assignments and whom they have to block.

Against several Big East teams this season, you guys have been able to stay in the game by managing the clock though not necessarily putting a lot of points on the board. How key is getting points on the board against this Connecticut team that has been successful shutting down offenses at times this season?

It’s really important. Time of possession is always huge in a ball game. If you can keep their offense off the field as long as possible, obviously they can’t put up points. If we can sustain long drives and put up some points, our defense can usually keep us in the game.

matthew ziegler | staff photographer ADAM HARRIS has played in all 10 games, including nine starts at the fullback position. He’ll help pave the way for SU running back Delone Carter Saturday.

What are some things that Connecticut was able to do successfully against West Virginia and Pittsburgh that you guys have taken notice of?

you fumble the ball on your 20-yard line, they only have to go 20 yards to score. Their defense really helped their offense out a lot.

It goes back to the turnovers. I know against Pittsburgh they intercepted a couple balls and forced some fumbles on kickoff returns. When

Heading into this week, looking to close out the season strong, how important is it for this Syracuse offense to continue improving?

I think everybody still feels hungry because I don’t think we’re done yet. There’s still a lot more that everybody wants to do with this season.

After already securing bowl eligibility, what is the mentality of this Syracuse team heading into this game? Is the pressure off, and is the sense of urgency still there?

Nobody wants to be complacent right now.

Everybody is still hungry for this game and we just have to keep preparing like maybe we didn’t make the bowl game. When you start getting comfortable and start looking ahead, that’s when you get beat. aljohn@syr.edu

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Q&A with SU center Macky MacPherson

By Tony Olivero

ther and grandson, having just snapped SU to a bowl?

Syracuse freshman offensive lineman Macky MacPherson would have been the one to snap the ball to clinch Syracuse’s bowl eligibility. After all, he is the grandson of former SU head coach Dick MacPherson. The grandson did so last week with just more than a minute left in SU’s 13-10 win over Rutgers Saturday, as fellow freshman Ross Krautman converted a 24-yard kick.

This week, The Daily Orange caught up with MacPherson days after to relive the moment and what it means to SU and his family:

It was cool. I actually didn’t get to see him. He didn’t come to the locker room, but I did see him on the plane. I couldn’t stop because there were about 30 guys behind me who were trying to get to their seats. There was his thumbs up, and he winked. He was happy I went to see him after we landed. He was thrilled, he was happy that we finally got to the team-goal seven wins, going to a bowl game now.

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The Daily Orange: Take me through — as you are kind of the center of it all — what’s going through your head. You know the game could rest on this snap, bowl hopes could rest on all of this. As a freshman, what goes through your mind?

MacPherson: Somewhere around five minutes left in the fourth quarter, I was like, “OK, this could come down to a field goal.” And during that drive right there, I was just taking snaps. I was very confident in both Rob and Ross. It was, “Put the ball near the spot, and Rob would take care of it, and Ross would put it through the uprights.”

How worried were you about the Rutgers field-goal rush? Rob Long said Saturday he adjusted with what he was doing with more quick release line-drive kicks. For you, is there any element of an adjustment, as well?

As a snapper, you can’t really change anything you are going to do. You can’t think like, “I am going to snap this ball faster.” It’s not going to work. You are going to end up putting it way over his head or outside, and you have just got to shake off whatever it is and have faith in Rob or Ross that they will hold it down and get the kick off. And that’s what they did.

There was a photo that ran on the back page of The D.O. Monday that was an image of the final kick. Yet it was a moment between your snap and the kick going through the uprights.

In the photo, the football appears to be mere feet from your hands, and it appears that you are looking directly at the football. Here is the photo. Can you describe to me what is going through your head here at this exact moment?

I put the ball right at Rob’s knee. So where his knee is, is where the ball hit the ground. And he had a great hold, and he snapped it up, and he put it right on the spot. And Ross came through real quick, which helped a lot because they really came with the heat. In my mind, I was just hoping to hear the kick of the ball because Ross puts it so high I would have been shocked if anyone blocked it. And that guy (pointing to the Rutgers defender directly next to MacPherson in the photo), I was just hoping to push him as far sideways as I could. I remember snapping and looking up, and there was a guy, and I was just trying to push him out of the way.

Your grandfather, former SU head coach Dick MacPherson, was there. How soon after the game did he get to you? And what did he say, and what was the emotion like for grandfa-

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Lastly, have you ever thought about how ironic it is that, here you are literally the center of it all, snapping the ball as you guys clinch a bowl bid. At any point do you or Coach Marrone ever think “this might be meant to be” or “this is crazy, here is another MacPherson on this last play,” seeing that there is so much lineage in this program?

Coach Marrone has been preaching all year that it’s kind of a team of destiny. We have played better, we have executed better, and really everyone has bought into what Coach Marrone has been telling us. It does seem kind of funny. Coach Marrone has been telling us that in 1985 — I think he said — when he went to a bowl game, his first bowl game, when my grandfather was the coach, their seventh win came in Rutgers Stadium, and it was kind of ironic and seemed like it was destiny that our seventh win came in Rutgers Stadium, just like it was for him. aolivero@syr.edu

matthew ziegler | staff photographer macky macpherson (59) snapped the ball for Ross Krautman’s game-winning field goal against Rutgers. He is the grandson of former SU head coach Dick MacPherson.

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GAMES OF THE WEEK

Cameron Newton, QB, Auburn Newton continues to put up phenomenal numbers despite all of the off-field controversy surrounding his name. Last week against Georgia, Newton threw for 148 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for 151 yards and two more scores. His 1,297 rushing yards is the nation’s fourth highest total, and his quarterback rating of 183.6 is second best in the country. Although he threw his first interception in more than a month against Georgia, he still completed 80 percent of his passes against the Bulldogs last week.

No. 14 Virginia Tech at No. 24 Miami (Fla.)

Two weeks into the season, the Hokies were down and out. Losses to Boise State and James Madison had many people writing the season off. Yet Virginia Tech has responded. The Hokies have won eight consecutive games and have a chance to win the ACC’s Coastal Division title Saturday. It’s a perfect chance for Virginia Tech to salvage the season against a banged-up Miami squad that will be without starting quarterback Jacory Harris.

Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State Nine games into the season, Moore still has just four interceptions. Boise State’s southpaw quarterback’s 191.2 quarterback rating this year is more than seven points higher than anyone else’s. His 24 touchdown passes this season is tied for seventh most in the country. Overall, Moore is arguably the nation’s best pure passer at the quarterback position. He has guided a Bronco’s offense to six straight games of 40 points or more.

Two weeks ago against Hawaii, he threw for 507 yards and three touchdowns.

No. 8 Ohio State at No. 21 Iowa This game means everything to the Buckeyes. If they can earn the win on the road against the Hawkeyes, they will be just one win away from at least a share of the Big Ten conference title. A loss would just about end the team’s fi ve-year run as conference champion. The game won’t be easy for OSU by any means. Ohio State has struggled on the road this season, with a slow start against a weak Illinois team and a loss to Wisconsin in which the team fell behind 21-0. It’s time for Terrelle Pryor to put the team on his back like he did early on in the season.

courtesy of virginia tech athletic communications No. 13 Arkansas at No. 22 Mississippi State This matchup is one of the season’s more ironic. It features two teams ranked in the Top 25, yet neither has a chance to win its conference title. The Razorbacks and Bulldogs sit fourth and fifth, respectively, in the SEC West. That half of the conference has already been locked up by Auburn, which means this game is more about bowl position than anything else. It is perhaps more important for the Bulldogs, which, with a win, will surpass the .500 mark in conference play this season.

No. 9 Nebraska at No. 18 Texas A&M The Aggies are winners of four straight games for the first time since 2006. Win No. 5 will be by far the toughest when the Cornhuskers come to town on Saturday. Nebraska, also a winner of four straight, can capture a spot in the Big 12 championship game with a win this weekend. Regardless of who wins, points will come in bunches in this game. Both offenses are averaging 35 points per game and rank in the Top 25 in yards per game and total points scored.

—Compiled by Michael Cohen, asst. copy editor, mjcohe02@syr.edu

NEWS AND NOTES

LaMichael James, RB, Oregon James continues to be the only tailback with a chance to win this year’s Heisman. Even though last week’s 91-yard performance was his lowest of the season, he still leads the country in rushing yards with 1,422. He and Newton are tied for the NCAA lead with 17 rushing touchdowns. James will face a tough test this weekend when Oregon takes on Arizona, a team with the 15th best rush defense in the country.

Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford Since the team’s loss to Oregon on Oct. 2, Luck has helped his team regroup with five straight wins. Last week against Arizona State, Luck was held without a touchdown pass for the first game all season but still racked up nearly 300 yards. Luck ranks in the Top 10 nationally in quarterback rating and completion percentage. He has thrown for 2,511 yards and 22 touchdowns so far this season.

AP TOP 25 RANK

For his 400th career win, Joe Paterno received a unique honor: He was honored by Congress. Pennsylvania Congressman Glenn Thompson, whose district encompasses State College, Pa., sponsored the bill. It was signed by 31 other representatives, including all 18 representatives from Pennsylvania.

Paterno earned No. 400 with a comeback victory against Northwestern two weeks ago, and the bill honored his monumental achievement.

The University of Washington has approved a $250 million renovation of its home football stadium after the 2011 season. The current plans will lower the field and bring fans closer

to the playing surface. Capacity is projected to stay around the current level of 72,500. The project is being paid for with 30-year bonds. The school also hopes to raise $50 million in private donations. The last game for the Huskies at Husky Stadium is scheduled for Nov. 5, 2011, against Oregon State.

The Big Ten has officially inked a deal with Fox Sports to carry the league’s conference title game beginning in 2011. That is also the year in which Nebraska will join the conference as it expands to 12 total teams. The deal, reportedly worth $20 million to $25 million, will last six years. The inaugural conference title game will take place

at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis, but a permanent site has not yet been decided on. Early reports say the conference is considering rotating the site of the game, as well.

Much like the NFL, college football is cracking down on shots to the head.

The WAC suspended Idaho safety Shiloh Keo for the first half of this weekend’s game after his hit on Boise State’s backup quarterback Mike Coughlin.

Keo was originally suspended for the full game, but it was reduced after an appeal. Keo led with his helmet in his hit on Coughlin during a 52-14 blowout loss on Nov. 12.

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TEAM

Oregon (38) Auburn (12) Boise State (9) TCU (1) LSU Wisconsin Stanford Ohio State Nebraska Alabama Michigan State Oklahoma State Arkansas Virginia Tech Missouri Oklahoma South Carolina Texas A&M Nevada USC Iowa Mississippi State Arizona Miami (Fla.) Utah

RECORD

10-0 11-0 9-0 11-0 9-1 9-1 9-1 9-1 9-1 8-2 9-1 9-1 8-2 8-2 8-2 8-2 7-3 7-3 9-1 7-3 7-3 7-3 7-3 7-3 8-2

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Rutgers (4-5, 1-3) at Cincinnati (3-6, 1-3)

7:30 p.m., ESPN3 The two teams tied for last in the Big East battle it out Saturday night, with each team still clinging to a shred of hope that it can qualify for a bowl. Cincinnati, the defending Big East champ, has to win its final three games to even become bowl eligible. It’s unlikely, considering that the Bearcats have given up at least 27 points in seven of their nine games. Rutgers has the opposite problem: The Scarlet Knights can’t score. Head coach Greg Schiano has yet to settle on a quarterback who can guide his offense down the field.

Pittsburgh (5-4, 3-1) at South Florida (6-3, 3-2)

Noon, ESPN2 A matchup with Big East title implications takes place in Tampa, Fla., on Saturday, as South Florida looks for its fourth straight Big East victory against current conference leader Pittsburgh. The Panthers are coming off a two-point loss at Connecticut but won’t have time to dwell on that against a tough Bulls team. USF quarterback B.J. Daniels has stepped up his game in USF’s three straight wins, throwing five touchdowns to one interception.

West Virginia (6-3, 2-2) at Louisville (5-5, 2-3)

Noon, ESPN3 Louisville is looking to become bowl eligible at home for the second straight week, after failing to do so in an overtime loss to South Florida a week ago. The Cardinals are just 2-3 at home against FBS teams this season. West Virginia snapped a two-game losing streak by blowing out Cincinnati 37-10 last week, and the Mountaineers are still in the Big East title hunt.

WVU has won the last three meetings between the two teams.

—Compiled by Mark Cooper, asst. copy editor, mcooperj@syr.edu

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Pittsburgh 5-4 (3-1)

Syracuse 7-3 (4-2)

South Florida 6-3 (3-2)

West Virginia 6-3 (2-2)

Connecticut 5-4 (2-2)

Louisville 5-5 (2-3)

Rutgers 4-5 (1-3)

Cincinnati 3-6 (1-3)

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CONFERENCE LEADERS passing Player

Zach Collaros Tino Sunseri Geno Smith Ryan Nassib Adam Froman

Team

CIN PITT WVU SYR LOU

Comp-Att. Pct.

164-270 161-242 178-273 154-277 132-218

60.7 66.5 65.2 55.6 60.6

Yards

2139 1892 1870 1777 1633

TD

20 13 19 16 11

Int.

6 6 6 6 4

rushing

Player

Jordan Todman Bilal Powell Delone Carter Noel Devine Ray Graham

Team

CONN LOU SYR WVU PITT

Att.

211 184 179 161 110

Yards

1176 1207 938 770 760

Avg.

5.6 6.6 5.2 4.8 6.9

TD

9 9 7 5 8

Long

66 85 46 50 79

receiving Player

Armon Binns D.J. Woods Jon Baldwin Van Chew Tavon Austin

Team

CIN CIN PITT SYR WVU

Rec.

57 48 39 36 44

Yards

826 775 641 563 528

Avg.

14.5 16.1 16.4 15.6 12.0

TD

9 7 5 5 5

Long

62 69 61 48 41

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NAME

Dwayne Difton Gilbert Stlouis Michael Box Twyon Martin Blidi Wreh-Wilson Mike Lang Lawrence Wilson Andrew Opoku Zach Frazer Scott McCummings Cody Endres Chad Christen Leon Kinnard Jerome Junior Byron Jones Blaise Driscoll Frank Guardi Johnny McEntee Kijuan Dabney Tevrin Brandon Gary Wilburn Kelmetrus Wylie Jordan Todman Dwayne Gratz D.J. Shoemate Harris Agbor Marcus Campbell Emmanuel Omokaro Jory Johnson Taylor Mack Matt Edwards Nick Williams Scott Lutrus Yawin Smallwood David Kenney Chris Lopes Michael Osiecki Jonathan Jean-Louis Dave Teggart Alex Kantor Bret Manning Mark Hinkley Ty-Meer Brown John Yurek Brandon Steg Jordan Huxtable Lyle McCombs Robbie Frey Martin Hyppolite Sio Moore

POS

WR CB QB DT CB DB LB OLB QB QB QB K/P QB S DB QB WR QB DB CB CB TB TB CB TB S DE OLB OLB CB OLB WR LB LB OLB CB LB TB K CB FB LB S S LB TB RB TB OLB LB

HT

5-11 5-11 6-3 6-2 6-0 5-11 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-1 5-9 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-0 6-3 6-1 5-10 5-11 5-10 5-9 6-0 5-11 5-11 6-3 5-10 6-1 5-9 6-0 5-10 6-3 6-2 6-0 5-10 6-1 6-0 6-0 5-9 5-11 5-11 6-0 6-0 6-2 5-8 5-8 6-0 6-0 6-1

WT

173 182 209 292 191 181 226 224 231 227 232 203 182 215 176 193 175 223 192 176 195 224 193 187 218 183 232 210 227 170 193 183 245 227 199 192 226 199 207 191 260 226 184 201 214 183 163 203 214 230

CLASS

SO FR FR JR SO SO SR FR SR FR JR FR FR SO FR FR FR SO JR FR JR JR JR SO JR JR JR JR SO FR SO SO SR FR FR FR FR JR JR FR SR SO FR JR FR FR FR JR FR SO

NO

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NAME

Reuben Frank Trevardo Williams Anthony Sherman Tyler Bullock Tim Willman Patrick Wilson Ryan Wirth Alex Polito Jerome Williams Angelo Pruitt Moe Petrus Jonathan Louis Shamar Stephen Stephen Brown Ben Chapman Adam Masters Joseph Danielson Teddy Baker Gus Cruz Mathieu Olivier Adam Mueller Bryan Paull Steve Greene Gary Bardzak Mike Ryan Jimmy Bennett Mark Hansson Kevin Friend Zach Hurd Greg McKee Michael Smith Corey Manning Kashif Moore Isiah Moore Tebucky Jones Geremy Davis Cole Wagner Nasir Abudu Gerrard Sheppard John Delahunt Alex Kaiser Jesse Joseph Derek Chard Ryan Griffin Greg Lloyd A.J. Portee B.J. McBryde Ted Jennings Kendall Reyes

POS

FB DE FB OG DT DE DT DT LB DT C DE DT OT C OT OG OG OG OG LS C OG C OT OT OT OT OG OT WR TE WR WR WR WR WR/P WR WR SO SR SO SR SO SR SO FR SO JR

HT

6-3 6-1 5-11 6-4 6-3 6-2 6-2 6-6 5-11 6-2 6-2 6-5 6-5 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-6 6-1 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-5 6-8 6-5 6-5 6-7 6-6 6-0 6-5 5-9 6-1 5-11 6-3 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-3 6-5 6-3 6-3 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-5 6-5 6-4

WT

229 225 240 301 274 237 272 280 233 295 292 241 300 290 274 283 276 237 274 294 208 290 309 292 333 290 245 289 325 290 202 249 180 190 180 200 198 194 209 244 241 255 237 243 259 237 262 247 298

CLASS

FR SO SR FR FR FR SO SR SO FR JR FR FR FR SO SO FR FR FR SR FR FR FR JR JR SO FR FR SR FR JR SO JR JR FR FR FR FR SO TE TE DE LS TE DE DE DT DE DT

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Name

Phillip Thomas Olando Fisher Delone Carter Malcolm Cater Marcus Sales Da’Mon Merkerson Jonny Miller Cody Catalina Ri’Shard Anderson Dorian Graham Marquis Spruill Ryan Nassib Deon Goggins John Kinder Alec Lemon Dom Anene James Jarrett Charley Loeb Keon Lyn Nick Raven Ryan Lichtenstein Brice Hawkes Shamarko Thomas Adrian Fleming Prince-Tyson Gulley Max Suter Derrell Smith Kevyn Scott Jeremi Wilkes Antwon Bailey Steve Rene Clay Cleveland Colin Reno Doug Hogue Dan Vaughan Tombe Kose Mike Holmes George Mayes Ross Krautman Ryan Ahern Ricky Azzoto Zachary McCarrell Joe Nassib Ryan Gillum Shane Kimmel Mario Tull Jerome Smith Robert Nieves

Pos.

FS SS RB LB WR CB QB TE CB WR LB QB DL QB WR CB QB QB DB QB K LB SS WR RB SS LB CB DB RB WR FB WR LB LB FB CB CB K FS RB S CB LB FB LB RB FB

Ht.

6-0 5-11 5-10 6-1 6-0 6-1 6-1 6-3 6-0 5-11 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-3 5-10 6-0 5-10 6-3 5-9 5-11 6-1 5-11 5-9 5-8 5-7 6-0 5-10 6-2 6-2 5-9 5-11 5-8 5-7 6-0 5-9 5-11 5-9 5-11 6-1 6-0 6-0 5-11

Wt.

189 198 215 212 177 184 210 231 185 190 223 224 280 182 196 209 204 208 188 218 155 216 200 198 178 191 232 207 177 192 167 218 182 226 214 253 182 182 154 198 203 195 141 219 242 206 210 221

Class

So. Jr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Sr. So. So. Fr. So. Jr. Fr. So. So. So. So. Fr. Fr. So. Fr. So. Fr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Fr. So. Sr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. Fr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Jr. So. Fr. Fr. Sr.

No.

47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 62 65 66 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 78 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

Name

Rob Long Carl Cutler Adam Harris Femi Aliyu Andrew Lewis Ollie Haney Chad Battles Mikhail Marinovich Anthony Perkins Cory Boatman Max Leo Lewellyn Coker Macky MacPherson Sean Hickey Andrew Phillips Jarel Lowery Andrew Tiller Justin Pugh Robert Welsh Ryan Bartholomew Adam Rosner Nick Lepak Nicholas Pedrotti Michael Hay Zack Chibane Ian Allport Austin Lane Nick Provo Cody Morgan Van Chew Kyle Ishman Michael Acchione Jose Cruz David Stevens Aaron Weaver Jarrod West Thomas Trendowski Jared Kimmel Brandon Sharpe Charlie Copa Micah Robinson Bud Tribbey Torrey Ball Jay Bromley Beckett Wales Max Beaulieu Chandler Jones

Pos.

P FB FB LB DT NT DE DE DT DT LS LB C OL OT OG OT OG DL C OG C OL OT OG OT OL TE WR WR WR WR TE TE WR WR TE DE DE TE DL DT DE DE TE DE DE

Ht.

6-3 6-2 6-2 5-11 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-5 6-4 6-2 5-11 6-1 6-2 6-5 6-6 6-3 6-5 6-5 6-4 6-2 6-5 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-4 6-6 6-4 5-8 6-1 6-1 5-10 6-5 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-1 6-6 6-2 6-6 6-3 6-0 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-5

Wt.

190 240 232 204 285 292 230 245 282 256 210 210 256 292 280 299 338 287 259 298 326 336 296 290 298 320 300 241 182 170 170 164 250 219 220 190 238 250 233 246 259 290 247 273 233 255 251

Class

Sr. Jr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. So. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. So. Jr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Jr. So. Jr. Fr. Sr. So. Jr. Fr. Jr. Sr. So. Sr. Fr. Jr. Sr. So. Fr. Fr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Fr. So.

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