The PAC-10 heats up, 2009

I knew this would happen..living in Big-12 territory is predictalbe, at least. Here i was, stuck with
Kansas at Texas ,, when Oregon at Arizona should have been on my TV.
The saturday 'football day' started with of course ESPNs gameday from Tucson. Nothing more heart
warming than to hear all those U of A chants ; something so distant that at times there is nothing in
my life to bear witness to my faithful support of Arizona athletics.
Next up came Iowa vs Minnesota , standard Big-10 fare. Iowa is my homeland, after all.
Next up, we had ASU at UCLA , and the SunDevils proceeded to be inept on offense..
i am left wondering why they started a different quarterback against the Bruins stout defense.
The show started with a great look at coaches Dennis Erickson (ASU) in his nice shades,
and chatting (posing more like it) with UCLAs Rick Neuheisel (spelling?) .
The downfall of ASU has been painful, and i pretty much hate those guys.But no pity.
Once again, they failed to score more than 17 points, losing 13-23.
UCLA, on the other hand, has pulled together 6 wins, and are 'bowl eligible' . WTG!

The Stanford vs Cal game was on Versus , and I watched while keeping an eye on the
Oregon Arizona game stats on Yahoo! sports..
Even when Texas had a big lead, ABC did not change games.
What was weird was, the 'Cats held the lead over Oregon all through the Cal Stanford game I was watching.
No sooner was the game over, and Oregon started coming back. Laughably i thought to myself,
'what can i do to appease the PAC-10 gods, and have 'Zona win ? I turned to Fox Sports, and yes.
The Cats answered the Oregon score with one of their own. It happened so fast, the 'Play by Play'
didn't even register the 71 yard Criner TD reception.
And then,, the all too familiar happened:
Arizona could NOT run out the clock. Faced with a third and long, Foles threw an interception
with 3 minutes to play. And Oregon marched down the field and tied the score at 31-31 .
To overtime, and the first period went well for Arizona,after Oregon had scored.
Second overtime, I knew it was over when the first play was a rush for 1 yard(seems it was first play).
Possibly one of the greatest Arizona Wildcat football games was on the line, the game on
National television, and some vindication for the loss at Cal lst week when Cal won its game with Stanford.
Alas, the 'Cats were one play short on D .
The Cats have lost 2 games in a row, with ASU and USC left to play . The Cats are down to their
third, fourth, and fifth string runningbacks. And these next two defenses are going to be ready.
But I am thankful that the Wilcats had a 'great game' against Oregon. No UofO blow outs.
No major upsets. The Cats hung tough.
Good luck, and beat the SunDevils next week.