Tennessee makes No. 9 Cal look overrated
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Months of frustration ended for Tennessee with an easy win against a ranked team. Rocky Top returned to normal Saturday as Erik Ainge threw four passes for touchdowns and the Volunteers put last year's losing season behind them with a stunning 35-18 win over ninth-ranked California.
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At the University of Tennessee, one losing season is enough to send the faithful into a frenzy, questioning the coach's competence and wondering if it's time for a change.
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Erik Ainge ensured No. 16 Tennessee wouldn't leave the Outback Bowl with another disappointing loss.
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Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer turned to his defense in the end to preserve a victory over Alabama in a rivalry that has turned nasty off the field. The 11th-ranked Volunteers held on for a 17-13 victory with key stops and an interception in the final seconds Saturday night.
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Sidney Spencer scored 15 points and No. 5 Tennessee shook off poor shooting in the first half with a scoring burst early in the second for a 67-46 win Sunday over No. 23 Texas. In a matchup of college basketball's two winningest coaches, Tennessee's Pat Summitt got career win No. 922 and her second in a row over Texas' Jody Conradt, who has 889.
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Tennessee has Rutgers to thank for its return to No. 1. Right now, however, Rutgers is Tennessee's No. 1 concern. The Lady Vols regained the top spot in The Associated Press women's basketball poll after Connecticut lost to Rutgers last week. Tennessee, which was the top-ranked team for the first seven weeks before losing to Stanford in late December, received 45 of the 50 first-place votes. The Huskies received the other five.
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Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl has made beating in-state rival Vanderbilt a priority. The Volunteers rubbed it in on Saturday. Wayne Chism scored 17 points, Chris Lofton added 16 and Tennessee stormed out to a big lead and rolled past the No. 23 Commodores 84-57.
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&quot;Looks like you were right on about Cal getting passed over for the Rose Bowl bid. I don&#39;t think it would have made a bit of difference if Cal had won by 110 points instead of just 10.
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Texas got into its first major bowl in seven years while laying on the couch. Cal perhaps didn&#39;t by taking a knee. Jeff Tedford meets the press after learning that California will go to the Holiday Bowl instead of the Rose.
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Cal (10-1) was left out of the Bowl Championship Series, denied one of the eight spots in college football&#39;s big-money games despite a season of statistical superlatives and dominating victories.
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The way I heard it, Oklahoma went off as a 3-point favorite in a lot of places. This had to do with a lot of, ahem, "smart" money coming in late on the Sooners.
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Four yards. That was Tennessee's rushing total at Auburn last season.
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The absurd notion of Cal playing in the national championship game does not seem so absurd today. Thanks to losses by Miami and Florida State and a significant rise in the Bears&#39; computer ranking, Cal rose four spots in this week&#39;s BCS standings to No.
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Tennessee coach Pat Summitt's decision to not call a timeout with 5 seconds left turned out for the best. Shanna Zolman hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the ninth-ranked Lady Vols a 70-67 victory over No. 2 Stanford on Tuesday night.
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But that is the margin the University of Texas trails California by in the BCS standings. The deficit in the numbers released Monday is what would put Cal in a BCS bowl if the bowl bids were awarded today.
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Tennessee lost the second member of its heralded freshman quarterback duo and Notre Dame capitalized with an interception return for a touchdown, then held on to win 17-13 Saturday over the No. 9 Volunteers. Eleventh-ranked Miami was also upset, beaten by Clemson 24-17 on Reggie Merriweather's 2-yard touchdown run in overtime. Both ranked teams lost at home.
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UCLA coach Ben Howland likes to remind everyone there's no easy games in the Pac-10. For one day anyway, his team made a mockery of that thought.