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SAINT GERVAIS MONT BLANC, France -- As Chris Froome heads toward victory in the Tour de France with a trail of rivals fighting for the podium places next to him, further back in the field -- way, way back -- the little known or seen battle just to finish the race on Sunday continues.It is the race for those who will have little or no say in the final overall outcome, or who at best are sprinters or domestiques for the fast finishers who are saving themselves for one more crack at a stage win in Sundays flat 21st stage from Chantilly to the Champs-Elysees in Paris.But there are also a large number of them who are just struggling to survive and reach Paris for the honour of saying after three weeks of racing that they are a Tour de France finisher.Whatever category these riders fall into, this late in the Tour they will work together in the grupetto -- the group that forms after the overall contenders increase the ante up front, creating a pace that for most riders behind them is too hard to maintain.Its no matter that they may be from rival teams and on any other day intent on racing against each other. Now they race with each other at a pace calculated to finish within the days time limit, as as they did in Fridays 146-kilometer 19th stage from Albertville to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc in the Alps and will do so again on Saturday in Stage 20, 146.5km from Megeve to Morzine.Survive that stage and the grupetto?-- barring disaster -- should all reach Paris on Sunday.Bernhard Eisel (Dimension Data), 35, an 11-time Tour rider from Austria and one of the key lead-out riders for British sprinter Mark Cavendish -- who left the race on Tuesday to focus on his Olympic Games preparation -- speaks of a special camaraderie within the grupetto.It is a spirit that grows especially in the third week when the suffering ramps up.It definitely started after the second rest day [on Tuesday], Eisel told ESPN in Albertville before Fridays start to Stage 19. These last two mountain stages [Thursday and Friday], this is where the pressure builds up and it gets a little bit more nervous. Will there be a grupetto? Will I get dropped before? Thats the crucial point.If you get dropped before the grupetto?is formed then it is a long long day for you.Eisel said the Tour is different in the first and second weeks for the peloton as most riders try to hang on as long as they can and the group forms really late; whereas in the third week the grupetto?usually forms early through accumulated exhaustion suddenly kicking in and the realisation that just finishing the stage within the time limit is the one real goal left.In the last week we try to look after each other, added Eisel, who as one of the senior riders is often tasked with setting the grupettos?pace. I try to look after the guys every day. It doesnt matter which team he is from or where he is from because I know how hard it is.Eisel began Fridays stage 174th overall from 177 riders, at 3 hours, 45 minutes, 21 seconds to Froome. By the end of a day marred by a crashes, Eisel was 172nd from 175 riders at 4:21:17 after placing 170th at 31:44 to French stage winner Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale). Bardet is now second overall at 4:11 to Froome, with Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) third at 4:27.Eisels result aside, the Tour has been a huge success for him in light of his role in helping Cavendish win four stages and enjoy a day in the yellow leaders jersey after his first win.With Cavendishs victories, Eisels South African-registered Dimension Data team can add a fifth, with Briton Stephen Cummings win in Stage 7. They have also been present in many breaks with the likes of Belgian Serge Pauwels and Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen.Five stage wins is incredible. We hoped for two, Eisel said. We had the [yellow] jersey for one day and pretty much managed everything on the first stage. There on it was a nice flow.We pretty much havent missed a breakaway. 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Cote helped running back Jon Cornish run for a league-high 1,813 rushing yards en route to being named the leagues most outstanding player. STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford coach David Shaw is still upset that the helmet-to-helmet hit that knocked receiver Francis Owusu out with a concussion was not worthy of a targeting penalty.Owusu was hit in the second quarter Saturday by UCLA defensive back Tahaan Goodman. Owusu had caught a pass from Ryan Burns and taken a few steps before the hit that caused a fumble.There was no penalty called on the play because officials on the field and in the replay booth determined Owusu was not defenseless, making the helmet-to-helmet contact legal.Its not about being defenseless or not, Shaw said Monday. Its about making the game as safe as we can make it. We should not lead with our helmets on someone elses helmet.No. 7 Stanford won 22-13 but heads into this weeks showdown at No. 10 Washington without Owusu, who is still recovering. Shaw said Owusus condition has improved but he will sit out at least one more week.If it was up to him, hed play, but thats not up to him, Shaw said. Were going to do everything we can to make sure hes 100 percent before he steps back on the field and that wont be this week.Shaws anger over the play was not directed at UCLA or Goodman but at a rule he feels needs to be changed if officials are committed to making the game safer.Plays like this should be penalized so they stop happening, he said. If we dont penalize them, they will continue to happen. Thats common sense. Its where we want to go with the game. Why wait. We should go there now and I thought we were there.Shaw said he believes there would be wide support for expanding the rule to make hits like the one that knocked out Owusu illegal.ddddddddddddhe defense for this not being a penalty I couldnt imagine what it really could be rationally, he said. I understand the letter of the law. Its been quoted to me multiple times over the last 24 hours. But to me, its immaterial. We have initial contact with one helmet on another helmet. It should be a penalty.The Cardinal also could be without three other key players Friday night against the Huskies. Starting cornerbacks Quenton Meeks and Alijah Holder left Saturdays win with injuries and their status is in doubt this week. Fullback Daniel Marx also got hurt and may miss time.Alameen Murphy and Terrence Alexander replaced Meeks and Holder in the secondary and helped shut down Josh Rosen and the Bruins. Frank Buncom also could get more time this week at cornerback if needed.We have the depth if those guys miss a week or two or more, Shaw said. Well see. Were still checking on those guys and well see how that goes. I feel good about the guys we have.Game notes Shaw dismissed speculation that he would be interested in the job opening at LSU following the firing of Les Miles over the weekend. 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