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Name: Webpage: 17+3 = December 17th The first decade of the 2000s is in the books in Pac-10 football .

He'll never be considered among the great Stanford quarterbacks, but he'll always have a cherished place near that august club.

Palo Alto Online Sports Chase Beeler had no choice. From childhood, it was ingrained in him to become a big supporter of Oklahoma football and the athletic programs.

Cincinnati went right back to Central Michigan for its next coach. Butch Jones was hired Wednesday to replace Brian Kelly, who came from Central Michigan three years ago and built the Bearcats' program into national prominence before leaving for Notre Dame last week.

It has been quite a whirlwind the past two weeks for the Stanford Football program.

The school announced the surgery Monday, saying the former Houston Stratford star hurt the finger in the season finale against Notre Dame on Nov.

Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are headed back to the Heisman Trophy presentation as finalists, along with running backs Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh .

Running back Toby Gerhart is a Heisman Trophy finalist and quarterback Andrew Luck might miss the Sun Bowl because of injury.

That is what Stanford is feeling after its gut-wrenching loss to those annoying little Golden Bears, losing out on a possible Rose Bowl trip.

He has said he will decide whether to enter the NFL draft after he assesses how high he's likely to be picked.

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USC quarterback Matt Barkley lost a fumble and had three passes intercepted Saturday in Stanford's 55-21 victory over the Trojans.

Youngman column: Silver lining in USC debacle: 47-2 at home ain't bad. USC fans need cheering up today, for some reason.

While Toby Gerhart rampaged through the Southern California defense in an awfully quiet Coliseum, the star tailback and his Cardinal teammates flattened a bunch of recent college football certainties as well.

Rankman is starting to wonder whether he has had the wrong Texas at No. 1 all season, what with Texas Christian having won at Virginia and Clemson and Brigham Young this year and Texas having won at Wyoming.

Two years ago, Stanford went to the Los Angeles Coliseum as a 41-point underdog against No.

PA Weekly Online Sports It could have turned into a day of reminiscing. Instead, Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh was intent on keeping the focus on the here and now.

And I guess there's a football game too. A 12:30 p.m. kickoff may be somewhat of a buzzkill for most USC fans, but the Trojans are probably just happy to be returning home.

It was just a few short weeks ago that Stanford was sitting atop the Pac-10, and the question of whether the Cardinal was a legitimate conference title contender was swirling around.

When redshirt freshman quarterback Andrew Luck watches game film for areas of improvement, he relies on more than just his naked eye.