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Oregon State Beavers Must Survive Their 2012 October Season Crucible
The Oregon State Beavers suffered a huge shock on Monday when Coach Mike Riley announced starting quarterback Sean Mannion was slated to have surgery on a torn meniscus this week...
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Ranking the Pac-12's Toughest Schedules
A month into the college football season, the rankings have gone through some changes. Three overrated pretenders (Michigan, Wisconsin and Arkansas) have fallen, one (Oregon State) ...
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Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Oregon Ducks: If They Played Saturday
Fellow Oregon fans, I have to say this one inflammatory thing, but finish reading the article before you decide to post: if the Oregon Ducks played the Alabama Crimson Tide this ...
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Does Jordan Wynn Make the Utah Utes a 2012 Preseason Top-25 Team?
The Utah Utes ended the 2011 season with an 8-5 record. They took the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to overtime in the Sun Bowl and pulled off the upset with a John White IV touchdown to cap off their first season in the Pac-12...
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Pac-12: 2012 "Pre-Preseason" Power Rankings
The 2011 college football season has drawn to a close. It featured the lowest viewer turnout for a BCS Championship game in BCS history, three high-scoring shootouts—two of which ...
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Oregon Ducks: Welcome to College Football's Elite. Now Get Ready.
For many (read: non-Pac-12 fans), the Oregon Ducks were a good football program, capable of making a splash on the national scene, but never truly threatening the hallowed Big 12 and SEC ranks...
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Dear Stanford: Blame David Shaw, Not Kicker, for Fiesta Bowl Loss
Dear Stanford Fans, The Fiesta Bowl loss was a heartbreaker. The fourth-ranked underdog Stanford Cardinal led the third-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys the entire game until they lost ...
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Holiday Bowl 2011: The Mistake That Buried the Bears in Loss to Texas
In all, the Holiday Bowl 2011 was not a terrible game to watch. Unless you were a Cal fan and had to sit through nerve-racking fumble after nerve-racking fumble...
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California vs. Texas, Holiday Bowl 2011: 5 Bold Predictions
The Holiday Bowl is almost upon us. With the injury reports more or less complete, the practices done and the game plans set, the California Golden Bears and Texas Longhorns have now relocated to San Diego for their epic showdown...
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California vs. Texas, Holiday Bowl 2011: How Players on Key Positions Match Up
With the Holiday Bowl showdown between Jeff Tedford's California Golden Bears and Mack Brown 's Texas Longhorns just around the corner, many of the storylines and factors have been beaten to death...
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Pac-12 vs. Big 12 Bowl Games: Claiming Conference Dominance
The ESPN conference bloggers published their debates today on each conference's main opponent in the bowl games. Because they have three bowl games against each other, the Pac-12 and the Big 12 were paired off...
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Holiday Bowl Analysis: For Cal and Texas, It's about the Rush
At the start of November, the California Golden Bears and Texas Longhorns appeared headed in opposite directions. Cal had lost four of its last five game, finishing with a humiliating defeat Oct...
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California vs. Texas: High Holiday Bowl Stakes and a Return to the Elite
The Holiday Bowl matchup between the California Golden Bears and Texas Longhorns is probably one of the best non-BCS bowl games..and it will be better than at least three of the BCS bowl games...
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Holiday Bowl 2011: 4 Cal Players Who Must Dominate Their Positions to Beat Texas
Two words can describe each of the December 28th Holiday Bowl's participants. For the Texas Longhorns those words are 'youth' and 'injuries...
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2011 Holiday Bowl: 5 Reasons the California Golden Bears Will Win
On December 28, the Pac-12's California Golden Bears will face the Big 12's Texas Longhorns in the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl. On paper, these two teams seem very similar...
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Chip Kelly: How He Can Lead the Oregon Ducks to Rose Bowl Victory
Chip Kelly, Nacho Chip, the Mad Visor or even Big Balls Kelly—no matter what he's called, affectionate or otherwise, everyone knows he is the architect of the Oregon Ducks' resurgence to national prominence over the past five years...