Pac-10 teams fail to get the job done at postseason bowl games...

The Pac-10 teams didn't get the job done this year. Seven teams were awarded postseason bowl games this season, only two of them--USC and UCLA--were able to salvage wins.

The other five were quietly picked off, one at a time. First, the Mountain West Conference took care of Oregon State and California -- the Beavers falling to BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl, 44-20, and the Golden Bears losing to the Utah Utes, 37-27, at the Poinsettia Bowl. That left Arizona, Stanford and Oregon to carry the torch for the Pac-10. That didn't happen either. First, Arizona failed to show at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego and were blanked by the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 33-0. Stanford, behind the hard-running of Toby Gerhart, showed up in El Paso for the Sun Bowl, but in the end they also failed as they surrendered to Oklahoma, 31-27. That left the Oregon Ducks to save face for the Pac-10 as they took on Ohio State this afternoon at the Rose Bowl. That didn't happen either as the Oregon offense went south...or tried to anyway. But, as it turns out it was the Buckeyes' defense that got the job done as the Ducks fell, 26-17.

The Pac-10 goes 2-5...not exactly what I expected.