What are Cat fans hoping to find under the tree?

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the child-mat…

Yeah, that’s not going to work.

When attempts at rhyming fail it’s time to go back to something we can all count on: the list. Which items would give fans of the Arizona Wildcats the merriest of Christmases and happiest of New Years?

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The Wildcats have one thought: USC…USC…USC…
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Any Arizona fans still moping about the drubbing at Stanford need only to look at future Pac-12 South division-mate Colorado for a reminder that things could be much worse. It’s better to lose by 25 than to lead by 28…and lose anyway.

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It only looked like the Arizona defense was lying down.
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The thought was the Arizona/Stanford game would be a repeat of last year’s high-scoring affair.

It turns out that was only half right.

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Oregon's offense might not touch the ground against Washington.
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One Pac-10 game features an epic match-up. One will be an epic blowout.

And one Pac-10 team got some epically bad news about its 2011 Pac-12 schedule.

This is the last time five league games will be played on the same day this year. You owe it to yourself, your conference and the entire Western United States to watch as many of them as you can.

Embrace the TWIT-Pac Football TV Schedule:

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Juron Criner had half of a record-breaking game.
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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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