Free Pick: Arizona +7

Record: 27-40, -8.36

Today I will play on Arizona plus the points visiting the Southern Californa Trojans.

Very tight conference, this years' Pacific 10. No less than 5 teams could end up with almost the same record. Arizona is in 6th place right now, but they could climb up to get to a better bowl game. They seem motivated to do so, beating Arizona State in a rivalry game last week. By the way this won't be a factor here as USC had a rivalry game and won, too last week.

Arizona played well during the season being competitive in almost all games. Their losses were mostly close ones losing by 3 to Pac10 champs Oregon, for example.

Different is USC who had hopes to get to the Natinal Championship game, as they have every year. Their least goal is to get to the Rose Bowl where the played several years in a row if not having played for the National Championship. I assume they will be highly disappointed and frustrated not even going to the Rose Bowl this year as Oregon clinched the Pac10 title already. They could even finish with a loss here as they probably don't care much which bowl they will play. Their results were pretty bad this year as in their 8 wins they won luckly close games several times, e.g. against the Buckeyes. They beat their long time rivals UCLA last week which probably was their last goal this season.

I will play Arizona, which seems more interested in a better bowl, plus a TD at 1.885 or -113 with 3 units. Good Luck.

DG