10B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - September 28, 1998 Staff Picks - all picks made against the spread. Winners in bold (HOME TEAM IN CA MICHIGAN (-10) vs. Michigan State HAWAII (-10) vs. Arkansas St. Iowa (-9) vs. ILLINOIS FLORIDA (-21) vs. Kentucky WISCONSIN (-10.5) vs. Northwesterr NOTRE DAME (-7) vs. Purdue UCLA (-6.5) vs. MIAMI (FLA.) FLA. STATE (-15.5) vs. Southern Cal NEBRASKA (-12) vs. Washington Marshall (-13.5) vs. EASTERN MICHI Indiana (-3.5) vs. CINCINNATI N. CAROLINA (-5.5) vs. Georgia Tech Best Bet Last Week Overall (best bet) S PS) ] MARK SNYDER Guest Selector REMY HAMILTON 5KAKA RAJU ROSE Michigan State Michigan State Michigan Michigan Hawaii Arkansas State Hawaii Hawaii Iowa Iowa Illinois Iowa Kentucky Florida Florida Florida n Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Purdue ******GAME CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE GEORGES - SELECTORS COUNT CANCELLATION AS A VICTORY ****** Florida State Southern Cal Florida State Florida State Washington Washington Nebraska Nebraska GAN Marshall Eastern Michigan Marshall Marshall Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina Iowa Washington Indiana Florida 6-6 (1-0) 6-6 (01 ) 6,&6 (1-0) 8-4(0-1) 17-19 (2-1) 13-23 (0-3) 14-22 (2-1) 20-16 (1-2) Guest selectors on fire M chigan Daily staffers have been very hospitable to their guests. Guest selec- tors have racked up a 20-16 record over the season's three weeks, despite only a 1-2 mark on best bets. So far, the combined record of the guest selec- tors a surpassed that of football writers Jim Rose, Mark Snyder and Sharat Raju. A fer go ng with academic gaests for the first two weeks of the season, the Deiy ited forcer Michigan placekicker Remy Hamilton to pick this week. Hamilton field goal led Michigan to an emotional, last-second victory over Not ro Dame in South Bend in 1994. Here's how each individual guest selector has fared: Record Best Bet Professor Ralph Williams 5-7 - 0-1 Professor Sidney Fine 7-5 1-0 Football player Remy Hamilton 8-4 04 Totals 20.16 1-2 If you think you are a potential Daily guest selector who can continue the recent trend of guest excellence, write to dally.football@umich.edu in the early part of the week and let us know why. Friends and family of Daily staffers are not only not excluded, but are encouraged to apply. Gators dismantle highly touted Couch, Kentucky in blowout GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Tim Couch became Kentucky's career leader in passing yardage and had his fifth consecutive 300-yard passing day. He played what his coach described as his best game as a colle- gian. But Couch left Florida still lacking one important thing: a victory over the Gators. Since making his first college start two years ago against Florida, Couch has faced the Gators three times: a 65- 0 blowout in 1996 at the Swamp; a 55- 28 beating last year at Lexington in which the Wildcats fell behind 28-0 in the first quarter; and Saturday's 51-35 loss. Saturday's game was by far Couch's best of the bunch. He com- pleted 40 of 61 attempts for 406 yards and three touchdowns and gave up two interceptions, both in the late stages of the game. His poised performance against Florida also marked how far Couch has come since two years ago, when he was 6-for-18 for 13 yards while running Bill Curry's option against the national title-bound Gators. Couch said Kentucky had hoped for a high-scoring game. . "Obviously we'd like to come out on the other end of it, but that's the kind of game we do want to get into, a shootout, because we feel we can score more points than the other team," Couch said. Coach Hal Mumme's game plan challenged Couch to focus on a short, high-percentage passing game, partic- ularly in the early going, when it was crucial that Kentucky avoid turnovers. Couch responded with a 15-of-25 first half in which he threw for 157 yards without an interception. "That was my goal coming in, just execute to perfection and try not to get us out of the game early," Couch said. "He field-generaled an entire game plan from start to finish," Mumme said. "He stayed with the game plan." By Mumme's usual air-it-out stan- dards, it was a small-ball attack - a lot of screens and dump-offs. The only play to save for Couch's Heisman highlight tape was his touchdown throw to Craig Yeast on first-and-10 from the Wildcats 3. The quarterback lofted a pass to Yeast around the 25, where the receiver had a step on cornerback Doc Pollard. Yeast broke a tackle by safety Teako Brown and streaked down the sideline unmolested for a touchdown that gave Kentucky a 14-7 lead. The score secured yet another line in the Kentucky record book for Couch - longest offensive play in school history - and helped push him to the Kentucky record for career passing yards. He finished the game with 5,737 to break the mark set by Bill Ransdell in the 1980s. Florida's quarterbacks started picking on the Wildcats' young sec- ondary and by halftime, Kentucky trailed 35-21. 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