Seminoles Blow Past Stumbling Hurricanes

Miami’s once-proud Hurricanes, owners of four national championships since 1983, hit rock bottom Saturday.

No. 4 Florida State (4-0) handed Miami its worst loss in 53 years, routing the Hurricanes, 47-0, at Tallahassee, Fla., as freshman Travis Minor scored two touchdowns and Thad Busby passed for two.

“Miami is down right now,” Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden said. “They just do not have the maturity and depth they usually have. We had a lot of advantages.”

Miami, which won its last national championship in 1991, has lost four consecutive games for the first time since 1977. The Hurricanes (1-4) also have lost three consecutive games to Florida State and it was their worst loss since a 70-14 defeat in 1944 to Texas A&M.;

Miami won by the identical 47-0 score in 1976--Bowden’s first season at Florida State. And the ‘Canes had dominated this series as recently as the early 1990s, winning seven of eight times between 1985 and 1993--wiping out possible Seminole championships four times in that span.

Miami’s offense was almost invisible against a swarming Florida State defense that turned in its first shutout against the Hurricanes in 33 years.

No. 5 North Carolina 31, Texas Christian 10--Chris Keldorf’s two fourth-quarter touchdown passes crushed a Horned Frog rally at Fort Worth, Texas.

Keldorf, who got the start only because Oscar Davenport was nursing a knee injury, completed 25 of 41 passes for a school-record 415 yards and three touchdowns. That broke the record of 406 yards set by Mark Maye against Georgia Tech in 1987.

Texas Christian converted two fumbles into 10 fourth-quarter points to scare the Tar Heels (5-0). Trailing 17-0, the Horned Frogs (0-4) got a 32-yard field goal from Michael Reeder and a five-yard touchdown pass from Jeff Dover to Torrie Simmons.

Keldorf drove the Tar Heels 70 yards in eight plays and tossed an 11-yard touchdown to Alge Crumpler to wreck TCU’s spirited bid for an upset.

Virginia 21, Wake Forest 13--Aaron Brooks ran 25 yards for a touchdown with 5 1/2 minutes left at Charlottesville, Va., and the Cavaliers overcame a stumbling effort to win for the 14th consecutive time in the series.

Brooks, who has taken much of the blame for Virginia’s poor start in his first year as the starting quarterback, completed three consecutive passes in the winning drive, then capped it by scrambling for the decisive touchdown.

Wake Forest (2-3 overall, 1-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) has been beaten twice by one point and once by two.

Joe Williams, beaten earlier for a touchdown, provided some insurance for the Cavaliers (2-2, 1-1) with 24 seconds remaining, intercepting a pass from Brian Kuklick and returning it 32 yards for a touchdown to close the scoring.

Georgia Tech 42, Boston College 14--Joe Hamilton ran 61 yards for a touchdown and threw for another as the Yellow Jackets recovered from Quinton Lee’s 76-yard scoring run on the second offensive play and beat the Eagles at Boston.

The Yellow Jackets (3-1) led 28-7 at halftime and scored on all three of their series in the second quarter and their first in the third.

Besides Lee’s run, the Eagles (2-3) managed only 112 yards in the first half.

Clemson 39, Texas El Paso 7--Nealon Greene snapped the Tigers out of their doldrums with three second-half touchdown passes, including two to Tony Horne in a romp of the Miners at Clemson, S.C.

Greene finished with four touchdown passes on the day and 28 in his career, both tying Clemson marks as the Tigers (3-2) snapped a two-game losing streak. Horne wound up making three scoring catches, also tying a school single-game record.

UTEP is 1-4.

Maryland 16, Duke 10--Kevin Kopka kicked three field goals and Eric Ogbogu forced a fumble with 3:49 left to preserve the victory at College Park, Md.

It was the second consecutive victory for the Terps (2-3, 1-2). Duke, which had won two consecutive games, fell to 2-3 and 0-2.