Pac 12 Pick Em - Week Ten

47-30 Oregon (by 17)
34-18 USC (by 16)
34-27 Cal (by 7)
63-16 Stanford (by 47) yeah … this one is out there.
26-25 Utah (by 1)
33-20 ASU (by 13)

USC 40 – Colorado 17 (USC by 23)
Stanford 48 – OSU 10 (Stanford by 38)
Arizona 31 – Utah 24 (Arizona by 7)
ASU 28 – UCLA 19 (ASU by 9)
UW 38 – Oregon 36 (UW by 2) But no one really wins a game between the Ducks and the Dawgs.
WSU 31 – Cal 23 (WSU by 8)

USC by 24
Stanford by 14
Cal by 4
Utah by 3
ASU by 11
Oregon by 3

USC by 29
stanford by 40
cal by 5
arizona by 7
ASu by 14
oregon by 14

USC by 30 (USC covers)
Stanford by 24 (Stanford covers)
Cal by 7 (WSU covers)
Arizona by 10 (UA covers)
ASU by 14 (ASU covers)
UW by 1 (UW covers)

USC by 11
Stanford by 28
Cal by 3
Ore by 11
ASU by 18
Arizona by 1

USC by 24
Stanford by 31
WSU by 8
Arizona by 6
ASU by 14
Ore by 6

USC by 22
Stanford by 30 (and Sundodger collects from Gekko after only 9 games)
Cal by 10
ASU by 20
Arizona by 10
Dawgs beat Ducks by a score of 5 to 3 in a defensive struggle

USC by 21
Stanford by 30
WSU by 6
ASU by 14
Arizona by 10
UW by 3

USC by 24
Stanford by 44
Cal by 7
arizona by 7
ASU by 17
UO by 17

UW by 2
STAN by 24
AZ by 10
ASU by 14
CAL by 7
USC by 24

USC 45 Colorado 17: Matt Barkley lights it up in the first half and cruise to victory in the 2nd half.

Stanford 42 Oregon State 20: Stanford gets a tune up out of the way.

Washington State 23 California 28: No bowling for the Cougs.

Utah 26 Arizona 35: Utah hasn’t impressed me this year. Predicted to finish near the top of the Pac 12 South and currently stands 1-4 in league.

Arizona State 24 Ucla 18: Sundevils getting it done this season, Ucla isn’t.

Oregon 33 Washington 38: The bend but don’t break defense gives up some points as usual, but make a strong goal line stand to seal the victory. Leading to the defensive players carrying coach Holt off the field.

UW by 6
USC by 24
Cal by 7
AZ by 3
ASU by 10
Stan by 10

U$C by 35
Cal by 3
Stan by 28
ASU by 24
Zona by 10
UW by 1 more than the *ucks

USC by 28
Stanford by 35
Cal by 3
Arizona by 14
ASU by 21
UO by 21

USC 27 Colorado 14
Stanford 42 Oregon St. 17
Cal 27 WSU 21
Arizona 30 Utah 27
UCLA 28-22
Oregon 42 UW 28

USC 41, Colorado 17 (USC covers)
USC might suffer a bit of hangover from the Stanford thriller, and the Buffs should get back their two top offensive weapons (Richardson, Stewart), but there’s still a massive talent gap between the two. Hard to see Colorado’s defense slowing down the Trojans much (if at all), and even with their two best skill guys back, I just don’t see Colorado scoring a whole lot.

Stanford 37, Oregon St. 17 (OSU covers)
Stanford also may suffer a bit of a hangover from their big game last week. OSU stands little chance of winning, but they’ve played well enough at home that they could cover, especially with the Cardinal starting to feel the effects of some injuries.

Cal 28, WSU 21 (WSU covers)
Cal is a tough team to pick this year, schizophrenic as has become usual of late. On paper they should win comfortably, but Maynard has been regressing big-time and their normally stout defense was gashed badly last week by UCLA. Still, WSU just doesn’t have enough horses – their pass offense is good, but not great under the Lobster and their running game still not something they can count on. And their defense is improved, but still bad. Maynard & Cal should recover some against the Cougs, but WSU will make them sweat a bit.

Utah 31, Arizona 27 (Utah covers)
Another tough pick – strength (Utah defense) on strength (Arizona offense) and weakness (Utah offense) on weakness (Arizona defense). I’m basically thinking toss-up, and giving Arizona an edge for home-field. However, one thing I keep coming back to is that Utah wins comfortably when John White has a big game, and I don’t see the Wildcats defense as being able to control him.

Arizona St. 38, UCLA 27 (ASU covers)
UCLA is another tough team to pick. Just when you think they’re done and Neuheisel is out the door, he pulls a Houdini act out of his hat. This would be another one if he can pull it off, but ASU finally appears to be a team with the maturity to win the games it’s supposed to. And they have the kind of physical defense to make Kevin Prince pay for running the ball – what happens if he gets knocked out of the game? Does Rick get desperate and burn the redshirt of Brett Hundley?

Oregon 49, UW 30 (Oregon covers)
I’d love to think that the emotions of Saturday night will propel the Dawgs to the upset and give Sark his most important win yet in his career, but looking at the game rationally, I don’t see it happening. I would certainly expect us to be right with them, if not leading, at halftime, but the Zeroes will put on the afterburners in the 2nd half as usual and pull away. Pray for some big special teams plays and a lot of forced turnovers, because as much as I like our offense, I just don’t think they can keep up with the Phil Knight Specials until our defense gets stronger, faster and more seasoned.