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Enrollment increase announced

By Erica Heinisch The Collegian

President Joseph Castro announced today that the California State University system has granted Fresno State 400 new enrollment positions for incoming students in fall 2014.

“This is very good news for Fresno State,” Castro said. “It will allow the university to continue growing to meet the strong demand from students in the

Valley and beyond.”

A recent Fresno Bee article said Castro has been pulling lately to accept additional students for next fall, as Fresno State had an all-time record of 23,060 applicants, an increase of 21 percent.

The money needed to add the students is part of a $237 million spending plan put forward by the CSU trustees.

Castro mentioned the large number of applicants on Nov. 16 via his twitter account.

“Freshman applications for Fall 2014 @Fresno_State continue to run 20 percent above last year! Amazing response so far!

Our future is very bright!” he said in a tweet.

Initially, Castro said he requested 800 positions to bump up enrollment. The CSU system received enrollment increase requests from all 23 CSU campuses.

“Even though we certainly could have used additional

enrollment spots, we are pleased that more students will have the opportunity to attend next year,” Castro said.

Fresno State’s interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, Dr. Andrew Hoff, said the campus has enough room and classes for more students next year.

“We are currently conducting searches for more than 45 new faculty for the 2014-2015 academic year,” Hoff said. “These

will be full-time faculty who will help meet our higher enrollment.

Academic departments and programs will adjust full-and parttime faculty loads to cover the increase.”

Dr. Lynn Williams, associate professor of agricultural business and chair of the Academic Senate, said he believes the more people enrolled in higher education, the better the investment for the comSee ENROLLMENT, Page 3

Students work long holiday hours

Best in the West

By Esra Hashem The Collegian

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Fresno State freshman running back James Noble III celebrates with fans and teammates after the Bulldogs’ 69-28 win over New Mexico Saturday at Bulldog Stadium. Fresno State clinched the Mountain West’s West Division with the win and will represent the division in the conference’s inaugural championship game on Dec. 7.

Students take hijab challenge

By Esra Hashem The Collegian

Students, faculty and even Mary Castro, wife of Fresno State President Joseph Castro, wore headscarves for a day last week in an attempt to walk in the shoes of a Muslim-American woman.

More than 70 people participated in the Muslim Student Association’s “Hijab Challenge,” a number that club president Amanee Robinson said astounded her.

“We expected 20 people to volunteer, maximum,” she said. “The fact that we had more than 70 sign up and all the positive feedback…

it’s heartwarming, and it brings a huge smile to my face whenever I think about it.”

“As president of the MSA, I feel that a lot of our members have been discriminated against because they wear the hijab,” Robinson said. “This challenge was an opportunity for girls to wear the headscarf for a day and experience what it’s like for our Muslim sisters on campus.”

Club members rented out headscarves to students and wrapped them on participants so that they looked like Muslim women in hijab.

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Fresno State student Sumaya Attia (right) volunteers her time to show participants of the hijab challenge how to properly wear a hijab on Wednesday morning in the Free Speech Area.

Fresno State students said they are busier than ever this Thanksgiving weekend working early Black Friday shifts instead of spending time with family.

“It’s kind of sad,” said sophomore Eeman Fakira. “All these stores are extending their sales, so more people need to work. And who works for minimum wage?

Students.”

More stores than ever, includi n g JC P e n n e y , K o h l ’s , B e s t Buy and Target, are opening Thanksgiving evening instead of Friday morning.

Charnell Heaven, a senior on campus, said that though she’s worked Black Friday shifts before, she’s never worked as much as she is scheduled to this year.

“I work at JCPenney,” she said.

“Thankfully, I have Thanksgiving off. But I have Friday from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m., and then I go back at 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday morning. I’m not used to those kinds of hours.”

Heaven said she is still not sure how she is going to balance sleep, homework and family time, but she’ll try her best to manage.

She said her biggest worry about working on Black Friday is the crowds.

“There are just too many customers,” she said. “I don’t like big crowds, but I’ve got to make money. It’s just crazy. People are rushing everywhere. There’s no room to walk. They always have questions, which is fine, but it’s hard to answer because you’ll have 10 other people talking to you at once. It’s a lot.”

Ghada Barakat works at a Starbucks inside of Target when she’s not on campus, studying for her business classes. She said this year, Black Friday is going to be “crazy” at Starbucks.

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Getting to know your food before the holidays

By Montanna Tarkington

There is one thing in our lives that is always there, everywhere, every day, in one form or another. That is food.

America is the melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities. Consequently, it is a melting pot of recipes, as well.

This week, when we sit around the Thanksgiving table taking in that aroma of spices and herbs, I hope we see more than just food.

It's time to see beyond the array of dishes and see the path that the food before us traveled. It's time to see the path from the farm to the fork.

Harvesting, storage, processing, packaging, sales and consumption are the steppingstones of food production.

There is one crop in particular that is harvested in every single state in America.

It is the golden treasure known as corn.

This will be our blue print for the six steps.

Now, let us depart on our adventure into the production cycle of corn... from the farm, to your fork.

The fun begins with harvesting! Ninetyfive percent of all corn farms are family owned, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This means that family and

extended family are managing the harvest and storage of the crop.

When corn reaches full maturity in the fall, it will be harvested with a grain combine. The ears are pulled away, while the stalks are left to provide nutrients for the soil and to prevent erosion (erosion rates have decreased by 48 percent since 1982).

After harvest, corn enters a delicate stage. If storage levels are inefficient, the crop runs the risk of high aflatoxin levels.

Aflatoxin is a dangerous fungus that is toxic to humans and other animals. Any crop displaying concentrations more than 20 parts-per-billion will be deemed dangerous and withdrawn from the market.

In order to combat the risk of aflatoxin development, corn needs to be stored at a moisture level of 20-23 percent. It can also be minimized through early detection and prevention of certain pest species that are known to increase the crop's vulnerability to the fungus.

Processing is similar to an ear of corn going to apply for a job. Depending upon the corn's quality, it will be processed into a product that uses its potential to the fullest efficiency.

Corn is used for more than 4,200 products in today's society — livestock feed, eth-

anol, cornbread, soda and even latex paint and diapers. Then, of course, there is corn on the cob, corn-based casseroles, cornmeal and many others.

In 2008, more than 49 percent of all corn produced was utilized as livestock feed. The average kernels on a corn ear equals 800, and there are approximately 72,800 kernels in a bushel of corn. That's a lot of livestock feed.

Packaging and sales of the corn are just like getting it dressed up for an interview.

Except now, the people looking to hire are the consumers.

Packaging is all about what the product is going to be used for. Feed corn will be packaged differently from corn used in cooking or cornmeal. Sales are where things like labeling come into play.

In your local market, pay close attention to Country of Origin Labeling. This is very important, because many out-of-season crops are imported. The food safety standards between nations often have a very strong difference and quality can never be 100 percent guaranteed.

With corn, this is usually not a dilemma, since corn is a main staple crop and grown throughout the United States.

Another interesting fact about sales: as

of 2013, for every dollar gained from the sale of an agricultural product, $2.45 is generated elsewhere in the American economy.

Imagine this: $100,000 of corn sold would generate $245,000 in the economy.

With the working class feeling the dwindling weight of its wallets, every dollar pumped into our economy is truly needed.

The final stop on our journey from farm to fork is consumption. As you sit around your Thanksgiving tables, with your family and those you hold dear by your side and the football game lighting up the TV screen, breathe in deeply the aromas around you and think about the path that your food took to get to you.

Think about the harvest, the storage, the processing, the packaging, the sales and the consumption. Also remember to thank your local farmer.

Happy Thanksgiving!

About the author Montanna Tarkington was raised in Tulare County by her grandparents. She is pursuing a degree in agriculture business.

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Searching for Thanksgiving on Black Friday

By Haley Lambert Opinion Editor Thanksgiving approaches -- my most favorite holiday!

I recall the rapturous scent of pumpkin pie and roast Turkey. I delight at the sight of my father walking around the house lighting various orange, red and brown

candles, while some not-too-Christmassy tunes played from the stereo. Maybe some Vince Guaraldi or Nat King Cole.

On this most selfless of holidays, my favorite family members and family friends come over.

My parents get to showcase their lovely, well deserved home (even if that does mean my sister and I must do preemptive clean-

ing the days before).

And you know those supposedly typical family arguments? The ones where an uncle says something about the U.S. needing to drop bombs and your cousin majoring in peace resolution studies at UC Santa Cruz throws a plate of vegan apple-chestnut stuffing at his head?

Well, those don’t happen at the

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Lambert’s Thanksgiving dinner. I’m not sure why. Maybe some Depression-era gene that compels us to appreciate what we have still has influence over us. So we just enjoy the day.

Unfortunately, there is one caveat for me. It began when I was about 10-years-old and learned about a new shopping experience called Black Friday.

I was going to stay the night at my cousin’s house after all the day’s festivities, until she told me she was waking up at 5 a.m.

That undid the whole deal for me. I asked why she would wake up so early?

She replied she was going shopping with her mom and grandma.

I thought everyone had lost their damn mind.

Why rise before the dawn just to shop?

Couldn’t you just wait until noon like other people? I mean stuff will always be in stores. We aren’t in Stalinist Russia, after all.

Apparently, I was all wrong about this day.

Twelve years later, people aren’t even bothering to sleep.

Last year, some stores opened at midnight. This year, Walmart, Michael’s and Best Buy will be open from the evening of Thanksgiving until Friday night.

This would all be fine and dandy, if it weren’t for the nauseating feeling I get that this has become the impetus for celebrating Turkey Day: getting to grasp a 65 percent off MEGA-UBER-SUPER-COOL gadget or TV or toy in soft, warm, manicured firstworld hands!

The prize is savored for a few months (hopefully), until its lovely newness becomes forgotten in anticipation for next year’s sales Olympiad.

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Valley Firsts presents man-powered flight

By Careen Wong The Collegian Fresno State welcomed Academy-Award winning director Ben Shedd and the first pilot to fly a man-powered aircraft, Bryan Allen, Friday night.

The event was part of the Valley Firsts series and the Academy Award-winning documentary, “The Flight of the Gossamer Condor” was shown after the presentations by Shedd and Allen.

During the presentation, Shedd and Allen discussed their experience and knowledge about the Gossamer Condor, which was the first man-powered aircraft designed by Dr. Paul MacCready, an aero dynamist, and Dr. Peter Lissamen of AeroVironment, Inc. “This is the story of the first successful human-powered airplane in world history, and I decided to make a documentary about it,” Shedd, from Stockton, Calif., said in his opening remarks.

In 1957, Henry Kremer, a British industrialist offered a prize of $77,000 to the first group to fly human-powered aircraft. Because no one could achieve the task, the prize money was increased to more than $81,000, or £50,000.

The Gossamer Condor finally won the prize in 1977.

The theoretical horsepower required for hang gliding was one horsepower. The challenge for a man-powered plane was that humans could only put a maxi-

mum strength of around half a horsepower.

During a vacation with his sons, MacCready watched them hang glide. He looked at the structure of the hang gliders and remembered the research saying he needed one horsepower to make it work, Shedd said. If he could make the wings bigger, he would need less horsepower.

“Many of these planes are often done like the standard construction where there’s lots and lots of interior rims,” Shedd explained.

“Problem is that the more rims you put in, the heavier it gets, so even if you make bigger wings, you still end up with this problem of wing-to-wing loading.”

Bryan Allen was the pilot who flew the Gossamer Condor and later the Albatross Condor, which was a remodeled version.

Allen was a self-taught hang glider and a competitive cyclist who raced for a cycling team in Bakersfield.

“What we found was that hand gliders who had seen a humanpowered airplane fly a couple of times had a mental image of how it worked. They can fly, but maybe only a minute or two,” Allen said.

“When a competitive cyclist flies, they can only fly for five seconds, and the plane would be straight up in the air or crash in the runway. It turns out the more important thing – because humans are such lousy engines anyway – is not being the perfect

human engine, but rather being a really smooth pilot and being a good enough cyclist.”

Allen worked at a lumber yard and quit his job a month before he started working for the Gossamer Condor. He moved to Shafter in Kern County, and his roommate was part of MacCready’s crew.

When the previous pilot of the plane was offered the chance to be a competitive cyclist in Europe, MacCready began hunting for a new pilot and chose Allen.

“Dr. MacCready said, ‘Aw geez, who else can we hire? Who’s that name of that hang glider guy? Wasn’t he a cyclist?’” Allen remembered.

“My dad got the call from MacCready because MacCready didn’t know what my phone number was, but somehow figured out my dad’s phone number. So I got this little note, ‘Call MacCready.

He wants to ask you to fly his airplane.’ So, of course, I was like, ‘Oh!’ It was really a case of the right place at the right time.

Amusingly enough, I was minimally qualified for the Gossamer Condor.”

Allen also related his experience flying the Albatross Condor across the English Channel in England. Unlike the Gossamer Condor, which was made out of aluminium, cardboard and tape, the Albatross was built with carbon fiber, Allen said.

The successful cross-channel flight won the second Kremer

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Ben Shedd (left), who directed the documentary, and Bryan Allen, who pedaled the man-powered plane in 1977, shared their experiences at Friday’s Valley Firsts exhibit.

award in 1979.

“The weather in England is always, always bad,” Allen recalled. “We just happened to pick a particular day, and we waited in England for over two months to just try to find one flyable day. We barely found one flyable day.

“We were able to accomplish the cross-channel flight just through a series of happenstance, and the flight should have

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munity, state and nation.

“I think the faculty would stand ready to do their part in any way we can to accommodate the increase in numbers of students,” Williams said. “The thought of turning people away that are qualified, prepared and want to be here – I think that’s distasteful to anybody, whether you’re an administrator, faculty member or student.”

Hoff said he believes there is also a need for higher-educated people in the Central Valley.

“Providing additional access to students seeking a four-year degree is essential to build a well-educated workforce for Central California,” Hoff said. “Eventually, these students will graduate and become teachers, nurses, scientists, engineers, business owners and community leaders.

“With applications on the rise, we look forward to reducing the number of eligible students we have to turn away because we have reached capacity.”

“The hijab is a symbol in Islam,” Robinson said. “It’s a state of dress where girls are covering their bodies from their head to their toes, excluding their hands, feet and face, obviously. It is is a modest form of dress that is bylawed by Islamic codes.”

Robinson said the purpose of the event was to promote awareness on campus.

“We hope that to a lot of girls who wore this, the hijab won’t be such a mystery anymore,” she said. “Girls will understand that, you know what, the people that wear the scarves are just girls like them. It won’t be a big shocker when they run into a Muslim girl.”

Alma Lara, a senior at Fresno State, decided to try the challenge last week.

“It’s very different from my Mexican culture, but I wanted to try stepping into someone else’s shoes,” Lara said. “It was tough, though – I’m self-conscious, and I know how much resentment or discrimination there is against this group. But I guess

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Fresno State students walk through the Free Speech Area. University President Jospeph Castro announced Monday that Fresno State will have 400 new enrollment positions for incoming students in fall 2014.

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taken two hours, but it took three hours because of the head wind.

Anything that could have gone wrong, but not enough to end the flight, went wrong.”

Currently, both the Gossamer Condor and the Albatross Condor are on display at the Smithsonian Museum alongside the Apollo 11 and the Wright Brothers’ airplane.

that’s what these Muslims girls feel all the time.”

Even Muslim students said they found the challenge eye-opening.

“I’m actually a Muslim girl, and I wondered why I never tried the hijab,” said Nadia Sahyounie, a business student at Fresno State. “So I thought I’d try it because I wanted to see if people would treat me differently. I wanted to see what if feels like to be more modest and reserved. I just wanted to see how I feel about it. And I’ve heard some whispers while wearing it, but overall, I feel like people have been more respectful. A lot of people will just smile and nod. It’s nice.”

All participants had the opportunity to sign up for the hijab challenge photo shoot on Thursday and Friday with University Communications assistant photographer James Ramirez. He collaborated with the MSA to organize the hijab challenge.

“It started with an idea for a photo,” Ramirez said. “I thought it’d be cool to have a photo of a female in full burqa with an American female in like, yoga pants or

something more revealing, more sexualized compared to the other. To have a photo of the two extremes.”

Ramirez went to the MSA with his idea early this semester.

“We narrowed it down to this idea of the hijab challenge for the project,” he said.

“And now, I’m surprised to see it happen.

The idea of it starting as a small idea from a white Mexican-American guy to this is incredible.”

On Thursday and Friday, Ramirez photographed and interviewed participants of the challenge. He said he is working on getting the piece shown in a Fresno State gallery next semester.

“I enjoy art that almost startles you or makes you think a little more,” Ramirez said. “So the idea with this is that you would see all these different characters or races in a headscarf. What it addresses is that we initially make judgment on sight.

Sometimes, we lack diving into someone’s character or personality to see who they are.”

in line for the Target sales, and they’ll have family members start waiting in line for Starbucks as well,” she said. “So the lines get really, really long. Because Target opens on Thanksgiving day, everyone’s going to be really tired and need their coffee.”

Barakat said she hopes stores won’t continue the trend of opening on Thanksgiving day in coming years.

“It’s kind of sad when they open earlier and earlier for Black Friday,” she said.

“It’s like, sooner or later there won’t be Thanksgiving.”

And for Barakat’s family, that may just be the case. Barakat said Black Friday work shifts will certainly cut into Thanksgiving family time at her house.

“Usually, our family would stay home all day during Thanksgiving,” Barakat said.

“But, now that places are open, all of my siblings are working. Stores give that incentive of working time-and-a-half for working certain hours, so everyone will take that.”

Fakira is working at Walgreens this Thanksgiving weekend. She said that working in retail gives her a completely different view of Black Friday than she used to have when she was just a shopper.

“When you’re a shopper, it’s fun,” Fakira said. “But working it is very stressful.

Things become messy. People get rude and impatient during holiday shopping.”

Heaven said the best advice she can give to students working during Thanksgiving weekend is simple.

“Good luck,” she said. “All of us students have to make money somehow, and Black Friday is just something that’s got to happen.”

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A story on the Friday, November 22 edition of The Collegian misidentified the title of Paul Beare, a source quoted in “Student’s passion for helping others remembered.” Beare is the dean of the Kremen School of Education and Human Development.

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‘Dogs lose to Rams Fresno State loses on Senior Day to UOP on the road

BCS STANDINGS 1. ALABAMA 2. FLORIDA STATE 3. OHIO STATE

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Korrin Wild (1) and Holly Framks (21) defend an attack from Wyoming during Fresno State’s four-set loss against Wyoming.

By Christopher Livingston The Collegian In front of Save Mart Center’s largest volleyball crowd of the season, the Fresno State Bulldogs were swept by the undefeated Colorado State Rams 25-13, 25-16, 25-21 on Saturday.

Before the game, Korrin Wild, Lauren Albertson, Marissa Brand, Holly Franks and Megan Callahan were honored during the Senior Day ceremony. The five players and their families took the court for the tribute.

“This was a special day,” Brand said. “Being in this program for five years has completely changed my life. To finish with this group of girls is absolutely amazing. It’s sad that this is our last game, but we had a ton of fun this season.”

Brand finished her final regular-season home game leading the Bulldogs offensively. She had 13 kills while hitting .400 in the contest.

For Colorado State, junior Marlee Reynolds led her team with 13 kills, while Kelsey Snider had 12 kills but hit a team-high .611.

As a team, the Rams outscored the Bulldogs in hitting (.384-.160) and blocks (9-6), while hitting .300 or better each of the three

sets.

“I thought we prepared well this time,” said Fresno State coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell, “but they’re good. They’re No. 10 for a reason. We’re just on a rough streak right now, and the timing wasn’t great. I give [the Rams] credit. They played solid and smart, and they have all kinds of weapons.”

The game didn’t end silently.

Down 23-15 in Set 3, the Bulldogs began a rally. Brand spiked two kills and blocked an attack by Colorado State’s Kelsey Snider.

The Rams called a timeout, then Fresno State committed a service error to stop its rally.

Maci Murdock’s sixth kill brought the Bulldogs within four points, ¬then Murdock and Brand blocked an attack by Colorado State’s Samantha Peters to make it a 24-21 contest.

But Reynolds’ kill sealed the victory for Colorado State.

“It’s disappointing we didn’t start the way we finished,” Netherby-Sewell said.

Two games remain for Fresno State, both on the road. On Tuesday, the Bulldogs will visit New Mexico, then it’s off to Colorado Springs for the season-finale against Air Force on Wednesday.

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Fresno State guard Marvelle Harris takes a shot during Fresno State’s game against the Cal State Northridge Matadors at the Save Mart Center.

By Christopher Livingston The Collegian The Fresno State men’s basketball team lost its second straight road game Saturday to the University of the Pacific Tigers 86-77.

“We’re going to play in some tough environments this year, and we have to do a better job of playing in those places,” Fresno State coach Rodney Terry told reporters.

Senior Tyler Johnson led the team offensively with 25 points and shared the defensive lead with Alex Davis (six rebounds apiece).

Cezar Guerrero (17) and Marvelle Harris (19) also scored in double-digits for Fresno State.

The Tigers (4-0) were led by four double-digit scorers. Senior Andrew Bock led the team with 19 points, and Sama Taku and Khalil Kelley had 16 points each. Tony Gill, the 6-feet-8-inch forward, had 12 points.

Kelley added 12 rebounds to his line for a double-double in the

contest.

The game was close in the beginning, as neither team led by more than four points in the first half. Tied at 23, Taku connected on a layup to give Pacific the 25-23 lead.

Afterward, Harris landed a 3-point jumper to give the Bulldogs a one-point lead, but Gill sunk a layup of his own to retake the lead for the Tigers with 2:35 remaining.

Both teams failed to score for the remainder of the half, and Pacific led 27-26 at the intermission.

The Tigers were able to pull away from the Bulldogs in the second half. Gill’s 3-pointer and Taku’s two free throws game Pacific a six-point lead. Fresno State trimmed the lead at times but never took its own as Bock scored 17 of his 19 total points in the frame.

Tonight, the Bulldogs return to the Save Mart Center to host the San Diego Christian Hawks at 7 p.m.

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By Christopher Livingston The Collegian With 10:08 remaining in the game, Washington State Cougars sophomore guard Lia Galdeira banked in a 3-point jumper to tie the contest at 60. And for the rest of the game, the Fresno State women’s basketball team saw its command of the game turn into subordination.

The Bulldogs scored a seasonhigh 79 points in the contest, but it was not enough for a resurgent Washington State team that was led by Tia Pressley’s career-high 37 points.

Now, the 92-79 defeat puts the Bulldogs at 2-2 as they head into the Seton Hall Tournament.

The Bulldogs had a 47-35 lead at the end of the first half. In the second frame, the lead was as high

as 51-39 before the Cougars began to come back. After trimming Fresno State’s lead to 10 points (59-49), Washington State went on an 11-1 run led by Pressley’s six points over the stretch.

After tying the game, Washington State went on a 15-4 run to gain its own double-digit lead of the contest.

Fresno State guard Taylor Thompson played the entire game and had 25 points. Alex Sheedy had a team-high seven rebounds while scoring her season-high 17 points.

“Taylor just tried to play really hard and tried to create some momentum for us,” said Fresmp State coach Raegan Pebley. “I think her teammates will be better at responding to that for her in the future.”

10. SOUTH CAROLINA 11. MICHIGAN STATE

12. ARIZONA STATE 13. OREGON 14.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS 15.

WISCONSIN 16. FRESNO STATE

17. LSU 18. OKLAHOMA

19. UCF 20.

LOUISVILLE

21. TEXAS A&M 22. UCLA 23. USC

24. DUKE 25. NOTRE DAME

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Conquest to a championship

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Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr (4) cheers on as wide receivers Davante Adams (15), Isaiah Burse (1), Marcel Jensen (back) and Josh Harper (3) celebrate during Fresno State’s 69-28 win over New Mexico.

Bulldogs punch ticket to Mountain West title game in 69-28 rout over New Mexico

By Christopher Livingston The Collegian Records were broken and the West Division was clinched Saturday afternoon at Bulldog Stadium in the undefeated Fresno State football team’s 69-28 rout of the New Mexico Lobos.

Fresno State, 10-0 for the third time in school history and 7-0 in the Mountain West, will play in the conference’s inaugural championship game on Dec. 7, held at the home site of the divisional champion with the highest BCS ranking.

“I’m extremely impressed and proud of our football team,” said Fresno State coach Tim DeRuyter. “We knew it was going to be a challenge, but once again our guys answered the call in a way that reflects very well on them as well as our school.”

Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr, in his final regular-season home game, completed 27 of 37 for 527 yards. His seven touchdowns set the school’s single-game record. Davante Adams, a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award recognizing the nation’s top receiver, caught nine passes for 246 yards and a record-tying four touchdowns in the contest.

Carr, who nears the end of a storied fiveyear career as a Bulldog, made his case as a Heisman Trophy hopeful, said DeRuyter, who is 12-0 at Bulldog Stadium as head coach. “[Carr’s] as good as there is in the country,” DeRuyter said. “That’s why I think it’s very well-deserved that he should be in the Heisman discussion. He’s led us to a 10-0 record, which is the most important thing for a quarterback.

“Statistically, he has to be up there with anyone in the country.”

“The No. 1 goal is to win the game,” Carr said. “I don’t care about the touchdowns and the stats. I just want to win. That’s what we’re based off of and that’s what we want to do.”

The Bulldogs began the scoring at the eight-minute mark of the first quarter with a 57-yard pass from Carr to Adams. After New Mexico went three-and-out with nearly three minutes remaining in the quarter, Fresno State scored in its first play of the ensuing drive when running back Josh Quezada ran 33 yards to the end zone for a 14-0 lead.

In the second quarter, the wide receiver trio of Adams, Isaiah Burse and Josh Harper each scored a touchdown to give Fresno State a five-score lead. Burse’s touchdown was the result of a “fumblerooski” trick play – one that Fresno State last performed in its home-finale matchup against Air Force last season.

“I should have three [Biletnikoff Award] semifinalists,” Carr said. “[Adams] is unbelievable. The thing I love about my receivers is that the [opposing] defense has to choose which one to double-team. I’m so blessed to be the quarterback here because of those guys.”

After the half, New Mexico (3-8, 1-6 MW) used its highly touted rushing attack and running back Crusoe Gongbay ran for a 15-yard touchdown for the Lobos’ first score. Nearly two minutes later, the Bulldogs answered with a score of their own: a 59-yarder Carr-to-Adams that kept Fresno State well ahead.

On the next drive, with New Mexico facing a fourth-and-5, quarterback Clayton Mitchem, second in rushing yards for the Lobos, finished a 24-yard run in the end zone to give the Lobos their second score.

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Fresno State wide receiver Davante Adams (15) stiff-arms a New Mexico defender after catching a pass from quarterback Derek Carr in Fresno State’s 69-28 victory over New Mexico Saturday at Bulldog Stadium.

Fresno State led 42-14 after the play.

“That one was on me,” said Fresno State defensive end Nikko Motta. “I missed a tackle. It’s one that I have to make. But we should never take the foot off the pedal.”

And Fresno State would fire back. On the second play of the ensuing drive, Carr launched a strike to Harper, who held onto the ball and dragged his defender into the end zone for the score.

Down 56-14, Lobos wide receiver Carlos Wiggins caught Fresno State kicker Colin McGuire’s kickoff and ran it 89 yards for an immediate New Mexico score.

With 2:22 left in the third quarter, Carr threw his last regular-season touchdown pass at Bulldog Stadium. It was a 39-yard strike to Adams that capped a 74-yard drive and gave Fresno State a 63-21 lead.

At the end of the third quarter, Carr handed the ball off to Marteze Waller for 4 yards, and then walked off the field to rau-

cous cheers from the sold-out crowd.

“The people of Fresno continue to show me how much I love them and how much I care about why I decided to come here,” Carr said. “Coming off the field to a standing ovation, to clap for all of us seniors who put the time here, that’s just class.

“That’s why I love them so much, and hopefully we can bring a championship here.”

The victory gave the Bulldogs a West Division championship and ensured them a spot in the Mountain West Championship game on Dec. 7. But there is one more regular-season game to play.

On Nov. 29, Fresno State will visit the San Jose State Spartans, who, at 5-6, need to win against the Bulldogs to become eligible for a bowl game.

“It’s a quick turnaround for San Jose,” Carr said. “We have to enjoy this win, then get ready for San Jose tomorrow.”