COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT / AROUND THE NATION : Redmond Leads Arizona State Win

J.R. Redmond ran for 157 yards and two touchdowns--one covering 56 yards--to lead No. 25-ranked Arizona State to a 31-13 victory over Texas Tech at Tempe, Ariz., Monday night in the season opener for both teams.

Texas Tech’s Ricky Williams, the top returning rusher in the Big 12 Conference, had 33 yards in 13 carries before being carried off the field in the third quarter with a knee injury.

Arizona State played the last three quarters without quarterback Ryan Kealy, who injured his right knee dropping back to pass.

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Tulane’s winning streak ended at 13 games as Jeff Kelly threw four touchdown passes for Southern Mississippi in a 48-14 victory at Hattiesburg, Miss., in the season opener for both teams.

Tulane, playing its first game in four years without record-setting quarterback Shaun King, had the nation’s second-longest I-A winning streak after going 12-0 last season. King’s replacement, Patrick Ramsey, completed 21 of 30 passes for 196 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions.

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Florida State, Penn State and Tennessee remained 1-2-3 and Colorado tumbled out of sight in the Associated Press’ top 25 college football poll after coming in at No. 14. UCLA is now ranked No. 14, USC No. 18. . . . Alabama linebackers Darius Gilbert and Chris Horne have been suspended for Saturday’s game against Houston for violating team rules. Horne was also under suspension, along with two other linebackers, for the Crimson Tide’s opener against Vanderbilt, which Alabama won, 28-17. That was for academic reasons unrelated to the reason for the latest suspensions. . . . Vanderbilt reserve outside linebacker Brandon Walthour, a freshman, was suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules, said Coach Woody Widenhofer. . . . South Carolina offensive coordinator Skip Holtz, son of Coach Lou Holtz, was hospitalized in Columbia, S.C., with stomach pains.

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Steve Little, who kicked the longest field goal in NCAA history for Arkansas in 1977, died in Little Rock, Ark., at the age of 43. Little, who later played for the St. Louis Cardinals in the NFL, was paralyzed from the neck down in an automobile accident in 1980. The cause of death has not been determined. In 1977, Little kicked a 67-yard field goal against Texas, tying the NCAA record set by Texas’ Russell Erxleben two weeks earlier. The record was matched by Joe Williams of Wichita State the next season.