From: crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck)
Subject: Pac Ten Preview  (11-21-92)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:31:10 GMT

Washington at Washington State  (The Apple Cup)

This game features the top two offenses in the Pac Ten.  While UW finally
got a chance to run up some offense on the hapless Beavers last year, the
Cougars ran into a tough Stanford defense that surrenderd only three
points.  The Huskies passes the Cougars by, now gaining a little over 400
yards per contest, whereas the Cougars are at 399+.  Traditionally, the
line on this games means little or nothing.  The Cougars may need a win,
or at least a good showing to make it into the bowls, so expect a fired
up WSU team to at least start out strong.  If they can't pull ahead, they
could fold in the fourth.

Oregon at Oregon State (The Civil War)

The Ducks watched their Bowl hopes go down the drain when they lost to
UCLA on a last second FG last week.  The Beavers have tuned up their
rushing game to average 4+ yards per carry this year, but that will not
be enough to overcome the Duck defense, which like just about everybody
else in the Pac Ten this year is quite good.  Seven of the top 20
defensive teams in college are in the Pac Ten.

USC at UCLA

It used to be that this game was nationally televised every year.  Not
true anymore, but there is still plenty riding on this game.  The Bruins
must win it to salvage a winning season in a year where they were expected
to challenge for the league title.  The Trojans must win it to keep in
contention for the Bowl Coalition, although they appear to have the
Freedom or Hancock Bowls sewn up as backups.  It'll be a tough hard fought
game, with UCLA finally starting to get a few of their players off of
the injured list.

Stanford at California (The Big Game)

They call this the Big Game.  I call it the Weird Game.  This tussle is
played every other year in Berkeley and wierd things seem to happen there,
like the infamous Stanford Band play that allowed Cal to win on a kickoff
return play which finished the game.  Or how about two years ago, when
Cal appeared to have the game well in hand when Stanford scored a touchdown
with under a minute to play, recovered an onsides kick, got 15 yards off
of a roughing the passer penalty, and kicked a FG to win the game in the
last 12 seconds or so.  I have absolutely no comment about what sort of
bizzare things are going to happen this time, just bet that nobody will
have anticipated it.

Arizona State at Arizona

The Wildcats have owned this series recently, although the Sun Devils often
had a better record.  This year, it is the Sun Devils chance to retaliate.
ASU QB Grady Benton is among the leaders in passing efficiency, and he
better complete a bunch of passes if he wants to get by the best rush defense
in the land in Arizona.  ASU has a pretty good defense of their own, but
must stop a very good Arizona rushing attack that is #2 in the conference.

Pac Ten Pundit's Pool

Pundit			UW/WSU	UO/OSU	St/Cal	ASU/UA	USC/UCLA
Bob Willers		31/13	21/24	26/21	16/10	31/7
Marc Tremblay		38/21	27/13	99/0	10/17	31/13
Brian Hiegel		39/20	24/6	27/14	21/17	17/14
Greg Garbe		35/10	15/14	24/3	3/18	21/7
Gidi Avrahami		30/24	17/13	27/20	14/20	17/9
Eric Jaderlund		35/9	34/13	24/21	6/10	27/8
Cliff Slaughterbeck	37/14	24/21	26/25	7/14	32/21
Vegas Line		UW-14	UO-13.5	St-2.5	UA-6.5	USC-8.5


As always, late entries are accepted until game time (12:30 PST).


Current Standings in the Pac Ten Pundit's Pool:

Marc Tremblay:		33-11-0	(2-3 this week)
Yong-Qin Lu:		33-11-0	(4-1)
Eric Jaderlund:		32-13-1	no entry this week
Cliff Slaughterbeck:	34-16-1	(2-3)
Eric Arendts:		30-14-0	(3-2)
Gidi Avrahami:		30-14-1	(4-1)
Greg Garbe:		22-14-0	(2-3)
Bob Willers:		30-20-1	(4-1)
---------------------------------------  not enough games to qualify (yet)
Brian Hiegel:		17- 8-0	no entry this week
William Tell:		19-11-0	(3-2)
Dave Bakken:		 8- 7-0 (4-1)
Mark Choi:		 9- 2-0	no entry this week
Shaham Parrin:		 4- 2-0	no entry this week

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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