Pac-10 Saturday

[bgold13]

My Pac-10 Weekly thread is back:
One Game on the agenda
ASU +22.5 at Nebraska...line current at 10 30 AM on VIPSPORTS
Total 54

My Recomendation: Take the Points

QB'S: Lord vs Christanson DRAW
No person could possibly know who is better at this point

RB'S: Slight Nebraska
Diedrak and Thunder are fast powerful backs...and obviously the system they run is great for the rb's. However, ASU D-Line is vastly underrated with All-American Terrelle Suggs anchorig the right side...he will draw double coveragew with the Tight End
ASU's: Mike Williams/Hakim Hill/Cornell Candidate all have talent and ASU coach knows this and ASU WILL THROW IN SOME OF BEAR BRYANTS WING T OFFENSE...Williams a starter two years ago looked great

WR'S ASU
Husjers are a runnning team...but they do have a few talented recievers: ASU has All-pac10 sean mcdonald and is the bread and butter odf Koetters High Octane Offense that he ran at Boise St

OLINE: BIG HUSKERS
Expierence vs Young

DLINE: Huskers but slight

LB'S: Draw

Seconaary: ASU

STEAMS : ASU

OVERALL: HUSKERS WIN 24 TO 14

 

[DNOMYAR_5791]

With you all the way but...

With you all the way but...

Diedrick and Collins are not fast as they both run 4.75 and 4.78 40 yard dash.

I would give Neb the special teams edge here and that might be the only reason that they win.

Too many points. Good luck

 

[bgold13]

those guyslooked fast to me whe n i saw some of the video from the practices they had...but those 40 times are not very fast your right.... I think ASU's FG Kicker is great andthats why the special teams edge could go the devils way..

Weather shouldnt be a factor in the game....

I remember winning a crapload of cash in 1996 wwhen these two teams met...anybody remmember the lien on asu-neb in 96? it is driving me crazy...thakns

 

[PUHD]

You've always provided solid info to this board. Here's to a fantastic season to reward your hard work.:toast:

 

[DNOMYAR_5791]

Nebraska was favored by 19.5 was never a game, as Scott Frost crapped his pants and the offense could never get untracked as Sparky forced 3 safteys in that game. I would like to have seen those two teams meet again at the end of the year as NU was as good as anybody until that flukey loss to Texas in the Big 12 title game.

Good luck to all

P.S.

ASU has very good kicker in barf, I mean Barth. NU is very good at covering kicks and PR DeJuan Groce is a stud. See Rose Bowl game for evidence.

You are right as the temps should be in high 70's with some humidity and very very slight chance of a passing shower.

 

[johnnyb.]

i'll take arizona st. (21.5)and the over for this game... can't give a pac-10 team a 3 td cushion with a new qb for nebraska. over is my play cuz i've az coach w/ boise and he is an offesive son of a gunner!

 

[bgold13]

I remember the game like it was yesterday..but I couldnt remember the spread for hte life of me...thanks for the good memory!! Derrick Rodgers was awesome that game...


Ex-Nebraska fan Christensen now
a foe in his college debut
BY BOB MORAN
TRIBUNE

Arizona State quarterback Chad Christensen has been nervous about playing Nebraska for months.

And it's not just because he's a redshirt freshman making his collegiate debut.

Nebraska, you see, is something special to him. In the Cornhuskers, he is reminded of the pleasures of his youth.

"I kind of grew up going to those games and being a Cornhusker fan," said Christensen, who lived in Lincoln, Neb., during his elementary school days.

"I remember watching Tommie Frazier most vividly. He was the player that sticks out the most in my mind."

Christensen, born in Sioux Falls, S.D., was living in Lincoln during the height of the Cornhuskers' run; when they nearly won three consecutive national championships.

When Nebraska routed Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, the Huskers became the first team in nearly 50 years to win consecutive unanimous national championships.

Ironically, it was at that time when Christensen and his family had moved to the Valley. He graduated from Scottsdale's Desert Mountain High School in 2001.
So a transformation, of sorts, was underway.

"Once we moved to Tempe, I became a Sun Devil right from the start," he said.

That was in 1996, the same year Jake Plummer and the Sun Devils went to the Rose Bowl and came within 19 seconds of an undefeated season and a possible national championship.

That was also the season that ASU stunned Nebraska, 19-0. Christensen was in the stands that magical evening; when ASU snapped Nebraska's 26-game winning streak.

"We were still kind of Nebraska (fans). I didn't have any team colors that day," he said. "I came to the game as a fan. ASU came out and took it right to them right at the start."

When he initially moved to the Valley, he adorned his bedroom walls with the Nebraska souvenirs. The most prized one was Frazier's No. 10 jersey.
Frazier's image was eventually retired, replaced by Sun Devil artifacts.

"But I still have a picture of Memorial Stadium," said Christensen, who wears No. 10 for ASU. "It's kinda funny. . . that's the stadium I'll play my first (collegiate) game in."

Christensen now carries the extra burden of being the ASU savior back to his former hometown. Coach Dirk Koetter has indicated he expects Christensen to be a four-year starter, leading a rebirth of ASU football.

Christensen's high school coach, Steve Belles, believes Christensen is up to the task.

"I think he'll handle it fine," Belles said. "One thing Chad has, he's a great athlete. Unfortunately he may have to use more of that athletic ability rather than drop back and be a quarterback."

Belles believes despite his youth, Christensen can be a leader.

"He'll push the right buttons. As long as he's making plays people will follow him," Belles said. "He demands so much out of himself."

Christensen and the Sun Devils spent Friday night in Omaha rather than Lincoln. The Devils weren't in the heart of the Cornhusker fandom while getting themselves mentally prepared for perhaps the biggest and toughest road opener in school history.

"When I first heard about the game (in March) the nerves started going through me," said Christensen, who beat out sophomore Andrew Walter for the starting quarterback role in the spring. "Friday night I was (wanting) to make sure I have everything down pat, my mind ready to go out and execute the gameplan."

Christensen is obviously familiar with Memorial Stadium and its fans. He can tell his teammates about the atmosphere and how special the place is for college football.

Christensen hopes to give the few Sun Devil faithful in attendance something to cheer about during and after the game.

"It's really something special to me," he said of playing the Cornhuskers. "If we do what we're capable of doing we can come out of there with a win. "(And) it would go down in history. When you beat a team like Nebraska, that's a monumental win"

Should the Sun Devils pull it off, maybe some youngster in the Valley will want to put Christensen's jersey on his bedroom wall

 

[GENO]

bgold I remember that game but not the score or the way it played out.

Didn't it open at like -17 and move to -19 or 20 maybe -21 I had played the Sun Devils that year up until that game and Nebraska scared me off of them on the road What a year and a nice profit also even played them against my buckeyes in the Rose Bowl that year.

Never ever thought Jake and the boys would win in Lincoln


Good memories