Thursday, August 28, 2008

Week 1 pac ten predictions

These are my predictions for PAC ten teams this week. These predictions meant more to be entertaining then accurate.

Oregon State 27, Stanford 24
Oregon St's offense catches on fast, scoring a touchdown their first drive on a 30 yd run by Mcants. Their next two drives stall however and end in field goals with only one being made, Alexis Serna is sorely missed. Especially after the Cardinal scores two straight touchdowns to end the half: the Cardinal 21, beavers 17. In the second half, however; the beaver defense does it's job and Sammie Stroughter returns a punt for a touchdown. The beavers win a close one with a field goal at the end.

Oregon 41, Washington 14
Washington tried to focus on stopping the run this time, however; Justin Roper hooks up with Jamere Holland on a long bomb on the first drive, in a day which turns out to be a long one for Washington's defense. The lone bright spot for Washington is Jake Locker running for two touchdowns despite throwing three interceptions. Well up in the fourth the ducks send out true freshman Chris Harper who on his first play runs over two players and scores a 40 yd touchdown and Oregon wins record fifth consecutive victory over their rivals the Huskies.

Arizona 42, Idaho 6
Arizona passes all over Idaho and Willie Tuitama breaks Arizona's single season passing record.

Arizona State 28, Northern Arizona 3
ASU crushes their northern brothers but a couple sacks on carpenter has fans wondering

Cal 24, Michigan State 7
Cal's defense steps up in big way and carries a shutout late into the fourth when the Spartans finally manage a score after bear starters are benched. Cal's offense struggle under Riley but after he is benched Longshore engineers a long drive and looks every bit of the quarterback he was before his injury against Oregon last year.

UCLA 6, Tennessee 3
The big question from this game is are defenses really good or the offenses really bad. Unfortunately it's probably the latter.

USC 42, Virginia 17
USC dominates this game from the start but like most USC teams when they play lesser opponents they slacken off in the end, and allow the cavaliers to score two touchdowns in the fourth.

Oklahoma St 24, WSU 7
WSU keeps it close in the half with score at 10-7 but fall apart in the second as the cowboys keep them quiet with two straight touchdowns.

1 comment:

Autumn said...

You should be proud of me Nathan!
I read the whole thing!
And the odd part was that everything made since!

See you!

P.S
Nathan,you are REALLY bias towards Oregon!! (not that I should be surprised:))