From: crs@milton.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Subject: Pac Ten Preview (10-3-92)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:35:00 GMT

Conference play starts in earnest this week in the Conference of Champions
(tm).  There are still two nonconference games, with the marquee matchup
being the Stanford Cardinal traveling to South Bend to meet the Fighting
French.  I have decided on the reward for winning the Pac Ten Pigskin
Pundit's Pool--an all expenses paid trip to....your house!  No really,
I guess a more reasonable gift would be a baseball cap from the conference
champions, whoever that may be :-).  If the winner isn't UW or WSU, I may
need a little help in getting ahold of one, but I do have a couple of leads
for places from which I can get ahold of one, no matter whom that might be.
I will require a minimum of 67% of the weeks be entered in order to 
qualify.  Anybody who sends in entries for all of the rest of the weeks
that I am doing this should qualify.  Without further ado, here are the
game comments and pundit's prognostications:

Southern California @ Washington

The last time that Washington was ranked #1 in the AP poll was 1984 when
the Huskies went to play Southern Cal in Los Angeles.  The Huskies lost and
never made it back to the top spot until now.  Both teams feature good
balanced offenses, with Hobert and Brunell carrying the load for the Huskies
at QB and Robb Johnson calling the signals for SC.  Both teams feature 
aggressive defenses that do a lot of blitzing.  Revenge will be on the
mind of the Trojans, but history is on the side of the Huskies as the
Trojans haven't scored a touchdown in the last two meetings between these
teams with the Huskies winning 31-0 in 1990 and 14-3 last year.

Shaham Parrin		UW 27	USC 17
Mark Choi		UW 27	USC 17
Mark Tremblay		UW 28	USC 10
Greg Garbe		UW 38	USC 10
Yong-Qin Lu		UW 31	USC 17
Eric Jaderlund		UW 31	USC 13
Bob Willers		UW 35	USC 10
Eric Arendts		UW 31	USC 14
Cliff Slaughterbeck	UW 41	USC 16
Vegas Line		UW by 14

Temple @ WSU

The Big East comes out west to face the Pac Ten this week.  Temple should
be overwhelmed by the Cougars.  Drew Bledsoe is finally getting some help
at running back from Shaumbe Wright-Fair, and the Cougar defense is 
starting to gel.  The Owls will be, umm, owls.

Shaham Parrin		WSU 45	T 10
Mark Choi		WSU 34	T 28
Marc Tremblay		WSU 21	T 17
Greg Garbe		WSU 45	T 10
Yong-Qin Lu		WSU 38	T 14
Eric Jaderlund		WSU 39	T 24
Bob Willers		WSU 30	T 7
Eric Arendts		WSU 41	T 21
Cliff Slaughterbeck	WSU 42	T 3
Vegas Line		WSU by 23

UCLA @ Arizona

The Wildcats face a highly ranked team for the second consecutive week.
Last week the Wildcats almost pulled off the impossible by losing to
previously #1 ranked Miami 8-7 and missing a 51 yard field goal that could
have won it as time ran out.  This week they take on a talented Bruin team
that has a defense every bit as good as the Hurricanes, and an offensive
line that looked very good in last weeks win over San Diego St.  Look for
the balanced Bruin attack to move the ball fairly well, but Arizona to 
stiffen near the goal line where the Bruin QB will face more pressure and 
the recievers will have less room to maneuver.  Arizona QB George Malauulu
will find it difficult to move the ball against a very stiff Bruin defense
featuring one of the best secondaries in the nation.

Shaham Parrin		UCLA 25	UA 10
Mark Choi		UCLA 31	UA 10
Marc Tremblay		UCLA 21	UA 14
Greg Garbe		UCLA 24	UA  6
Yong-Qin Lu		UCLA 17	UA 14
Eric Jaderlund		UCLA 17	UA  9
Bob Willers		UCLA 21 UA 15
Eric Arendts		UCLA 17	UA 13
Cliff Slaughterbeck	UCLA 21	UA  3
Vegas Line		UCLA by 6

Oregon State @ California

Oregon State got humiliated by Utah last week 42-9 after looking pretty
good early in the season by tying Arizona and beating Fresno State.  They'll
have more difficulty this week as the Bears host the Beavers.  Cal seems to
have returned to the good graces of the pollsters and will probably move
up into the top 25 this week with a solid win over the team from Corvallis.
Be careful, though.  The bears looked vulnerable to the option attack 
last week against the Jayhawks, with Kansas QB Hilleary looking particularly
effective running the ball against the Bears.  The option game of the
Beavers is still not completely together, but they may break a few long
ones against the boys from Berkeley.

Shaham Parrin		Cal 41	OSU  3
Mark Choi		Cal 28	OSU 17
Marc Tremblay		Cal 38	OSU  7
Greg Garbe		Cal 56	OSU  0
Yong-Qin Lu		Cal 34  OSU 14
Eric Jaderlund		Cal 38	OSU  7
Bob Willers		Cal 42	OSU  6
Eric Arendts		Cal 39	OSU 20
Cliff Slaughterbeck	Cal 48	OSU 14
Vegas Line		Cal by 23

Arizona State @ Oregon

This should probably be the best game this week in the Pac Ten.  The
oddsmakers have it down as even.  The pundits seem to lean towards the
home team Ducks.  I lean toward the Sun Devils myself.  Both teams feature
strong running games with Sean Burwell averaging about 100 yards per game
for the Ducks and Mario Bates averaging somewhere around 150 for the Sun
Devils.  Unfortunately for the fans in Tempe, Bates is gone for the
season with knee problems suffered on the last play of the Nebraska game
last week.  The question will be whether or not the Sun Devils have anyone
who can step in and take his place.

Shaham Parrin		OU  24	ASU 17
Mark Choi		OU  21	ASU 10
Marc Tremblay		OU  24	ASU 14
Greg Garbe		OU  24	ASU 21
Yong-Qin Lu		OU  24	ASU 21
Eric Jaderlund		ASU 24	OU  17
Bob Willers		ASU 27	OU  16
Eric Arendts		OU  24	ASU 23
Cliff Slaughterbeck	ASU 28	OU  23
Vegas Line		even

Stanford @ Notre Dame (game of the week)

A couple of years ago, Stanford went into South Bend and upset the Irish
to knock them out of #1.  That was then, this is now.  The Irish still have
better players than the Cardinal, but the Cardinal does have Bill Walsh
who spent all of the last few years following Notre Dame as a broadcaster
for N(D)BC.  The Irish have looked good on both sides of the ball, with
only a tie to highly ranked Michigan as a blotch on their record.  The
Cardinal have looked expectionally good defensively, but they still haven't
been able to put it all together on offense, despite having Glyn Millburn
and Steve Stenstrom back.  Notre Dame will be favored, but Stanford does
have a slim (but real) chance of pulling this one out, especially if this
is a defensive battle like I expect it will be.

Shaham Parrin		ND 35	S  24
Mark Choi		ND 31	S  15
Marc Tremblay		S  23	ND 21	<-- He's from Stanford
Greg Garbe		ND 38	S  21
Yong-Qin Lu		ND 28	S  24
Eric Jaderlund		ND 21	S  20
Bob Willers		ND 38	S  17
Eric Arendts		ND 32	S  28
Cliff Slaughterbeck	S  14	ND 10	<-- upset special.
Vegas Line		ND by 13	

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