Sports news and scores from Saturday December 2, 1978

`Sports headlines for Saturday December 2, 1978:`

Alabama Earns Sugar; Houston Handed Cotton

Top-20 scores:

#2 Alabama 34, Auburn 16
#3 Southern California 21, Hawaii 5
#8 Arkansas 49, Texas Tech 7
#9 Houston 49, Rice 25
#11 Georgia 29, Georgia Tech 28

Other scores:

Brigham Young 28, UNLV 24
Holy Cross 30, Boston College 29
Louisiana State 24, Wyoming 17
Miami (Florida) 22, Florida 21
Navy 28, Army 0
San Jose State 24, Long Beach State 6
Tennessee 41, Vanderbilt 15
Utah 20, San Diego State 18

Associated Press Top 20 for this week (poll of Nov. 29):

1 Penn State (52) 11-0 1256 2 Alabama (2) 9-1 1173 3 Southern California (7) 10-1 1145 4 Oklahoma (3) 10-1 1133 5 Michigan 10-1 1028 6 Nebraska 9-2 940 7 Clemson 10-1 864 8 Arkansas 8-2 722 9 Houston 8-2 698 10 Notre Dame 8-3 689 11 Georgia 8-1-1 658 12 Michigan State 8-3 548 13 Maryland 9-2 519 14 Texas 7-3 396 15 UCLA 8-3 367 16 Pittsburgh 8-3 310 17 Purdue 8-2-1 297 18 Missouri 7-4 200 19 Iowa State 8-3 98 20 Ohio State 7-3-1 96

NCAA football standings as of this date