Ouch.

The Pac-10 had a great weekend didn’t it.

Excepct for USC drilling Ohio State, it was pretty bad. 

Oregon had to go to OT to steal a win at Purdue.  Cal lost to a rebuilding Maryland.  And then there were the four games against the Mountain West Conference.  0-4 against the MWC!?!  Which was worse - ASU losing to UNLV in OT at Sun Devil Stadium or BYU blitzing UCLA 59-0 in Provo?  For the record, I think it was ASU’s loss to the Runnin’ Rebs. 

Not to be out done Arizona lost to New Mexico (for the second year in a row) and Stanford lost to TCU by two touchdowns.

How bad was it for the Washington schools this weekend? They managed to lose by a combined score of 100-31.  Washington was routed by Oklahoma 55-14 in Seattle.  Washington State got into the act and fell to Baylor, yes Baylor, 45-17.

In fact, the only squad that managed a ’W’ besides Oregon and USC was Oregon State.  The Beaves dealt Hawaii a 45-7 loss.   

As bad as the other teams looked this weekend, USC looked tremendous.  The Trojans beat Ohio State 35-3 and it wasn’t even that close.  I expected Southern Cal to win, but I thought the Buckeyes would keep it closer than they did. 

The 2008 edition of the Pac-10 reminds me of growing up in Detroit when the Big 10 was referred to the Big Two and the Little Eight.  Only in the Pac-10, there is only one team on top.

written by Grose