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Pollste ? COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE DALLAS?The college football pollsters are irritable and unforgiving people. Struggle to win a game you should win by 20 or 30 or 40, and?blammo!? out of the No. 1 spot you go. Tt. was NpHraslra'a hirn fn talro a Hivo Sunday. A day after the Cornhuskers needed a miracle play and overtime to beat Missouri, Nebraska was demoted from No. 1 to No. 3 in the Associated Press writers' poll and USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. There are two new No. 1 teams in the country. The writers picked Michigan, the former No. 4 team, by a narrow margin, 21 first-place votes of 70 cast. The coaches picked Florida State, the former No. 3 team, by an even narrower margin, six first-place votes of 62. Florida State is No. 2 in the AP poll, |HHh ? WITH ONLINE ORDERI DELL? OPTIPLEX? Gn 166L 166MHz PENTIUM* PROCESSOR WITH MMX TECHNOLOGY 32MB EDO RAM/2.1 GB Hard Drive 256KB Pipeline Burst Cache 800LS Monitor (13.7" v.i.s.) 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The 6-foot- cheerleaders avoid his exnerience. > ?J? ??;all, 200-pound O'Reilly claims He also thinks there should be le asked to switch partners, weight restrictions on female )ut a coach said no. cheerleaders who perform stunts.