21.   A contending team, for example, should beat expansion teams, they believe.

22.   After all, they had beaten every team they faced this year.

23.   After beating the team with the best record in pro football, it would be within reason to expect the Oakland Raiders to be bursting with confidence.

24.   Again and again, the bullpen blew leads that the offense tried valiantly to recover, and the team was beaten twice in Colorado.

25.   All these Hurricanes want to do is to beat teams like Florida State and Virginia Tech for the first time in their careers.

26.   But Cotton has a track record of beating teams he has no business beating.

27.   But in nonconference games, MAC schools not infrequently beat teams from some of those swankier programs.

28.   But modern Duke squads have beaten such teams only sporadically.

29.   But now they can at least say they beat the team that beat the team that should win the title.

30.   But the smiles Everett flashed with reporters indicated how much he enjoyed beating the team that gave up on him last season.