■ Pac-10 bowl preview
Pac-10 looking for continued
non-conference success
ASU, UCLA and Cal, as
well as Oregon and USC,
will represent the Pac-10
BY JEFFREY DRANSFELDT
SPORTS REPORTER
The season that started with lofty
expectations and dreams .of a na
tional championship shifts to a
berth in the Insight Bowl in nearby
Phoenix for the Arizona State Sun
Devils football team.
Big East challenger Rutgers
(7-4 overall, 4-3 Big East Conference)
finished its season 1-2 in November
with losses to South Florida 45-31 and
Louisville 56-5. Arizona State (6-5,4-4
Pacific-10) finished with a come from
behind win against rival Arizona
23-20 to secure bowl eligibility.
“I’m happy for our players be
cause this means a lot to our pro
gram,” Arizona State coach Dirk
Koetter said. “It’s the third bowl
(game) in five years, back-to-back
for the first time since 2000.” Sun
Devils’ receiver Derek Hagan likes
the location of the bowl.
“We are playing right at home,”
Hagan said. “We expect a lot of fans
to turn out. ”
Northwestern (7-4, 5-3 Big
Ten) vs. No. 17 UCLA
(9-2, 6-2 Pac-10)
UCLA’s resurgence this season,
dulled by losses to Arizona and
No. 1 USC, now heads to El Paso,
Texas, to face offensive powerhouse
Northwestern in the Sun Bowl.
Both schools utilize prolific offenses
with UCLA’s tandem of quarterback
Drew Olson and tailback Maurice
Drew. Olson fought off highly-touted
quarterback recruit Ben Olson and pro
ceeded to pass for 3,055 yards and 31
touchdowns this season. The small
but powerful Drew rushed for 900
yards with 13 touchdowns. He’s been
mentioned with the likes of No. 1
USC’s Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush as
a Heisman candidate.
Northwestern averaged 31.8
points and 492.7 yards of total
Tim Bobosky | Photo editor
California tailback Marshawn Lynch looks upfield for daylight. Lynch has helped Cal reach
the Las Vegas Bowl where they will face BYU Dec. 22.
offense per game.
“Our team has worked hard to
earn its record of 9-2 and a trip to the
Sun Bowl is a great way to cap this
successful season,” UCLA coach Karl
Dorrell said.
California (7-4, 4-4 Pac
10) vs. BYU (6-5, 5-3
Mountain West)
California makes its third consecu
tive bowl appearance in the Pioneer
PureVision Las Vegas Bowl against a
high-powered BYU offense.
The pairing also matches two
quarterbacks in Cal’s Joe Ayoob and
BYU’s John Beck with varying de
grees of success this season. Beck,
statistically, had the better year with
3,357 yards passing and 24 touch
downs. Ayoob struggled to 1,707
yards passing and 15 touchdown
passes compared to 14 interceptions.
The more neutral area involves the
team’s tailbacks. BYU’s Curtis Brown
ran for 1,095 yards with 14 touch
downs. Cal used the two-pronged at
tack of Marshawn Lynch and Justin
Forsett. Lynch flourished as the sea
son wore down with 123 yards
against Stanford, 87 against USC and
189 against Oregon. He finished with
1,052 yards rushing. Forsett had 962
yards as he filled in early in Cal’s sea
son when Lynch missed two games
with an injury. “This will serve as an
appropriate way to measure our pro
gram in relation to the goals that
have been established,” BYU coach
Bronco Mendenhall said.
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