Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller

Gosh, you guys seem to enjoy typing.

Wilbur from Laguna Hills, Calif., writes: Ted.. Normally I enjoy your blog, but easy there, big guy! A terrible weekend for sure for the conference, but please add a little more perspective to your writing. Why not mention that six of the ten games on Sept. 13 were road games for the Pac-Ten? Six! If we're going to be compared to other conferences, how about mentioning the "challenges" the SEC faced over the weekend in Samford (and son), Rice, North Texas, Western Kentucky, UAB, etc. I guarantee our conference wouldn't have gone 3-7 against that slate. How about that riveting game between Auburn and Miss. State? 3-2. Auburn barely beat a team who lost to a terrible La. Tech team, but that didn't seem to matter to the pollsters. The Pac-Ten need to start scheduling like the good ol' boys in the SEC. Three terrible out of conference games, and then we're all undefeated when the conference play begins. Thanks for listening, Ted...I almost feel better. Go Cats!

Ted Miller: I posted this so everyone would feel better. And you are correct in some ways. When SEC teams lost to Louisiana-Monroe, Northern Illinois, Southern Miss, Central Florida, Houston, Tulane, Maine, Troy, Memphis, Wyoming, UNLV, South Florida and Syracuse over the past few years, few if any national pundits circled it in red and wildly extrapolated widespread conference weakness. But last weekend was really bad for the Pac-10: 59-zip? A 23-point underdog winning at Arizona State? Washington looking completely helpless vs. Oklahoma? Washington State losing to Baylor? A ranked Cal team losing at a Maryland squad that lost to Middle Tennessee?

But you know what: If Arizona State beats Georgia, then it might be worth noting that the Pac-10 is 2-0 vs. the SEC and the SEC should be glad it's not playing the Mountain West Conference, which is 5-0 vs. the Pac-10.

Not that I think the Sun Devils are going to win, mind you.

Joe from Pittsburgh writes: Ted-as an Oregon alumnus, my allegiance lies solely with Oregon. So why should I care if Cal loses at Maryland? Why do I care if the MWC goes 4-0 vs. the Pac-10? Oregon won on the road against a Big 10 opponent despite turnovers, heat, wind & humidity, and yet another QB knee injury. Again, why should Oregon hang it's head because the Washington schools are getting thumped and why should Oregon drink the USC kool-aid like everyone else in the Pac-10?

Ted Miller: First, you should drink the USC punch because anyone saying USC is not, clearly, the nation's No. 1 team right now simply doesn't know anything about football or is trying to be cute. If an all-knowing space alien landed on earth and said, "You must answer correctly or die: Which team is No. 1?" No college football fan would answer anything other than USC -- as much as it might pain them ("Oh, durn! USC! Gahharrah! Please don't kill me I've got tickets to the LSU-Auburn game!").

Because, deep down, everyone knows it's true. At least right now. Until something else happens.

As for being a Duck fan who doesn't root for any other Pac-10 team... well, you could frame it like this: Do you want Purdue to win the rest of its games and make Oregon's win there look good?

Would you like Oregon to win a conference that folks say is, "The best in the nation." Or would you want to win a conference where no other team is ranked and everybody shrugs their shoulders over your championship?

You should want the teams you compete against to be successful, particularly in the BCS age.

James Johnson writes: Say Ted, On the Oregon QB curse, Kellen Clemens also went down in his senior year, I think that was a knee too. I thought this year when we started with 5 qbs that it would be enough, 3 games in we are down to 3. Two freshman and a transfer. The longest one has been on campus is 6 mos when Thomas came in the spring. If Masoli starts, you'd think it would be some kind of record for least amount of time on campus before starting a game. 3 months!

Ted Miller: Well, Masoli is in the same situation at a true freshman who wins a starting job, but I get your point. Got lots of mail about the "Oregon QB Curse." Some wrote it off a supernatural. Other blamed the Ducks spread offense, which features a fair amount of running from the QB spot. Coach Mike Bellotti rejected such reasoning, saying his QBs took more hits when they ran a pro-style offense. I'm not so sure myself. The only thing I can say on this is at some point the odds favor a Ducks QB staying healthy. We may not be there yet, but at some point Ducks fans will actually get to see a guy play QB for a few games in a row.

Logan from Tempe writes: I still feel disgusting after the poor showing ASU had Saturday night. I was wondering if you could give us your thoughts on why Coach Erickson didn't continue to "fling it" as he said last week, but instead it seemed like almost every play in the second half was a run play right up the middle. In fact, they threw the ball 13 less times this game than they did in either of the first two games. Was he just being stubborn and trying to force the run game to get going?

Ted Miller: First, Erickson doesn't call the plays -- highly respected offensive coordinator Rich Olson does. Second, I agree with you. And so does QB Rudy Carpenter. And I got the feeling that Erickson (and probably Olson, though I didn't talk to him) would do it differently if they got a do-over. If I were coaching the Sun Devils (insert punchline), I'd never stop asking Rudy Carpenter to win the game for me. Erickson said Monday that they thought they could run the ball against UNLV -- not an outrageous thought, by the way -- and they probably wanted to test the run sets in advance of Georgia. In other words, they probably didn't anticipate UNLV fighting back and making it close, much less winning. That, my friend from Tempe, was a miscalculation that hounded Erickson throughout consecutive sleepless nights.

Tim from Phoenix writes: You asked "Arizona will visit UCLA (is Mike Stoops back on the hotseat?)." He probably should be, but I'm betting the money isn't there for a buyout of yet another disastrous coaching hire. We're one more Lute Olson meltdown from utter irrelevancy as a sports school.

Ted Miller: Well... Mr. Sunshine! Tim, not sure you want to take this routine to a cocktail party. I think Arizona wins at UCLA this weekend and frowns turn upside down in Tucson. And didn't the basketball team just get some good news from PG Abdul Gaddy?

Ben from Minneapolis writes: Ted, As a BYU-alum and graduate student at a Big 10 school, I have seen and experienced both extremes. I thought that when you called out BYU a few weeks ago as a 5th or 6th best team in the Pac10 that you were being unreasonable (see Pac10 homer). Granted, in the first two BYU games of the season, turnovers and penalties kept the score much closer than it should have been. However, I am happy to see that they finally put together a full game. It would be nice to hear you change your tune after this past weekend. The question should no longer be: "where would BYU fall in the Pac10," but rather "where should the Pac10 fall in the MWC?" I mean c'mon, the MWC is 6-0 against the Pac10 this season!! Have a good week and go Cougars (and the MWC).

Ted Miller: I voted BYU 10th in my national power ranking poll and Max Hall No. 1 in my Heisman Trophy ballot, both weekly tabulations kept by ESPN.com. I think the Cougars would finish third in the Pac-10 (I ranked Oregon sixth).

Jeremiah from Redding, Calif., writes: Ted, How much longer can Stanford stay with Tavita Pritchard? He's completing only 57% of his passes.....but is avg 5.5 yrds per attempt. That is god awful! Teams are going to continue to stack the box against Toby Gerhart and force Pritchard to beat them. I realize the WR corps isnt even "mediocre" But something has to be done soon dont you think?

Ted Miller: Yes, something has to be done because the Stanford offense has been mostly awful the past two games. Sometimes change only for the sake of change helps. Sometimes, though, it doesn't. Coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters today that Pritchard remains the starter, but he also said the job is up for competition. Harbaugh's problem appears to be that he doesn't like his alternatives in Alex Loukas and Jason Forcier. The name to watch, though, if things don't get better: true freshman Andrew Luck.