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Ducks’ Bowl hopes still alive ■ POSTSEASON: Oregon plays for the right to go to the Aloha Bowl this Saturday By Chris Hansen Sports Reporter Just three weeks ago when the Oregon football team had a 3-5 record and no wins in the Pacific 10 Conference, who would have thought that Saturday’s Civil War game would hold Bowl game im plications for the Ducks? But as strange as it might seem, that is the case as Oregon heads to Corvallis to take on Oregon State in the 100th game of this in-state rivalry. A Duck victory would give them a 6-5 record, and possi bly make them the fourth and only remaining team eligible in the Pac-10 for the postseason. This would earn them an auto matic Aloha Bowl berth. Granted, many things need to happen in order for the Ducks to gain a Bowl bid. None of which are too far fetched, though. In fact, as odds makers have it, Oregon is the Pac-10 favorite to be in Hon olulu on Christmas Day. Here’s the low-down on what needs to happen Saturday for Oregon to be guaranteed a Bowl game. Arizona State needs to beat' Arizona, Washington needs to beat Washington State, UCLA needs to beat USC, California needs to beat Stanford, and of course, Oregon needs to beat Ore gon State. But this is just the best case sce nario for the Ducks to land in the Aloha Bowl, not the only one. For instance, Oregon needs USC to lose just one game out of its next two, whether that be to UCLA Sat urday or Notre Dame next week end. If Stanford beats California, it will be the Cardinal heading for the Sun Bowl, while the Ducks and the Bears fight it out for the Aloha Bowl tied for fourth place in the Pac-10 with 6-5 records. The deciding factor would de pend on a couple of things, said Marcia Klompus, executive direc tor of the Aloha Bowl Executive. “Fan base means a great deal to us,” she said. “We would also take a look at how the teams played on Saturday and in some previous games.” This couldn’t be better for the Ducks. Assuming a win on Satur day, Oregon will have won three straight games, including a rout of California last weekend. “You guys look to have the best chance to win your rivalry,” Klompus said. "We’re all thinking green and yellow down here.” Probably the oddest thing about this weekend’s Pac-10 games is that Oregon, a team that started the conference season losing five games in a row, is probably going to get a Bowl berth by finishing fourth in the Pac-10 with a 3-5 conference record. “It’s been a very unusual year,” Pac-10 spokesman Jim Muldoon said. “By week 10 you usually have an established upper and lower portion of the conference standings. This year it seems strange that everyone, except Ari zona State and Washington, is muddled in the middle.” When asked about what he thought about Oregon still in a Bowl game race, Muldoon an swered, “When they were 2-5, I would have said it was too much of a long shot. But now, anything is possible.” But what is definite is that the Aloha Bowl will be getting a Pac 10 team that will be no better than one game above .500, something that can’t be too appealing to game sponsors or organizers. “It has been a long time since we haven’t had a ranked-team in our Bowl,” Klompus said. “But I don’t think that is indicative of the team; it’s just parity.” Is it parity or is the Pac-10 just a poor conference? “You can say it’s a weak confer ence,” Muldoon said, “or you can say it’s competitive. I’ll choose the latter.” Good conference, bad confer ence. Parity or competitiveness. Neither really matters. 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