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By Dave Consolazio, October 11, 2009 7:38 pm

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

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By Dave Consolazio, October 5, 2009 11:29 am

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

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By Dave Consolazio, September 28, 2009 11:29 am

I’m sorry, were you hoping that Week 4 was going to clear up some of the haziness in the Pac-10?

• Cal beating Oregon to establish themselves as the best team in the conference? No, Cal gets destroyed, and we have no idea where they stand.
• USC beats Washington State convincingly to show no signs of a hangover from last week? No, not exactly.
• Washington beats Stanford to hang on to that top 25 ranking? Nope.

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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By Dave Consolazio, September 21, 2009 2:24 am

Wow. What a week. Overall a pretty good one for the Pac-10, avoiding a repeat of last year’s out-of-conference disaster week three going 6-2 this week.

Oh, and that one conference game? Yeah, that one was kind of a doozy.

Hats off to Washington for earning themselves some much deserved national attention, and for confirming what we already knew; the trip to the Rose Bowl this year is going to be a pretty wild ride. Strap in.

Saturday

California 35 – Minnesota 21 (Game Matchup)
Sam: California 37 – Minnesota 17 (W)
Dave: California 38 – Minnesota 17 (W)

Washington 16 – USC 13 (Game Matchup)
Sam: USC 38 – Washington 23 (L)
Dave: USC 41 – Washington 17 (L)

Oregon 31 – Utah 24 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon 34 – Utah 30 (W)
Dave: Utah 31 – Oregon 28 (L)

Iowa 27 – Arizona 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona 24 – Iowa 20 (L)
Dave: Iowa 17 – Arizona 13 (W)

Washington State 30 – Southern Methodist 27 (OT) (Game Matchup)
Sam: Southern Methodist 38 – Washington State 28 (L)
Dave: Southern Methodist 42 – Washington State 24 (L)

Cincinnati 28 – Oregon State 18 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Cincinnati 34 – Oregon State 28 (W)
Dave: Cincinnati 38 – Oregon State 34 (W)

Stanford 42 – San Jose State 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Stanford 38 – San Jose State 17 (W)
Dave: Stanford 41 – San Jose State 14 (W)

Arizona State 38 – Louisiana-Monroe 14 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona State 30 – Louisiana-Monroe 17 (W)
Dave: Arizona State 27 – Louisiana-Monroe 10 (W)

UCLA 23 – Kansas State 9 (Game Matchup)
Sam: UCLA 28 – Kansas State 13 (W)
Dave: UCLA 20 – Kansas State 10 (W)

Neither of us saw the Washington State or Washington wins coming, and I must admit; we were probably more surprised by the Cougars win. It took a Bo Levi Mitchell implosion, but credit the Cougs for taking advantage of the opportunity and never quitting out there.

What caught us most off guard about the Huskies win was the way they won it; holding the Trojans to only 13 points. With the explosive Jake Locker at the helm we were considering the possibility of a shootout; but 16-13? Wouldn’t have expected the Trojans to get outscored by 10 by the Idaho Vandals. As they say, that’s why they play ‘em.

Splitting the Arizona and Oregon games leaves us with the same record through three weeks; 20-7.

And now we move on to primarily conference play; let the fun begin.

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By Dave Consolazio, September 13, 2009 2:54 pm

I can’t really sum it up a whole lot better than Sam did when he texted me shortly after all of the days action was officially in the books;

“College football is a trip.”

No amount of number crunching or game watching can put you in a position to see it all coming. Every week you find yourself shaking your head and just saying “wow”. Isn’t that what makes it so great, though?

Saturday

Wake Forest 24 – Stanford 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Stanford 27 – Wake Forest 21 (L)
Dave: Wake Forest 24 – Stanford 21 (W)

Washington 42 – Idaho 23 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Washington 45 – Idaho 14 (W)
Dave: Washington 45 – Idaho 23 (W)

UCLA 19 – Tennessee 15 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Tennessee 31 – UCLA 20 (L)
Dave: Tennessee 20 – UCLA 13 (L)

Cal 59 – Eastern Washington 7 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Cal 52 – Eastern Washington 13 (W)
Dave: Cal 56 – Eastern Washington 6 (W)

Hawaii 38 – Washington State 20 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Washington State 28 – Hawaii 23 (L)
Dave: Washington State 24 – Hawaii 17 (L)

USC 18 – Ohio State 15 (Game Matchup)
Sam: USC 35 – Ohio State 20 (W)
Dave: USC 38 – Ohio State 13 (W)

Arizona 34 – Northern Arizona 17 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona 42 – Northern Arizona 10 (W)
Dave: Arizona 45 – Northern Arizona 9 (W)

Oregon 38  – Purdue 36 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon 38 – Purdue 27 (W)
Dave: Oregon 41 – Purdue 24 (W)

Oregon State 23 – UNLV 21 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon State 37 – UNLV 28 (W)
Dave: UNLV 31 – Oregon State 21 (L)

After starting off the season 8-1 on our predictions, week 2 was not so good to us. We were both happy to be wrong on UCLA as they picked up an impressive upset win in Tennessee, and frustrated with a Cougars loss that sets up the very real possibility of a winless season. Splitting on Stanford and Oregon State brings us both to 6-3 on the day, 14-4 on the season.

And it won’t get any easier from here!

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By Dave Consolazio, September 6, 2009 3:32 pm

College football is really back! Sam and I have been putting so much work into getting AllPac10.com up and running and studying up on this college football season that to actually see it finally get under way is so surreal! We hope you enjoyed our matchup write-ups this week, and we hope that you all are as excited as we are to have football back in season!

Every Sunday we are going to take a look back at how we did in predicting each game, and then on Mondays we will release our notes and observations on all things Pac-10 that happened over the weekend. So without further ado, a quick look at our results for the first week of the 2009 season!

Thursday

Oregon 8 – Boise State 19 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon 38 – Boise State 34 (L)
Dave: Oregon 41 – Boise State 35 (L)

*This game proved to be both of our worst of the week. It was our only loss, and we were just a little bit off on how Oregon’s offense would fare.

Saturday

Oregon State 34 – Portland State 7 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Oregon State 47 – Portland State 10 (W)
Dave: Oregon State 56 – Portland State 7 (W)

USC 56 – San Jose State 3 (Game Matchup)
Sam: USC 52 – San Jose State 6 (W)
Dave: USC 38 – San Jose State 3 (W)

Stanford 39 – Washington State 13 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Stanford 35 – Washington State 16 (W)
Dave: Stanford 48 – Washington State 13 (W)

UCLA 33 – San Diego State 14 (Game Matchup)
Sam: UCLA 38 – San Diego State 13 (W)
Dave: UCLA 27 – San Diego State 6 (W)

Cal 52 – Maryland 13 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Cal 38 – Maryland 17 (W)
Dave: Cal 45 – Maryland 16 (W)

Arizona State 50 – Idaho State 3 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona State 41 – Idaho State 10 (W)
Dave: Arizona State 48 – Idaho State 10 (W)

Arizona 19 – Central Michigan 6 (Game Matchup)
Sam: Arizona 38 – Central Michigan 24 (W)
Dave: Arizona 31 – Central Michigan 21 (W)

LSU 31 – Washington 23 (Game Matchup)
Sam: LSU 34 – Washington 24 (W)
Dave: LSU 38 – Washington 13 (W)

Sam decided to go crystal ball on us with the USC, UCLA, Stanford, and Washington final scores all coming in eerily close. If he keeps it up, we’ll have to shut down his half of the matchups; no one likes the guy that always tells you how the movie is going to end before it even starts!

8-1 week for both of us is certainly a good way to get started, but things get quite a bit trickier next week! Can’t wait for some very intriguing matchups!