November 20, 2008
Dubai and the UAE - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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What ESPN's Winning of Bowl Championship Series Means
ESPN winning the bid is good for college football. Why should a network that has nothing to do with the college game throughout the year all of a sudden be broadcasting the most important games?
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Costco’s CEO on Corporate Responsibility
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November 19, 2008
“ We want the civil war to have the most importance possible.
Mike Bellotti, the University of Oregon’s football coach, on why he’s rooting for rival Oregon State against Arizona. If only all CFB fans and coaches were as respectful and well-mannered as coach Bellotti.
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November 17, 2008
California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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ESPN - A look at Pac-10 bowl possibilities - Pac-10

Making bowl predictions is mentally draining (and fun) but this is an OK look. I will say though, Arizona can’t get to the Holiday. Either Oregon State wins out and goes to the Rose (giving Arizona 4 loses to Oregon’s 3 or Cal’s 3) or the winner of the Civil War goes to the Holiday with 2 losses, case closed.

Also, Oregon doesn’t play this weekend but can all but clinch* a Holiday Bowl berth with a Stanford win at Cal AND an Oregon State win at Arizona. I’m not sure I’d bet on that mini-parlay but I’ll surely be rooting for those teams.

Lastly, I’m a Duck through and through and have never really been an overall Pac-10 fan but working with a bunch of SEC folk makes this Oregon State to the Rose Bowl very compelling (especially if that Stanford win comes to fruition this weekend). I would love to see two Pac-10 teams in BCS games for the first time since 2003 (I believe), but more importantly I really, really want to see USC in the Sugar Bowl playing Florida or Bama (not a given even if OSU wins out).

*This also assumes USC wins out and gets an at-large berth.

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ESPN - Brad Edwards: No conference title, no problem
In my mind you should have to win your conference to play in the title game but I have to admit, with the current system in place, this is a compelling argument.
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November 16, 2008
UA Sports: Seen and heard
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November 13, 2008

CFB Games to watch 11/13

Not a lot of great football on but still some worth paying attention to. Last week I believe I set a personal record for football watched in one Saturday. I literally began the day with Texas/Baylor and UNC/Georgia Tech around 9am and ended with USC/Cal around 9pm (somewhere in the middle I caught Iowa’s winning field goal, Bama’s OT win, Georgia/Kentucky in a great shootout and I even suffered through every snap of the Oregon game).

National:

4:30 PM PST Virginia Tech at Miami (FL) ESPN (Thurs.)

12:30 PM PST No. 25 South Carolina at No. 4 Florida (CBS)

12:30 PM PST No. 16 North Carolina at Maryland (ABC)

Pac-10:

12:30 PM PST California at Oregon State (ABC)

3:30 PM PST Arizona at Oregon A whole mess of channels (Direct TV-FSN AZ, Comcast-788, Internet-GoDucks.com)

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PAC-10 FB Pick-em, week 12

Two elimination games this week with the loser of each being relegated to the Pac-10 Bowl pit of doom.

If I do say so myself, and I do, I was pretty acurate with my over/under calls last week. Again, the things I see as important considering each teams strenghts and weaknesses:

Oregon State 24 - California 23

Cal’s picks of OSU - 1.5

Rogers Bros. yards from scrimage - 210.5

Total sacks - 5.5

Oregon 31 - Arizona 27

Oregon’s rush yards - 225.5

Arizona’s pass yards - 265.5

Oregon fumbles - 5.5

USC 42 - Stanford 7

Stanford rush yards - 50.5

USC’s total offensive yards - 475.5

Sanchez’s TDs - 2.5

UCLA 24 - Washington 17

Arizona State 42 - Washington State 13

The last two games are so boring I could barely get through typing scores.

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