12-09-2020, 11:10 AM
In hindsight, the Pac-12 should have done away with the division format for deciding the participants in the conference championship game. I imagine that UO fans are apoplectic about this, since Saturday's game with UW is supposed to determine the North champion. But if UW-UO is canceled and CU beats Utah and USC beats UCLA, then I think the Pac-12 needs to change its rules--it looks like the B1G will do the same for tOSU's sake--and have CU and USC play for the conference championship. I'm guessing that the conference leaders are praying that either Utah or UCLA (but not both) wins so that they don't have to make that call.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)