South Roundup : Miami Rallies to Turn Back Maryland, 29-22

Melvin Bratton scored the first two rushing touchdowns of the season against Maryland, and Brett Perriman returned a punt 74 yards for another score to propel No. 8-ranked Miami to a 29-22 comeback victory Saturday at Baltimore.

It was the eighth straight win for the Hurricanes after a season-opening loss to Florida, and avenged Maryland’s 42-40 victory over Miami last year, when the Terrapins overcame a 31-0 halftime deficit to pull off the greatest comeback in major college history.

Maryland had a four-game winning streak broken Saturday and dropped to 6-3.

“In the last month, we’ve beaten Oklahoma, Florida State and Maryland,” Miami Coach Jimmy Johnson said. “Anyone who doesn’t vote this team as one of the top two or three in the country is either biased, uninformed or extremely uniformed.”

Perriman fielded a Darryl Wright punt and raced down the right sideline with 7:48 left in the third quarter to launch Miami’s final comeback after Rick Badanjek’s two-yard touchdown run and a safety had given Maryland a 22-13 lead.

Greg Cox, after missing a 19-yard field-goal attempt early in the fourth quarter, hit a 20-yarder with 8:13 left in the game.

Vinny Testaverde, who completed 22 of 35 attempts for 298 yards, hit on passes of 31 and 33 yards to Willie Smith to give Cox a second chance. Bratton punched across the clincher with 3:25 left.

Stan Gelbaugh completed 16 of 38 passes for 178 yards and 1 touchdown for Maryland.

A crowd of 62,350, the most ever for a Terrapins home game, watched at Memorial Stadium.

Florida State 56, South Carolina 14--At Tallahassee, Fla., Victor Floyd ran for 212 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns to lead 16th-ranked Florida State in a romp.

Fellow freshman Chip Ferguson passed for three touchdowns and ran for another score as Florida State ran its record to 7-2 in front of scouts from the Peach, Gator, Citrus and Cherry bowls. The Gamecocks dropped to 4-5.

Floyd scored on a 14-yard pass from Ferguson and a 61-yard run. Ferguson, who hit 7 of 9 passes for 105 yards, also threw touchdown passes of 3 yards to Pat Carter and 7 yards to Pete Panton.

North Carolina 21, Clemson 20--Tailback William Humes scored on a one-yard run with 10 seconds left, and Lee Gliarmis added the extra point to give the Tar Heels their first victory over Clemson in Chapel Hill, N.C., since 1971.

North Carolina is 5-4 overall and 3-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Clemson fell to 5-4 and 4-2.

Humes, redeeming himself for three fumbles lost in the game, rushed 25 times for 134 yards and 2 touchdowns in his first start since undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery five weeks ago.

North Carolina St. 23, Virginia 22--At Raleigh, N.C., Erik Kramer passed for two touchdowns en route to a North Carolina State passing record in an upset victory over Virginia.

Kramer, who completed 12 of 21 passes for 198 yards, has thrown for 2,168 yards this season, passing Tim Esposito’s mark of 2,114 in 1984.

Virginia is 5-4 overall and 3-2 in the ACC. North Carolina State is 3-7 and 2-4.

Georgia Tech 35, Tennessee Chattanooga 7--At Atlanta, flanker Gary Lee scored on a 71-yard touchdown pass play and set up another score with a 63-yard kickoff return as the Yellow Jackets (6-2-1) overcame a 7-3 deficit in the third quarter to down the Division I-AA Moccasins (5-4).

Georgia Tech scored 32 points in the final quarter as quarterback John Dewberry threw the bomb to Lee, Malcolm King ran 3 yards, Cory Collier went 32 yards, Chuck Easley ran 8 yards, David Bell kicked a 47-yard field goal and 3 extra points, and the defense added a safety.

Wake Forest 27, Duke 7--Mike Elkins, a redshirt freshman making his third start, completed 13 of 21 passes for 119 yards and 3 touchdowns at Winston-Salem, N.C., as the Demon Deacons broke a six-game losing streak with their first Atlantic Coast conference victory of the season. Wake Forest is 4-6 and 1-5, while Duke fell to 2-7 and 0-5.

Elkins hit running back Topper Clemons on a nine-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter. He had scoring passes of 12 and 6 yards in the first half.

Tulane 27, SW Louisiana 17--It was a long time coming, but Tulane finally snapped major college football’s longest losing streak in a game at New Orleans.

Tulane, which went into the game 0-8 this season and 0-9 dating back to last year, moved the ball almost exclusively on the passing of quarterbacks Terrance Jones and Kim Karcher. Jones, a freshman, was 6 of 6 for 56 yards. Karcher, a senior, was 12 of 21 for 137 yards and a touchdown.

“Now, they do know they can win,” Tulane Coach Mack Brown said.

Southwestern is 3-6.

Virginia Tech 41, Louisville 17--Maurice Williams gained 190 yards at Blacksburg, Va., and scored on runs of 1, 19 and 27 yards to power Virginia Tech (5-5) to an easy victory over the Cardinals (2-8), who allowed more than 40 points for the seventh time this year.