Pac-10 plate full of light
fare in second weekend
Pac-10 powerhouses continue
to beef up their schedules with
easy opponents as the football
season heads into Week 2
Around the Pac-10
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
So while the first week of the col
lege football season is over, there
are still questions about the Pacific
10 Conference.
Can Washington overcome its un
timely miscue that allowed Michi
gan to kick a game-winning field
goal? Can Kyle Boiler show the rest
of the collegiate football world that
California’s 70-22 win over Baylor
wasn’t a fluke?
Then there’s Stanford and UCLA,
the two teams that stayed off the
gridiron during the first week. How
will they look?
Those questions, unfortunately,
won’t be answered this week as the
Pac-10 tradition of playing “soft”
opponents early in the season con
tinues, with just a few teams playing
quality opponents.
Week 2, here we go.
Oregon State (1-0)
at Temple (0-0)
Oregon State’s convincing win, a
49-10 bashing of Eastern Kentucky
in Week 1, was hardly anything to
get excited about.
It allowed signal caller Derek An
derson a chance to get used to
NCAA-caliber play after hardly see
Steve Ringman Seattle Times (KRT)
Washington's Omar Lowe picks off a pass in the Huskies'31-29 loss at Michigan last
week. UW will try to get back on track by playing WCC weakling San Jose State.
ing the field last season, but it
shouldn’t offer much of a glimpse
into the Beavers’ future.
The Big East’s Temple shouldn’t be
a real test for Oregon State, but the
Owls’ home field advantage could
make it interesting.
San Jose State (1-0) at
No. 14 Washington (0-1)
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UCLA faces surprising Reims
UCLA looks to get its season off
on the right foot against the
surprising Colorado State Rams
Game of the week
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
No. 19 Colorado State
(2-0) at UCLA (0-0)
This game features the surprise
team of the week versus the team
that hopes to surprise the rest of the
Pacific-10 Conference.
Colorado State’s victory over then
No. 6 Colorado, 19-14, Saturday in
Denver could easily rank among the
most important wins for any single
team this season. The Rams were ex
pected to come out of Invesco Field
torn and tattered, but instead made
the Buffaloes look like the underdog.
“Before the game, we knew we
would win if everybody stepped up
and played their assignments, every
body did what they had to do to win
the game,” Colorado State quarter
back Bradlee Van Pelt said. “We
knew going into the game that this
CU team wasn’t unbeatable.”
The Rams return just four starters
on offense and six on defense from a
team that finished 7-5 in 2001. But
one starter, Van Pelt, will be the key to
Colorado State’s offense this season.
He should provide matchup problems
with the UCLA defense, which is not
accustomed to athletic quarterbacks.
Colorado State could roll to 3-0 af
ter its game against the Bruins.
UCLA, meanwhile, has yet to strut
its stuff this season, and it now plays
its first game two weeks after the
Rams and Cavaliers touched off the
2002 year.
Running back DeShaun Foster is
gone, quarterback Gory Paus is a
question mark in terms of playing
ability and desire, and Rickey Man
ning Jr., the team’s top defensive
player, was arrested on Aug. 27 for
his part in a bar fight in April.
Head coach Bob Toledo has got to
be up to a challenge. Last season’s 7
4 finish looked to be as bad as it
could get. Maybe not.
“You talk about chemistry and atti
tude; two of the problems that we had
off the field affected this football team
(last year),” Toledo told the Daily Bru
in. “When you had as many seniors as
we had and as many good football
players as we had who are going to go
onto all-star games and professional
football, they start focusing on the fu
ture and forget about now.
“Our goals (this season) are team
unity and to win the upcoming game.”
Contact the sports reporter
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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