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Pigskin Pete
Pigskin Slumps to 6-4,
Celebrates UW Victory

By Fred Delkin

Week Four -- We called four outcomes incorrectly last week, but nevertheless rejoice in our failure to forecast our alma mater's upset of USC. On September 19 the Huskies became Huskies again with a 16-13 awin over the perrenial Pac10 titlists. Junior UW quarterback Jake Locker, native of a small town on the Canadian border, led the Dawgs out of the darkness, leading his team on a 63-yard scoring drive as time ran out. We hesitantly predict that this momentous achievment will affect Husky performance at Stanford this Saturday, (generating a loss which will) confound the voters who elevated the Dawgs to membership in the national collegiate top 25. STANFORD by 3.

Oregon managed to overcome our prediction of a Utah win, but the Duck offense was almost pitiful and this bodes very well for the California Golden Bears as they perform in Autzen stadium this weekend. Unless new Duck head mentor Chip Kelly can restore his passing attack, it will be a long afternoon for Webfoot faithful facing perhaps Cal's finest team yet in the Jeff Tedford coaching regime. CALIFORNIA by 10.

Oregon State collapsed in the final quarter of their match with Cincinnati, with the visitors from Ohio terrorizing the Beaver offense for a 10-point win. This week the Beavers host a 2-1 Arizona team suffering injury woes and should rebound for their opening Pac10 win. OREGON STATE by 7.

Washington State surprised us by dumping visiting Southern Methodist, but what we still consider the Pac10's weakest squad now travels to the L.A. Coliseum, where a maddened USC team can be expected to erase its mistake in Seattle. USC by 35.

Arizona State ran roughshod over an outmanned Louisiana Monroe as we expected, but this week the Sun Devils pay a visit to a highly-ranked Georgia and we expect that ASU's coach Dennis Erckson does not have a talent array capable of dumping the Bulldogs. ARIZONA ST. by 14.

Portland State is clearly not ready to challenge for a Big Sky title...the Vikings jumped ahead of perrenial champ Montana in Missoula by 14 points, then their outmanned defense gave up 49. Now Jerry Glanville's troops take on Weber State at PGE Park and face a team that lost to Division 1 foes Wyoming and Colorado State by a combined total of only 8 points, then destroyed Idaho State in Weber's opening Big Sky fracas. Weber coach Ron McBride logged 13 successful years at Utah, going 88-63 and a #10 national ranking in 1994 before retiring...then listened to Weber's siren call and now calls Ogden home. WEBER STATE by 7..