Pac 12 struggling in bowl games

Thanks to the Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils (did I actually say that in the same breathe) the Pac 12 Conference has two wins to date in the post season. Arizona started things on Dec. 15 with a thrilling 49-48 come-from-behind win over Nevada at the New Mexico Bowl and yesterday afternoon Arizona State rolled over Navy 62-28 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.

But, it ends there.

Washington falls to Boise State (28-26) in the Las Vegas Bowl,  UCLA gets manhandled by Baylor 49-26 in the Holiday Bowl and Texas edged Oregon State 31-27 in the Alamo Bowl, played in San Antonio last night.

A 2-3 record for the Pac-12 with just three chances left to get back on the winning side of the ledger. USC will get its shot on Monday against Georgia Tech at the Sun Bowl in El Paso. Stanford, of course, will get its shot on New Year's Day at the Rose Bowl against Wisconsin and Oregon will have to wait until next Thursday for its matchup with Kansas State at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale.

The most exciting bowl game so far: Arizona and Nevada. Ninety-Seven points scored...the most points scored by two teams of the 19 bowl games played thus far. It's just too bad the New Mexico Bowl couldn't have been played in 75 degree weather and in front of a crowd of 50,000 instead of 24,610. To put that in perspective, the Alamo Bowl drew 65,277 fans last night.