OT: Is there an SEC game Sat.? Oh yeah, for the right to play Snodfart. Pshee-it, here's PAC 12 Week 10!

The Rubbers drub the Flubbaloes on Friday night at 9 ET for a nat’l audience seeking amusement or wrestling-level sadism. Or both. Everything else is is Sat., ’cept Utah St. @ Hawaii, where Sat. is next Tues., I think. Watch accordingly.

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201111/ufos-appear-above-high-school-football-game

Area 51 Alert!

And we’re off (ka-ching!) After a tough home loss (and some ugly whining), Rubbers fans can be pleased with this complete-game away job by Barkley (326/6) & Co.(561 TO)—which also featured no significant Kiffin coaching errors, for a change. OK, it was Colo, who may go w/o a conf W this yr, but still. Anyway, now we’ll see just how good no-bowling SC actually is: if they win out —U Dub, @ OR and UCLA – they’ll deserve Top 10.

Ouch! I’m still not over Hawaii tanking w/ a 28-7 lead at home, but them’s the breaks. Anyway, next week come some Real Biggies, so save up some extra rubles!

No. 21 SC (-21 ½) @ Colo.

SC played hard (‘n’ dirty) losing to STA and are looking at a letdown wk – but the good news is they get Colo, whose ear is pathetically primed for reaming in a 5th straight loss to a ranked team. The talent-level split here would seem to make 21.5 a modest spread – and I’ll take the Rubbers to cover that, pls – but NB: SC could also go into a funk and scrape through this by 10 or sth. And then whine about the officiating, of course.

SC 42-17. See above.

No. 4 Snodfart (-21) @ OSU

STA loses Owusu and Ertz, both important cogs, and this is not just a Trap Game – it’s a rare Double Trap, between a huge W and an even huger next game (Orygun in PA). So this spread, even against the hapless Punkins, isn’t that big. I’ll take STA at 21, yeah, but Mannion going berserk again in Corn Valley is a real concern. Make this a modest-to-big stake, not a huge one.

STA 38-13. Away, in the rain, losing your only WR threat (again!) and the 2nd of your 3 TEs in a TE OFF, you’re not likely to light the place up— and Luck & Co. didn’t, but worked out a constant-pressure 300 yd-rushing spread-cover that was darn good under the circumstances. They’re vastly less likely to beat OR with 1 TE and 0 WRs, so next wk’s spread will be v. interesting to see…

Wazoo @ Cal (-9 ½ ).

Do I have to bet this? Waddaya mean "league rule"? Sh#t. OK, here goes: Cal has no credible OFF – but does play 2 notches better at (semi-)home than away, so this 9.5 isn’t as ludicrous as, say, starting Maynard again at QB suggests. Lobbestael is back for good for Wazoo, apparently, and they showed well at Autzen – why not here? Gimme the Coogs beating the 9.5, even if Cal finds some way to claw out a W for marginal-bowl-track-believability.

Cal 30-7. If Cal rushing for 288 isn’t a sign of the Apocalypse, I don’t know what is. Maybe Maynard not throwing an INT after 7 in 3 games. Or WSU in the 3rd having more yards in penalties (61) than total offense (55). I think we can safely say the Wazoo Renaissance is officially over, and I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for their Baroque Period to start.

Utah @ Zona (-3 ½)

Welp, the Utes get a taste of Desert Storm here, and I don’t think they’re gonna like it much. Yeah, OK, they looked a lot better beating a self-prostrated OSU, but c’mon – who’s gonna show up, the good Utes or the bad ones? You KNOW who’s gonna be there for Zona and what it’s gonna take: rush for 80-90 and Foles bombs da Utes back to the late Pleistocene era. Take the Zorros to beat.

UT 34-21. Credit Utah for rebuilding an OFF that was almost completely dormant in mid-season—and a DEF that hurried Foles (25-43/2/2) to the pt. that even 130 AZ rushing yds couldn’t get them over the hump. Big surprise on both counts. In fact, UT might win a low-end mediocre bowl, they keep playing like this.

No. 19/20 ASU (-9 ½) @ UCLA.

The Scum Devils kicked some Colo ass last wk and are acting like they want to do some more in Pasadena, which shouldn’t be that much trouble: Osweiler is gonna keep throwing and Prince is unlikely to run for another 163—this ain’t Cal.. Gimme ASU here, and put a big chunk down – this could get ugly fast, despite the Debbils traditional (and inexplicable) aversion to playing in SoCal.

UCLA 29-28. Wow. Sure, the Debbils shoulda won this – twice, in fact – but they still wouldn’t have covered. So here we are in the Bizarro World: "Two weeks after the Bruins’ season and Rick Neuheisel’s coaching tenure both appeared finished, they got the chance to dance—and the Pac-12 South got some improbable new leaders." I think I’ll dance over to the spittoon and heave.

No. 8/6 Orygun (-16) @ U Dub.

This should be a good game, and one in which the OR "Varsity" makes its case for a Serious Bowl – before having to get even seriouser the next week in Palo Alto. So yeah, it’s sort of a Trap Game for OR—but don’t believe it for spread purposes, since they should beat this 16 comfortably by the 4th, despite the best efforts of Price and a pretty good, already-embowled Dogs team.

OR 34-17. It wasn’t that "comfortable" after all, but two picks, a fumble, 6 sacks and James back to speed (156) and Orygun is on sked for PA next wk. (They were smart to get their injuries over with earlier than STA, who’ll be ailing at either 2 or 3 spots.) Anyway, a game try by the Dogs here, but not that close.

Regional Pick o’ the Wick: Utah St. @ Hawaii (-3 ½)

Two very unpredictable teams could make for another WAC-o-Whacko of a game in the Islands, where the Rainbow Warriors are always much tougher – and will beat this 3.5 against the ramblin’ Rams, who’ve never really recovered, it seems, from beating up AUB then giving the game away. Hope they get some beach time, at least.

Utah St. 35-31. This was over at the half, with HA kicking ass in an unfolding laugher, 28-7. Did I mention these were "unpredictable" teams who might produce a "WAC-o-Whacko of a game"? Um, they did, as the 2nd half was a whole nother event, and one I’m still not sure I believe happened. F-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ck…