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unusual facts about PAC 10



Anne Marie Anderson

In 2010 Anderson hosted the PAC 10 Women’s Basketball tournament on Fox Sports Net alongside Lisa Leslie, as well as served as a sideline reporter on regular season games.


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2006 California Golden Bears football team

Cal played the next Saturday, October 7, for California's Homecoming weekend, against the undefeated #11 (in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll) Oregon Ducks, a team that was 4–0, and 1–0 in Pac-10 play.

2008 California Golden Bears football team

Mitchell Schwartz started all 13 games and was named a second-team Freshman All-American by College Football News, received the Bob Tessier Award as Cal's Most Improved Offensive Lineman, and received honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic honors.

2008 Emerald Bowl

The Miami Hurricanes of the ACC were matched against the California Golden Bears (based in nearby Berkeley, California) of the Pac-10, the first appearance by either team in the seven-year history of the Emerald Bowl.

2010 California Golden Bears football team

Mitchell Schwartz was a second-team preseason All-Pac-10 choice by Athlon, Lindy's, and Steele, as Steele also listed him as the nation's # 63 draft-eligible tackle.

2010 USC Trojans football team

Erik Folk, who hit the game-winning field goal for Washington, was named Pac-10 special teams player of the week.

Brandon Goldman

Goldman played at Arizona State University from '99-'04, standing at 5'9" and 160 pounds; along with Nate Robinson, he was the shortest basketball player in the Pac-10.

Dominique Byrd

Byrd went to Southern California where he made a 2004 All-Pac-10 honorable mention, and was best known for catching two one-handed touchdown passes, one of which was in the Orange Bowl victory against University of Oklahoma.

Galen Rupp

He also led a young Oregon team to victory over the Stanford Cardinal, who had won the previous six Pac-10 titles.

Jeff Van Raaphorst

He led the Sun Devils football team to the Pac-10 championship in his senior year, where they won the 1987 Rose Bowl.

Ken Simonton

For his success, he was named second team All-Pac-10, first team All-Pac-10 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, first team All-Pac-10 by the Football News, honorable mention All-American by the Football News, and he was selected OSU’s MVP of the Oahu Bowl vs. Hawaii.

Nick Reed

Reed finished at the University of Oregon with a school-record 29.5 sacks, which ranks fourth in Pac-10 history.

Oshiomogho Atogwe

Atogwe played college football and ran track for the Stanford Cardinal in the Pac-10 conference where during his career he made nine interceptions.

Silicon Valley Football Classic

Although the bowl once again would have pre-season bowl tie-ins with the WAC and Pac-10, neither conference would produce enough bowl-eligible teams to fulfill their obligations to the Classic.

Tony Bouie

He also played for the Arizona Wildcats baseball team, and was a member of the Wildcats' Pac-10 championship baseball teams in 1992 and 1993.