College football
Florida State, Nebraska,
By The Associated Press
Florida State stayed in the race for the national
championship with a victory over Florida, but a
lot of things must fall into place for the third
ranked Seminoles to have a chance to finish
No. 1.
First, South Carolina must upset No. 2 Miami
next Saturday in the regular-season finale for
those teams. Next, Florida State would have to
defeat Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl on New
Year’s Day. Finally, Miami would have to upend
top-ranked Oklahoma later that night.
“If it happens, it happens,” Coach Bobby
Bowden said Saturday after his team defeated
Florida 28-14 to finish the regular season with a
10-1 record. “Right now, 10-1 means more to
me.”
Just as meaningful, though, is the victory over
Florida, a team the Seminoles hadn’t beaten
since 1980. Coincidently, Florida State was also
10-1 that season with a one-point loss to Miami
the lone blemish on FSU’s record.
“We own Florida Field now,” Seminoles wide
receiver Herb Gainer proclaimed after the come
from-behind triumph before a crowd of 74,613.
“They have just been renting it from us for the
past six years. Today, we evicted them. It’s all
ours.”
The victory was Florida State’s first in Gaines
ville since 1979 when the Seminoles captured the
third of four consecutive victories over the Ga
tors.
A nine-point favorite Saturday, Bowden’s team
simply wore down Florida with superior depth.
The Seminoles amassed 411 yards total offense,
including 279 rushing, and held a sizeable advan
tage in time of possession: 38:47 to 21:13.
“They played tough in the first half, but they
are only one man deep at every position,” Dexter
Carter, a backup FSU tailback who gained 111
yards on 19 carries, said. “We knew if we kept
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pushing them around, they'd get tired because
they had no subs.”
Sammie Smith, the Seminoles’ starting tail
back, compiled the better statistics in a much
ballyhooed matchup between him and Emmitt
Smith, Florida’s talented freshman.
Sammie, a sophomore, gained 116 yards on 17
carries, and Emmitt produced 100 yards on 20
carries, including two touchdowns that helped
Florida to a 14-3 lead.
“We wanted to get on the scoreboard early,
and that’s what we did,” Kerwin Bell, Florida's
senior quarterback, said. “But the numbers
game took over.
They kept shuttling in fresh players and wore
us down.”
Florida managed just six first downs after the
first quarter and finished with just 207 yards total
offense. Florida State, which got four field goals
from Derek Schmidt and a pair of 1-yard touch
down runs from Dayne Williams, attempted only
three passes in the second half after throwing on
seven of 13 plays in the first quarter.
“We got the good lead on them and I hoped they
would come back and keep throwing the ball
around the field,” said Florida Coach Galen Hall.
“But they came back and hammered the ball at
us, which I was afraid of all along.
“I think the turning point was when we couldn’t
make first downs in the second and third quar
ters,” Hall added. “I think that got them control
of the game.”
In other games involving ranked teams. No. 2
Miami beat No. 10 Notre Dame (see story on
Page 17). No. 5 Nebraska downed Colorado 24-7,
No. 14 Georgia defeated Georgia Tech 30-16 and
No. 16 Tennessee edged Vanderbilt 38-36.
In the Division 111 playoffs, Augustana College
had its 60-game unbeaten streak and bid for a
fifth straight national title ended by Dayton, 38-
36, in a quarterfinal game. The Rock Island, 111.,
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Georgia win
school had gone 59-0-1 since losing to West
Georgia in 1982.
No. 5 Nebraska 24, Colorado 7
Keith Jones rushed for 248 yards and scored on
runs of 50 and 44 yards as Nebraska avenged a 20-
10 loss to Colorado last year.
Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said the Corn
huskers were “beaten up both physically and
mentally" after last week's 17-7 loss to Oklaho-
“This was probably the toughest psychological
situation I’ve been in with a football team in 15
years,” he said.
Nebraska rushed for 419 yards in the game.
No. 14 Georgia 30, Georgia Tech 16
Georgia's Lars Tate scored two touchdowns
and became only the 11th running back in South
eastern Conference history to top the 3,000-yard
mark in his career.
Tate's 34-yard scoring early in the first half
gave Georgia a 23-9 lead. He finished with 99
yards on 20 carries, giving him 3,017 yards in his
career.
Georgia, 8-3, will play Arkansas in the Liberty
Bowl.
No. 16 Tennessee 38, Vanderbilt 36
The Volunteers trailed 28-3 before rallying to
beat their intra-state rival.
Tennessee's Chris Treece recovered a fumbled
kickoff return by Jeff Mays to set up the go
ahead touchdown by William Howard with 9:45
left in the third period.
Howard’s 6-yard TD run gave the Volunteers a
32-28 lead, and another Vanderbilt fumble set up
one of three field goals by Phil Reich with 6:59
left in the third quarter.
Tennessee, 9-2-1, will play Indiana in the Peach
Bowl.
Warner, Seahawks
set to face Raiders
By JIM COUR
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE Curt Warner is hurt
ing physically but he'll be shooting
for his third straight 100-yard rushing
game tonight when the Seattle Sea
hawks play the slump-ridden Los
Angeles Raiders.
The Seahawks, who have aspi
rations of winning the AFC West, are
looking for their third win in a row
and fifth victory in six games since
the 24-day NFL players' strike ended.
Seattle, 7-3. is favored by nine
points to pin the eighth consecutive
loss on the Raiders, 3-7, in the game
which begins at 9 p.m. EST.
Despite a painful turf toe. the fran
chise running back from Penn State
played a key role in Seattle's 24-1.3
victory over Green Bay and 34-3
defeat of division-leading San Diego.
Against the Packers, he carried 25
times for 123 yards. Against the
Chargers, he had 23 carries for 119
yards.
W r arner's big toe on his right foot
was badly sprained in Seattle's 28-17
victory over Minnesota in the King
dome on Nov. 1. His toe was so swol
len that he had to use crutches
following a 30-14 Seattle loss to the
New York Jets at the Meadowlands
Nov. 9.
Warner will wear a plastic sleeve
on his toe to help protect and support
the injured joint. His toe problem has
kept him from practicing.
“It always nelps when you go out
and practice Decause you can see
things a lot better." said Warner.
“Sometimes you have to wing it.
That’s what I've had to do."
Warner says he enjoys playing
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fun," he said.
After the 10th week of NFL play,
Warner ranked second in the AFC in
rushing. W ith three 100-yard rushing
games this season to give him 19 for
his five-year pro career, he has
rushed for 054 yards on 147 carries
this season, an average of 4.4 yards
per carry. The Seahawks are 16-3 in
his 100-yard rushing games.
W arner w ill be matched against the
Raiders' running back tandem of
rookie Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen,
former Heisman Trophy winners.
Jackson, who has his teammates
excited, has been brought along slow
ly since he ended his baseball season
with the Kansas Cit\ Rovals and
joined the Raiders
In a 23-1 , loss to aver in Los
Angeles last weekeia . Jackson ran
over Broncos' defender Mike Harden
i;) a 35-yard touchdown burst.
"For the first time in a long time. I
got tingles down my b, : . k when I saw
that run. said Raider:- defensive end
Howie Long. "It s exciting. It pumps
a whole team up."
“He's God's gift to halfbacks," said
Raiders cornerback Lester Hayes.
“He's a godsend. He's unreal. He was
destined to be a football player.”
"The future may be now but we
have something to look forward to,"
said Allen.
"Every week Bo gets . ttle bet
ter." said Raiders Coach I Flores.
With him and Marcus in ihe same
backfield, were obviensiv trving to
utilize both of their tai- its. 1 think it's
a pretty good combin,, on. Obvious
ly. you'd like to have B<> tor the whole
year, meaning the ■ : season and
mini-camp and training camp so you
can refine the combination."