Bears Need Four Overtimes To Tame Wildcats, 56-55

The longest football game in major-college history finally ended Saturday when visiting Arizona, faking an extra point in the fourth overtime, failed to make a two-point conversion and lost a 56-55 Pacific-10 Conference football shootout to California.

Cal’s Pat Barnes threw for eight touchdowns and 503 yards, both school records. He had scoring passes in the first, third and fourth overtimes.

Keith Smith threw for five touchdowns and ran for two more for Arizona. Jeremy McDaniel set school records with 14 catches for 283 yards - including two touchdowns.

In the fourth OT, Barnes threw a 5-yard TD pass to Marc Vera and Ryan Longwell added the extra point to give Cal a 56-49 lead. Gary Taylor responded with a 1-yard TD run.

Cal 56, Arizona 55 (4OT)

Arizona 7 7 7 14 7 0 7 6- 55

California 7 14 14 0 7 0 7 7- 56

Cal-Shaw 14 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Ariz-Smith 1 run (Peyton kick) Ariz-Myles 7 pass from Smith (Peyton kick) Cal-Douglas 18 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Cal-Benjamin 16 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Ariz-Northcutt 46 pass from Smith (Peyton kick) Cal-O’Neal 34 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Cal-Benjamin 30 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Ariz-McDaniel 20 pass from Smith (Peyton kick) Ariz-Taylor 14 pass from Smith (Peyton kick) Ariz-McDaniel 25 pass from Smith (Peyton kick) Cal-Douglas 20 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Ariz-Smith 11 run (Peyton kick) Cal-Vera 10 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Cal-Vera 5 pass from Barnes (Longwell kick) Ariz-Taylor 1 run (run failed) A-NA.

Ariz Cal First downs 22 29 Rushes-yards 47-177 45-156 Passing 418 503 Comp-Att-Int 25-35-0 35-46-0 Return Yards 29 0 Punts-Avg. 3-42.7 2-46.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-3 Penalties-Yards 4-40 8-79 Time of Possession 30:11 29:49 Individual statistics RUSHINGArizona, Smith 20-84, Taylor 14-57, Myles 8-25, Schmidtke 2-9, Eafon 2-5, Callen 1-(minus 3). California, O’Neal 15-95, Willis 19-57, Benjamin 2-12, Barnes 8-0, Team 1-(minus 8).

PASSINGArizona, Smith 25-35-0-418. California, Barnes 35-46-0-503.

RECEIVINGArizona, McDaniel 14-283, Williams 3-26, Northcutt 2-48, Metzler 2-22, Taylor 2-19, Lucky 1-13, Myles 1-7. California, Shaw 7-132, Benjamin 7-107, Gonzalez 6-96, Douglas 6-83, Vera 3-26, O’Neal 3-25, Bullard 2-33, Willis 1-1.

(4) Arizona St. 29, Oregon St. 14

Terry Battle returned the second-half kickoff 100 yards to help the visiting Sun Devils hold off the surprisingly stubborn Beavers.

OSU, a winner in just two of its previous 18 games and a 23-point underdog, led 14-9 at halftime.

The Sun Devils didn’t clinch the win until Damien Richardson intercepted a pass and returned it 51 yards to set up the game’s final touchdown with 2:22 left.

Arizona St. 3 6 13 7 - 29

Oregon St. 0 14 0 0 - 14

ASUFG Nycz 27 ASUFG Nycz 41 OSUKing 6 run (Stuckey kick) OSUAlexander 48 run (Stuckey kick) ASUFG Nycz 31 ASUBattle 100 kickoff return (pass failed) ASUFarlow 3 run (Nycz kick) ASUBattle 3 run (Nycz kick) A-21,946

ASU OSU First downs 17 16 Rushes-yards 46-297 53-309 Passing 146 20 Comp-Att-Int 11-22-0 5-16-1 Return Yards 70 20 Punts-Avg. 6-34.0 9-33.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 2-19 5-36 Time of Possession 27:36 32:24 Individual statistics RUSHINGArizona St., Battle 21-190, Paulk 11-114, Farlow 5-11, Boyer 1-10, Plummer 8-(minus 28). Oregon St., Alexander 21-153, Kirkman 14-82, King 10-50, Williams 8-24.

PASSINGArizona St., Plummer 11-22-0-146. Oregon St., Alexander 5-16-1-20.

RECEIVINGArizona St., Jackson 5-55, Battle 2-22, Poole 2-22, Bush 1-36, Kendall 1-11. Oregon St., Williams 3-6, Kuykendall 1-10, Kirkman 1-4.

Stanford 21, UCLA 20

Chad Hutchinson threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Brian Manning with 58 seconds remaining to give visiting Stanford an upset win over UCLA.

The Cardinal, a 13-point underdog, moved 80 yards in 10 plays for the tying touchdown and Kevin Miller’s conversion kick snapped Stanford’s two-game losing streak.

Bjorn Merten kicked a 47-yard field goal with 5:36 left to extend UCLA’s lead to 20-14.

Stanford 0 14 0 7 - 21

UCLA 7 0 3 10 - 20

UCLAS. Hicks 5 run (Merten kick) Stan-Mitchell 10 run (Miller kick) Stan-Walters 50 pass from Hutchinson (Miller kick) UCLAFG Merten 27 UCLAK. Brown 37 pass from McNown (Merten kick) UCLAFG Merten 47 Stan-Manning 10 pass from Hutchinson (Miller kick) A-50,498.

Stan UCLA First downs 19 21 Rushes-yards 32-26 44-141 Passing 268 156 Comp-Att-Int 22-32-2 14-34-3 Return Yards 24 25 Punts-Avg. 6-41.2 6-41.2 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 2-25 11-65 Time of Possession 28:51 31:09 Individual statistics RUSHINGStanford, Mitchell 13-38, Bookman 7-16, Comella 3-6, Ritchie 1-3, Hutchinson 8-(minus 37). UCLA, S. Hicks 26-94, McElroy 1-17, Price 3-9, McNown 10-9, Walendy 3-8, K. Brown 1-4.

PASSINGStanford, Hutchinson 22-32-2-268. UCLA, McNown 14-34-3-156.

RECEIVINGStanford, Walters 8-144, Manning 4-28, Clark 3-38, Kirwan 2-21. UCLA, Ayers 3-31, Clark 3-25, Farmer 2-20, Grieb 2-16.