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Golden Hurricane defense hearing the alarm

By Adam Rittenberg
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The alarm clock sounded for Tulsa's defense on a rainy afternoon in the Utah Valley, but by then it was too late. BYU quarterback John Beck and running backs Curtis Brown and Fui Vakapuna had racked up 49 points, the most against Tulsa in nearly two years. The lesson? "We couldn't just roll out on the field and beat somebody," linebacker Nick Bunting said. "We had to put in the work." The defending Conference USA champs haven't let up since the BYU loss. Tulsa has surrendered only 56 points ...

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