BYU 59 UCLA 0
There’s really no other way to put BYU’s decimation of UCLA on Saturday. Luckily enough, I was at the game and got to see the pillaging first hand. Maybe it was when BYU blocked UCLA’s field goal, or maybe it was when Scott Johnson hit Raymond Carter so hard he did a full flip and ended up losing the ball and coming out of the game that I started to think that a shut out was possible. Certainly, after UCLA missed a chip shot field goal to put at least 3 points on the board, I figured the football gods were smiling on BYU. Then, Max Hall ties a BYU record by throwing his seventh touchdown of the game. I’m thinking, “Is this really UCLA?” Honestly, I think it was the most complete game I’ve ever scene BYU play. Their quest is for perfection and according to the scoreboard, they may have just achieved it. Now the quest continues for the perfect season and a BCS busting ride into the post season.
All in all it was an extremely bad week for the Pac-10 with four losses coming to Mountain West teams. Maybe the BCS should look into which western conference really deserves the BCS status. #15 Arizona State loses to UNLV? How?! UCLA goes down in flames. TCU lays Stanford to waste, and Arizona can’t handle New Mexico. Needless to say that with Cal losing to Maryland, Washington going 0-3 after being trounced by Oklahoma, the Pac-10 is in a state of disarray. Their one shining hope is, of course, USC who easily handled the most overrated team in the country (in my opinion) Ohio State.
So basically we’re witnessing the fall of the Pac-10 and rise of the Mountain West. The coming weeks will bring even more surprises I’m sure.
