Pac 10 Sports Blog

The Trojans of USC defeated in city rival UCLA 28-7.  The victory moved USC up two slots to #18.  The Stanford Cardinal jumped back into the rankings after a thrilling victory over Notre Dame.  Stanford scored in the final minutes of the game for a 45-38 victory to vault them to #24 in the BCS college football Top 25 rankings. The conference title will be on the line in the Civil War as #16 Oregon State travels to #7 Oregon on Thursday night, December 3rd in front of a national ESPN audience. The winner will face Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on January 1st. USC hosts Arizona and #19 California goes to Washington on Saturday to wrap up the regular season.

When the dust settled on Sunday and the bowl teams were announced, 5 Pac-10 football teams learned not only their destinations for the 2008 bowl season but also their bowl opponents. The Las Vegas Bowl will feature Arizona facing perennial Pac-10 beater BYU on December 20th to kick off the bowl season for the Pac-10. A week later on the 27th California faces Miami (FL) in the Emerald Nuts Bowl. On December 30th, Oregon face Oklahoma State in an intriguing match-up in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl and Oregon State will play Pittsburgh in the Brut Sun Bowl on New Year’s Eve. Finally to cap off the 2008-2009 bowl season for the Pac-10, the USC Trojans will face off with the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Rose Bowl presented by Citi on New Year’s Day @ 4:30 pm on ABC.