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<p>Small nit, but in this scenario, Cal would be tied for the Pac 10 title with the other two loss teams. And, Cal would win the tie-breaker (head-to-head) for the Rose Bowl. But, UCLA MUST lose three league games.</p>
<p>I said it earlier and i'll say it again. Watch out for Oregon...NUMBER 4 IN BCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>^As of right now, Oregon is my 2nd fav. team in college football. That offense is dangerous.</p>
<p>OREgon is freaking amazing. their offense is Gaudy...</p>
<p>UCLA is not going to the Rose Bowl this year. They are a good, but very inconsistent team, and I personally believe they will lose at least two more games (I'm predicting a demolition against SC, as much as I hate them, and a loss to Oregon and very possibly ASU).</p>
<p>misterr: be mature. verner made a nice play, but Longshore had tunnel vision the entire way. In fact, before it was intercepted, I said "he needs to look away, it's an easy read." It was a mental error by Longshore that Verner did a good job of capitalizing on.
"the bottom line is that you guys lost" < thank you, captain obvious.</p>
<p>voltage: the slamming of the play sheet, etc., was again because of a mental error by the QB that lost us a shot at #1. Unless you have a time machine to take us back, just move on! We can still get to a great bowl game!</p>
<p>start: your first two scenarios are impossible, since USC and Cal play each other. If SC wins out, they would have to beat Cal, and then Cal would have 3 losses.</p>
<p>I'll put money down on at least one upset of the big three, if not two. Honestly, we lost to two ****ty teams but we beat a Washington team that gave SC a run for their money, an Oregon State team that beat Cal, and Cal themselves. If it weren't for the two upsets that, honestly, I blame on our stupid QB situation, we'd be #1 in the nation right now. As long as Pac-10 teams keep taking us for granted we'll keep dropping their W/L ratio. Count it.</p>
<p>[EDIT]And I'm confused as to how you were telling Longshore to look away on that play when you were on the opposite end of the field not even facing them. You must have superman eyesight(unless you weren't in your designated fan section)..</p>
<p>Nope, wasn't in the fan designated section, but, along with seeing it with my own eyes, I've also seen numerous replays of it, and he has done it more than once as well.'</p>
<p>Funny, Cal fans blame their losses on the qb situation as well. Longshore played pretty well, but couldn't move in the pocket. And, we all know about last week. Heck, if we didn't have qb issues, WE'D be #1 in the nation (due to wins against TN and OR).</p>
<p>Oops. I meant USC beats Oregon, then loses to Cal, but wins the rest.</p>
<p>And SC has been having QB issues as well.</p>
<p>I guess we can both agree that the whole Pac-10 is suffering because of their QB problems :p..</p>
<p>[EDIT]But I must say, LA's QB issues are worse than anyone's..</p>
<p>I guess we can both agree that the whole Pac-10 is suffering because of their QB problems</p>
<p>Except for Oregon... :D</p>
<p>I'm jealous that Oregon came out of their bye week ready to take flight.</p>
<p>The Bears came out of their bye week fat and lazy due to too much honey and hibernation.</p>
<p>lol @UCB</p>
<p>mega: i really don't see how they're worse; you won with your backup in, we had to play with a redshirt freshman who'd only thrown 3 passes (all incomplete) prior to that. but whatever, everyone has qb issues except UW and oregon.</p>
<p>No, ASU has no issues with Rudy Carpenter. Anyways, wish we had a QB like Dennis Dixon. What we need is a talented, dual-threat quarterback who can burn them in the air and on the ground.</p>
<p>^ I'd rather have a defense that doesn't give up 30 or more points per game.</p>
<p>I agree with UCB. you can't expect the offense to score 40 points per game. Longshore and Dixon are just different, though equally talented. Longshore fits this offense bc we have awesome receivers. Oregon has a fast-paced, run-blocking scheme.</p>
<p>Our defense needs to only allow around 15 ppg like every other top team in the country.</p>
<p>Umm, forget about your redshirt freshman, we had to play with a walk-on, non-scholarship freshman that hadn't even PLAYED in any collegiate games, let alone THROWN a pass two weeks ago. Not to mention this was after two strings of QB's were out with injury and if our last happened to be injured we'd have to call on our WIDE RECEIVER to step up to the QB position.</p>
<p>Gimme a break. Oohhhhh Longshore out, Riley in, ooohhhh. Jeez man, just try to accept that maybe some teams have it worse than you. I'm outta here..</p>
<p>^ True...I don't know who backs up Riley. I think any team would struggle with a 3rd string QB.</p>
<p>UCLA woulda beat ND if it weren't for your QB situation that week.</p>
<p>But, I agree that Longshore still has mobility problems. He was a statue! Riley, at least during the OSU game, showed some real nice NFL-esque escapes.</p>
<p>Pac-10 defenses are too quick...unless we had 7 guys on the offensive line, you need a mobile QB to play in this league.</p>
<p>So we need all of these things:
Oregon and USC both beat ASU and UCLA
UCLA loses to one more pac-10 team
USC beats Oregon
We beat USC
We win out</p>
<p>then we're off to the roses!</p>
<p>yes, we got rid of a ucla fan! JK, i didn't realize he was talkin about the ND game, i thought he meant the Cal game. whatev, it's not cal's fault that they got demolished by utah, of all teams, and lost to winless ND. who cares though, what's done is done.</p>
<p>UCB-again, I agree. Longshore is a very good passer, but Riley should be a treat to watch once he gets some more experience.</p>
<p>phroz: looks like a long list, but definitely not impossible considering everything that's happened this year.</p>
<p>so, what do you all think of the ASU game?</p>
<p>ASU lost their star RB for the season.</p>
<p>I don't think ASU's defense is as strong as UCLA or OSU.</p>
<p>The pressure is now on ASU. Let's hope Cal can catch 'em napping after a bye.</p>