The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, November 27, 1995 - 58 .7:1 . . d W' STATE ears, Blue denies )Rose Bowl GAME STATISTICS Michigan defense stopped them cold. "We had the ball inside their 10-yard line on a couple of different occasions and came away with field goals as opposed to touchdowns," Cooper said. "That's some- thing we have not had to do all season." Ohio State also couldn't figure out how to stop Tshimanga Biakabutuka. The Michigan tailback tallied 313 yards on the day, darting through Buckeye defenders like they were invisible. All of a sudden, Ohio State looked up and saw it was trailing 31-15 midway through the fourth quarter. "We tried to keep our composure out there and get the ball back for our of- fense," linebacker Ryan Miller said. "It wasjust one of those days where it seemed nothing would go right." The Buckeyes scored atouchdown with 6:33 left in the contest. The two-point conversion made it a 31-23 game but that would be it for Ohio State. The game was sealed with under a minute left when Charles Woodson inter- cepted Hoying's pass at the Michigan 13- yard line. "I'm proud of our football team for hanging in there as long as they did and fighting back," Cooper said. "Right up to the end I thought we had a chance to score and tie the ballgame." The Buckeyes were plagued the entire day by dropped passes. Normally sure- handed receivers like Terry Glenn and Rickey Dudley had more than one pass bounce off their hands or pads. At one point in the game, the dropped balls caused Ohio State to fail to convert on seven straight third-down opportuni- ties. Ohio State went four for 15 on the day. "We dropped more passes today than we did all year," Cooper said. While Ohio State's offense stalled, the Wolverines scored three second-half touchdowns. "It was a great football team we played out there today," Miller said. "We'll have to go back to the drawing board and get ready for Tennessee." The Buckeyes will have a few weeks before that game to think about what hap- pened in Ann Arbor. "The thing I have to live with is there's no Rose Bowl, there's no Big Ten cham- pionship," Hoying said. Once again the Buckeyes will have to watch another team head off to Pasadena with the prize that was nearly in their grasp. "My hat goes off to Gary (Barnett) and Northwestern," Cooper said. "They've done a fabulousjob and I wish them luck." PASSING Player Hoying Totals C-A Yds TD Int 22-45 286 22-45 286 1 2 1 2 RUSHING Player Att George 21 Pearson 2 Hoying +6 Totals 29 RECEIVING C t Yds Avg LgTD 1104 5.0 11 1 2 1.0 80 0 0.0 140 9106 3.6 14i Player Tillman George Suala Dudley Glenn No. 3 5 Yds 48 50 Avg 16.0 10.0 LgTD 22 1 30 0 Iowa's victory over Minnesota Saturday likely sends them to a bowl game. 5 57 11.4 18 5 59 11.8 27 4 72 18.0 25 22 286 13.0 30 0 0 0 I ngrams late touchdown vaultsTotals PUNTI Pnn State past Spartans, 24-20 NG lome No. Y=s AvgCg w7 309 44.152 730944.152 The Associated Press Bobby Engram caught a four-yard touchdown pass with eight seconds re- maining to give No. 14 Penn State a 24- 20 victory over Michigan State and a share of third place in the Big Ten. With 1:45 to play and Penn State out of timeouts, Wally Richardson worked the clock like a pro, completing I1 passes in a drive that started at the Penn State 27-yard line. Up to that point, Penn State (5-3 Big Ten, 8-3 overall) had little to brag about. The Nittany Lions entered the game with the conference's second-best of- fense, but the Spartans (4-3-1, 6-4-1) intercepted two passes and held them to 359 yards, 67 below their average. Michigan State took a 20-17 lead on a 28-yard field goal by Chris Gardner with 5:13 remaining. Iowa 45, Minnesota 3 Matt Sherman threw two touchdown passes Saturday and Damani Shakoor came off the bench to run for 90 yards and two TDs as Iowa downed Minne- sota, 45-3, at Iowa City. Iowa's whipping of the Golden Go- phers for the third straight year came one day after Minnesota signed coach Jim Wacker to a new two-year contract. The victory put Iowa (4-4, 7-4) in the running for a berth in the Sun, Liberty or Independence bowls. The Golden Gophers (1-7, 3-8),who had been averaging 415 yards and 27 points a game, gained just 201 yards as they lost their seventh straight game. A 24-yard field goal by Mike Chalberg had cut Iowa's lead to 17-3 with 10:17 left in the third quarter. The Hawkeyes an- swered with an Il-play drive that con- sumed 5 minutes, 35 seconds and ended with Shakoor's 13-yard scoring run with 4:42 left in the quarter. It was Shakoor's first college touch- down. Wisconsin 3, Illinois 3 Brett Scheuplein's 54-yard field goal attempt fell short with 39 seconds left and Illinois settled for a 3-3 tie with Wisconsin Saturday. Scheuplein was good from 51 yards with 8:13 left to erase Wisconsin's lead. The tie left Illinois (3-4-1, 5-5-1) one victory short of qualifying for a bowl invitation. Wisconsin finished 4-5-2just two seasons after winning the Rose Bowl. The architect of that Rose Bowl sea- son, senior quarterback Darrell Bevell, who set 17 school passing records, was carted off the field with 2:58 remaining. Totals It appeared he aggravated bruised ribs on a handoff. PUNT F Purdue 51, Indiana 14 Already Purdue's career rushing and Player scoring leader, Mike Alstott broke the Stanle Boilermakers' single-season rushing Totals record and scored three touchdowns Fri- day in a 51-14 victory over Indiana. Purdue (2-5-1, 4-6-1) took a 24-0 lead KICKO in the second quarter and put the Hoo- siers (record here) away with three touch- Player downs in the third period. Stanle Alstott, who finished with a career- high 264 yards, set up one score with a PearsO 59-yard run, then scored on a 62-yard run Totals the next series. RETURNS y No.Yds Avg Lg TD 3 7 2.3 5 0 3 7 2.3 5 0 FF RETURNS No. Yds Avg Lg TD y On 2 1 21 10.5 15 15 15.0 15 0 0 0 3 36 12.015 Big Tndings Conference AU qamN s Team: , ft.4IP . i . 9 ::1 Northwestern Ohio State Michigan Penn State Michigan State Iowa- Illinois Wisconsin Purdue Minnesota Indiana w 8 7 5 4 4 3 3 2 1 0 I- 0 1 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 7 8 T 0 0 0 .1 0 "1 0 0 .-Pct. 1.000 .875 .625 .625 .563 .500 ,438. .438 .313 .125 ,000 W 10 11 9 8 6 7 5 4 4 3 2 L 5 1 3 3 4 4 5 5 6. 9 0f 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 Pct. .909 .917 .750 .727 .591 .636 .500 .455 ,409 .273 .222 DEFENSE Player Johnson R. Miller Kelly Bellisari Vrabel Springs Bonhaus Fickell Gwinn Finkes Moore Winfield Bryant McClellion Shavers Spriggs Daniels Glenn Griffin Howard Kreuzer Totals Solo 7 7 7 4 7 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 69 Ast 4 4 2 4 1 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 26 Tot 11 11 9 8 8 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 95 This Wook's Rmsuts: Michigan 31, Ohio State 23 Penn State 24, Michigan St. 20 Illinois 3, Wisconsin 3 Iowa 45, Minnesota 3 Purdue 51, indiana 14 JONATHAN LURIE/Daily a 31-24 victory Saturday. Woodson had two interceptions on the day. verines) were in a two-deep zone, and the pass should have gone to the tight end in the middle of the field." Biakabutuka carried the ball six straight times after that interception and the drive ended on a two-yard touchdown dive by Michigan quarterback Brian Griese. The score put the Wolverines up, 17-9. Earlier in the week, Glenn challenged Woodson, who is a true freshman. Glenn had also said Michigan was "nobody." "I thought I played a pretty good game," Woodson said. "Not to take any- thing away from Terry Glenn, but he talked a little too much earlier this week, and I don't know what he was thinking." The 10-0 team Ohio State brought to Ann Arbor was considered much better than the 9-0-1 team that lost to the Wolver- ines, 28-0, in Michigan Stadium in 1993. The Buckeyes' power seemed to phase everyone but Michigan. The Wolverines controlled the game in the trenches, domi- nating the offensive and defensive lines, and had momentum for most of the game. Michigan ran up 381 yards rushing while holding the Buckeyes to just 106. Overall, Michigan had 484 yards total offense to Ohio State's 392. "I'm tremendously disappointed," Cooper said after the game. "I don't know if I've ever been as disappointed as I am right now." It was Michigan coach Lloyd Carr's first Wolverine-Buckeye game as head coach. Inthe lockerroom, after the game, Michigan wouldn't let Carr down from his podium and the team forced him to lead them in the Victors. It is an honor usually reserved for the captains. "It has been a long season, but I can't think ofa better way to end it than the way these kids did this afternoon," a choked up Carr said. "It was a tremendous effort by an unbelievable group of kids." Michigan trailed only once in the game, after a 37-yard field goal by Ohio State's Josh Jackson with 7:39 left in the first quarter. The Wolverines answered on their next possession, though. After runs of 16 and 44 yards from Biakabutuka, Griese hit tailback Clarence Williams with a two-yard touchdown pass in the front-right corner of the endzone. Michigan held onto the lead the rest of the game, but not without the help of the defense. Ohio State again drove deep into Michigan territory and had a first-and- goal at the four-yard line. Buckeye tailback Pepe Pearson was stuffed for a six-yard loss by Will Carr on first down. Wide receiver Rickey Dudley picked up five yards on a sec- INTERCEPTIONS Player Vrabel Kelly Spriggs Totals No. Yds 1 15 1 11 1 0 3 26 TD. 0 0 0 0 wing summary. TEAM STATISTICS MICH OSU by quarter 1 2 3 4 TOT o State 3 6 7 3 6 8 23 714 31 First Quarter: Ohio State - Jackson 37-yard field goal (7:29) Michigan - C. Williams 4-yard pass from Griese (Hamilton kick) 5:34) econd Quarter: Ohio State --Jackson 21-yard field goal (10:38) Michlgan - Hamilton 38-yard field goal (5:32) First Downs Third Down Rushing Passing Total Offense Plays Turnovers Penalties Time 23 23 6-13 4-15 381 106 103 286 484 392 75 74 3 2 6-42 8-64 32:33 27:27 I ,ISM-4 -fs L~p 4I.I n w