{"id":448621,"date":"2026-09-26T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448621\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:08:10","slug":"canzano-saturday-special-hits-oregon-usc-osus-el-paso-trip-and-high-stakes-pac-12-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448621\/","title":{"rendered":"Canzano: Saturday Special hits Oregon-USC, OSU\u2019s El Paso trip, and high stakes Pac-12 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!X5tN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb25490e8-4682-4a41-8a4c-190af1fe5239_5280x3520.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b25490e8-4682-4a41-8a4c-190af1fe5239_5280.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800.2747252747253\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b25490e8-4682-4a41-8a4c-190af1fe5239_5280x3520.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:3004438,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.johncanzano.com\/i\/217540674?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb25490e8-4682-4a41-8a4c-190af1fe5239_5280x3520.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-large\"\/><\/a>Lincoln Riley is 0-2 against Oregon. (Photo: Naji Saker)<\/p>\n<p>USC says it has a pre-game surprise for Oregon. <\/p>\n<p>Do you like surprises?<\/p>\n<p>I do.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder what it will be. <\/p>\n<p>There are several huge college football games this weekend, including the one in Los Angeles. Boise State goes to Western Michigan in a high-stakes game for the Pac-12. Oregon State and Washington State are going to try to keep things rolling, and Washington is kicking off as the East Coast goes to bed. <\/p>\n<p>I texted with Pete Carroll this week. That\u2019s included below. I also dropped a Willie Taggart reference, and a nod to the readers who routinely make the comment section a treat. <\/p>\n<p>The Saturday Special aims to give readers tips, insights, takeaways, opinions, and tidbits to add to the game day experience. <\/p>\n<p>Here we go\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley is 0-2 against Oregon. (Photo: Naji Saker) USC says it has a pre-game surprise for Oregon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-448621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}