q The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 9,1998-13 Staff Picks - - all picks made against the spread. Game (HOME TEAM IN CAPS) Ohio State (-36) vs. ILLINOIS MICHIGAN STATE (-10) vs. Indiana Nebraska (-11) vs. TEXAS A&M IOWA (-10) vs. Northwestern, Kansas State (-15.5) vs. COLORADO Penn State (-17) vs. MINNESOTA ARIZONA STATE (-3.5) vs. Notre Dame GEORGIA (-3) VS.Tennessee Florida State (-10) vs. MIAMI FLORIDA (-12.5) vs Louisiana State WISCONSIN (-6.5) vs. Purdue UCLA (-6.5) vs. ARIZONA Best Bet Last Week (best bet) Overall (best bet) SHARAT RAJU Ohio State Indiana Texas A&M Iowa, Colorado Penn State Arizona State Georgia Florida State Louisiana State Purdue UCLA UCLA 7-5-1(0-1) 24-24-1 (2-2) JIM ROSE Ohio State Michigan State Nebraska Iowa Colorado Minnesota Notre Dame Georgia Miami Florida Wisconsin UCLA Michigan State 5-7 1(0-1) 18-30-1 (0-4) MARK SNYDER Illinois Indiana Nebraska Iowa Kansas State Minnesota Arizona State Tennessee Miami Louisiana State Purdue - UCLA UCLA 6-6-1 (0-1) 20-28-1 (2-2) Guest Selector JAMES MILLER Ohio State Indiana Nebraska Iowa Kansas State Penn State Notre Dame Georgia Florida State Florida Purdue UCLA Purdue 5-7-1 (0)* 25-23-1* EAST LANSING. Mich. (AP) - Michigan State coach Nick Saban must feel like he's dreaming. Only they're not dreams. These are nightmares for any college football coach, and they are very real. They are option quarterbacks. First it was Oregon's Akili Smith, then it was Notre Dame's Jarious Jackson. Now comes Indiana's Antwaan Randle El, just itching to spoil the Homecoming festivities at Spartan Stadium tomorrow. Michigan State (0-1 Big Ten, 2-3 overall) couldn't handle Smith at Oregon. But the Spartans rebounded to pin a 45-23 loss the Fighting Irish. Still, that doesn't make Saban feel any better about getting ready to face Randle El. Randle El has been the focus of the Hoosiers offense. He has passed for 878 yards and four touchdowns and also leads the teams in rushing with 234 yards Saban, State scared of Indiana's Randle El and five touchdowns. "He's an outstanding player" Saban said. "He's got big-play capabilities. Hc's one of the leading total-offense guys in the Big Ten" The Hoosiers (0-1, 2-2) have become an offensive threat this season, and the redshirt freshman is a big reason why. Indiana's two losses have come at the hands of Kentucky and Wisconsin - both noted offensive powers - by a total of just eight points. "They have tremendous balance," Saban said. "He runs the option well, he's a good thrower, and he's very athlet- ic. He is always a threat to scramble and run." Last week, in a 24-20 loss to Wisconsin, Indiana had more yardage than the Badgers (29 1-253). Randle El passed for 145 yards and ran for 34 more. . _ A note of explanation on Staff Picks: One quick word about those picks, folks. They're made against the spread That means this: MICHIGAN STATE (-10) vs. Indiana 'actually means that ifJames Miller picks the Hoosiers to win, they don't actually have to win the game - theyjust have to be within 10 points ofMichigan State. So if Michigan State wins by 9 points or fewer, Miller wins that game - even though the team he picked actually lost. We will have a guest selector each week for the staff picks. Most times it will be someone famous, but if you think you deserve to pick, e-mail us at daily.football@umich.edu and tell us why. Friends and family of Daily staffers are not only not excluded, but are welcome to apply. *Previous guest selectors have been: Professor Ralph Williams, Professor Sidney Fine, former Michigan kicker Remy. 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Indiana went from the single-class tournament to a mutli-class tourna- ment, dividing schools into divisions according to enrollment size, pre- venting a "Hoosier-esque" Cinderella season from happening again. The state oozes basketball from *cry pore. Larry Bird could run for governor and would win in a landslide. Ninety-year-old grandparents have been seen practicing back-door screen plays. With a state that cares more about the proper execution of a triple-post offense than global warming, how does football fit in? Especially now, with an Indiana Ootball team that is dangerous and can at least put a scare into almost anybody in the Big Ten, are people starting to actually care about Indiana football? "The Indiana basketball team has been a major plus for us in recruit- ing," Indiana football coach Cam Cameron said. "Almost everyone we recruit plays high school basketball. It's something I believe in." Cameron, who played both bas- ketball and football at Indiana in the early 1980s, has seen his team emerge from something just above a conference door- mat. ",,a, d'nA IF The Hoosiers almost upset unde- feated Wisconsin last week, losing by a mere four points. The biggest holes in i 1'll be all Iowa on ho its equal share of the limelight. In recent seasons, Knight's pro- gram hasn't been feared as much as in the past. But nobody has ever feared Indiana football, regardless of what Lloyd Carr might say before the Hoosiers come to Ann Arbor. So Cameron's crusade has been to both gain respect for his program nationally and also in his own state. T h e a few Indianapolis Colts certainly don't Wie but help the situation. "I think we're right3" moving away from being a football or - Hayden Fry basketball school," football coach Cameron said. w he is feeling "We're an ath- letic department that is trying to develop both football and basketball. I know coach Knight has been a part of that chain of think- ing." THE FRYING PAN: In the midweek Big Ten teleconference, Iowa coach Hayden Fry always comes up with the gems. When asked an innocuous ques- tion about how he was doing, he replied: "I've got a few holes in me, but I'll be all right." No word yet on what that really means in ordinary peoplespeak. - Sharat Raju can be reached at sraju@umich.edu. Live with British students in the very center of Oxford as an Associate Student of a medieval Oxford college. Summer and graduate study available. Since 1985, students from 240 leading U.S. Colleges have studied in Oxford through W.I.S.C. Washington International Studies Council 214 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E. 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