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Article: College football suffers from fumble-itis
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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Four words guaranteed to get your attention during a college
football game: "The ball is loose!"
It's been loose a lot lately, just about everywhere you look.
Fumbles are up 7 percent from last season at the Division I-A
level, and they've contributed greatly to much of the wackiness
that we've witnessed during the first four weeks. A sampling:
-- USC put the ball on the ground four times in its loss at
Washington, losing two.
-- A Jacory Harris fumble on Miami's first offensive series jump-
started Virginia Tech's rout last week.
-- Maryland's game against Rutgers last week turned on a
Terrapins fumble in their own end zone.
-- Needing a field goal to tie and a touchdown to win ...