OK, time for this weeks picks:

Cal 31, ASU 13: See here for details.

Washington 20, UCLA 28: This is a pretty hard call for me.  Neither team has had a non-conference schedule that brings clarity to their situation.  The best think I’ve got going is that Utah is kicking butt after their sound defeat to UCLA.  However, Washington did beat Fresno St., and Fresno St. scared the living daylights out of Oregon the previous week.  That said Washington barely squeeked by San Jose St..  However, UCLA didn’t exactly stick it to lowly Rice either.  Confused yet?  All in all, despite the fact that the game is in Washington, I’ve got to go with UCLA.  Coach Dorrell has that program moving in the right direction and they’ve showed some strength in their non-conference schedule.

Stanford 10, WaZoo 35: If these were pro teams I’d call this the Reggie Bush Bowl redux because these two teams are going to be the basement of the Pac-10 this year.  Unless I’m given a reason to have faith in either one of these teams as the season goes on, expect this to be the only time one of them is predicted to win by yours truly.

Arizona 13, USC 38: Man, USC has the sweetest schedule possible for a rebuilding year.  They start off with all the weak teams and build up to the tough ones.  The only downside for them is they have to play all of the tough teams in order at the end of the season.  As a consolation, they’ve got all 4 of those games at home.  In any case, I’m sure you can tell by the nature of these comments that I don’t see anything interesting in this game to comment on.

OSU 35, Idaho 20: OK, I’m giving OSU a second chance!  I think that theBoise St. game was an aberation.  While I don’t think they’d beat Boise St. no matter how many times you played them, I think that the game would normally have been a great deal closer.  Since Idaho is no Boise, I think OSU will have what it takes to walk away with this one pretty easily.

OK, that’s this weeks predictions (it’s a lot shorter when we get into Pac-10 conference games isn’t it?).  Tune in on Monday for updated metrics and a Bears game wrappup.

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