Football Travels to Utah State
September 28, 1998
GAME: Oregon State (2-2) at Utah State (1-3)
SITE: Romney Stadium (30,257), Logan, UT
DATE: Saturday, October 3
TIME: 7:05 p.m. PDT
RADIO: Live over 22-station Beaver Sports Network, starting at 6:30 p.m. PDT
TV: Delayed over Fox Sports Northwest at 11:00 a.m. PDT on Sunday
RECORDS: OSU (2-2, 0-2) UTAH STATE (1-3) 48- 6 NEVADA 27,426 12-20 UTAH 30,218 27-17 BAYLOR 26,243 36-39 OT at New Mexico 31,267 20-40 *at USC 45,629 6-25 at Colorado 45,298 3-24 *at Arizona State 59,630 47-17 SAM HOUSTON STATE 14,498 Oct. 3 at Utah State, 7:05 PDT Oct. 3 OREGON STATE Oct. 10 *at Stanford, 2:00 PDT Oct. 10 at Washington Oct. 17 *ARIZONA, 1:00 PDT Oct. 17 IDAHO Oct. 24 *at Washington, 12:30 PDT Oct. 24 at Boise State Oct. 31 *CALIFORNIA, 1:00 PST Oct. 31 at New Mexico State Nov. 7 *UCLA, 1:00 PST Nov. 7 NEVADA Nov. 14 Bye Nov. 14 NORTH TEXAS Nov. 21 *OREGON, 1:00 PST *Indicates Pacific-10 Games
CROWD: Utah State is expecting a crowd of 25,000 at Romney Stadium (30,257).
TELEVISION: The OSU-Utah State game will be televised on a delayed basis over Fox Sports Northwest for replay at 11 a.m. on Sunday with Scott Lynn (play-by-play) and Steve Preece (color) announcing. Fox Sports Northwest will be shown in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and Montana. The game will also be televised on a delayed basis by Channel 12 in Cache Valley, Utah
OSU RADIO NETWORK: The OSU football radio network numbers 22 stations for the 1998 season. The pregame show will now start two hours prior to kickoff over KLOO (1340 AM) in Corvallis and will feature Darrell Aune, Bob Grim and KLOO's Radio Ray and Nate Lundy. The entire network pregame show will start one half hour prior to kickoff. Aune and Grim, and KEX's Michael Convery, will all participate in a postgame show from the OSU locker room each week. The full OSU radio network will be on live at 6:30 p.m. Saturday from Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah.
STREAKS: The Beavers will go into the Utah State game on a two-game losing streak overall. Oregon State has a six-game non-conference winning streak, a two--game winning streak at Parker Stadium; a 14-game Pacific-10 Conference losing streak and a 18-game road losing streak. The Beavers' last Pac-10 victory was over Stanford, 26-12, at Corvallis on October 19,1996. OSU's last road victory was a 23-14 victory over UCLA at the Rose Bowl, October 15, 1994.
INJURY UPDATE: Oregon State came out of the Arizona State game without picking up any significant injuries. The following players are out of the Utah State game: starting left guard Larry Ramirez (broken left hand); tailback Avery Cummings (sprained MCL in left knee); freshman wide receiver Junior Adams (torn ligament in left thumb) and cornerback Sam Gage (dislocated left elbow).
MORNING PRACTICE: Oregon State has been practicing in the morning for the past three weeks while school was not in session. Oregon State starts fall classes on Monday, but Coach Mike Riley indicates he will continue with morning practice sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8 to 10 a.m. Practices will be on Prothro Field.
OSU-UTAH STATE SERIES: Oregon State leads the two-game series 2-0. The Beavers defeated Utah State at Corvallis in 1904 by 45-0 and 24-16 last year at Parker Stadium.
MIKE RILEY: Mike Riley (Alabama, '75) is in his second year as the Beavers' head coach and his second year as a collegiate head coach. Riley has a collegiate career record of 5-10 (.333). Riley was not a rookie head coach when he accepted the OSU position in 1996 for the '77 season. Riley had six previous seasons under his belt as a professional football head coach, four at Winnipeg in the Canadian Football League and two at San Antonio of the World League of American Football. As head coach of Winnipeg, he won two Grey Cup championships. Overall, he had a combined record of 51-41-0 as a professional head coach. Riley spent four years as offensive coordinator at USC prior to becoming head coach at OSU.
DAVE ARSLANIAN: Dave Arslanian is in his first season as Utah State's head coach and currently has a 1-3 record. This is Arslanian's ninth year as a collegiate head coach, having previously coached at Weber State for eight seasons where he compiled a record of 53-47 (.530). All told, he now has a head coaching record of 54-50 (.529).
OSU-UTAH STATE LAST YEAR: Utah State scored a touchdown on the first play of its initial offensive possession on a 68-yard pass, Matt Sauk to Ricky Brumfield to take a early 7-0 lead. Oregon State tied the game in the first quarter on a 6-yard touchdown run by Ricky Walker. The Beavers moved to a 24-10 lead with 5:40 left in the game, but the Aggies made the game interesting in the final five minutes. Utah State's Steve Smith returned a punt 74 yards for a touchdown with 3:37 to play. Kicker Brad Bohn missed the PAT to leave OSU with a 24-16 lead. The Aggies then executed an on-side kick and drove to the Beavers' five-yard line where DeMario Brown was stripped of the football by OSU's Jonathan Jackson who also recovered the football with 1:06 left to play to preserve the Beavers' victory. OSU held a 357-340 advantage in total offense. Brown led USU in rushing with 131 yards on 25 carries, while Tim Alexander rushed for 63 and a touchdown for OSU and passed for another 144 yards and a touchdown.
NOTES FROM ASU GAME: Linebacker Bryan Jones moved from 18th place to 14th on OSU's career defensive point list with a game-high 33 points in the Arizona State game. Jones currently has 741 career points. Jones has now been OSU's top defensive point producer in three (Nevada, Baylor, ASU) of the Beavers' four games to date, and he was second in the other game (USC).
QUOTING MIKE RILEY
ON OSU PLAY AGAINST ASU: "There was some outstanding performances by our team defensively against Arizona State. Tim Alexander had nine catches on offense and is really improving all the time and the more he plays the better he will get. The overall summary is that we just made too many mistakes to win a tough football game. Whether it was an assignment mistake, a penalty or five fumbles, however you cut it, against any good football team you can't do that and win."
ON BEAVER RUNNING GAME: "We need to be better from an assignment standpoint. We let too much penetration get into the backfield to get some runs started. I thought Ken Simonton, in the limited running we did do, made some people miss and the yards he did get were well earned by him. There was not a lot of execution in the running game up front. Arizona State made a decision to blitz almost exclusively and make us protect and throw the ball or try to find a crease to run through the blitz packages -- we did not handle that consistently enough to make they pay."
DO YOU EXPECT MORE BLITZING: "I have always felt in blitzing, when I was coaching defense, if someone couldn't handle it they were just going to see more of it. So we have to be sharper and be able to take bigger advantage of people tend to put more pressure and more people up front."
ON UTAH STATE: "They are playing real hard and have played some tough opponents. I thought they were a good football team last year and we are really going to need a good week of practice and make some improvement in some areas in order to win."
ON INJURY SITUATION: "At this point the injury situation appears to be good. I don't think we will get Larry Ramirez back for this week. I don't think we lost anyone from the ASU game."
ACADEMIC AWARDS: Each week during the 1998 football season, U.S. Bank honors a member of the Oregon State football team as the U.S. Bank Academic Player of the Week. Junior right guard Aaron Koch (3.65 GPA) was honored the week of the Nevada game and sophomore center Dustin Janz (3.10 GPA) earned the honor for the Baylor game. Redshirt sophomore guard Jared Cornell from The Dalles (2.92 GPA) earned the honor for the USC game. Keith Heyward-Johnson, a sophomore cornerback from Woodland Hills, CA, earned the honor for the ASU game with a 2.78 accumulate GPA.
OSU IN THE RED ZONE: Oregon State has a percentage of .917 (11 for 12) in the red zone for the season and a perfect 6 for 6 on first-and-goal situations. Meanwhile, the Beavers' defense has allowed opponents to score on 11 of 16 attempts into the red zone, a percentage of .688.
OSU-PAC-10/NCAA RANKINGS/UTAH STATE COMPARISONCATEGORY PLAYER GAME AVG. PAC-10 RANK NCAA Rushing Ken Simonton 83.75 5th 47th Passing Efficiency Terrance Bryant 93.20 12th --- Total Offense Terrance Bryant 171.25 9th --- Ken Simonton 83.75 16th --- Net Punting Mike Fessler 38.04 8th --- Punt Returns Ken Simonton 5.91 7th --- Kickoff Returns Tim Alexander 29.23 4th 16th Scoring Ken Simonton 6.00 11th-Tie --- Jose Cortez 6.00 11th-Tie --- Pass Receptions Greg Ainsworth 6.00 3rd-Tie 26th-Tie Tim Alexander 4.50 9th-Tie --- Receiving Yards James Battle 40.00 20th --- Field Goals Jose Cortez 1.25 4th-Tie 30th-Tie All-Purpose Tim Alexander 131.00 5th 42nd Ken Simonton 101.25 12th ---
CATEGORY GAME AVG. PAC-10 RANK NCAA USU NCAA Team Rushing Offense 102.50 9th 89th 61.35 107th Team Passing Offense 187.80 8th 66th 220.00 47th Team Total Offense 290.25 9th 91st 281.25 97th Team Net Punting 33.80 8th 87th 33.50 92nd Team Punt Return 5.50 9th 90th 12.20 31st Team Kickoff Return 26.20 3rd 18th 16.50 101st Team Scoring Offense 24.50 7th 60th 25.30 58th Team Rushing Defense 158.30 5th 63rd 77.50 10th Team Pass Efficiency Defense 89.70 3rd 13th 114.20 56th Team Total Defense 317.00 3rd 35th 274.80 15th Team Scoring Defense 21.80 7th 46th 25.30 59th Team Turnover Margin -0.25 8th 61st-Tie -.0.25 61st-Tie
BEAVERS SLIP IN TURNOVERS: Oregon State is 2-2 on the season and in its two victories has been on the plus side in the turnover department. In its two defeats, OSU has been on the negative side in turnovers. The Beavers were minus one in turnovers at Arizona State and were minus two the week before at USC. As a result, OSU is now a minus one for the season and ranks eighth in the Pac-10 and tied for 61st nationally.
CAREER DEFENSIVE NUMBERS: With a game-high 33 points at ASU, Bryan Jones has 741 career defensive points which moved him from 18th to 14th place on the Beavers' career list. Inoke Breckterfield added 15 points at ASU to give him 971 career points, which keeps him at fourth place on the all-time OSU chart. Breckterfield has 15 1/2 career sacks, leaving him one shy of the OSU career mark. He added a quarterback hurry vs. ASU to give him 28 career quarterback hurry plays, which breaks the old record of 27 1/2 by Esera Tuaolo (1987-90). Andrae Holland leads the Pac-10 with 8 passes broken up this season and he has 33 career break ups and needs four more to break that career mark. A look at career defensive numbers for OSU defenders follows:
SECONDARY THEFTS: Oregon State has picked off seven passes in four games, four against Nevada, two vs. Baylor and one against Arizona State. Seven different Beaver defensive players have picked off passes so far this season. Five of the picks have been by linebackers--Bryan Jones, James Allen, Brandon Boice, Brian Rogers and Darnell Robinson--and two have been by the secondary--Armon Hatcher and Ricky Walker. Oregon State currently is in a six-way tie for eighth place nationally in interceptions. North Carolina State leads the NCAA with 10 interceptions. OSU, Mississippi, Colorado State, Wake Forest, Air Force and Northeast Louisiana are tied with seven.
TERRANCE BRYANT: Terrance has thrown his last 100 passes without an interception...the streak includes his final four passes in the Baylor game, 46 at USC and 50 at Arizona State...Terrance is in sight of Erik Wilhelm's (1986) season record of 126 passes thrown without an interception...Terrance, a junior college All-America quarterback last year at City College of San Francisco, got his OSU and Division I collegiate career off to a great start by connecting for a 68-yard touchdown pass against Nevada on his first pass in a Beaver uniform...the 68-yard pass was the 14th longest pass play in OSU history and the ninth longest scoring pass...that pass went to James Battle...in his first start, Bryant finished with 209 yards passing, completing 15 of 29 attempts...he threw for one touchdown and was intercepted one time...he had 211 yards in total offense...his passing efficiency after one game was 116.74. (Baylor) Terrance completed 21 of 36 passes for 208 yards, one touchdown and one interception while leading OSU to a 27-17 victory over Baylor...he had 202 yards in total offense. (USC) Bryant suffered his first defeat as OSU's starting quarterback against USC as he completed 19 of 46 passes for 101 yards and a touchdown. (ASU) Terrance completed 29 of 50 passes for 198 yards at ASU and had 177 yards in total offense...After four games, Terrance has a passing efficiency of 93.20, which ranks 12th in the Pac-10....his 171.25 average in total offense ranks ninth in the conference...he had his streak of throwing a TD pass in each OSU game he has played in come to a halt at ASU as he failed to connect on a touchdown pass...Bryant's chart follows:
OPP ATT-PC INT YDS PCT. TD LG SACK PLAYS T.OFF AVG. TCB YG YL NYG AVG. TD LG Nevada 29-15 1 209 .517 1 68 1-6 33 211 211.0 4 8 6 2 0.5 1 5 Baylor 36-21 1 208 .583 1 36 1-9 38 202 202.0 2 3 9 -6 -3.0 0 3 USC 46-19 0 101 .413 1 15 2-11 53 95 95.0 7 15 21 -6 -0.9 0 12 ASU 50-29 0 198 .580 0 15 2-19 57 177 177.0 7 5 26 -21 -3.0 0 3 TOTALS 161-84 2 716 .522 3 68 6-45 181 685 171.3 20 31 62 -31 -1.5 1 12
KEN SIMONTON: Ken Simonton went into the Arizona State game as the leading rusher in the Pac-10 Conference but was held to 33 yards...as a result, Ken dropped to 5th place among Pac-10 rushing leaders with an average of 83.8 yards per game...he ranks 47th nationally...he ranks 12th in all-purpose running in the Pac-10 with an average of 101.25 yards per game...Ken did not return punts in the ASU game and still ranks seventh in the Pac-10 with a 5.91 return average...Ken was held to 78 yards rushing by USC to stop his streak of two-straight 100-yard plus rushing games...Ken, a redshirt freshman, rushed for over 100 yards in each of his first two starts 121 vs. Nevada and 103 against Baylor...Ken also scored two touchdown in each of his first two starts and is tied with kicker Jose Cortez for the team lead in scoring with 24 points...Simonton became the first freshman to every rush for over 100 yards in his first game at OSU and the first freshman to have back-to-back 100-yard rushing games.
TIM ALEXANDER: Tim caught a career best 9 passes at Arizona State, plus he added 130 yards in all-purpose yards...he currently leads OSU in all-purpose yards with 524, an average of 131.0 per game, which ranks fifth in the Pac-10 Conference and 42nd nationally...he is second on the team in pass receptions with 18, with ties him for ninth place in the Pac-10...Tim produced a career high 234 yards in all-purpose running at USC, which ranks as the seventh best single-game mark in OSU history...he returned a kickoff 100 yards against USC to match an OSU, Pac-10 and NCAA record....his 202 yards on six kickoff returns vs. USC is the second most in OSU history for one game, topped only by Dwyane Owens' 237 yards vs. USC in 1990...Tim has accumulated a total of 1,844 career all-purpose yards to move into 19th place on the OSU career list...Tim entered his senior year in a new role as OSU's starting flanker after being the Beavers' starting quarterback the past three seasons...Tim is in a position where he could become the first Beaver player in history to record over 1,000 yards in rushing, passing, total offense, all-purpose yards and receiving if he has a big year as a wide receiver...Tim completed the 1997 season as OSU's leading passer (1,745) and rusher (288) and leader in total offense (2,033)...his passing totals ranks fourth on the Beavers' all-time season list and his total offense figure ranks fifth in the all-time season list...Tim currently ranks third in career total offense (3,908), sixth in career passing (2,500) and 13th in career rushing (1,405)...he needs 1,072 yards in total offense to catch former Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker (4,979)...he needs 3 more rushing yards to move into 12th place in career rushing, and 16 more to move into 11th...he needs 441 yards passing to catch Steve Endicott for fifth in career passing...(Nevada) Tim had 58 all-purpose yards against Nevada, including one pass reception for 11 yards, giving him 3 pass career receptions for 47 yards...(Baylor) Tim caught 4 passes for 36 yards vs. Baylor and returned two kickoffs for 66 yards, including a career long 50-yarder...(Career Notes)--Tim has started 26 games in his OSU career and played in a total of 32 games...he has rushed for 1,405 yards on 339 carries, averaging 4.3 yards per carry in his career and has scored 10 rushing touchdowns...injuries have limited his playing time in his previous two seasons while running the wishbone...he has completed 218 of 502 career passes for 2,500 yards (.435 percentage) and 8 touchdowns...thus far in his career, Tim has accomplished the following: He had an 83-yard TD run vs. Northern Illinois in 1996 to equal the third longest run in OSU history, and he tied Terry Baker for the longest run in Parker Stadium history...he rushed for a career high 205 yards, including 201 in the first half, against Northern Illinois in 1996 for a Parker Stadium record...he has rushed for over 100 yards four times in his career, 117 vs. USC in 1994; 182 against Washington in 1995; 153 vs. Arizona State and 205 against Northern Illinois in 1996...the 205 yards rushing vs. NIU is the fifth best single-game effort in Beaver history and the 182 vs. Washington is the seventh best single-game mark...his 322 yards in total offense vs. Washington in 1995 is the 10th best single-game mark in Beaver history...his 205 all-purpose yards vs. NIU is the 13th best single-game effort in OSU history...his 219 yards in total offense vs. NIU is 22nd on the single-game, all-time best list...Alexander's 17.1 yard average per carry vs. NIU is a Parker Stadium record...his 234 all-purpose yards vs. USC is the seventh best single-game mark in OSU history and his 100-yard kickoff return vs. USC is a OSU, Pac-10 and NCAA record.
BRYAN JONES ON A ROLL: Senior weakside linebacker Bryan Jones is having a fantastic season...he has been a one-man wrecking crew on defense in OSU's first four games...Bryan has been the Beavers' top defensive point producer in three of the four games and he was second (USC) in the one game he did not top OSU in point production...Bryan leads the Beavers with a total of 185 defensive points, which is 81 points higher than his next teammate, Brian Rogers (104)...Bryan is tied for second in the Pac-10 in sacks with 3, behind teammate Shawn Ball (3 1/2)...he is tied for fourth in tackles for loss with 6...he leads the Pac-10 in total tackles with 43...Bryan had 33 points at ASU with 11 tackles, a quarterback sack and two passes broken up...Bryan was OSU's top point producer against Nevada and Baylor and was second in the USC game...Bryan posted 63 points in the Beavers' victory over Nevada, which amounts to the ninth best single-game effort on defense in OSU history...he followed that up with a team high 54 points vs. Baylor...in those two games, Bryan posted a team high 16 solo tackles, 8 assisted tackles for 24 total, plus he had two sacks, four tackles for loss, one caused fumble, one blocked field goal, one pass broken up, one interception and one quarterback hurry...his interception came against Baylor with 1:25 remaining in the second quarter, which set up OSU's third touchdown and gave the Beavers a 21-3 halftime lead over Baylor...he caused a fumble in the Nevada game that led to Toalei Talataina picking up the fumble and racing 60 yards for a touchdown....he blocked a field goal in the Nevada game...Bryan has started a team high 27 straight games for OSU and has played in a total of 37 games...he has been the high-point defensive producer in five games...he now has a career defensive point total of 741 points, including 18 passes broken up, 10 1/2 sacks, 23 1/2 tackles for loss, 2 pass interceptions and 6 quarterback hurry plays...his 741 points puts him 14th on the Beavers' career list...his next stop is Esera Tuaolo's 750 1/2 points.
BRECKTERFIELD BREAKS OSU CAREER MARK: Inoke added a quarterback hurry play against Arizona State to give him 28 career quarterback hurry plays, thus establishing a Beaver career record, topping the old mark of 27 1/2 set by Esera Tuaolo in 1987-90. Inoke recorded a career best 3 sacks vs. USC in his best outing of the current season and he recorded a team high 58 defensive points against the Trojans...it was the seventh time in his 36-game career at Oregon State he has led the Beavers in defensive points...he added 15 points at ASU, but, in addition to his record breaking quarterback hurry, he forced a big fumble that foiled a Sun Devil scoring opportunity at the OSU 10-yard line...his USC performance left him one quarterback sack away from the Beavers' career mark of 16...he has a total of 971 career defensive points to date, which has him in fourth place on the OSU ladder...his next hurdle is Reggie Tongue's third place mark of 984 points, followed by Jeff Schneider's 997 1/2 and Steve Brown's all-time high of 1,148 points...Inoke had his streak of 28 straight games started halted against Nevada as he served a one-game suspension for violating team rules...Baylor--Inoke produced 27 defensive points against Baylor...Inoke also posted three quarterback pressure plays against Baylor...Inoke already holds the OSU record for career tackles for loss, which is now at 44 1/2...Inoke has been picked as a preseason All-Pac-10 selection by six preseason magazines, Lindy's, Street & Smith, Athlon, Preview Sports, Bob Griese's College Football, The Football News and The Sporting News...The Sporting News also calls Breckterfield the most underrated player in the Pacific-10...Inoke had another fantastic season for Oregon State in 1997...he finished the 1997 season with 331 defensive points the ninth best single-season mark ever at OSU...Inoke's final game of the 1997 season was his best overall performance of the season...against Oregon, Inoke had 8 solo tackles, 4 tackles for loss (27 yards), 2 quarterback sacks (19 yards), one quarterback hurry and one assisted tackles for 58 defensive points the 11th best single-game mark in OSU defensive history...he had 59 defensive points earlier in the 1997 season against San Jose State...Inoke, who plays like "his hair is on fire," according to UCLA coach Bob Toledo, dominated Oregon State's defensive point production chart in 1997...he led OSU in tackles for loss with 14, in sacks with 8 and caused fumbles with 3...he finished tied for fourth in the Pac-10 with 8 quarterback sacks and third in the Pac-10 with 3 forced fumbles... he entered the 1997 season having set two season defensive records in 1996...Breckterfield recorded a school-record 16 tackles for loss in 1996 as well as 17 quarterback pressure plays... Inoke's 365 defensive points in 1996 was the seventh best single-season total in Beaver history...Breckterfield ranked sixth in Pac-10 in tackles for loss in 1996 and he was tied for 17th in total tackles with 85.
CAREER LEADERS 1--Kane Rogers (1992-95) 1,148 2--Jeff Schneider (1984-87) 997 1/2 3--Reggie Tongue (1992-95) 984 4--Inoke Breckterfield (1995-98) 971
AINSWORTH DROPS IN PAC-10 RACE: Greg was held to 3 receptions against ASU and the result dropped him into a tie for third place among Pac-10 pass receiving leaders...he has 24 receptions after four games, an average of 6.0 per game...he is tied for 26th among NCAA leaders...Greg opened the 1998 season with 5 receptions against Nevada and followed that up with a career high 10 receptions against Baylor and 6 at USC...the 10 receptions vs. Baylor ties him for seventh place on OSU's single-game list with seven other players, including teammate Roddy Tompkins...Greg has caught a pass in all 15 games he has played in his Beaver career to date...he has caught a total of 73 career passes as a Beaver...Greg needs 8 more receptions to reach 10th place on OSU's all-time career receiving list...despite catching 73 passes at OSU, Greg has yet to catch a touchdown pass as a Beaver.
RODDY TOMPKINS: Roddy Tompkins has started all 26 games of his OSU career to date and has caught a pass in 21 of those games for the Beavers...Roddy posted his best performance of the season at Arizona State with 8 receptions for 77 yards...he opened the 1998 season with 3 receptions against Nevada and followed with 1 catch against Baylor, a 14-yard touchdown, and 2 receptions at USC for 9 yards...he also caught a TD pass against Baylor as a freshman in 1996...he currently has 75 career receptions and 1,118 all-purpose yards in his career...Roddy needs to catch 6 more passes to crack OSU's career top 10 list...Victor Simmons is currently 10th with 80 career receptions...Roddy's best individual game came last year with 10 receptions vs. UCLA.
CAREER LEADERS NO YDS AVG. TD 9---Lee Overton (1973-76) 90 1,308 14.5 8 10--Victor Simmons (1978-81) 80 1,203 15.0 5 11--John Thomas (1949-51) 78 858 11.0 4 Roddy Tompkins 75 958 12.8 5 Greg Ainsworth 73 755 10.3 0
JOSE CORTEZ: Senior place kicker/punter Jose Cortez came very close to matching an NCAA record when he successfully kicked two of three field goal attempts from over 50 yards against Baylor...booted a 51 and 50-yard field goal against Baylor, the first time in history a Beaver place kicker has booted two kicks of 50 or more yards in a game...he became the fourth OSU player in history to boot a field goal over 50 yards...his 51-yarder is the eighth longest in Beaver history...he also missed a 50-yarder which would have tied an NCAA record had he made it...he did not have a field goal attempt in the Nevada game and was successful on 4 of 5 PAT attempts...Jose booted 28 and 33-yard field goals vs. USC, which was the fourth time in his career he has booted two or more field goals in a game...to date, Jose has booted 16 of 27 (.593) career field goals and 27 of 29 (.931) PAT attempts and he has scored 75 career points...his current streaks are 0-1 in field goal attempts and he has made his last seven PAT kicks...in addition to his field goal exploits, Jose has been sensational in kickoffs so far this season...he has kicked the ball off a total of 21 times in three games to date and nine of his boots have been touchbacks...11 of 12 kickoffs returned by opponents have been returned from inside the 10 or the end zone and opponents are averaging only 18.5 yards per return with a long of 37.
