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Cody Pickett and the Huskies host Idaho on Saturday. The Huskies are 1-1 this season.
Top-ranked team
headlines week
for Pac-10 foes
As the last week of complete
nonconference action plays
out, the Pac-10 has its hands
full with Top 25 teams
By Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
The Pacific-10 Conference contin
ues its non-conference play this week
as four teams face off with ranked op
ponents from one of the most re
spected conferences in football.
The Conference of Champions is set
to do batde with the Big Ten. UCLA un
doubtedly has the biggest task as it
heads to Memorial Stadium to face No.
1 Oklahoma. Arizona, after losing by
38 points to No. 22 Oregon last week,
must attempt to get its second win on
the road against No. 25 Purdue.
No. 16 Arizona State will also head
East this weekend for a Top-25
matchup with No. 18 Iowa in what
should be a good game in front of
70,000 at Kinnick Stadium.
UCLA (Overall 1-1,
0-0 Pac-10) at No. 1
Oklahoma (3-0,0-0
Big 12 Conference)
UCLA has won 11 of its last 13
nonconference games over the past
four years, but chances are nobody in
Las Vegas will be placing their money
on the Bruins as they face the best
team in college football.
The Bruin defense should be given
credit for allowing just 9.5 points per
game and 264 yards of total offense,
but will now receive its first test
against a Sooner offense that accounts
for more than 36 points per game
and 434 yards of total offense.
Bruin linebacker Brandon Chillar,
who leads the Pac-10 with 13 tackles per
game, will have to do it again against
quarterback Jason White, who is averag
ing 281.7 passing yards per game
Arizona (1-2,0-1) at No. 25
Purdue (1-1,0-0 Big Ten)
The Wildcats will attempt to even
their record this weekend, but they
must do it in front of more than 62,000
fans at Ross-Ade Stadium against the
No. 25 ranked Boilermakers.
This is not an easy task for a school
that sits at the bottom of the confer
ence and must recover from nearly a
40-point defeat in its first conference
game against the Ducks last week.
The two have never met, and Ari
zona can take some solace in wide re
ceiver Biren Ealy, who posted career
best numbers last week with seven
catches for 90 yards. Yet, the Wildcats
still sit at ninth place in the Pac-10 for
total offense at 269 yards per game.
Boise State (2-0,0-0 West
ern Athletic Conference)
at Oregon State (2-1,0-0)
It will be a battle of streaks Saturday
at Reser Stadium. The Beavers have
won 16 straight nonconference games
in front of the home crowd, and Boise
State trails only Ohio State nationally
with a 13-game winning streak.
"1 think it means a lot," Oregon
State head coach Mike Riley said in a
press conference Tuesday. "A team
that has won a number of games in a
row has confidence in winning. They
expect to win."
The Broncos head to Corvallis be
hind tailback David Mikell, who is av
eraging 167 yards rushing, and quar
terback Ryan Dinwiddie, who will
face off with Oregon State's Derek An
derson. Anderson is attempting to re
establish himself after completing 45
percent of his passes the first three
games of the season.
Stanford (1-0,0-0)
at BYU (2-1,1-0 Mountain
West Conference)
If quarterback Trent Edwards can
come out like a spark plug and rally
his team as he did in Stanford's first
game, the Cardinal stands a strong
chance against the Cougars.
The redshirt freshman threw for
278 yards and two touchdowns in
his collegiate debut against San Jose
State and will now start for the Car
dinal. And with BYU having some
struggles defending the pass in its
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