August 25, 2006
Cal! USC! Look Away!
Sports Illustrated presents their Pac-10 preview, in which they predict that USC will win the conference at 9-0, with Cal second at 8-1.
This would, as you might guess, suggest that SI believes that USC will defeat Cal the Saturday before Thanksgiving in a late-season showdown that will determine the Pac-10 title. There’s no other possible explanation.
Except… the same piece lists three “Can’t Miss Games” for the Pac-10. They are: Oklahoma at Oregon, Arizona State at Cal, and Notre Dame at USC.
Um, guys? If that Cal-USC game does involve two teams that are 7-0 in conference play, in what conceivable way would that not be the biggest “Can’t Miss Game” in the conference this year?
Mystifying.
More mystifying? Cal at USC is listed at No. 6 in SI’s Top 15 Games to Watch. So while you can miss the game, you must watch the game. Or something.
(For the record, SI predicts that Cal will finish 10-2 overall, suggesting that they will lose to USC and Tennessee.)
