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Stanford quarterback Randy Fasani has come back from injury and won two games,
but the Cardinal will face always-dangerous San Jose State in the Bay Area this weekend.
Pac-10 teams hope
to shine in six bowls
■The Conference season
is almost over, but two games
and a bowl season are still ahead
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s not over just yet. Besides the
Civil War, two Pacific-10 Confer
ence games remain on the docket
this week. Both were originally
scheduled for early September, but
because of the terrorist attacks on
the East Coast, the games will be
played this weekend.
But after that comes the time for
the Pac-10 to shine. While the final
Bowl Championship Series on Dec.
9 will determine who goes where,
as many as six teams may represent
the conference when the bowls
come calling — and many Pac-10
teams have already committed.
Arizona State at UCLA
Oh, UCLA, what happened to
you? After a 6-0 start, four straight
losses have put the Bruins (6-4
overall, 3-4 Pac-10) in a horrible po
sition, bad enough to drop them to
tie for sixth in the conference and a
Silicon Valley Classic appearance.
Of course, they need to handle the
Sun Devils (4-6,1-6) before looking
ahead, as the Classic is an at-large
bid, which does not guarantee a
spot to UCLA.
If UCLA is to break out of its four
game slump, it will have to do it
without running back DeShaun
Foster, who has been suspended in
definitely, and quarterback Cory
Paus, whom head coach Bob Tole
do benched this week in favor of
Scott McEwan. Toledo learned that
Paus had been arrested twice in the
last 15 months for driving under
the influence.
“The only way he would play is
if those other guys were hurt,” Tole
do told the Daily Bruin in regards
to Paus’ third-string demotion be
I
hind McEwan and Ryan McCann.
If the Bruins do take out the Sun
Devils, they can most likely look
forward to a date against Fresno
State on Dec. 31 in San Jose, Calif.
The Bulldogs, who were once the
NCAA’s Cinderella squad, feature
senior quarterback David Carr, a
sure-fire first-round pick in June’s
NFL draft.
Stanford at San Jose State
The Spartans are down and the
Cardinal are up, but by no means is
that a precur
sor of what is
yet to come.
Stanford (8-2,
6-2) has lost to
San Jose State
(3-8, 3-5 West
ern Athletic
Conference)
the last three
years, and the two teams, separated
by only 20 miles, have begun a lit
tle rivalry of their own.
The Spartans have senior run
ning back Deonce Whitaker, once a
front-runner for the Heisman Tro
phy. He no longer is on the list, but
as he goes, so go the Spartans. Stan
ford, on the other hand, has gotten
senior quarterback Randy Fasani
back, and he’s almost better than
ever. In a 17-13 win over Notre
Dame last week, he passed for a ca
reer-high 373 yards and four touch
downs but was also sacked four
times.
But all of that won’t matter, as
the Cardinal will have revenge
solely on their mind. If they lose,
their seniors never will have beat
en their South Bay rivals.
“There are a lot of reasons to
want to beat them. I think anytime
you have a team in your backyard
— and I think they look at us in the
same way — everyone likes
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