Shapp, kicks off 'Colle•ian Big Ten' predictions „ :,.._..,.,,.2....„.„.........„„..,.,.......„....,„,„,.,,. ~ .. ~ .......„,.., ._,...,..,..._. q• _.t • 4 Penn S dtazCollOgiap sports The Daily Collegian DUN EL'S FOOTBALL INDEX Super grid powers again big favorites By DICK DUNKEL'. ©1973 by Dunkel Sports Research Service Most of college football's presumed superpowers open their seasons tomorrow and the scoring should set adding machines singing across the land. These hefty rating differences appear on the Dunkel Index: So. Calif. 30 over Arkansas Alabama 26 over Cal Never,give a sucker an even break. Sneak up on him with a Collegian'lassifieZH • CHILDSPACE 0 $ A creative daycare program has l openings 1 . for children 3to 5 years old in our 5-day, 4 . . MWF and T-Th programs. • Open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. . For further information call: Mike and Carol Howard , Teachers-Directors of Childs pace • 141 E. Fairmount Ave. 1 / : State College, Pa. Tel. 237-6429 , • 4 4 Ante Corwr botwg t. —a delightful setting— enjoy Candlelight Dining =---- a nd - Entertainment on the porch Prime Ribs Au Jus Surf & Turf New York Strip Steak With such a shaky difficult to imagine manY, proposition as the Collegian Pennsylvanians going against sports staff ' s first shot at Penn State tomorrow. 50.., predicting college football "Joe Paterno and his strong games, a bit of prestige was Nittany Lions will find a whi, needed. I ' in the west is the best way to The obvious loaner of such get the '73 season off prestige ; would be Joe winging," Shapp offered. "It Paterno, no! doubt about it. should be good TV watching." But Pate* obviously would As for the Temple-Boston have a vested , interest in such - College game, the governor a venture. Can youp, for again went with the instance, imagine his picking Pennsylvania school, this Penn State to lose at Stanford time in a mild upset, this weekend? "Powerhouse Owls should Next on the list was Gov. Milton .J.' Shapp. With his being a pulitician, there also was some doubt as to whether he would ;be completely impartial ' where a Pennsylvania school was involved. I But, then, it's tate heads west for Stanford Michigan 120 over Iowa: Ohio State 12 over Minnesota Tennessee, 21 over Duke Auburn 35 over Oregon St Penn State 17 over Stanford Oklahoma i 26 over Baylor Florida 23 Over Kansas St These figures are 'point pars,' not forecasts, and show how well he superpowers must perforin to maintain their present ratings. If they do better, of course, their riday & Saturday :00 7 9:30 p.m. the Corner Room M::1 make it two for two against BC," was his cryptic message. Shapp, however; did break with some of his constituents wishes over Pitt's Johnny Majors and his team's opener at Georgia: "The Panthers Friday, September 14, 1973-7 ratings will rise. And vice The superpowers and all other teams enter their, openers carrying last year's: final ratings because we find. this the most accurate' Nebraska _ Va. Tech ___.83.0 S. Dakota _ 76.7 Temple _71.0 N.C.State _104.3 Drambling —__ _81.4 Clemson -___7s.o N.DakotaSt _70.7 U.C.L.A._96.2 Wm & Mary .81.3 N'west La _74.7 Dayton _ ___7o 1 U.C.L.A._ Mississipp_ 96.1 Arizona ___.Bl.o Virginia .__ 72.6 Sax St. Ala _69.9 Memphis St .85.0 Tenn. St _ 80.4 Indiana .St .- 71.0 Pacific -.—_ 69.8 Delaware __ 842 N.lllinois __ 79.8 Idaho -- 71.4 Tex.Arl'n ___69.5 Louisville _83.8 Montana St _ 77.9 E.Carollna _71.1 Holy Cross _.69.2 are about two years away Those three and Gov. of three . Collegian sports Press' to form the first will take the position from being one of the best Shapp's seven other picks writers„ Dunkel's Football "Collegian's Big Ten?' Each originally occupied by the teams in the country again." have been tossed in with those Index and the Associated week a guest prognosticator governor. —RMc Ray McAllister Mark Simenson Rick Starr Dunkel's Football Index Associated Press Gov. Milton J. Shapp By RAY McALLISTER Collegian Sports Editor He wasn't about to say much, that was for sure. Indeed, his parting words were: "John McKay said the other day that anyone who says he knows what will happen in the first game is lying, and I don't want to lie." Indeed, Joe Paterno didn't offer anything that could be construed as lying, or even as going out on a limb. Penn State's final practice before taking off for Stanford had not been overly impressive. Significantly, however, neither did Paterno appear overly concerned. A year ago Penn State was to open at Tennessee against a team which had taken a tough Georgia Tech squad on national TV the week before. A number of Lions,,were about to gain their first experience of any note. There was a definite tension. "Last year was a big difference," Paterno said yesterday method of starting -a new season. Our research has shown that the average team will vary only 7.0 Eating pointS on the Index froth one season through the next. The -Index, like the NATIONAL LEADERS TO DATE Penn State at Stanford Arkansas at Southern Cal Pitt at Georgia Penn State 31-24 Southern Cal Georgia Penn State 35-27 Southern Cal Penn State 23-13 Georgia Southern Cal Penn State by 17 Georgia Southern ,Cal Penn State 2845 Southern Cal Penn State Southern Cal handicapping system at your local golf club, is a progressive average of difference by score. Last week it entered its 45th year by selecting winners in 82.8 continued on page 8 N. Dakota __.69.2 W.Carolina —68.3 Mass U 69.2 Villanova 68.0 N.Dakota St 68 9 Tenn.Teeh _67.9 Western Ky .68.9 N.Mexico St .67.3 E.Mlchigan .68.7 Idaho St __.66.7 San Jose 68.6 E.Tex.st _____66.2 W.Miehnlan .68.5 Angelo St .___66.B alternative living experience? Wednesday evenings on 'thefollowing schedule. All suites will be open Sunday through Duke at ennessee Colorado at LSU Tennessee, Colorado Z=llEl33 EIESSEM Colorado Tennessee Tennesse Tennessee "Tennessee had played a game already. "If we're licked this time, it's because Stanford's a better team; we've got no excuses. We've got a lot of experience out on the field this time." One of the notable exceptions to that line about experience is at quarterback, where Penn State has pushed Tom Shuman to fill the gap left by John Hufnagel's graduation. As has been suggested frequently, potentially that is a huge gap. "Tommy right now is a solid quarterback who only needs some game experience," Paterno said, indicating that this might be an exceptionally important game. Later, however, he attempted to dispel that notion. "I've never felt any one game is that important," he said. "Sometimes pre-season publicity and all that builds everything up so much that you get to the stage where you feel you have to win. "But if you win one and then lose the next week, you're in the same position, anyway." Obviously, Paterno is out to win them all, but he appeared remarkably cool, almost blase or indifferent. Talking about the defenses he hopes to use against Stanford, he said: -4 4 Defense today is just a matter of changing up all the time. You have to hope you guess right, that's all. Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't... "Maybe we'll get them to make some mistakes." Then he spoke of some of the positions where he had a pair of men seriously contending for them, who would start and who would see a significant amount of game time. Bob Nagle had the edge on Tom Donchez at fullback, Paterno said, but both would play frequently as would Chuck- Herd and Jimmy Scott at flanker. 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