Oregon St - Pittsburgh

the Sun Bowl Wednesday, December 31st, 2:00pm El Paso, Texas
Oregon State (8-4)______Pac10______190.34 Wk Opp oPts Score 1 Stanford -39.49 L, 28-36 2 Penn State 377.21 L, 14-45 3 Hawaii -18.05 W, 45-7 5 USC 414.85 W, 27-21 6 Utah 439.63 L, 28-31 7 Washington State -320.76 W, 66-13 8 Washington -411.26 W, 34-13 10 Arizona State -85.25 W, 27-25 11 UCLA -134.45 W, 34-6 12 California 210.56 W, 34-21 13 Arizona 99.59 W, 19-17 14 Oregon 219.93 L, 38-65	Pittsburgh (9-3)______BigEast_____277.72 Wk Opp oPts Score 1 Bowling Green -53.21 L, 17-27 2 Buffalo 92.47 W, 27-16 4 Iowa 152.73 W, 21-20 5 Syracuse -168.29 W, 34-24 6 South Florida 118.11 W, 26-21 8 Navy 146.36 W, 42-21 9 Rutgers 167.40 L, 34-54 10 Notre Dame 22.24 W, 36-33 11 Louisville -77.32 W, 41-7 13 Cincinnati 356.33 L, 21-28 14 West Virginia 217.96 W, 19-15 15 Connecticut 116.33 W, 34-10

Similar seasons for these two - both knocked off a conference heavy, USC & West Virginia, respectively, but lost to bad teams, Stanford and Bowling Green, respectively. Overall though, Oregon State is in much worse shape - they had their sights set on Pasadena and end up in El Paso without their two biggest offensive weapons. Not good.

Stats Matchup
Team	Oregon State	Pittsburgh
Points (rank)	190.34 (#28)	277.72 (#13)
Record	8-4	9-3
Opp. Points (rank)	577.10 (#28)	857.74 (#15)
Opp. Record	81-65	84-62
Points (% of Opp. Avg)	32.8 (159%)	29.3 (142%)
dPoints (% of Opp. Avg)	25.0 (86%)	23.0 (90%)
Rush Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	164.6 (119%)	143.3 (111%)
dRush Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	134.8 (80%)	127.8 (75%)
Pass Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	253.7 (135%)	212.9 (108%)
dPass Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	188.6 (92%)	193.0 (99%)
Tot Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	418.3 (129%)	356.2 (107%)
dTot Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	323.3 (88%)	320.8 (88%)
ST Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	139.7 (115%)	118.3 (96%)
dST Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	147.6 (119%)	136.7 (119%)
Penalties / Pen. Yds	6.7 / 57.5	4.6 / 35.4
TO's / TO Margin	1.5 / +2	2.1 / -4

Can't really go by the stats here - I like the Panthers to attack and stuff the Beavers at the line.

The Line: Oregon State -2.5

The Call: Pittsburgh by 10

The Result: Oregon State 3-0

3-0? It didn't seem that bad, but in retrospect... Props to the Beavers for hanging in there and getting it done, somehow. Pitt has to be wondering why they couldn't even get a field goal in this one.