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Originally Posted by Autzen Powers these are both good points. I'm paraphrasing:
talkwest's
1) pac-10 needs to win bowl games.
Was it my imagination or was USC the only pac-10 team to win a bowl game last year? It might be my imagination, but I think I remember being pretty disappointed.
brady's
2) East coasters don't stay up till the crack of dawn to watch the late pac-10 games.
these have got to both be factors in the country's outlook on pac-10. |
I don't know if I buy the whole "Late Pac-10 game" thing. That may be the case in college basketball when every game is at 7 p.m. But there is maybe one night football game a week in the Pac-10. Plus, most games across the country get regional coverage anyway, so it's not that the Pac gets less views -- it's just that the Pac isn't as good.
The Pac-10 actually went 3/5 in bowl games last year... OSU and ASU both won. Oregon State's was against Notre Dame (after the whole Irish debacle). I think UCLA lost to Wyoming. I forget who ASU beat.
But everyone in the conference was upset by the lack of respect, that the Pac-10 couldn't get big bowl games. Cal was the litmus test -- they were supposed to be the Pac-10's other bigtime program. The same thing is happening to Oregon this year.