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OFFENSE Austin Allen, QB, ArkansasLed Arkansas to a touchdown in each of its last three possessions in double-overtime win at No. 12 TCU, delivering two TDs through the air before running in for the game-winning touchdown in the second overtime.All three touchdown passes and TD run came in the second half/overtime when he was 12-of-19 for 178 yards.With Arkansas trailing 28-20 with 1:59 left in the fourth quarter, Allen was a perfect 4-for-4 for 63 yards, including a 16-yard touchdown pass to Keon Hatcher. Allen then caught the game-tying two-point conversion from Hatcher to make it 28-28 and force overtime.Allen led Arkansas to its third consecutive road win over a ranked opponent with a 19-yard TD strike to Jeremy Sprinkle in the first overtime before running in for the game-winning touchdown in the second overtime.Allen is tied for the national lead with four touchdown passes in the second half and overtime this season.Through his first two career starts, Allen leads the SEC with a 63.8 completion percentage.DEFENSE Micah Abernathy, DB, TennesseeMaking his second career start at free safety, sophomore Micah Abernathy recorded three solo tackles and set a new Tennessee record with three fumbles recovered.Abernathys three fumble recoveries resulted in 14 points for the Vols. He recovered a fumble by Virginia Tech quarterback Jerod Evans at the VT 5-yard line at the beginning of the second quarter and the Vols scored on a TD pass from Joshua Dobbs to Jauan Jennings on the ensuing possession to pull to within 14-7. Abernathys second fumble recovery was early in the fourth quarter and halted a 10-play, 45-yard Virginia Tech drive. On the Vols following possession, Abernathy recovered a VT fumble while playing punt coverage, grabbing the loose ball at the VT 43-yard line. Tennessee turned his third fumble recovery into a 27-yard Dobbs TD run and a 38-17 Tennessee lead.Abernathy leads the nation as the only player in 2016 with three fumbles recovered.SPECIAL TEAMS Daniel Carlson, PK, AuburnScored 21 points in Auburns 51-14 win over Arkansas State, a new school single-game record for points scored by a kicker (1 TD, 3 FG, 6 PAT).Scored from 20-yards out on a fake field goal in the second quarter, the first TD of his career and first successful fake field goal for a TD by Auburn since 2000.It was the first TD scored by an Auburn kicker since Damon Duval in 1999 at LSU.Was perfect on the night converting three field goals, six PATs and all six kickoffs were touchbacks.Has converted on 22 of his last 23 field goals dating back to 2105 and is a perfect 104-for-104 in PATs during his Auburn career.TreDavious White, DB/PR, LSUHad a spectacular 60-yard punt return for a touchdown to help spark LSU to a 34-13 win over Jacksonville State in the home opener for the Tigers.White fielded the punt on his own 40-yard line, was knocked backwards and ended up retreating to his 20-yard line where he gathered himself, then turned the corner and outran Jacksonville State defenders and zig-zagged his way to a touchdown.The play gave the Tigers a 27-10 lead with 20 seconds left before halftime.It was the third career punt return for a TD for White, which ranks No. 2 in school history.FRESHMAN Johnathon Johnson, WR/PR, MissouriScored twice in dynamic fashion as he helped the Tigers to a 61-21 win over Eastern Michigan Saturday evening, as he took a punt 54 yards for a TD, and later hauled in his first career receiving TD for an 87-yard strike. He led Mizzou with 5 catches for 115 yards and the one score, while he averaged 37.0 yards on two punt returns (2-74) and also returned one kickoff for 21 yards.Johnson ended the game with 210 all-purpose yards, and according to Sports-Reference.com, hes the first FBS player with a punt return TD, a receiving TD and a 100-yard receiving game since 2001.Playing in his first-ever home game at Mizzou, Johnson scored the first TD of his career on the last play of the 1st quarter when he coralled a punt, and after muffing it, scooped it up and raced through blocks and across the field to outrace all pursuers for Mizzous first punt return score since 2014. Later in the 2nd quarter, with MU nursing 20-7 lead, he took a quick screen, broke through the first line of defenders, and raced virtually untouched 87 yards for the catch-and-run score.OFFENSIVE LINE Dan Skipper, OL, ArkansasBlocked his sixth career kick with under 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter as No. 12 TCU attempted the game-winning field goal. Made his 36th straight start along the offensive line.Graded out a team-best 90 percent, helping pave the way for sophomore Rawleigh Williams to run for 137 yards while Austin Allen threw for 233 yards.Arkansas offense ran the ball 43 times during the teams win at No. 12 TCU, helping it finish with a six-minute edge in time of possession.Arkansas put together 400 yards of total offense in the win at No. 12 TCU and has now scored 40 or more points in seven of its last nine games.DEFENSIVE LINE A.J. Jefferson, DE, Mississippi StateJefferson has been dominant the first two weeks of the season, and he accounted for five tackles, one sack for a loss of eight on third down and two tackles for loss in MSUs win over South Carolina.He added another quarterback hurry. For the year, Jefferson leads the SEC in tackles for loss with six, a mark this is also third nationally.He is tied for the SEC lead in sacks with three. As a unit, the Bulldogs held the Gamecocks to 34 yards rushing, the fewest by an opponent against MSU since LSU had 30 on Sept. 26, 2009.Jefferson moved into sixth place in MSU career tackles for loss with now 30.5. Cheap Craig Biggio Jersey .J. Jefferson has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend. Cheap Houston Astros Jerseys . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate. http://www.cheapastrosjerseys.com/ . 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Jurgen Klinsmanns hiring five years ago was supposed to make America a great soccer nation.Didnt happen.Worse, its not going to change anytime soon.Klinsmann talked a great game. He promised skilled, ambitious, attack-minded teams instead of relying on the tried-and-true formula of athleticism, luck and overworked goalkeepers that marked the nations modest climb in the world rankings up to that point. And he smartly looked back to his native Germany for a plan to make soccer sexy in his adopted homeland.He vowed the U.S. teams youth programs would leave no gem undiscovered or community overlooked in its search for talent. He urged fans to hold him and his players accountable. He made clear that anyone with a valid U.S. passport would be welcomed on-board to develop a uniquely American style of playing the worlds game.What Klinsmann left behind, though, is a team with no discernible style that is even less American -- measured by home-grown-or-developed players -- and hardly more competitive than the one he inherited. Dont expect that to change under Bruce Arena, who is even more of a pragmatist than he was during his first stint (1998-2006) in charge.U.S. soccers best hope, at least for the foreseeable future, remains the Immigration and Naturalization Service.Theres no reason to blame either Klinsmann or Arena for that. The problem with soccer in America is much bigger than either man. For all the initiatives and money thats been poured into the game over the last three decades, from kids recreational programs to colleges to Major League Soccer, we still havent produced even one field player good enough to crack the starting lineup for traditional powers like Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Argentina and Brazil.Nothing will change until that does.America still hasnt developed a real soccer culture. It was supposed to happen after the 1994 World Cup was played here, or after the launch of the MLS, or after the U.S. team under Arena reached the quarterfinals in 2002, even after millions began tuning in each season to watch the matches in the Premier League and Bundesliga, and turning out in droves for World Cup viewing parties every four years.But having dedicated fans doesnt necessarily translate into developing great players. Predictions of a soccer boom has done more to hamstring the real development of the game here than all those well-organized, well-meaning parents who became youth coaches with no more than a vague idea of how its played.dddddddddddd If you want to know how great a deficit that puts youngsters growing up here, think of it this way.If you gathered a handful of 10-year-olds from the remote corners of Brazil and dropped a ball at their feet in a 10-by-10-foot room, theyd position themselves quickly enough to pass the ball three times before rolling it through the doorway without a hitch. Hand a basketball to a similarly selected group of American kids and make the hoop the target and youd see much the same organization.Whether soccer will ever be on an equal footing with the big American sports is anyones guess. The best athletes in this nation of 300-million plus are still headed to the NBA or NFL first. Soccer is finally competing with the NHL, Major League Baseball and a few other sports for talented youngsters.But the most promising prospects -- like Christian Pulisic, only 18 and arguably already the most skilled player in the U.S. program, and a regular for Borussia Dortmund in Germanys Bundesliga -- only develop by going outside the U.S. national teams grasp.Both Klinsmann and Arena understood that long ago. Ever the optimist, Klinsmann believed he could meld all those different individual talents and playing styles in the short time the team was called in for national team duty, the way the other world powers have always done. He even doubled down on the idea by importing as many German-Americans as he could find, ruffling plenty of feathers in both the squad and the U.S. federation.Arena wont repeat that mistake. Instead of a grand plan to make America great, hell quickly cobble together a team that is long on veterans and will cut down on mistakes. Hell pack the defense, count on good-to-great goalkeeping every time out and take his chances in a sudden counterattack.It wont make anyones heart race, but it may be enough to turn around Klinsmanns disastrous 0-2 start in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and produce the occasional upset, much as the 2002 team did.Toward the end of his re-introduction to the U.S. media on a conference call Tuesday, Arena was asked whether there was an American style of playing.You style is dictated by the qualities of your players, he replied. We are who we are.---Jim Litke is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and https://Twitter.com/JimLitke . ' ' '