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USC Loses Conference Opener; Pac-10 Cancels Season

 
In the wake of USC's upset loss to Oregon State yesterday, the Pac-10 has announced that it will "suspend all conference football activity indefinitely until a solution can be found for the current crisis."  In a closed-doors meeting today, the league commissioner will decide the future of the league. Part of the discussion will be whether to declare West coast football dead and disband the conference and all its teams, or try to beg the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to absorb the 10 former Division I teams. "Chadron State and Fort Lewis should provide stiff competition for our sorry excuses for teams out here in the West. We'll leave the Chatanoogas and the North Texas' for the big boys in the SEC. We just can't compete anymore." There was no decision yet on what to do with the BCS Championship trophy from the 2005 Orange Bowl.  It will probably be donated to a needy SEC school. Meanwhile, Oregon State QB Lyle Moevao was apologetic: "I didn't mean to win. I knew what I was out ... (link)

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