The Pac-10 is out of the \"best conference\" debate: Even in the unlikely event of an Arizona State upset of Georgia this weekend, the Pac-10 won't recover in 2008 from its 3-7 weekend that featured upsets to inferior teams an uncompetitive performances against good teams. California looked asleep for three quarters while losing at a Maryland team that lost to Middle Tennessee State. Arizona and Arizona State failed to take care of business against second-tier Mountain West teams, New Mexico and UNLV. UCLA and Washington got bludgeoned by BYU and Oklahoma. Stanford wilted in the fourth vs. TCU and Washington State looked like the worst BCS team. USC surged and Oregon survived, but it was a yucky weekend for the conference.
Nice. So now we're playing an inferior conference team in a bad conference, so our first long-distance road win since the '65 Michigan game won't get us any run. I'm sick and tired of rankings in September.
