6:07 pm - Remember all my talk about all the upsets looming? Well, Ohio State pulled away from Penn State 38-14, TCU is up on San Diego State 40-28, and Auburn is beating Georgia 42-31, and looking for more. (Although SDSU just scored, making it 40-35 in the 4th quarter.)
Unfortunately, Washington State has gone into Corvallis and beaten the Beavers, 31-14. Congratulations to the Cougars, who got their first Pac-10 win since November 22, 2008, and their first Pac-10 road win since November 24, 2007. (Both against the Huskies.)
However, this loss makes it increasingly difficult for the Pac-10 to fill all of their bowl spots. This year the Pac-10 has 6 bowl partners: Rose, Alamo, Holiday, Sun, Maaco, and Kraft Hungry, er, Fight Hunger. As of right now, the conference has only 3 bowl eligible teams: Oregon, Stanford, and Arizona. USC would be the fourth, at 6-3, but they are banned from all bowl games this year. After that, you have Cal needing one more win, Oregon St., Arizona St., and UCLA each needing 2 wins, and Washington needing 3. Here are their remaining schedules:
Cal: vs Oregon, vs Stanford, vs Washington
OSU: vs USC, at Stanford, vs Oregon
ASU: vs Stanford, vs UCLA, at Arizona
UCLA: at Washington, at ASU, vs USC
UW: vs UCLA, at Cal, at WSU
As you can see, not everyone is getting in. The Beavers are in a particularly tight spot, needing to win 2 out of 3 against the Trojans, Cardinal, and Ducks. But I for one just don't see any reasonable way that 3 of those 5 teams get to 6 wins this year.
6:53 pm - Cal 7, Oregon 0. Once again, the Ducks are off to a slow start...
7:58 pm - Once again, everything seems to going wrong for the Ducks. They lead, 8-7.
8:21 pm - South Carolina 22, Florida 7. 3rd Quarter. Twenty minutes from your first ever SEC championship game, Gamecocks. Don't choke.
8:24 pm - 3o seconds into the second half. 15-7 Ducks.
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