COLLEGE FOOTBALL : REGIONAL ROUNDUP : Longhorns Say So Long to SMU

Texas had plenty of firepower to make up for an off day by quarterback James Brown, as Shon Mitchell rushed for 180 yards and two touchdowns for the No. 21 Longhorns, who rolled to a 35-10 victory over Southern Methodist on Saturday in a Southwest Conference opener at Dallas.

Texas (3-1) bounced back from a 55-27 loss to Notre Dame to win the 73rd and last scheduled game in a series dating back to 1916. With the breakup of the SWC, Texas heads for the new Big 12 and SMU (1-4) to the Western Athletic Conference.

The sore-shouldered Brown had a bizarre day. He threw two touchdown passes but had three passes intercepted by SMU cornerback Cornell Parker. He was replaced in the second half by Richard Walton, who threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Matt Davis.

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Jerod Douglas rushed for 157 yards in 25 carries and set up three field goals by Jarvis Van Dyke as Baylor (3-1, 1-0) defeated No. 24 Texas Tech, 9-7, at Waco, Tex., in the teams’ final matchup as SWC members. Tech (1-2, 0-1) got past midfield only twice in the second half.

EAST

Jim Druckenmiller threw a go-ahead touchdown pass to Jermaine Holmes on a play that covered 73 yards with 10:42 left as Virginia Tech (2-2, 2-1) rallied for a 26-16 Big East victory over Pittsburgh (2-3, 0-1) at Pittsburgh. Virginia Tech, second-to-last nationally in scoring, trailed, 9-0, in the third quarter but two blocked punts by Angelo Harrison led to a touchdown and a field goal. . . . Donovan McNabb threw two touchdown passes to Marvin Harrison and Syracuse (3-1, 1-0) scored 24 consecutive second-half points for a 27-17 Big East victory over Rutgers (1-3, 0-1) at Piscataway, N.J.

Keylan Cates ran for three touchdowns as Bowling Green (3-2) extended Temple’s losing streak to 12 games--the longest in Division I-A--with a 37-31 nonconference victory at Philadelphia. Henry Burris threw for 281 yards and two touchdowns for Temple (0-4), which lost its 16th in a row at home. . . . J. Parker kicked a 44-yard field goal as time expired, capping a furious last-minute drive and giving Army (1-2-1) a 21-21 tie with Rice (1-2-1) at West Point, N.Y.

Jeremiah Greathouse kicked a 41-yard field goal with 27 seconds left in the game to give Pennsylvania (3-0) a 20-19 nonconference victory over Bucknell (2-2) at Philadelphia’s Franklin Field and preserve the Quakers’ 24-game winning streak, the longest in the nation. . . . Brown’s Jason McCullough set a school record with five touchdown passes, all in the first half, as the Bears (2-1) recorded a 37-14 victory over Holy Cross (0-4) at Worcester, Mass. . . . Freshman Tory Taylor ran for 199 yards and Wilbur Gilliard had 154 as Connecticut (4-0) amassed a school-record 618 yards of total offense in a 39-20 victory over Yale (1-2) at New Haven, Conn. . . . David Ramirez caught a touchdown pass from Matt Cavanaugh on a 59-yard play with 3:59 to play and Columbia (1-1-1) rallied for a 10-10 tie with Lafayette (1-2-1) at Easton, Pa.

Steve Joyce threw three touchdown passes and Cornell (1-2, 1-1) stopped Dartmouth (1-2, 0-2) twice inside the six-yard line in the fourth quarter for a 24-19 Ivy League victory at Hanover, N.H. . . . Fordham (2-3) spotted Harvard (1-2) three touchdowns, then roared back on the passing of Joe Moorhead and Bob Hagen’s 22-yard field goal with three seconds left for a 24-21 nonconference victory, handing the Crimson its eighth loss in the last nine home games. . . . Marc Washington rushed for a career-high 219 yards and three touchdowns in 29 carries to lead Princeton (3-0) to a 34-23 nonconference victory over Colgate (0-4) at Hamilton, N.Y.

SOUTH

Chad Holcomb’s 27-yard field goal with 2:12 remaining stopped a second-half surge by West Virginia (2-3) as East Carolina (3-2) finished a tough September schedule with a 23-20 victory at Greenville, N.C. . . . After resorting to a fake punt to keep a drive alive, Louisville’s Marty Lowe threw to John Bell for an 11-yard scoring pass to give the Cardinals (3-2) a 17-7 victory over Memphis (1-4) at Memphis, Tenn. . . . Rod Thomas stole a Tulane pass and scampered 75 yards and Lee Kendrick returned a punt 74 yards as defense-minded Southern Mississippi (3-2) rolled to a 45-0 victory over the Green Wave (2-2) at Hattiesburg, Miss.

MIDWEST

Kevin Lockett set the Kansas State school record for touchdown catches at 14 as the 16th-ranked Wildcats (4-0) snapped out of first-half lethargy and rolled to a 44-0 victory over Northern Illinois (2-3) at Manhattan, Kan. . . . Ryan Huzjak passed for 284 yards and two touchdowns to lead Toledo (4-0) to a 45-31 victory over Cincinnati (1-4) at Cincinnati.

WEST

Joe Furlow’s 42-yard field goal with 18 seconds left lifted San Jose State (1-4, 1-1) to a 32-30 Big West victory over Utah State (0-4, 0-2) at San Jose. . . . Hawaii quarterback Glenn Freitas rushed for four touchdowns and passed for another to give the Rainbow Warriors (2-2) a 58-30 victory over UNLV (1-4) at Las Vegas.