The Oregon Ducks have been dragged down by BCS pressure.
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It’s going to be a different holiday season for the Arizona Wildcats.

Three years isn’t long in the grand scheme of bowl things but it was the second-longest active streak in the old Pac-10 and holiday traveling was a welcome addition to the life of UA football fans.

We’ll have to get by on watching other teams play in bowl games, and this year the Granddaddy of Them All is by far the biggest one as far as Oregon and the rest of the Pac-12 is concerned.

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Dennis Erickson has been lacking upward-trajectory football games.
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Arizona State has been the Pac-12 hot seat’s best friend the last couple weeks. Both Rick Neuheisel of UCLA and Washington State’s Paul Wulff got a boost by upsetting the Sun Devils.

Unfortunately for Dennis Erickson, in pushing his fellow coaches off the hot seat, he has fallen onto it himself.

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Who wants to start a bowl streak?
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So it ends.

With loss number seven against Utah last Saturday the Arizona Wildcats football team will not be setting a school record by going to a fourth consecutive bowl game.

The UA’s run had been the third longest active streak in the Pac-12 (and second longest among the old Pac-10 schools). That honor now belongs to Stanford.

Here are the streaks for each program:

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Yes, even the Cougars hope to haul in a bowl bid in 2011.Photo by David Wallace/The Arizona Republic

The 2011 college football season starts tomorrow. By the end of the weekend every (eligible) Pac-12 team (not playing 13 games) hopes to have 1/6 of the wins needed to play in the postseason.

Who is going to make it to a bowl game and who is going to come up short?

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Nick Foles wants one more bowl game.
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The Arizona Wildcats open football training camp on Thursday, August 4.

That means it’s time to start thinking about the end of the season.

If you want to travel to see your team play in a bowl game the time to start planning is now. We’re here to help.

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