Oregon Ducks (7-1) vs. Stanford Cardinal (5-3)
Saturday, November 7, 12:30 PM PST
Las Vegas Favorite: Oregon -6.5
*AllPac10 Game of the Week*
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State of the Program
Stanford will be entering year two of the Johnny Dawkins era, and the longtime Duke assistant is coming off an up and down debut season on the Farm (20-14, 6-12 in Pac-10). Dawkins will certainly have his work cut out for him in 2009-10, as three of the program’s most consistent performers over the last four years (G Mitch Johnson, G Anthony Goods, F Lawrence Hill) have all departed. Now Stanford must find a way to replace 36.4 points per game as well as invaluable leadership and experience (all three played vital roles on the Sweet Sixteen team from two years ago).
Like many teams in the Pac-10, the rebuilding Cardinal will be searching for their identity this season. Two starters return, but will quality depth surface?
The answer to that question will likely define how this season plays out in Palo Alto. Unfortunately, the early prognosis is looking bleak. Here are the brutal facts as we get closer to the start of the season: G Jeremy Green or F/C Josh Owens, two key components of Dawkins lineup, have recently been ruled out indefinitely.
Green was suspended following an arrest on suspicion of felony domestic violence and it is unclear if he will be cleared to rejoin the team. Owens is being examined for an undisclosed medical condition, and while it is also possible that he could be cleared to play, his father has this to say about the condition: “Keep Joshua in your prayers, he’s hanging in there”.
As if that wasn’t unfortunate enough, the Cardinal will also be without the services of promising freshman forward Andy Brown, who is out for the year with a serious knee injury. This Stanford team was thin on proven players to begin with, but the potential losses of Green and Owens would be devastating.
Assuming the news is as bad as it looks, only six scholarship players will play in the season opener against San Diego (the rest of the roster are walk-ons). One thing is for sure; the resiliency of this Stanford team will be fully tested during the 2009-10 season.
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Stanford Cardinal 5-3 Overall (4-2 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Stanford 33 – Arizona State 14
Next Week’s Opponent: @Arizona
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Arizona State Sun Devils (4-2) vs. Stanford Cardinal (4-3)
Saturday, October 24, 7:25 PM PST
Las Vegas Favorite: Stanford -6.5
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Stanford Cardinal 4-3 Overall (3-2 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Arizona 43 – Stanford 38
Next Week’s Opponent: Arizona State
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Stanford Cardinal (4-2) vs. Arizona Wildcats (4-2)
Saturday, October 17, 4:30 PM PST
Las Vegas Favorite: Arizona -3.5
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Stanford Cardinal 4-2 Overall (3-1 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Oregon State 38 – Stanford 28
Next Week’s Opponent: @Arizona
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The pecking order in the Pac-10 after USC and Oregon continues to get cloudier instead of clearer the deeper into the season we get. Stanford and Arizona were looking like the “best of the rest”, but both picked up losses this week; Stanford, of course, to Oregon State, who appears poised and ready for their late season run with two convincing victories in a row. With games still to come against Cal, USC, and Oregon, they’ve got ime to prove they are once again for real.
And speaking of Cal, which Cal team shows up fresh off the bye next week in UCLA; Pre-Oregon Cal or Post-Oregon Cal?
Saturday
Oregon 24 – UCLA 10 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon 30 – UCLA 24 (W)
Dave: Oregon 27 – UCLA 23 (W)
Arizona State 27 – Washington State 14 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona State 38 – Washington State 13 (W)
Dave: Arizona State 38 – Washington State 10 (W)
Oregon State 38 – Stanford 28 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Stanford 28 – Oregon State 24 (L)
Dave: Stanford 27 – Oregon State 21 (L)
Washington 36 – Arizona 33 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Washington 30 – Arizona 27 (W)
Dave: Arizona 38 – Washington 27 (L)
Oregon State made both of us pay for picking against them for the second straight week. With Arizona up two scores late in the 4th quarter, it was looking like Sam was going to be on the losing end of our split decision once again, but he and Washington received a twist-of-fate bounce on the pick-6 to get the Huskies the win at home.
Not a single easy one on the schedule next week; should be a fun one.
Sam’s Record: 28 – 13
Dave’s Record: 31 – 10
Stanford Cardinal (4-1) vs. Oregon State Beavers (3-2)
Saturday, October 10, 4:00 PM PST
Las Vegas Favorite: Oregon State -1.0
Continue reading 'Week 6 Game Matchup: Stanford Cardinal VS. Oregon State Beavers'»
Stanford Cardinal 4-1 Overall (3-0 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Stanford 24 – UCLA 16
Next Week’s Opponent: @Oregon State
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AllPac10.com was excited to accept an invitation to join CBSSports.com’s Blog Poll, which is run by Brian Cook who runs a great Michigan blog over at www.mgoblog.com. You can read more about the premise by heading over to the Blog Poll via the link below, but it is essentially just like a coaches or media poll except it is made up by top blogs across the country!
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Florida | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Alabama | |
| 4 | LSU – Good gut check win over Georgia. |  2 |
| 5 | Southern Cal – The Trojans are starting to make a familiar run at the Pac-10 title after dismantling one of the conference favorites. With Notre Dame, Oregon State, and Oregon coming up, the next few weeks will tell us a lot about this SC team. | |
| 6 | Virginia Tech |  2 |
| 7 | Boise State | |
| 8 | Ohio State | |
| 9 | Cincinnati | 1 |
| 10 | TCU | 1 |
| 11 | Miami (Florida) – Great bounce back win over Oklahoma. The young ‘Canes are starting to grow up in these big games. | 6 |
| 12 | Iowa – Another close win against an inferior opponent (24-21 over Arkansas State). | |
| 13 | Oregon – The annihilation of Wazzu was expected. Now the Ducks head to Pasadena for an important game against UCLA. | 2 |
| 14 | Oklahoma State | |
| 15 | Auburn | 3 |
| 16 | Kansas | 9 |
| 17 | Nebraska | 6 |
| 18 | Notre Dame – A very entertaining overtime win against U-Dub. Jimmy Clausen has been great so far in ’09. | |
| 19 | Penn State | |
| 20 | Georgia | 4 |
| 21 | Oklahoma | 12 |
| 22 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 23 | South Carolina – Can the Old Ball Coach get his Gamecocks over the hump this year? | |
| 24 | Mississippi | 2 |
| 25 | Stanford – The Cardinal have one of the best running backs in the country, and they are playing inspired football right now. | |
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There weren’t too many surprises this week, relatively speaking of course. All the teams that were favored to win won, with the exception of Oregon State, who performed their stuck with their annual practice of waiting until everyone counted them out to pick things up and earn the win.
To Sam’s credit, he did get the score prediction exactly right on that one; unfortunately it doesn’t count when the teams are swapped.
Saturday
Stanford 24 – UCLA 16 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Stanford 28 – UCLA 23 (W)
Dave: Stanford 24 – UCLA 13 (W)
Notre Dame 37 – Washington 30 (OT) (Game Matchup)
Sam: Notre Dame 35 – Washington 28 (W)
Dave: Notre Dame 34 – Washington 20 (W)
Oregon State 28 – Arizona State 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona State 28 – Oregon State 17 (L)
Dave: Arizona State 27 – Oregon State 14 (L)
USC 30 – California 3 (Game Matchup)
Sam: California 27 – USC 24 (L)
Dave: USC 27 – California 17 (W)
Oregon 52 – Washington State 6 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon 42 – Washington State 14 (W)
Dave: Oregon 49 – Washington State 9 (W)
Oregon, USC, and Stanford roll right along and leave little doubt that they are the class of the conference. But what on earth is going on with Cal? It’s hard to blame JUST the coaching or the players when it is clearly a joint effort to perform this poorly. It’s been painfully bad for the Bears who are really doing the conference no favors in silencing its critics.
Next week marks the first week of exclusively in-conference play with everyone but USC and Cal in action. Should be fun.
Sam’s Record: 25 – 12
Dave’s Record: 29 – 8
UCLA Bruins (3-0) vs. Stanford Cardinal (3-1)
Saturday, October 3, 12:30 PM PST
Las Vegas Favorite: Stanford -5.5
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Stanford Cardinal 3-1 Overall (2-0 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Stanford 34 – Washington 14
Next Week’s Opponent: UCLA
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I’m sorry, were you hoping that Week 4 was going to clear up some of the haziness in the Pac-10?
The list goes on. The only thing that is clear at this point is that we have no idea what to expect this season.
Saturday
Oregon 42 – California 3 (Game Matchup)
Sam: California 35 – Oregon 24 (L)
Dave: Oregon 34 – California 31 (W)
Georgia 20 – Arizona State 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Georgia 33 – Arizona State 17 (W)
Dave: Georgia 28 – Arizona State 24 (W)
Arizona 37 – Oregon State 32 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon State 24 – Arizona 21 (L)
Dave: Arizona 24 – Oregon State 20 (W)
Stanford 34 – Washington 14 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Washington 31 – Stanford 27 (L)
Dave: Stanford 34 – Washington 28 (W)
USC 27 – Washington State 6 (Game Matchup)
Sam: USC 52 – Washington State 10 (W)
Dave: USC 52 – Washington State 3 (W)
That’s right! In a week chock full of madness, I went a perfect 5-0 in my predictions, correctly calling the Arizona and Oregon upsets. Some might call it luck. I call it… well, luck I guess.
The Oregon Cal game really is the most surprising of all. Not in that Oregon won, but how Oregon won. They dominated in every facet of the game, leaving us wondering a) Where was this team week one? b) Where was this Jeremiah Masoli the last three weeks?
This upcoming weekend’s USC vs. Cal game was drawn up by many as a battle of undefeateds, the winner taking a stranglehold on the conference. Instead, both teams enter already having lost in the conference, and the loser with two losses will be virtually out of the running for sole possession of the Pac-10 title. Go figure, huh?
Sam’s Record: 22 – 10
Dave’s Record: 25 – 7
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