Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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.

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