Rivalry week ends season
■The Pac-10’s final week
includes rivalries in every
region, and final bowl
invitations will be written
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Apple Cup. The Big Game.
The Civil War.
Yes, it is rivalry week in the Pa
cific-10 Conference, and more
than a few Pac-10 teams will be
looking to extend their seasons to
a bowl game.
Arizona and Arizona State will
square off
next Friday in
a game both
teams need to
win, Wash
ington State
will try to
spoil Wash
ington’s Rose
Bowl aspira
tions in the
Apple Cup and UCLA will make
a push for a respectable bowl
berth against Southern California.
Stanford and California will meet
in the Big Game, with a lot of
pride, but no bowls at stake.
Then there is the granddaddy
rivalry game of them all, the Civ
il War, where for the first time in
recent history, the nation’s eyes
will focus on a football game fea
turing two teams from Oregon.
The Civil War will be a high
stakes poker game, and if the
Cougars upset the Huskies, then
the Rose Bowl will be the prize.
use at UCLA
UCLA (6-4, 3-4) is the prime
candidate for the Pac-lO’s fourth
r
bowl berth, but it won’t be play
ing in the Rose Bowl after this
Saturday. The Bruins already
have the six wins necessary for a
bowl trip, and will most likely
head to Hawaii for either the Jeep
Oahu Bowl or the Jeep Aloha
Bowl.
But more could be at stake for
C i You have the chance
to get out there and go for
it against your rival.
That's a terrific way to
end the season.
DickTomey
Arizona head coach
UCLA Saturday. There is an out
side possibility that the Bruins
could earn a berth in the higher
profile Sun Bowl in El Paso,
Texas, if Oregon gets blown out
by Oregon State. The Sun Bowl,
which is likely to feature Wiscon
sin as its Big 10 representative,
may pass on a Ducks-Badgers re
match and select UCLA if the
Bruins beat USC (4-6,1-6) Satur
day.
“There is none better than the
UCLA vs. USC rivalry,” Bruins
coach Bob Toledo said. “It's the
city of Los Angeles and the city
championship.”
USC is just looking for a shred
of respect in a disastrous season
and still has No. 11 Notre Dame
to look forward to next Saturday.
Arizona at Arizona State
The game may be next Friday,
but Arizona and Arizona State
may as well play this Saturday.
The rivalry game without a
name will have little impact on
other Pac-10 teams, but it will
have all the importance in the
world to the Sun Devils and the
Wildcats.
Friday’s winner will get an air
plane ticket to Hawaii from Santa
Claus and will play in either the
Jeep Oahu Bowl Christmas Eve or
the Jeep Aloha Bowl Christmas
Day. The loser gets coal in its
stocking and watches those bowl
games — and the rest of the post
season festivities — from home.
“You have two teams coming
from similar places,” Arizona head
coach Dick Tomey said. “You have
the chance to get out there and go
for it against your rival. That’s a
terrific way to end the season.”
Arizona and Arizona State
have identical overall records (5
5), almost-identical losing streaks
(the Wildcats have lost four in a
row, the Sun Devils three) and
identical postseason aspirations.
The beauty of college football is
that one of them has to win.
Stanford at Cal
California (3-7, 2-5) and Stanford
(4-6, 3-4) will meet in the least im
portant game on the Pac-10 slate
this week. But the Big Game is al
ways one of the most heated rival
ry games, and this year’s matchup
should be no different.
Cal’s defense, led by defensive
end Andre Carter, will try to stop
Stanford’s Randy Fasani to
DeRonnie Pitts connection.
But Stanford has had Cal’s
number in recent years, and a
sixth-straight Cardinal win would
break the record for the longest
Big Game winning streak by ei
ther team.
Washington will play
for Apples and Roses
■ The Cougars and the Huskies will meet in Pullman for their
rivalry game, and Washington will have everything to lose
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Apple Cup between Wash
ington and Washington State has
traditionally been a Husky affair.
Washington leads the all-time Ap
ple Cup series, 59-27-6.
This Saturday, Washington will
be the team with everything on the
line, while
Washington
State will be
looking to final
ly break through
and beat a top
Pacific-10 Con
ference team.
Washington
State (4-6, 2-5 Pac-10) has been
slapped around all season but is
still one of the most dangerous
teams in the Pac-10 when its pass
ing game works.
The Huskies (9-1, 6-1), mean
while, have turned into a puzzle in
recent weeks, letting teams get
close before putting them away,
then accrediting their emotional
play to injured safety Curtis
Williams.
Neither team will have a prob
lem getting up for this game.
“It's what you dream about
when you play college football -
that you can have a chance on the
last Saturday to accomplish all
your goals,” Washington head
coach Rick Neuheisel said. “It
won’t come easy because Wash
ington State is playing very in
spired football.”
The Huskies’ goal is the Rose
Bowl. If Washington wins, it will
achieve nothing worse than a Holi
44 It's what you dream
about when you play
col lege football—that
you can have the chance
on the last Saturday to
accomplish all your goals.
Rick Neuheisel
day Bowl berth, and if Oregon
State beats Oregon, then the
Huskies will be headed to Pasade
na.
Washington has won big games
this year, but most of those big
wins have come at home — a 34
29 win against Miami, a 33-30
shoot-out with Oregon State, a 35
32 thriller against Arizona and a
35-28 victory against UCLA.
The Huskies’ two road tests
against Colorado and Oregon
yielded a 17-14 win in Boulder
and a 23-16 loss in Eugene.
In the war for the apples, and
possibly the roses, Washington
State will try to reverse history and
spoil Washington’s chance for a
premier bowl.
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