Scout.com: Pac 10 Conference Roundup

Click on each team for game recaps, thoughts, schedules and more and scroll down for the games, results, players of the week and the conference roundup.

Arizona | Arizona St | California | Oregon | Oregon St | Stanford
UCLA | USC | Washington | Washington St

Pac 10 Game of the Week
Washington State 42 ... Washington 35
Alex Brink bombed away for 399 yards and five touchdowns with two to Brandon Gibson including a 35-yarder with 31 seconds to play for the win. The Huskies started off with a bang with Louis Ranking returning the opening kickoff for a score, and the fireworks continued throughout with Jake Locker running for two scores and connecting with Marcel Reece for a 63-yard touchdown and the Cougars keeping pace with Brink hitting Devin Frischknecht for touchdowns from 41 and 19 yards out and Joshua Anderson from 28 yards away. A final UW Hail Mary pass was picked off by Alfonso Jackson.

Pac 10 Player of the Week
Washington State QB Alex Brink completed 27 of 40 passes for 399 yards and five touchdowns in the win over Washington.

Arizona … Didn’t Play This Week
Arizona State … ASU simply didn't have the horses or the talent to beat a USC with all its parts working. The offensive line has been an issue all season long in pass protection, and it almost got Rudy Carpenter killed. Despite being battered and beaten up all night long, Carpenter hung in and kept pressing, but to no avail. This is still a strong ASU team, but it needs to figure out something in a big, big hurry or the Arizona defense will tee off on Carpenter.
California … Didn’t Play This Week
Oregon … Losing Dennis Dixon is one thing, but to not have a backup who can throw with any sort of consistency is inexcusable. Oregon is a D-I/FBS team; there should be someone who can hit an open receiver. Fine, so the quarterbacks struggled against UCLA; then the coaching staff should've figured out a way to get Jonathan Stewart rolling. He's an elite running back who never found a groove with the Bruin defense loading up to stop him. Now the Rose Bowl dream are kaput, and the once promising season will truly go in the tank if the offense can't figure out something in a big hurry before facing Oregon State.
Oregon State … Didn’t Play This Week
Stanford … At this point in the season, the team should be getting tighter and not be making so many big mistakes. The placekicking situation was a disaster against Notre Dame while the passing game struggled with Tavita Pritchard getting banged up. The pass rush was fine and the running game was there, but the Cardinal almost had to work to blow the game. the offense had better gear up for a bit of a firefight against Cal because the defense doesn't have any one thing it's doing well.
UCLA … Osaar Rasshan can't play quarterback anymore. He might be the only option, but UCLA can't put him under center and have any prayer of competing against USC. For all the injuries and all the problems, the Bruins are somehow bowl eligible after the win against Oregon. However, the offense got ten first downs, 220 yards of total offense, and only won because Oregon was more inept. The defense will have to pull off a gem like last year to even think about pulling off the upset next week.
USC … Rested, healthy and loaded, USC is now playing like the number one team everyone thought it'd be to start the season. John David Booty lit up Arizona State in one of the best games of his career, but this win belongs to the defensive line. Lawrence Jackson was unstoppable, while Sedrick Ellis did a fantastic job of gumming things up inside. There were too many penalties, committing ten, but this was a great win that puts the Trojans back in the Rose Bowl hunt. Now they need to beat UCLA and get an Oregon loss.
Washington … The Washington secondary has hit the skids over the last few weeks getting picked apart by Cal's Nate Longshore and now Washington State's Alex Brink. That's not a good sign going into the date with Hawaii. Jake Locker was solid and the running game was fine, but to have any shot against the Warriors, the defense will have to do a better job of getting to Colt Brennan than it did this week.
Washington State … The season might have been a disappointment with yet another campaign without a bowl, but closing out with an Apple Cup win showed just how good Alex Brink and the offense could be when everything was working. The defense struggled yet again and it took a big comeback to pull off the win, but Brink never let up and the big plays kept on coming. This is a program known for high-powered passing games, so whatever happens with the coaching situation must first figure out how to keep the offense flowing while getting nastier on D.

Thursday, November 22
8:00 PM	USC 44 ... at Arizona State 24 CFN Prediction: USC 27-20 USC -3.5

Saturday, November 24
3:30 PM	at UCLA 16 ... Oregon 0 CFN Prediction: Oregon 28-20 UO -2.5
3:30 PM	Notre Dame 21 ... at Stanford 14 CFN Prediction: Stanford 27-20 Stan. -3.5
7:00 PM	Washington State 42 ... at Washington 35 CFN Prediction: UW 34-28 UW -5.5

Past Pac 10 Games of the Week
Sept. 1 - California 45 ... Tennessee 31
Sept. 8 - UCLA 27 ... BYU 17
Sept. 15 - New Mexico 29 ... at Arizona 27
Sept. 22 - UCLA 44 ... Washington 31
Sept. 29 - California 31 ... at Oregon 24
Oct. 6 - Stanford 24 ... at USC 23
Oct. 13 - Oregon State 31 ... at California 28
Oct. 20 - at UCLA 30 ... California 21
Oct. 27 - at Oregon 24 ... USC 17
Nov. 3 - at Oregon 35 ... Arizona State 23
Nov. 10 - Arizona State 24 ... at UCLA 20
Nov. 17 - at Arizona 34 ... Oregon 24
Nov. 24 - Washington State 42 ... at Washington 35

Past Pac 10 Players of the Week
Sept. 2 - California RB Justin Forsett
Sept. 8 - Washington State QB Alex Brink
Sept. 15 - Oregon State WR Sammie Stroughter
Sept. 22 - Oregon QB Dennis Dixon
Sept. 29 - California WR DeSean Jackson
Oct. 6 - Stanford QB Tavita Pritchard
Oct. 13 - Oregon State LB Alan Darlin
Oct. 20 - Oregon RB Jonathan Stewart
Oct. 27 - Arizona QB Willie Tuitama
Nov. 3 - Oregon DE Nick Reed
Nov. 10 - USC RB Chauncey Washington
Nov. 17 - Washington RB Louis Rankin
Nov. 24 - Washington State QB Alex Brink