From: crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Pac Ten Review (11-07-92)
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:43:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov9.214313.9614
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Arizona	16, Washington 3

The 22 game win streak is history for the Huskies.  Arizona beat the
Huskies by doing what they do best--defense and special teams.  The 
Wildcats held the UW ground game to 90 yards in 30 carries and kept
the Huskies out of the endzone to earn the win.  Meanwhile, the Wildcats
rushed for 197 yards on 54 carries, led by Billy Johnson's 99 yards on
21 carries.  The Huskies did throw for 243 yards as Mark Brunell went
25/41, but couldn't get the ball into the endzone.  The game was defensive
in nature, as the Huskies only had 14 first downs and six punts, and
the Wildcats had 12 first downs and eight punts.  The difference was that
Arizona consistently had better field position, often starting in Husky
territory or at least outside their own 40 yard line.  Meanswhile, the
Huskies were backed up by the tremendous Arizona punt team to start
inside their own twenty yard line all afternoon.  Four turnovers finally
did the Huskies in.

Washington State 20, Arizona State 18

Washington State showed that they weren't quite ready to fold up this 
year with an inspired defensive performance against the Sun Devils.  The
Cougars held the Sun Devils to 272 yards of total offense and with only
a 3.8 yard avg. per play.  On the offensive side, Drew Bledsoe was 22/41
for 267 yards and two touchdowns.  The Sun Devil defense shut down Shaumbe
Wright-Fair and the Cougar ground game, however, holding the Cougars to
just 29 yards rushing on 37 carries.  Both teams were hit hard by the
yellow flags, with WSU being called 10 times for 115 yards and ASU being
called 10 times for 95 yards.  Special mention must go to WSU linebacker
Anthony Mclanahan who had an absolutely incredible 20 tackles to lead the
Cougars.

Stanford 23, Southern California 9

Five Trojan turnovers led to a bunch of points and stopped drives as the
Cardinal beat the Trojans on the Farm, Saturday evening.  The Stanford
defense did a really good job of shutting down the 'SC rushing game, 
holding the Trojans to 59 yards on 40 carries.  USC QB Robb Johnson was
11-22 with three interceptions and Perry stepped in late to throw  another 
which was returned for a touchdown by free safety John Lynch.  Steve 
Stenstrom threw for 273 yards, hitting 23/39 with one TD and one INT in
leading the way to the Cardinal victory.  It was the first victory for
the Cardinal over USC in Palo Alto since Jim Plunkett was the Cardinal
quarterback.

Oregon 37, California 17

The Quack Attack won this game on the strength of the big play and
interceptions.  Ronnie Harris caught one 56 yard TD pass and ran back
punts of 19 and 64 yards to set up two other scores, while RB Ricky
Whittle ran for an 80 yard score and DB Herman O'Berry intercepted
three passes to stop Bear drives.  The one thing the Ducks couldn't
do was stop Bear TB Russell White, who had 192 yards on 29 carries.
The big plays were just to much for the Bears to overcome.

UCLA 26, Oregon State 14

UCLA finally pulled it together to stop a five game losing streak and
escape the cellar of the Pac Ten conference by beating the Beavers
in Pasadena.  The star of this game was Bruin tailback Chris Alexander
who rushed for 227 yards on 35 carries for the Bruin victory. His 227
yards tied Eric Ball for the 4th best performance in Bruin history.
Neither team passed the ball much, as only 20 passes were thrown (as
compared to the 100 rushes between both sides).  The difference was
that John Barnes was 8/15 for 149 yards whereas Steve Olford was
only 3/5 for 32 yards for the Beavers.

			Current Standings

                                W  L T Pts  OP   W  L T Pts  OP
Washington                      5  1 0 151  59   8  1 0 238  90
Arizona                         4  1 1 118  66   6  2 1 204  77
Wash. St.                       4  2 0 146 130   7  2 0 261 190
Stanford                        4  2 0 103 106   7  3 0 215 169
USC                             4  2 0 132 108   5  2 1 183 149
Oregon                          3  3 0 121 131   5  4 0 217 174
California                      2  4 0 164 135   4  5 0 251 215
Arizona St                      2  4 0 118 117   4  5 0 200 167
UCLA                            1  5 0  65 154   4  5 0 154 185
Oregon St.                      0  5 1  72 184   1  7 1 147 311

All of the games this week were pretty close until the final two minutes
of play (except the Cal-UO game).  In the other four games, late TD's
were scored by the winners which put the game out of reach or else ended
as close as the game was (WSU-ASU).  With five teams in the Top 25 in
both the CNN/USAT coaches poll and the AP sportswriters poll, the Pac Ten
looks almost certain to get five bowl bids.  Six bowl bids is a distinct
possibility, although, the outcomes of several games will determine that.
Washington still has the inside track on the Rose Bowl, and Arizona now
looks to be the favorite for the Bowl Coalition spot that goes to the
number two team.  If Stanford beats WSU this weekend, they will just about
sew up the #3 slot and the Freedom Bowl birth.  WSU looks to be headed to
a minor bowl at best with games against Stanford and Washington left.  The
Trojans are still in the hunt, but they must win 2 of their final 3 games
against Arizona, UCLA, and Notre Dame.  If they do so, they will almost
assuredly be playing at one of the minor bowls outside of the bowl coalition
agreement.  Oregon is 5-4, but with games against UCLA and OSU left, they
will likely end up 7-4 and could squeak out a minor bowl bid over WSU whom
they beat head to head.  Cal, ASU, UCLA, and OSU will be home for the
holidays this year.

Pac Ten Pundits Pool:

Pundit			UW/UA	ASU/WSU	SC/St	UC/UO	OSU/UCLA
Gidi Avrahami		19/13	20/23	21/17	30/20	20/21
Dave Bakken		24/14	21/31	24/17	28/24	21/14
William F. Tell		17/10	13/28	21/17	27/17	14/6
Marc Tremblay		17/6	17/21	24/27	28/17	14/17
Bob Willers		20/7	37/31	28/10	24/16	13/17
Brian Hiegel		31/10	27/20	24/17	28/15	13/28
Eric Jaderlund		28/10	21/30	24/13	35/17	7/20
Eric Arendts		24/10	24/27	26/23	21/20	17/24
Yong-Qin Lu		24/10	21/27	24/21	27/24	17/21
Greg Garbe		28/7	21/24	21/10	24/3	 3/3
Cliff Slaughterbeck	37/14	33/38	23/16	35/21	21/20

Congradulations once again to our fearless leader, Marc Tremblay, who
is now well on his way to owning a brand new cheap baseball cap.  He
was the only pundit who was over .500 on this all around lousy week
for Pundits.  He was the only one to pick Stanford over USC and also
came closest in WSU's victory over the Sun Devils.  Brian Hiegel was
best on UCLA's victory, and nobody got Arizona's upset of Washington
or Oregon's thrashing of Cal. There are only eleven contests left in
the regular season, plus bowl games (which count double).

Current Standings in the Pac Ten Pundits Pool:

Marc Tremblay:		31- 8-0	(3-2 this week)
Yong-Qin Lu:		29-10-0	(2-3)
Cliff Slaughterbeck:	32-13-1	(1-4)
Eric Jaderlund:		32-13-1	(2-3)
Eric Arendts:		27-12-0	(2-3)
Gidi Avrahami:		26-13-1	(2-3)
Greg Garbe:		20-11-0	(1-4)
Bob Willers:		26-19-1	(1-4)
---------------------------------------  not enough games to qualify (yet)
Brian Hiegel:		17- 8-0	(1-4)
William Tell:		16- 9-0	(1-4)
Dave Bakken:		 4- 6-0 (3-2)
Mark Choi:		 9- 2-0	no entry this week
Shaham Parrin:		 4- 2-0	no entry this week

Special note to Brian Hiegel and William Tell:  you will qualify if you
enter every week and the Pac Ten gets at least five bowl bids.

Minimum 2/3 games necessary for qualifiying for the grand prize
of a hat given to the winner of pundits picks poll.

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Cliff Slaughterbeck           * 
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University of Washington      *   water again!
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