If Fridays night’s
ASU match-up against Texas San Antonio was a Hoers-d’oeuvre for the Pac12
weekend it was sugar free jelly on a stale saltine. The Devils did manage to
eke out a win over a cupcake with a late score and in six weeks it will just be
one in the win column. The most glaring “highlight” was a pair of 54-yard field
goals that were the ONLY special thing about their special teams play for the night.
Manny Wilkins displayed consistency in being just a little short on most of his
long passes though he scattered a couple that hit his receivers right in the
hands. It may not be any better in Tempe when Cal Shows up.
The Bears knocked
off Texas for the second year in a row but the game didn’t feel right. The two
sort of took turns having brain farts with Bears having one less. I look for
the same when they take on the Sun Devils and am throwing a dart, not a trident,
when I pick Cal to build up some false hope back home in Berkely.
After Utah Sacked
Southern Utah, pretty much non-stop and the Trojans continued to forget about
this guy named McCaffery again and a again to their detriment the two face off
in Utah. It’s hard to see Utah scoring enough points in a low scoring game to
win but it is just as hard to think USC has a game plan. They haven’t had one yet
this year. I guess I’ll pick the home team by a few points in a contest that
won’t produce a top-10 play on ESPN.
Boise State is
leaving the Smurf Turf to play on the Cow Pasture in Corvallis. They took care
of WSU, a PAC12 team with a better offense than Oregon State has. While the
Beavers are better than they were last year, it won’t show in the final score. BSU
will have a short flight home.
Stanford and UCLA
might put together the only decent game on the schedule for the conference this
week. It’ll be only one team doing it though. Rosen is still too inconsistent and
McCaffery will find plenty of holes in the Bruins’ blind man bluff defense, He
may not play much in the 4th quarter.
Washington is
beginning to impress me, even against as much resistance as I can muster.
Arizona isn’t. The Huskies will go home with one more win before disaster hits.
If Oregon understood reading,
as in whether to go for one or two points after a TD, or math which could have
been in their favor, they probably would have made it least to overtime against
Nebraska. As it was one of the best kickers in the country watched the whole
game from the bench as the Ducks went down by three. It won’t be that way this
week. It could be a shoot-out or a wipe-out but Oregon’s scores will be divisible
by sevens and threes with nary a two to mess things up. Speakink of twos Colorado’s
dream lasted until the second half in Michigan and they won’t do much better in
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