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Big Plans: Pac-10 bowl schedule, contender rankings and bubble watch

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Juron Criner had half of a record-breaking game.
Photo by Kelvin Kuo/US Presswire

The list of Pac-10 contenders got significantly smaller. The bowl bubble shrank as well. Bowl travel budgets will have to get bigger. And Juron Criner’s L.A. day was both big and small.

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Best Case: Arizona Football faces Stanford as a contender thanks to fake punt power

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Matt Scott and the Wildcats landed safely at 7-1.
Photo by Kelvin Kuo/US Presswire

The Arizona Wildcats football team is trap-free in 2010.

By hanging on against UCLA the UA survived its final letdown opportunity. The four biggest games are here and each one has built-in motivation.

Stanford and Oregon are highly ranked. ASU is the rivalry game. USC still has the Greek guy on its helmets and decades of winning. If you can’t get excited for these games you don’t like college football. You probably don’t enjoy things like water and oxygen either.

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