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.

The Oregon Ducks lead the conference in the rankings as they moved up two slots to #8 following their OT victory at Arizona.  Oregon State moved up to #16 after thrashing Washington State 42-10.  The Civil War always means something no matter the records when bitter rivals Oregon and Oregon State do battle.  This season it means even more has they do battle in Eugene on December 3rd in front of a national audience.  The winner will get a trip to the Rose Bowl to face Ohio State.  USC dropped two spots to #20 on his bye week.  The Trojans will battle city rival UCLA on the 28th.  California moved up to #22 in the college football rankings after a big victory at Stanford.  Cal will end the season on December 5th when they travel to Washington. Meanwhile, fans can find great Pac 10 merchandise including Oregon Ducks apparel online at Sports-Shop.com.

The Oregon Ducks moved up two slots to #8 in the college football Top 25 with their thrashing of USC.  The Ducks rolled the Trojans 47-20 to extend their winning streak to 7.  Oregon travels to Stanford on November 7th.  Surprisingly, the Trojans only dropped to 12th after the debacle.  USC will have another tough test when they travel to Arizona State this Saturday night.  The Wildcats of Arizona moved up 2 slots to #18 during their bye week.  The Wildcats should have an easy time when they host Washington State on November 7th.  California moved up 4 positions to #20 with their victory at Arizona State.  The Golden Bears host Oregon State on November 7th.

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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.