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* * * * CO*N FEREN*C E Media Relations .'-!s~ 35 East Wacker Drive Suite 650 Phone 312/553-0483 ........ Chicago, IL 60601 Fax 312/553-0495 CONTACT: Brian Teter, Russell Anderson December 8, 1998 1998 CONFE3ENCE USA FOOTBALL C-USA All Games W-L Pct. H A Pts Opp W-L Pct. H A Pts Opp %TULANE 6-0 1.000 3-0 3-0 239 149 11-0 1.000 6-0 5-0 499 268 SOUTHERN MISS 5-1 .833 2-0 2-1 207 80 7-4 .636 4-1 3-3 349 196 LOUISVILLE 4-2 .600 3-0 1-2 238 203 7-4 .636 5-1 2-3 444 387 EAST CAROLINA 3-3 .500 1-2 2-1 171 215 6-5 .545 3-2 3-3 274 297 ARMY 2-4 .333 1-2 1-2 171 199 3-8 .272 1-4 2-4 257 325 HOUSTON 2-4 .333 1-2 1-2 175 196 3-8 .272 1-4 3-3 254 317 MEMPHIS 1-5 .167 1-2 0-3 152 213 2-9 .182 2-4 0-5 226 340 CINCINNATI 1-5 .167 1-2 0-3 161 259 2-9 .182 1-5 1-4 259 456 %regular season champion •1 BO_WL_GA_M_E_S_ ___. LAST WEEK'S RESULT INDNIDUAL AWARDS WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23 THURSDAY. NOV. 26 COACH OF THE YEAR Tommy Bowden, Tulane Motor City Bowl (Pontiac, Mich.) Army 34, Navy 30 Louisville vs. Marshall OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR (ESPN2) 8:00 p.m. EST Shaun King, QB, Tulane WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30 DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR Adalius Thomas, DE, Southern Miss Humanitarian Bowl (Boise, Idaho) Southern Miss vs. Idaho SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE YEAR (ESPN2) 1 :00 p.m. MST Ryan White, K, Memphis FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR THURSDAY, DEC. 31 Derrick Nix, RB, Southern Miss AXA/Equitable Liberty Bowl (Memphis, Tenn.) (9) Tulane vs. Brigham Young (ESPN) 12:30 p.m. CST • 1998 C-USA FOOTBALL ALlrCONFERENCE TEAMS FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM OFFENSE OFFENSE • Quarterback - Shaun King, Sr., Tulane Quarterback - Chris Redman, Jr., Louisville Running Back- Leroy Collins, Jr., Louisville Running Back- Gerard Arnold, Jr., Memphis Running Back- Derrick Nix, Fr., Southern Miss Running Back- Ketric Sanford, Jr., Houston Offensive Lineman- Danny Moore, Jr., East Carolina Offensive Lineman- Wilbert Brown, Sr., Houston Offensive Lineman- Henry McClendon, Sr., Southern Miss Offensive Lineman- Jerry Godfrey, Jr., Tulane Offensive Lineman- Rick Nord, Sr., Louisville Offensive Lineman- O'Lester Pope, Sr., Southern Miss Offensive Lineman- Bernard Robertson, So., Tulane Offensive Lineman- Neil Ravitz, Sr., Army Offensive Lineman- Brian Uhl, Sr., Cincinnati Offensive Lineman- Ron Sells, Sr., Memphis Tight End- lbn Green, Jr., Louisvillle Tight End- Buck Collins, Sr., East Carolina Wide Receiver- Arnold Jackson, Jr., Louisville Wide Receiver- JaJuan Dawson, Jr., Tulane Wide Receiver- Sherrod Gideon, Jr., Southern Miss Wide Receiver- P.J. Franklin, Sr., Tulane DEFENSE DEFENSE Defensive Lineman- Marquis Bowling, Sr., Memphis Defensive Lineman- Mike Gantous, Jr., Louisville Defensive Lineman- Roderick Coleman, Sr., East Carolina Defensive Lineman- Louis Hampton, Sr., Houston Defensive Lineman- Travis Darden, Sr., East Carolina Defensive Lineman- Dennis O'Sullivan, Sr., Tulane Defensive Lineman- Adalius Thomas, Jr., Southern Miss Defensive Lineman- Cedric Scott, So., Southern Miss Linebacker- Jeff Kerr, Jr., East Carolina Linebacker- Hassan Champion, Sr., Cincinnati Linebacker- T.J. Slaughter, Jr., Southern Miss Linebacker- Bud Herring, So., Louisville Linebacker- Ty Trahan, Jr., Southern Miss Linebacker- Brett Timmons, Sr., Tulane Defensive Back- Michael Jordan, Sr.,Tulane Defensive Back- Jose Gonzalez, Sr., Southern Miss Defensive Back- Mike McKenzie, Jr., Memphis Defensive Back- Mike James, Jr., Houston • Defensive Back- Kenny Dale Rowland, Sr., Army Defensive Back- DaShone Mallard, Sr., Southern Miss Defensive Back- Antonio Roundtree, So., Louisville Defensive Back- Kelvin Suggs, Sr., East Carolina SPECIAL TEAMS SPECIAL TEAMS Placekicker- Ryan White, Fr., Memphis Placekicker- Eric Olsen, Sr., Army Punter- Graham White, Jr., Army Punter- Andrew Bayes, Jr., East Carolina Return Specialist- Rod Richardson, Sr., Army Return Specialist- Ketric Sanford, Jr., Houston - C-USA- • 1998 CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL AXA/Equitable Louisville to Motor City Bowl Polling Place Liberty Bowl Louisville has accepted a bid to the second annual Here are the Dec. 6 Associated Press and Motor City Bowl in Pontiac, Mich. The game will ESPNJIJSA Today Coaches Polls: • Conference USA's champion earns a bid to the be played at the Pontiac Silverdome on AXA/Equitable Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Wednesday, December 23 at 8:00 p.m. EST and Associated Press ESPN/USA Today Tennessee. In July, C-USA and the bowl will be televised by ESPN 2. The Cardinals will 1 - Tennessee 1- Tennessee announced an extension that will send the face the winner of the Marshall-Toledo Mid• 2 - Florida State 2-Florida State league's champion to Memphis at least through American Conference Championship game, which 3 - Ohio State 3-Ohio State the 2001 season. will be played on Friday, December 4 in 4 - Kansas State 4-Kansas State 5 -Arizona 5-UCLA Huntington, W. Va. This year's game will be played on Wednesday, 6 -UCLA 6-Arizona December 31 and televised by ESPN at 12:30 7 -Florida ?-Florida CST. No. 9 Tulane, one of four remaining TU's Tide Drought Ends 8 -TexasA&M 8-Wisconsin unbeaten teams in Division I-A, will face Tulane's regular season championship was the 9 - Wisconsin 9-TexasA&M Brigham Young in this year's game. BYU will first in 49 years for the Green Wave. Here's a look 10-TULANE 10-TULANE play Air Force for the WAC Championship this at the longest conference title droughts entering 11 -Arkansas 11-Arkansas Saturday. A win by the Cougars would give the this season: 12 -Georgia Tech 12-Virginia Liberty Bowl a pair of conference champions 13 -Virginia 13-Air Force facing each other in the bowl for the second Iowa State 1912 86 years 14-Nebraska 14-Georgia Tech 15-Michigan time in three years (C-USA champion Houston Kansas State 1934 64 years 15 - Michigan 16-Air Force 16-Nebraska faced Big East tri-champion Syracuse in 1996). Mississippi State 1941 57 years 17 -Notre Dame 17 -Syracuse Tulane 1949 49 years 18 - Syracuse 18-Notre Dame C-USA SCHOOLS IN THE LIBERTY BOWL 19 -Georgia 19-Georgia 1998 Tulane vs. Brigham Young SceUo new TU Mentor 20-Texas 20-Penn State 1997 Southern Miss 41, Pittsburgh 7 On December 7, Tulane named Chris Scelfo as 21 -Oregon 21-Oregon 1996 Syracuse 30, Houston 17 its new head coach. Scelfo comes to New 22 - Penn State 22-Texas 1995 East Carolina 19, Stanford 13 Orleans from Georgia where he served as 23-Missouri 23-Mississippi State 1994 Illinois 30, East Carolina 0 assistant head coach for the past three seasons, 24-Miami (Fla.) 24-Virginia Tech 1993 Louisville 18, Michigan State 7 while also coaching the offensive line. Prior to 25 -Mississippi State 25-West Virginia 1979 Penn State 9, Tulane 6 that, he served as offensive coordinator at ARV: Southern Miss • 1970 Tulane 17, Colorado 3 Marshall for three years. USM in Humanitarian Bowl Freshman All-Americans BCS Rankings On July 31, Conference USA and the Three Conference USA players have been named In the final Bowl Championship Series rankings, Humanitarian Bowl reached an agreement to Freshman All-Americans by Football News: released on Dec. 6, Tulane was ranked No. 10 for send a team from C-USA to Boise to face the Memphis kicker Ryan White, Tulane offensive champion of the Big West Conference in the the second straight week, its highest ranking of the lineman Corey Sewell and East Carolina bowl for the next two seasons. year. linebacker Pernell Griffin. This year's game will be played on December National Leaders 30 and will be televised by ESPN2. Idaho has Conference USA finished the 1998 season with captured the Big West title and will be the one individual and two team statistical NCAA conference representative in the bowl. champions. Louisville led the nation in total Southern Miss has been selected as the C-USA C·USA offense, averaging 559.6 yards per game. Army team and will be making its second consecutive topped the nation in rushing, averaging 293.8 bowl trip for just the second time in school yards per game on the ground. Individually, history. Tulane quarterback SHAUN KING set a new Division I-A record for pass efficiency at 183.3. FINAL BIG WEST ST AN DINGS Louisville quarterback CHRIS REDMAN finished Team Big West Overall second in Division I-A in total offense at 400.9 Idaho 4-1 8-3 yards per game, while Tulane was second ~n Nevada 3-2 6-5 scoring offense at 45.4. In addition, Memphis North Texas 3-2 3-8 kicker Ryan White was the only kicker in any Boise State 2-3 6-5 Division of college football that did not miss a kick Utah State 2-3 3-8 the entire season, hitting all 16 field goal attempts New Mexico State 1-4 3-8 and all 22 extra-points . • 1998 CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL The Final Two C-USA All-Freshman Team Players of the Weak • Following the results of the final day of the OFFENSE Here's a look at this year's C-USA Players regular season, Tulane is one of just two teams QB - David Garrard, East Carolina the Week as voted on by a panel of media from in Division I-A that remain unbeaten. The RB- DeMarco McCleskey, Cincinnati each of the league's cities. Green Wave will go for a perfect season against RB- Derrick Nix, Southern Miss OFFENSE BYU in the AXA/Equitable Liberty Bowl, while OL- Kirt Doolin, Cincinnati S7 P.J.