Last regular season edition. Kudos to the Pac-10 for playing all of their rivalry games to end the season.

Territorial Cup: Zona looked more than up to the task last week against Oregon…for one half.

The snarky tone of Chip Kelly as he spoke to the ESPN sideline reporter on his way to the locker room made it sound like he knew Mike Stoops and the Cats had already fired their best shot and the Ducks had taken it and were down only five.

Oregon State will have to avoid lapses like this one to pull off the upset Saturday in Corvallis

ASU looked lethargic, then rebounded to take down hapless UCLA, but they will have to find some consistency at the quarterback position to beat Foles and an Arizona team that is one of the most balanced in the conference. Zona could be on upset alert, but then again it’s tough to drag ass when Mike Stoops is knee deep in said ass.

That being said, Arizona finishes strong: 40-27

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Winding down the season, two more weeks of the Pick 6 plus the Bowl Edition.

UCLA @ ASU: The UCLA QB situation is an absolute joke. The guy they ended up playing after Brehaut went out against the Dawgs (on a vicious cheap shot that should have resulted in an ejection) was like Diet Jeremiah Masoli with a worse arm and less of an understanding of offensive football philosophy.

In other words, he was terrible.

In fact, Darius Bell finished with a QB rating of -66.67 for the game on 0-3 passing with 1 INT.

UCLA has no chance to win until they figure out their QB situation.

Bell transferred to UCLA from City College of San Francisco, the same school as Jeremiah Masoli

UCLA has no chance to figure out their QB situation until The Weasel and Norm Chow, the most forgotten genius in college football, remove their heads from their respective backsides and re-learn how to coach football.

ASU is better at home and they could be worse and still beat the Bruins: 33-9

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Georgia State @ Alabama: Exhibit A of why the Pac-10 is a stronger conference this season than is the SEC. Every season it’s the same story down south, play half of a conference schedule, play at least two 1-AA teams and reap the benefits of the weak schedule.

The only thing Pac-10 fans have to look forward to is come 2011, the shoe will be on the other foot.

Alabama without any effort needed: 66-0

Georgia State Football: Come Get Some

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Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles had a record-breaking performance last night against Washington. Photo: AP

After a week hiatus, Tuesday’s RearViewMirror is back! A lot has happened in the last two weeks. There is finally some separation in the league with at least five teams in each conference having at least six wins. Although out here on the left coast, the playoff picture is as muddled as ever. Let’s take a look back at week ten in Tuesday’s RearViewMirror.

Offensive Player of the Week:  Michael Vick, Philadelphia Eagles, 20-28 333 yards 4 TD, 8 carries 80 yards 2 TD

Tom Brady had this award won. Then Michel Vick stepped on the field Monday Night. On his first play from scrimmage he connected with fellow speedster DeSean “Action” Jackson for a 88 yard touchdown. Vick rolled to his left and unlaunched a ball that traveled 65 yards in the air and hit Jackson in stride. Vick is making the highlight plays we saw him make in Atlanta but now he isn’t turning the ball over. He doesn’t have an interception or fumble all year. His maturity off the field shines through his patience and poise in the pocket and he has to be consideration for MVP this season. Last night was a historical performance that no one else in the league could have achieved.

Honorable Mention: Tom Brady, New England Patriots, 30-43 350 yards 3 TDs

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Maybe the reason UW hasn’t played a game within 20 points of the Ducks since the players on the team were 12 years old is because their AD is more concerned with academic rankings than BCS rankings…it’s going to be hilarious when he eventually gets fired.

But then again, if I were the AD in charge of a football team that had just lost it’s last three games by a combined score of 138-30, hadn’t shown any real signs of improvement in the last seven years and hired a completely unqualified Head Coach, (who in turn hired unqualified coordinators and position coaches)I would try and deflect attention to academics too, (even though I’m the one person who is being paid to be worried about athletics)….if I were a gutless snake in the grass like Scott Woodward.

Changing the name during basketball season doesn't change the fact the building is a piece of garbage

Boise State @ Idaho: The only thing more pathetic than Boise State’s schedule is Idaho’s stadium.

If the Tacoma Dome had more of a shabby, outdated feel, it would be the Kibbie Dome in Moscow.

We all know how BSU loves to fill up the win column against The Little Sisters of the Poor, but did you know the Broncos are a mediocre 7-6 against AQ teams since 2002?

So much for the Broncos dominating the landscape of college football for the past decade, as they would have you believe.

Idaho (the state and the university) is wasting money funding this team and should just stop trying as soon as they can because it’s just pathetic: 65-0

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Going on the road this weekened for Washington @ Oregon. Keeping the picks Left Coast for week 10 with a full Pac-10 slate and Utah hosting the game of the week in College Football. Back on track with the picks last week: 5-1 straight up and 5-1 against the spread, only the Spartans let me down. 24-16 against the spread on the season. 37-17 straight up.

Couple of HUGE ones on the slate for week 10:

UW @ (1) Oregon -29: Before we get to the Ducks…

41-0 on Montlake?

Maybe the Huskies are who we thought they were…or at least who Duck and Cougar fans hoped they would be.

Without taking anything away from a basically flawless performance from Stanford, Washington looked absolutely disinterested.

But not as disinterested as their fans.

Not many stayed around to witness Stanford finish off the Huskies and it's hard to blame them

But at this point, who can blame them? A lot of talk in the blogosphere about what role Steve Sarkisian plays in all of this and I think it’s a valid question. Sark’s play calling (not unlike his former cohort Lane Kiffin’s) has gone from questionable to downright terrible.

It’s clear he has no handle on how to use a player with the skill set of Jake Locker.

I’m already on record as saying Sark and UW owe Locker better than this.

He did the stand up thing by coming back and rather then build a system around him in the two years plus he has been in Seattle, Sark has continued to sell the “groom his game for the next level” garbage. As the QB Coach, by all means Sarkisian should have tweaked some mechanics and worked on breaking some of Jake’s bad habits.

But as the Head Coach Sark owed his team, the fans and most importantly his employer (Tyee Club donors) better and should have built this team around Locker’s strengths instead of trying magically erase his weaknesses.

As for the Ducks there really isn’t a ton to be said that hasn’t already and I’m obviously far from being the only one with a take on the nation’s most hyped program.

Good or bad, Oregon now has the spotlight firmly affixed to them and many, many people are waiting for them to fall.

As for this game…suffice to say it will play out a lot like the others the Ducks have played this year.

Washington is no doubt talented on offense (though people who claimed they had the best QB, RB, WR combo in the Pac-10 or even the nation now probably won’t even admit who they were).

There have been more than a few bright spots for the Dawgs but this game isn’t coming at a real great time for them and that is most evident by the fact Jake Locker will not play because of a cracked rib.

I’m not going to go all hyperbole and suggest the Ducks are going to score at will or hang 80 on UW, but they are going to win decisively.

What they are also going to do is show that Washington has absolutely no chance of regaining superior status in the Northwest for the foreseeable future.

Ducks just hoping to stay healthy: 55-24

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David Garrard had 5 total TDs against Dallas. Photo: AP

Offensive Player of the Week: David Garrard, Jacksonville Jaguars, 17-21 260 yards, 5 total TDs

Garrard played phenomenal on Sunday in Dallas nearly posting a perfect QB rating while leading the Jaguars to a 35-17 win. Garrard has been flirting with the hot seat all season but now has his team at a respectable 4-4 and in position to make a playoff push as they head into their bye week. Garrard helped Mike Sims-Walker haul in a career high 153 yards and connected with Marcedes Lewis for two touchdowns and he even ran for a two yard score in the fourth quarter. Garrard’s 157.8 QB rating was the highest against the Cowboys since 1960.

Honorable Mention: Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs, 22 carries 177 yards, 4 catches 61 yards more…

Boise State and TCU will meet in the desert

You heard it here first: TCU and Boise State will play for the BCS National Championship.

Maybe you didn’t hear it here first, but there is no doubt in my mind it’s easier to run the table in the WAC or MWC than the Pac-10, Big-10, Big-12, or SEC.

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4-2 against the spread last week. 19-15 for the year. 4-2 straight up last week. 32-16 for the year.

(5) Michigan State @ (18) Iowa -4 1/2: Ohio State’s loss to Wisconsin opened the door for either Michigan State or Iowa to take the head chair at the Big-11 table, but a loss to the Hawkeyes in Iowa City this weekend (justified or not) will squeeze every last drop of Juice from the Spartans.

Not unlike West Coast teams not named USC, Big-11 teams not named Ohio State and Michigan are also treated with a certain negative bias in the voting media.

The perception is always that when the Buckeyes are good and then lose, it was a fluke, while if a Michigan State or Iowa is having a good season then drops a single game, the wins were the abboration.

Kirk Cousins and the Spartans look to quiet the doubters when they travel to Iowa City

Spartans just keep proving people wrong: 33-22
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