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ASU: 1st and foremost Sure ASU is playing for its 23 seniors, some trying to go out 3-1 against UA, but there is a more significant forward slant.

Mike Stoops will never forget his first Territorial Cup game. Stoops' 2-8 Wildcats stunned No.

The Stanford-California rivalry is known as the Big Game and its most famous moment came in 1982 when Cal scored on an improbable kickoff return as time expired and the Stanford band already celebrating on the field.

The countdown is on to the big ASU-U of A game, and the Wildcats have made their presence known, painting the A on A Mountain Wildcat red.

A key game in the Pac-10 race featured Oregon and Arizona Saturday night. Here's a quarter-by-quarter game track: FIRST QUARTER The Ducks marched 74 yards to lead on its first drive.

It's funny how Mike Stoops is gradually gaining respect. For years, it seems, people have been underestimating the Arizona coach, probably because he rubs people the wrong way - especially his habit of coaching the game from somewhere near the middle of the field.

The Wildcats are going to throw it with Nick Foles, whose stats are actually about the same as Tim Tebow's right now.

The Pacific-10 part of the equation is somewhat more complicated. But the two teams that can win their way to Pasadena without help, No.

With both teams controlling their own Pac-10 fate, the 11th-ranked Oregon Duck and Arizona Wildcats meet up in a crucial conference clash in the desert this weekend.

It was pointed out to me that Arizona football finally won a home game the way they should have last week at Homecoming.

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Shane Vereen scored on a 61-yard run after an odd penalty thwarted a potential go-ahead drive for No.

RECORDS: Arizona 6-2, 4-1 Pac-10; Cal 6-3, 3-3. TV/RADIO: Versus; 810-AM SERIES HISTORY: The all-time series is tied 13-13-2. The Bears have won four of the last six, but the Wildcats have taken two of the past three.

The frightening fall and concussion that sidelined California star running back Jahvid Best hit his backup Shane Vereen particularly hard.

The University of Arizona has one major advantage entering the final four games of their regular season.

Arizona starting tailback Nic Grigsby is questionable for Saturday's game at California.

As I do at the start of every season, I look at the Washington State football schedule and pick out the games I think the Cougars can win.

After a defeat in San Antonio against the famed Notre Dame Fighting Irish the Cougars are back in Pullman to get ready for the rest of the conference season.

The following information was released by the University of Arizona : The trivia question popped onto the TV screen -- which PAC-10 team has never been to the Rose Bowl? -- and Cam Nelson took a shot.

Oregon has dominated the headlines in the Pac-10 this week after handing USC its worst loss of the Pete Carroll era, but it's not the only team in the conference that controls its destiny.