SAN FRANCSICO — The Pac-12 Conference has set the schedule for its final weekend of football games.
The conference announced Sunday its teams will play six games, including Washington at No. 16 Southern California in the Pac-12 championship game on Friday. (5 p.m., FOX)
Oregon will face No. 21 Colorado at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday. The winner of that game could slide into a rescheduled title game if the Trojans or Huskies are unable to play due to COVID-19 issues.
Saturday’s games also include Washington State at Utah (10:30 a.m., FS1), Stanford at UCLA, and Arizona State at Oregon State. Arizona will face California at a site and time to be determined. The Wildcats fired coach Kevin Sumlin on Saturday following a blowout loss to Arizona State.
The Pac-12 left the schedule for the final weekend of the season open to have flexibility in a year when the coronavirus pandemic has led to cancellations and postponements across the country.
USC earned a spot in the Pac-12 title game for the first time since 2017 by rallying to beat rival UCLA 43-38 on Saturday.
Washington earned its third Pac-12 North title in five years when Utah beat Colorado 38-21 on Saturday.
The conference went to a home-hosted model for the championship game this season.
Cougars get by Portland State
PULLMAN — Noah Williams scored 18 points on 8-for-12 shooting and Isaac Bonton scored 16 and Washington State held Portland State at bay with a 69-60 win on Sunday.
T.J. Bamba scored 15 points for Washington State and Andrej Jakimovski 12.
WSU (5-0) is off to its best start since 2017-18 when it started that season with six straight wins. The Cougars are receiving votes in the AP Top-25 for the first time since that season.
The five wins have been by a combined 22 points.
Charles Jones’ layup with 10:31 remaining brought the Vikings within 44-41 with 10:31 left. Bamba followed with a 3-pointer 28 seconds later and Washington State gradually began to pull away.
Jakimovski’s 3-pointer with 4:47 remaining put the Cougars up 60-50. Washington State never trailed.
Paris Dawson led Portland State (1-2) with 18 points on 6-for-10 shooting. Amari McCray scored 12 with 11 rebounds for the Vikings.
Washington State now leads the all-time series with the Vikings, 9-0. The most recent meeting was on Dec. 6, 2015, a 91-67 Cougars’ win in Pullman.
Portland State now is 7-56 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference.
Huskies comeback against Oregon falls short
SEATTLE — Chris Duarte and Eugene Omoruyi scored 14 points apiece, Eric Williams Jr. added 14, and Oregon held on to beat rival Washington 74-71 on Saturday night.
N’Faly Dante had 12 points and a career-high 10 rebounds — the 6-foot-11 sophomore from Mali’s first double-double — for Oregon (4-1, 1-0 Pac-12).
Quade Green scored 15 of his career-best 26 points in the second half as Washington (1-4, 0-2) erased most of a 15-point deficit. RaeQuan Battle added 19 points, hitting 4 of 6 from 3-point range.
LJ Figueroa converted a three-point play to give Oregon a 15-point lead, its biggest of the game, with 16 minutes left.
Green scored Washington’s first six points in an 8-2 run that trimmed its deficit to 69-68 with 1:40 to play but Williams hit an open 3-pointer from the left corner 24 seconds later. Battle converted a three-point play to make it 72-71 with 58 seconds remaining and the Huskies got a stop on the other end, but lost the ball out of bound and then fouled Chris Duarte who made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line and Washington called a timeout with 7.9 seconds left. Green missed a deep 3-point shot about four seconds later and Dante made 1-of-2 free throws to cap the scoring.
The Ducks rallied from a 16-point deficit in Seattle to beat Washington 64-61 in overtime on a last-second 3-pointer in the last meeting between the teams last January.
Oregon has won four in a row against the Huskies.
SEATTLE (AP) — Chris Duarte and Eugene Omoruyi scored 14 points apiece, Eric Williams Jr. added 14, and Oregon held on to beat rival Washington 74-71 on Saturday night.
N’Faly Dante had 12 points and a career-high 10 rebounds — the 6-foot-11 sophomore from Mali’s first double-double — for Oregon (4-1, 1-0 Pac-12).
Quade Green scored 15 of his career-best 26 points in the second half as Washington (1-4, 0-2) erased most of a 15-point deficit. RaeQuan Battle added 19 points, hitting 4 of 6 from 3-point range.
LJ Figueroa converted a three-point play to give Oregon a 15-point lead, its biggest of the game, with 16 minutes left.
Green scored Washington’s first six points in an 8-2 run that trimmed its deficit to 69-68 with 1:40 to play but Williams hit an open 3-pointer from the left corner 24 seconds later. Battle converted a three-point play to make it 72-71 with 58 seconds remaining and the Huskies got a stop on the other end, but lost the ball out of bound and then fouled Chris Duarte who made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line and Washington called a timeout with 7.9 seconds left. Green missed a deep 3-point shot about four seconds later and Dante made 1-of-2 free throws to cap the scoring.
The Ducks rallied from a 16-point deficit in Seattle to beat Washington 64-61 in overtime on a last-second 3-pointer in the last meeting between the teams last January.
Oregon has won four in a row against the Huskies.
The Associated Press
