Spend Thanksgiving with the Pac 10 teams

The Turkey is cooking, the Stuffing is done, and the Pies are in the oven... All that is left this Thanksgiving weekend is to decide what football games to watch... With lots of Pac 10 in-stte rivarly games being played and the standings at tight as they are, the Pac 10 will be blowing up this weekend with explosive football action. Check out my Pac 10 Thanksgiving Games Hit List to catch all of the best of Pac 10 football!

Here are the Best Pac 10 Football games (in my opinion) being played this weekend.
Saturday November 28th
Arizona vs. Arizona State, ABC
Washington vs. Washington State, FSN Northwest
Notre Dame @ Stanford, ABC
ULCA @ USC, FSN

Pac 10 Standings, what they thought and where we are..

Pac 10 football this season has been not even close to predictable. The video below is a preseaon preview from just before week 1 of the college football season. With just a week left in the season, I'm not sure anyone would have predicted where we would be... So watch the video and see who you think they thought would win...


Then take a look at the standings going into the last week, not quite the same is it?
Oregon: 6-1
Stanford: 6-2
Oregon State: 5-2
Arizona: 4-2
USC: 4-3
California: 4-3
UCLA: 2-5
Arizona State: 2-5
Washington: 2-5
Washington State: 0-7

Pac 10 Football Standings are very close

The Pac 10 has been quite the conference this season. With 5 teams all within a game of each other, analysts are saying that the Rose Bowl is still within anyones reach. This weekend there are several Pac 10 match-ups that will help determine who will make it to the Holy Grail of Pac 10 football.The weekend kicks off with Arizona State vs. Oregon, and then Oregon State takes on Washington.

Another Pac 10 fan put together this video which highlights the top Pac 10 teams in his opinion. While I didn't create this video I think its a good look at some of the best Pac 10 football teams.

Oregon State Beavers are set to make another late-season surge

The Oregon State Beavers are poised to make a late-season surge for the Pac 10 Conference Title. The OSU offense is playing really well, although the pass defense has been a little shaky, the Beavers are looking good and with other teams in the Pac 10 starting to look tired, the OSU Beavers may be in the perfect position to swoop in last minute under the radar and pull out a conference title.

Fellow Oregon team the Ducks, who at one point looked like they might be the biggest competition for the title seem to have lost focus leaving the perfect place for the Oregon State Beavers to slip and claim the glory for themselves. This weekends games are likely to be very telling of who will be on top and who is going to walk away empty handed this season!

Pac 10 Coaches are singing the same tune

Most football conferences have a dominant coach, one that across the nation even outside of conference following people can point to and say, that's the face of _________. This season the Pac 10 has not offered up one such coach, in fact just the opposite. With most of the Head Coaches in the Pac 10 being relatively new, especially in comparison to the longevity of the football programs that make up the Pac 10, the song that is being sung by the the Pac 10 Leadership, "it takes time to turn around a football program".

Singing the lead parts in this sad song are Chip Kelly and Steve Sarkisian. Both first year coaches in the Pacific Ten Conference and both suffering from lackluster seasons so far, why should we care... in my opinion, we shouldn't. I'm not faulting the coaches totally... no coach can take a losing team and make them national champions in one season, but it does seem to me that instead of blaming the "time" why not be up front and say, "we are working on x, y and z" at least then we would know they were doing something.

What may be even worse than the sad tune being sung by these new comers is that relative veterans like Dennis Erickson do not seem to be providing great leadership either... what it boils down to is that if things don't change fast, this will not be a great season for Pac 10 teams, and for once I don't think you can lay all the blame on the players.

The Oregon Ducks battle the UCLA Bruins, and reports say it is anyones game

The Oregon Ducks will take on the UCLA Bruins this weekend in a game that could be one of the hardest to predict this week in the Pac 10.

The game is at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, which is automatically a strike against the Ducks... but if the Bruins bank on a home field advantage carrying them they are going to walk away crying. The Ducks may be down four or five strikes but they have the heart to carry them far!

A few more strikes against the Oregon Ducks, this is Quarterback Nate Costa's first NCAA Start, and its in the Rose Bowl, and its televised.. can you say nerves? Next, the Bruins are sure to be out to redeem themselves after being spanked up and down the field by Stanford last week. Finally, with the return of QB Kevin Prince the UCLA offense will be hard to beat.

The game is televised so if you can't make it out to the game, sit on your couch and send as much Duck Love through the screen as possible, they are going to need it!

Oregon State Beavers take on the Stanford Cardinal

The Oregon State Beavers take on the Stanford Cardinal who so far are undefeated in the Pacific Ten Conference. In fact the Cardinal have only lost once this season and it was on the road to Wake Forest.

Football critics are saying though that the Oregon State-Stanford game will be the Cardinal's first really challenging Pac-10 Conference Game. Earlier this season Stanford beat Washington State, Washington and UCLA.

Analysts say that the trick to beating Stanford this season will be containing the ground game that relies heavily on tailback Tobey Gerhart, who at 237 pounds is more like a Moose than a football player but they boy has skills. The trick for Oregon State who does not have the best defense in the conference (though they don't have the worst either) will be to keep the ball in the air. If Oregon State can pass the ball early on and keep the Cardinal Defense on the field they have a real shot at shutting down Stanford's Pac 10 streak.