Not a lot on the upside

You want a positive spin? OK: Pacific 10 Conference teams didn't have any problems with excessive celebrations this week.

Outside of top-ranked USC's 35-3 rout of No. 5 and free-falling Ohio State, there simply wasn't much to strut about.

True, Oregon State got its first win, 45-7 over Hawaii, but it's not as if the Beavers are going anywhere after opening losses to Stanford and Penn State.

The rest of the conference struggled to win Saturday. Or didn't.

No. 16 Oregon needed two overtimes to get past unranked Purdue. And that was the happy ending.

No. 15 Arizona State lost in overtime to Nevada Las Vegas -- which was coming off a three-touchdown loss to Utah. No. 23 California lost to Maryland, which had barely beat not-so-mighty Delaware by a touchdown in its opener, then lost to Middle Tennessee State last week.

And try picking the worst loss among this group: Washington by 41 to Oklahoma, Arizona by eight to previously 0-2 New Mexico, Stanford by 17 to Texas Christian.

Then, of course, there was UCLA.

All the Bruins did was suffer their worst loss in 79 years.

A look at the carnage:

Oklahoma has a good visit to the West Coast

Armed with Sam Bradford's nearly perfect passing, No. 3 Oklahoma made sure Pac-10 officials had no say in this one.

Bradford completed 18 of 21 passes for 304 yards, matched his career high with five touchdowns and ran for a sixth score to help the Sooners beat Washington, 55-14.

Ryan Broyles caught two of Bradford's touchdown throws for Oklahoma (3-0), which went home for a bye feeling much better than it did on its last trip to the West Coast two years ago.

Washington (0-3) was handed its largest margin of defeat at home since 1929, when it lost, 48-0, to USC.

Sooners Coach Bob Stoops threatened to never again bring his team to Pac-10 country after losing by one point at Oregon in 2005, with the help of blown calls at the end.

UNLV upsets ASU on blocked field goal

Malo Taumua blocked a field goal to lift Nevada-Las Vegas to a 23-20 overtime upset of No. 15 Arizona State.

Taumua's block on a 35-yard field-goal attempt by Thomas Weber came after Kyle Watson kicked a 20-yard field goal on the Rebels' overtime possession.

The loss took the luster off Arizona State's game against No. 2 Georgia next week.

For the Rebels, it will go down as one of the great victories in the school's sometimes checkered football history.