I detect the presence of another Huskies fan. Cool. That's my alma mater.
Regarding this game, I wasn't sure who I was going to root for until today. I grew up in Nebraska so hated the Sooners for years. But after Barry Switzer left and the rivalry cooled down, I began to root for Oklahoma almost every time they played.
As a Huskies fan I learned to hate USC and even before then had despised the Trojans. It was the fact that they were a Pac-10 team that made me consider rooting for them.
Now I live in Tennessee and have had to listen to so much bellyaching from Auburn and SEC fans. Most of them aimed their anger at USC and the Pac-10. After Cal failed to show up for their bowl game, it just fired them up all the more.
So today I knew that my heart was telling me to root for USC. I made the right choice, it looks like.
your support is most welcome
my dad is a UW alum and, growing up in the Pasadena area, he took us kids to several rose bowls to root for the Huskies--my 3rd favorite team in all of football, since SoCal lost the only pro team i'll ever have supported
after the crap i've read here and on the yahoo boards, i wouldn't root for OK, TX or Auburn against stanford