High-flying conference powers air it out
Offenses fly as the Pac-10
heads into another week
of conference play
Around the Pac-10
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
Three teams stand atop the Pacif
ic-10 Conference, all undefeated in
conference play and each with New
Year’s Day bowl aspirations.
As for the rest of the conference, it’s
hit and miss. USG, UCLA and Wash
ington are in the middle of the pack,
while conference surprise California
is right behind. Arizona, Stanford and
Oregon State have yet to come out on
top in a Pac-10 matchup.
The Beavers will remain winless
for one more week, as they have
their only in-season bye of the year,
and Washington State, one of three
teams at the top, also won’t play
this week.
That leaves four conference
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matches that are certain, as usual, to
get the blood boiling.
Arizona (3-3,0-2 Pac-10)
at Stanford (1-4,0-2)
2 p.m.
Despite each team’s best efforts not
to, one of these two squads will have
to finish the Pac-10 season with a win.
Not that both teams haven’t tried
their hardest, but it has been a year
of miscues and ineptitude for the
Wildcats and Cardinal, although Ari
zona has shown some resiliency in
past weeks.
The Wildcats, who sport the Pac
10’s worst scoring offense yet have
the conference’s fourth-best scor
ing defense, hung with Washington
until the very last seconds last
week, eventually falling to the
Huskies, 32-28.
A week before that, they stayed
with Oregon for the first half, but a
sluggish offense kept them out of the
game in the second half, and they
succumbed to the Ducks, 31-14.
“We have played some really
good football,” Arizona head coach
John Mackovic said. “The players
should not feel the least bit discour
aged about the quality of their play
and what we've been able to do on
the field. We laid it right on the line
out there, and even though we were
undermanned in terms of numbers
on Saturday, we thought we'd win
that game.”
The bright spot for Arizona this
season has been the play of quarter
back Jason Johnson. The senior
passed for 443 yards last week
against the Huskies — his second of
fensive output of at least 400 yards
this season — and is second in the
Pac-10 in total offense with 293.3
yards per game.
As Johnson goes, so goes the
Wildcats.
“Jason got a lot of one-on-ones
with Bobby (Wade) and Andrae
(Thurman) for most of the game,
and when he gets those one-on
ones with Bobby and Andrae, he is
going to deliver the ball to them,”
Mackovic said of Johnson’s play
against Washington.
Arizona holds a 12-7 lead in the
all-time series against the Cardinal,
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Washington, USC wage war
in front of national audience
The Trojans and Huskies
renew a rivalry that has
intensified lately
Game of the week
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
No. 22 Washington
(4-2, 1-1 Pacific-10
Conference) at No. 19
USC (4-2, 2-1)
12:30 p.m., ABC
After playing in five-straight games
at Husky Stadium — after starting
the year at Michigan — Washington
finally hits the road for the first game
of its two-game road trip.
USG, on the other hand, stays in
Southern California after a narrow
defeat of California last week.
The Trojans and Huskies will butt
heads in a nationally-televised game
that is sure to get the attention of the
East Coast voters.
USC leads the all-time series, 42
26-4, but the Huskies have won three
of the last four games. Last season,
Washington was victorious, as a 32
yard field goal with time expiring split
the uprights, sending the Huskies to
their 12th straight victory.
This season, though, has been an
entirely different story for Washing
ton and head coach Rick Neuheisel.
It has been a trying season for
Neuheisel, who, in the first game of
the season against Michigan, played
a part in a penalty that eventually
gave the Wolverines a victory.
Then, just last week, he was repri
manded by the NCAA for recruiting
violations while he was head coach
at Colorado.
He has never been that popular
among Pac-10 teams. Now, he’s
dropping even lower.
“The bottom line is, you have
days that are a lot of fun and days
that are more of a challenge,”
Neuheisel said regarding the NCAA
investigation. “The guys who are
able to stay the course and do the
job in a long-term capacity are the
ones that can weather all of it. First
you can’t believe it when they are
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