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Week 12 - Saturday 11/21


Stanford Stadium, CA 7:30 PM ET

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Pac-10 Tiebreakers: What Oregon Ducks, Stanford Cardinal, Oregon State Beavers, and Arizona Wildcats Need to Win the Pac-10





By Dave Consolazio, November 19, 2009 5:19 am

Worried about tiebreakers? Wondering what you should be rooting for in the next few weeks? I’ve done my best to spell out every possible outcome; including plenty of extremely complicated ones involving a highly improbable Washington State upset over Oregon State.

Short Answer:

Oregon and Arizona both control their own destiny, and if they win out, they are in.
Oregon State only needs a single Arizona loss to get in if they beat Oregon.
Stanford needs a perfect storm, but it isn’t impossible. They need a win over Cal, Arizona to beat Oregon, Oregon to beat Oregon State, and Arizona to lose a game (to ASU or USC).


Long Answer:

For OREGON to win the Pac-10 Title:

With win over Arizona, win over Oregon State…
- (Pac-10 clinched)
With win over Arizona, loss to Oregon State…
- (Oregon State loss to Washington State) AND (Stanford loss to Cal)
With loss to Arizona, win over Oregon State…
- (Arizona loss to ASU OR USC) AND (Stanford loss to Cal)
With loss to Arizona, loss to Oregon State…
- (Eliminated)

For STANFORD to win the Pac-10 Title:

With win over Cal…

- (Oregon loss to Arizona) AND (Arizona loss to ASU OR USC) AND (Oregon State loss to Washington State OR Oregon)
*In this scenario, Stanford wins outright or ends up in a tie (7-2) with Oregon, and they hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.
OR
- (Arizona loss to Oregon) AND (Oregon State loss to Washington State) AND (Oregon loss to Oregon State)
*In this scenario, Stanford ends up in a tie (7-2) with Oregon, and they hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.

With loss to Cal…
- (Eliminated)

For OREGON STATE to win the Pac-10 Title:

With win over Washington State, win over Oregon…

- (Arizona loss to Oregon OR ASU OR USC)
*In this scenario, Oregon State wins outright or ends up in a tie (7-2) with Oregon and/or Stanford, and they hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over both.

With loss to Washington State, win over Oregon…

- (Oregon loss to Arizona) AND (Stanford loss to Cal) AND (Arizona loss to ASU AND USC)
*In this scenario, Oregon State ends up in a tie (6-3) with Oregon, Stanford, and potentially Cal and USC. If it is a four-way tie with Oregon, Stanford, and Cal, Oregon State holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over all three. If it is a five-way tie, Oregon State holds the best record among the group of five. If it is a four-way tie among Oregon, Stanford, and USC, USC and Oregon are eliminated for having two losses in the group of four, and Oregon State holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Stanford.

With win over Washington State, loss to Oregon…
- (Eliminated)
With loss to Washington State, loss to Oregon…
- (Eliminated)

For ARIZONA to win the Pac-10 Title:

With win over Oregon, win over Arizona State, win over USC…
- (Pac-10 clinched)
With loss to Arizona State, win over Oregon, win over USC…

- (Oregon loss to Oregon State) AND (Oregon State loss to Washington State) AND (Stanford loss to Cal)
*In this scenario, Arizona ends in a tie (6-3) with Oregon, Stanford, Oregon State, and potentially Cal. If it is a four-way tie with Oregon, Stanford, and Oregon State, Arizona holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over all three. If it is a five-way tie, Arizona and Oregon State have the best records among the group at 3-1, and Arizona holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Oregon State.

With loss to USC, win over Arizona State, win over Oregon…

- (Oregon loss to Oregon State) AND (Oregon State loss to Washington State) AND (Stanford loss to Cal)
*Same as above.

With loss to Oregon, win over Arizona State, win over USC…
- (Eliminated)
With two or three losses…
- (Eliminated)

That about sums it up. Easy enough, right?

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The 'Big Game' is a big game this season



By Ted Miller
For a while now, when California and Stanford took the field to play the annual "Big Game," the name of the Bay Area rivalry contest seemed like the two brainy universities' best effort to teach the rest of the college football nation how to correctly understand the oft-misused term "irony."

Not this year.

For the first time since 1991, both teams are ranked: Stanford (7-3, 6-2) is 17th and Cal (7-3, 4-3) is 25th in the BCS standings. And have winning records. The stakes, particularly for Stanford, are high. The Cardinal, after whipping Oregon and USC, are in the middle of the Rose Bowl race, while the rising Bears would like to play spoiler and improve their bowl positioning.

There's also the role reversal. Homestanding Stanford, losers of six of seven in the series, including a 37-16 whipping last year, is the decided favorite.

"They are probably the hottest team in the country right now," Cal coach Jeff Tedford observed.

Tedford's Bears, however, after tumbling from the top 10 due to consecutive humiliating losses to Oregon and USC, have quietly righted themselves. They've won four of five games, including an impressive 24-16 win last weekend over Arizona, a team that beat Stanford. The defense, which had been inconsistent much of the year, held the Pac-10's No. 1 offense to just 274 yards.

The 'Big Game' is a big game this season - Pac-10 Blog - ESPN



The Bears have not won a big game yet this season and don't expect that to happen now. The Cardinal are clicking on all cylinders and their offense can be unstoppable.

Prediction: Cardinal 48 Bears 14

Anybody like the Bears here?

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Cal trips up No. 17 Stanford, spoils Cardinal's Rose Bowl bid



STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — The California players listened quietly all week to the pregame talk about how powerful Stanford had a chance to go to the Rose Bowl.

The Golden Bears provided their emphatic answer in one of the most exciting and important Big Games in recent memory.

Shane Vereen ran for a career-high 193 yards and three touchdowns on 42 carries and Mike Mohamed intercepted a pass from Andrew Luck at the 3 yard line with less than 2 minutes left as Cal beat No. 17 Stanford 34-28 Saturday.

Azcentral - Cal trips up No. 17 Stanford, spoils Cardinal's Rose Bowl bid