Anyone got a couple miracles they can spare?

The Cats, as usual, can help their cause by winning but the biggest gains are to be found in rooting for the biggest upsets.

Stanford (6-3 / 5-2) at USC (7-2 / 4-2) – 1:30 PM (all times Arizona/Mountain), FSN
The game of the week. Winner stays alive in the conference race. Loser wallows among the bottom bowls. Please let USC do the wallowing…

Who do we root for?
Stanford. A lot. We already own the head-to-head tiebreaker with the Cardinal and we want USC to fall as far and as fast as possible.

Washington (3-6 / 2-4) at OSU (6-3 / 4-2) – 1:30 PM, FSNNW
The Huskies have lost five of six. You don’t even want to think about their one win.

Who do we root for?
Unknown. That’s right, TWIT-Pac is stumped. The problem is it depends on the result of the USC/Stanford game. If the Cardinal wins we want OSU to win to keep the four-way tiebreaker alive. But if the Trojans take care of business we want the Beavers to stay below us in the bowl pecking order. Of course, the two games are played at the same time. At least the UW/OSU game isn’t on TV in Arizona so we don’t have to watch in ambivalence.

UCLA (4-5 / 1-5) at WSU (1-8 / 0-6) – 3 PM, Fox CS
I don’t know what Fox CS is. Fox CSI would make more sense with Wazzu involved.

Who do we root for?
WSU. A loss knocks UCLA out of bowl contention and, as we learned we should be disliking the Bruins every chance we get.

ARIZONA (6-2 / 4-1) at Cal (6-3 / 3-3) – 5 PM, Versus
How will the Cats handle their first road game since the Inaccurate Deflection? Will the Bears be inspired by the play of their second-Best running back?

Who do we root for?
Your Keep-Hope-Alive Wildcats. The Oregon game next week is huge no matter what happens but a UA win this week opens up a lot more options.

ASU (4-5 / 2-4) at Oregon (7-2 / 5-1) – 8:20 PM, ABC
Will the Devils find magic with a quarterback named Oz? At 6-8 he’s no Munchkin.

Whose victory would best help Arizona?
ASU. This the last week, I promise. Just repeat after me: Alone in first place…Alone in first place…

Five Pac-10 games this week and four of them have a direct bearing on the conference race. That’s what you call a fine college football league.

So, yeah, we’re asking for USC, Oregon and Cal to all lose at home on the same day.

No one ever said this miracle stuff was easy.

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