OT: PAC 12 Wk 12. If 11/11/11 didn't bother you, this won't either. C'mon, gitcha-seff some easy $

Plenty of time to change your bet. But I wouldn’t, and there’s no movement on the board.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-washington-montana

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recap?gid=201111180019

Yeah, this DOES make a diff for OR’s suddenly-not-so-obscure hopes for a title shot. Which is a Good Thing.

U Dub (6-4 / 4-3) [-2] @ OSU (2-8 / 2-5). The Dogs Who Fell to Earth — after hitting 3 ranked teams in 4 wks – will pick themselves up, dust themselves off and beat this 2 spread easy in Corn Valley – even though it’s not Price starting but rs-frosh Montana (yes, son of!) and who knows how he’ll do? But hey, with Da Beavs having rushed for 32, 33 and 27 yds in three consecutive losses and Mannion a crap-shoot, do you really think that matters? Yeah, me neither.

OSU 38-21. Welp, Montana stunk and nobody else stepped up. Kinda surprising that Sarkisian hasn’t been able to get anything out of the troops two weeks running. Watch out for the Pelouse.
 
Utah (6-4 / 3-4) [-3 ½] @ Wazoo (4-6 / 2-5). Criminy, after Halliday’s debut-detonation last wk against ASU (which prolly saved Wulff’s job, which is prolly good), who knows what he’ll put up for an encore—although as one writer aptly put it, he’s "going to find it hard to maintain his 494-yards-per game pace." Um, yeah. Anyway, Da Utes DEF will likely do a LOT better than the Scum Devils’ did, and their OFF is, well, coming around. Take ‘em to beat the 3.5 in what oughtta be a good game.

UT 30-27 (OT). Welp, it was a good game – or a close one, anyway. Basically Halliday gets picked 4 times, the last in OT, and that’s it. Ah, half-pts…

Colo (2-9 / 1-6) @ UCLA (5-5 / 4-3) [-10 ½]. The hapless Flubbaloes suddenly turned hapful last wk at home, but road-wise guess what: their seniors "have two more chances to try to win a road game during their career." Yikes! Meanwhile, if UCLA wins its last two, it wins the Pac-12 South outright. OK, here’s today’s flyer: UCLA wins but CO beats the 10.5.

UCLA 45-6. Somebody at CO said Enough of this OFF crap, let’s revert to near-total ineptitide. Which they did. UCLA is not a good team…but it will take SC to illustrate this next wk.

SC (8-2 / 5-2) @ Orygun (9-1 / 7-0) [-14 ½] Game o’ the Week, clearly. It’s v. unlikely OR will get another title shot – even if there are only 1-loss teams left in the end – but maintaining this fantasy for another wk requires not just a W here, but a pretty good beating-the-crap-outta event. Which will happen, sez I, so take the 14.5…even though Barkley makes you (and me) REALLY wish it were 13.5.

SC 38-35. Holy crap. Barkley’s 323/4 was no fluke, but OR folding up like this was a major surprise. They still get to be Conf-N champs by beating OSU, but they’re all outta eliteness. Go figure…

Zona (2-8 / 1-7) @ ASU (6-4 / 4-3) [-10 ½]. It’s Territorial Cup time, yawn, and I’m betting the MIN on this contest between unpredictables. Interim Kish has “no idea” why Zona "didn’t play hard at Colorado last week," and neither do I. The Scum Debbils are 5-0 at home and really need to take care o’ business here to have a shot at the Conf S title – so I think they will, but not w/o overcoming considerable airborne resistance from the nothing-to-lose Zorros, who will beat this 10.5 as Foles out-stats Osweiler.

Zona 31-27. Air Foles strikes again, with 35-50/370/2/0 doing the job, as advertised, against Osweiler’s 487 yds…but 2 picks. The Scum Devils surging late-season mediocrity continues.

Cal (6-4 / 3-4) @ Snodfart (9-1 / 7-1) [-17 ½] A monster Down Week on the Farm, with the Nat’l Champ and Rose Bowl fantasies both going poof at the same time last Sat. So this’ll be a real mettle-tester for Luck & Co. against a semi-resurgent and certifiably-bowlified Cal team whose delusions of adequacy may include beating this spread. Don’t bet on it; I ain’t. Even w/o Ertz and Owusu (again), STA has too much firepower for this to be close by the late-3rd/early 4th.

STA 31-28. Strange things can happen in the rain and almost did— but the unstrange won out, with Luck doing enough of the necessary at 20-30/257/2/1. Not as close as it looks, but Cal played hard, gotta give ‘em that.

Regional Pick o’ the Wk: Fresno (3-7 / 2-3) @ Hawaii (5-5 / 3-3) [-5]. A Whacky WAC nail-biter between the no-bowl, no-D Dogs, who wisely fired their Def Co-ord this wk, and the shoulda-been-better Rainbow Warriors, who at least have the virtue of being 4-1 at home – so take ‘em here. If there was EVER a game for Moniz to throw his arm out, as in 400/5 or sth, this is it.

Fresno 24-21. No Moniz — whoops, sorry: broken tibia — no chance. Shoulda seen this coming!

Colo @ Utah [-20 ½] .What the hell, UT has been bldg momentum and the Flubbaloes could barely pick up the receiver to phone it in last wk. Take the Stormin’ Mormons to beat this spread (and before it goes up to 21, btw).

Cal @ ASU [-6]. The Scum Devils get serious again and cover this 6. The I-can’t-believe-we’re-a-bowl-team-Cal Bears are not really 3 pts worse than Snodfart, it’s more like 33; and about 13 worse than ASU in the desert, as Osweiler throws 350/4 or sth..