Hogs host Warhawks in non-conference action
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09/08/2010 -
Little Rock, AR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The 14th-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks of the
SEC will attempt to knock off the UL-Monroe Warhawks, a team from the Sun Belt
Conference set to open its season.
In December, ULM announced Todd Berry as the program's 14th head coach. Berry,
who was the program's offensive coordinator from 2004-05, spent the last three
seasons calling plays at UNLV. He inherits a club that is in a rebuilding
mode, as the Warhawks split their 12 games a year ago. Few starters return on
defense for ULM, and while the offense is a bit more experienced, there is no
doubt that the squad enters this opener as a huge underdog.
As for Arkansas, it began the campaign with a 44-3 thrashing of Tennessee
Tech, an FCS squad.
"I like the way we came out of halftime, because we started to settle down and
run the ball better," said coach Bobby Petrino after the triumph.
Petrino is in his third year at the helm at Arkansas and has obviously made an
impact in a short time considering the team came into the season with its
highest ranking since 1990. The Razorbacks went 8-5 overall in 2009, including
posting their first bowl victory since 2003, a 20-17 win over East Carolina in
the Liberty Bowl.
Arkansas has won all eight of its previous meetings with UL-Monroe, the most
recent of which took place in 2008.
It will be interesting to see who starts and finished the game at quarterback
for ULM. Trey Revell was the starter last season and ranked third in the Sun
Belt in passing efficiency. The 6-4, 222-pound Revell is a dual threat,
throwing for 1,739 yards and rushing for 311 more last year, but a late-season
slump and thumb injury has opened the door for redshirt freshman Kolton
Browning. The frosh showed enough in the spring to be considered the lead
candidate.
"This is pretty much a quarterback driven offense and it puts a tremendous
amount of pressure on those guys intellectually in what we are asking the
quarterback to do, in relation to what they have done in the past," said
Berry.
The key player for the ULM offense is tailback Frank Goodin, who is less than
900 yards shy of becoming the program's all-time leading rusher. The 5-9, 211-
pound Goodin earned Second Team All-SBC honors a season ago, rushing for 1,126
yards and 13 touchdowns.
Using a 3-3-5 scheme, ULM boasted one of the best defensive units in the Sun
Belt last season and ranked 44th nationally in total defense (347.0 ypg).
Seven starters are now gone, leaving the Warhawks with a major rebuilding
project.
"We don't care who plays, we are going to put the best players out on the
field based on what fits our system," stated Berry.
The Warhawks welcome back only a single starter along the defensive line, but
he is a good one in Troy Evans. Only one starter returns to the linebacking
corps as well, but the secondary is a little more settled with two starters
and some experienced depth welcomed back. Safety Darius Prelow has all-league
potential and he started to emerge as a force last season.
Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett began his 2010 Heisman campaign in style
against Tennessee Tech last weekend, completing 21-of-24 passes for 301 yards
and three touchdowns.
"The first win is always the toughest one," said Mallett. "You never know what
to expect the first game out. Tennessee Tech did some things well in the first
half, but we were able to adjust in the second half and played really good
defense."
Ronnie Wingo Jr., Dennis Johnson and Broderick Green each had a score on the
ground while Joe Adams finished the game with six catches for 138 yards and
two touchdowns. Arkansas totaled 519 yards of offense in the clash, but the
level of competition obviously wasn't up to SEC standards.
Defensively, Arkansas limited Tennessee Tech to 79 rushing yards on 43
carries, an impressive showing by any standards. The pass defense was solid as
well, allowing just a 50 percent completion rating. While the Razorbacks did
fail to come up with a single takeaway, they posted a pair of sacks and
battled for four quarters.
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NCAA Football Betting : USC's reward: Top spot in Top 25
NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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