From: crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Subject: Pac Ten Preview (10-10-92)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:18:35 GMT

Only one out of conference game this week in the Pac Ten, as ASU hosts
the University of Pacific Tigers.  There are four conference games with
UW hosting Cal, UCLA hosting the Cardinal, the Trojans hosting the Ducks,
and WSU travels to Corvallis to face the Beavers.  Arizona gets a week off
after facing Miami and UCLA in consecutive weeks.

Pacific @ ASU

The Tigers are only 1-4 against some pretty unremarkable competition.  The
Sun Devils are 1-3, but two of those losses came to Top 20 teams in 
Lincoln against the Cornhuskers and at home against the Huskies.  The
ASU offense did score 20 last week against the Ducks, but allowed 30
points as Sean Burwell ran for 100+ yards.  Pacific doesn't have a Sean
Burwell:

William Tell		ASU 49	UoP 21
Marc Tremblay		ASU 31	UoP  7
Robert Willers		ASU 31	UoP 10
Brian Hiegel		ASU 31	UoP  9
Gidi Avrahami		ASU 24	UoP  7
Greg Garbe		ASU 27	UoP  3
Eric Jaderlund		ASU 24	UoP  7
Eric Arendts		ASU 38	UoP 17
Mark Choi		ASU 22	UoP 12
Yong-Qin Lu		ASU 35	UoP 17
Cliff Slaughterbeck	ASU 42	UoP  7
Vegas Line		can't find it for this game

California @ Washington  (game of the week)

In a meeting of last year's two top ranked teams from the Pac Ten and a
matchup of Keith Gilbertson, last year's offensive coordinator for the
Huskies and Don James, his mentor, look for emotion to run high for both
sides.  Both teams run the same offenses and defenses, but Washington has
the better athletes.  This game could be closer than a lot of people think.

William Tell		UW 14	Cal 14	<-- He's from Cal
Marc Tremblay		UW 24	Cal 14
Robert Willers		UW 27	Cal  6
Brian Hiegel		UW 27	Cal 13
Gidi Avrahami		UW 17	Cal 13
Greg Garbe		UW 31	Cal 14
Eric Jaderlund		UW 30	Cal 13
Eric Arendts		UW 27	Cal 21
Mark Choi		UW 21	Cal 17
Yong-Qin Lu		UW 27	Cal 17
Cliff Slaughterbeck	UW 33	Cal 21
Vegas Line		UW by 12

Stanford @ UCLA  (game of the week #2)

The Bruins lost a horribly played game at Arizona last week, and looked very
bad, especially in the offensive line.  Funny how Arizona does that to
people.  Stanford, on the other hand, ran up 33 points to beat the favored
Irish in Coach Bill's journey back to South Bend.  I expect the Bruins
to rebound from the way they played in Arizona (especially against the
run), but not well enough to beat a steadily improving Stanford team
that has a strong defense of their own and is getting better every week
offensively.

William Tell		Stan 28	UCLA 13
Marc Tremblay		Stan 27	UCLA 10
Robert Willers		UCLA 24	Stan 14
Brian Hiegel		Stan 17	UCLA 14
Gidi Avrahami		Stan 27	UCLA 21
Greg Garbe		UCLA 21 Stan 14
Eric Jaderlund		Stan 17	UCLA 14
Eric Arendts		Stan 21	UCLA 17
Mark Choi		Stan 27	UCLA 17
Yong-Qin Lu		Stan 17	UCLA 14
Cliff Slaughterbeck	Stan 20	UCLA 17
Vegas Line		Stan by 3

Oregon @ USC

Both teams have improved substantially from last years trauma.  This game
is important to the bowl hopes for each team.  If Oregon wins, it proves
that they are for real at 4-2.  If 'SC wins, they get a winning record
at 2-1-1 and may move back into the top 25.  The Trojan's defense is
very much improved in it's new attack scheme and should hold Burwell and
the Ducks running game in check.  Danny O'Neil isn't good enough to win
this one through the air for the Ducks.

William Tell		USC 24	UO 10
Marc Tremblay		USC 27	UO 14
Robert Willers		USC 31	UO 10
Brian Hiegel		USC 34	UO 10
Gidi Avrahami		USC 23	UO 14
Greg Garbe		USC 24	UO  3
Eric Jaderlund		USC 35	UO 13
Eric Arendts		USC 28	UO 17
Mark Choi		USC 35	UO 15
Yong-Qin Lu		USC 31	UO 10
Cliff Slaughterbeck	USC 35	UO 20
Vegas Line		USC by 12

WSU @ OSU

Oregon State wnet back to their old fashioned horrible self last week
getting pasted 42-0 by the Bears.  This week, they face undefeated WSU,
who probably has a better offense, although not as good of a defense as
the Bears did.  This one shouldn't be much of a contest by halftime.

William Tell		WSU 31	OSU 14
Marc Tremblay		WSU 38	OSU  6
Robert Willers		WSU 38	OSU 10
Brian Hiegel		WSU 45	OSU 13
Gidi Avrahami		OSU 18	WSU 17  <-- His upset special
Greg Garbe		WSU 48	OSU 21
Eric Jaderlund		WSU 38	OSU 16
Eric Arents		WSU 34	OSU 17
Mark Choi		WSU 42	OSU 21
Yong-Qin Lu		WSU 45	OSU 14
Cliff Slaughterbeck	WSU 41	OSU 14
Vegas Line		WSU by 17.5

Obviously, the Pac Ten Pundits are all calling each other up and predicting
the same winner in almost every game.  I may have to chanage the rules
so that we get better separation amongst the participants if I do this
next year.  Maybe I'll use Bob Dieckmann's system, except that it doesn't
seem to work very well for the pool chairman :-).  (Maybe if I gave myself
ten bonus points for the hassle of running this thing...)

Yong-Qin Lu:		12-2-0	(4-2 last week)
Marc Tremblay:		12-2-0	(4-2)
Eric Arendts:		11-3-0	(4-2)
Cliff Slaughterbeck:	15-5-1	(4-2)
Gidi Avrahami:		10-4-1	no entry last week
Eric Jaderlund:		14-6-1	(3-3)
Mark Choi:		 4-2-0	(4-2)
Greg Garbe:		 4-2-0	(4-2)
Shaham Parrin:		 4-2-0	(4-2)
Bob Willers:		11-9-1	(3-3)

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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