Okay, here we go. As soon as you think that you might want to not watch much college football this weekend 7 of the Top 15 lose. #1 USC left all of their crisp play in LA and squeaked by U-Dub by 3. SC looked terrible and I would not be surprised if LSU is [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas State, Kentucky, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, USC, Washington | 2 Comments »Tonight: ESPN2 West Virginia at South Florida and as much as I want USF to win, I just don’t think they can stop PatSlatonSteveWhite. Saturday: ABC Regional Cal at Oregon—be prepared for Dan Fouts’ homerism to get out of control when the Ducks play well. However, I think that Oregon has proven that when they [...]
Posted in Cal, Oregon, South Florida, USC, Washington, West Virginia | 1 Comment »CommishPhil’s latest Weekend Primer is out, featuring Cal at Oregon: For those of you residing east of the Rockies, you may want to sit down for a second: the very concept of a big Pac-10 game that doesn’t involve USC may just blow your mind. The showdown at Autzen will feature two of the most [...]
Posted in Cal, Florida State, Oregon | No Comments »Okay, so this weekend’s games look awful after the Friday night West Virginia/South Florida battle. Now, I know you will say, “Wait—Cal is at Oregon!” And yes, if you live in Californa, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, or Idaho you will get to see that game. (If you have GamePlan, of course, then you are set.) [...]
Posted in Cal, Notre Dame, Oregon, South Florida, USC, Washington, West Virginia | No Comments »We already know that USC would be a three-point favorite over LSU. Well, it turns out that we’d also be five-point favorites over Oregon, six-point favorites over Cal, and 20-point favorites over UCLA. But would we be favored over Oklahoma?
Posted in Cal, LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, UCLA, USC | No Comments »As SI considers the ‘Pac-10 vs. SEC’ question, Bill Trocchi seeks some outside help in constructing his latest conference power rankings: For this particular exercise, I forwarded Ken White, the senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, 10 hypothetical matchups. Keep in mind that White’s company sets the odds for 90 percent of the casinos [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cal, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, The Other USC, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State | 5 Comments »Okay, so you got no live updates this week; I apologize. I was taking online defensive driving to get out of a ticket, so I saw very little of the daytime action and then the family came home and it was daddy/daughter time until SC started. First, maybe I was wrong about SC. For the [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Cal, Florida, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Utah, West Virginia | 1 Comment »The Star-Telegram has a nice treatment of what’s shaping up to be a brutal road schedule for the Trojans: Two weeks into the season, the Pacific-10 Conference has earned plenty of woooooo-eeeeeee’s. The Left Coast League is the second-best only to the Southeastern Conference. The conference went 7-0 Saturday. The only loss of Week 2 [...]
Posted in Cal, Cincinnati, Coaches, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, UCLA, USC, Washington | No Comments »Upset Alert Recap: South Florida pulled it off at Auburn; so did Washington. Oregon put Lloyd Carr on suicide watch. UCLA and Texas survived tough games at home. Virginia Tech looked to be the 2nd most overrated team in the country; however, Pat Forde feels that LSU is #1. The Ole Ball Coach pulled his [...]
Posted in Auburn, Boise State, Cal, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, South Florida, Texas, The Other USC, UCLA, Va Tech, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin | No Comments »Having a parent from Ohio and having gone to SC makes me very happy about what is going on in the Big House Boise St: the first team on Upset Alert to fall? How on earth did Cal play that badly against Colorado St?
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