College Football : South Roundup : North Carolina Rallies Behind Maye to Win

Mark Maye threw four second-half touchdown passes and set a school record with 406 yards passing to give North Carolina a 30-23 comeback victory over Georgia Tech Saturday at Atlanta.

Maye completed only 7 of 17 passes for 110 yards and no touchdowns in the first half, when Georgia Tech built a 20-3 lead, mainly on the passing of Rick Strom. But the Tar Heels’ senior quarterback completed 16 of 21 for 296 yards after intermission.

Strom, who was 14 of 20 for 163 yards in the first half, wound up 23 of 44 for 226 yards.

Maye credited the Tar Heels’ hurry-up offense in for his performance in the second half of the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both schools.

Three of the touchdowns were to wide receiver Randy Marriott, who had a school-record 9 catches for 247 yards.

Tech had a 20-3 halftime margin before Maye exploded.

“At the half, we were behind 17 points and we had to score,” Maye said. “Coach (Dick) Crum decided to start the second half with our hurry-hurry (two-minute) offense. You have to give the offensive line and the receivers all the credit.”

Florida St. 41, Memphis St. 24--At Tallahassee, Fla., Dexter Carter scored 3 touchdowns and his 74-yard run set up another as seventh-ranked Florida State (3-0) rolled over Memphis State (1-2).

Carter, who finished with 311 all-purpose yards, scored on runs of 4 and 7 yards and caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Chip Ferguson.

Carter rushed for 135 yard in 13 carries, caught 4 passes for 63 yards and returned 4 kickoffs for 113 yards.

Maryland 25, W. Virginia 20--At College Park, Md., the Terrapins fell behind, 14-0, after 30 seconds of play, then rallied twice from behind to defeat the Mountaineers on Bren Lowery’s 13-yard touchdown run with 5:49 left.

West Virginia jumped ahead when Eugene Napoleon ran the opening kickoff back 94 yards, and then, on Maryland’s first play from scrimmage, Robert Pickett intercepted a deflected pass from Dan Henning and returned it 26 yards for a touchdown.

Maryland extended its winning streak over the Mountaineers to four games and improved to 2-1 for the season. West Virginia dropped to 1-2.

Wake Forest 21, N. Carolina St. 3--Mark Young rushed for a career-high 144 yards and 2 touchdowns in 29 carries as Wake Forest defeated North Carolina State in an Atlantic Coast conference game at Winston-Salem, N.C.

Starting tailback Darryl McGill scored on a one-yard plunge on Wake Forest’s opening drive, but left the game in the third quarter with a sprained right ankle. Young replaced him and added a one-yard scoring dive with 2:51 left in the third period to give first-year Demon Deacon Coach Bill Dooley his first ACC victory since he left North Carolina in 1977.

Young capped his day with a 28-yard touchdown run with 1:51 left to raise Wake Forest’s record to 2-0, while North Carolina State is 0-3.

S. Mississippi 31, Tulane 24--At Hattiesburg, Miss., freshman quarterback Brett Favre came off the bench to engineer three touchdowns in the second half as Southern Mississippi improved its season record to 1-1 while dropping Tulane to 1-2.

Favre was inserted into the sputtering Southern Mississippi offense in the third quarter and promptly used sharp passing to start the Golden Eagle’s comeback.

Southern Mississippi took the lead for the final time with 8:21 left on a 23-yard touchdown pass from the 17-year-oldFavre to wide receiver Alfred Williams.

Tulane quarterback Terrence Jones scored twice on runs of 53 yards in the second quarter and 52 yards in the third quarter.

Virginia 14, Virginia Tech 13--Chris Stearns and Jeff Lageman tackled Malcolm Blacken in the backfield on a two-point conversion try with 1:24 to play to preserve a victory for the Cavaliers at Charlottesville, Va.

Virginia Tech’s conversion attempt came after quarterback Erik Chapman’s 26-yard pass into the end zone bounced off the chest of his intended receiver, Karl Borden, and into the hands of tight end Steve Johnson.

Quarterback Scott Secules threw a 29-yard scoring pass to Keith Mattioli in the first quarter and ran for a 1-yard touchdown in the second period for Virginia.

The victory, only the second for Virginia in the last eight years against the Hokies, improved the Cavaliers’ record to 1-2. Virginia Tech fell to 0-2.

The Hokies’ other touchdown came on a three-yard run by Earnie Jones in the second quarter.