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The Pac-12 season kicks off with two power programs from the opposite ends of California that have quickly become rivals. The conferences Northwest power also heads to the Midwest for a rare game against Nebraska.Heres what to look for in the Pac-12 this week:---GAME OF THE WEEK: Southern California at No. 7 Stanford. The only conference game of the week should be a good one. The Cardinal (1-0) had two weeks to prepare for the Trojans after sneaking past Kansas State in their opener. The Trojans were blown out by top-ranked Alabama, but rebounded last week with a lopsided win over Utah State. The Cardinal have won six of eight in the series, including a 41-31 victory in the Pac-12 title game. The key for USC to end Stanfords run in the series will be stopping Christian McCaffrey. The Cardinals do-everything running back raced through USCs defense, racking up 461 all-purpose yards in the Pac-12 title game. The rematch should be a good one.BEST MATCHUP: No. 22 Oregon at Nebraska. The Ducks and coach Mark Helfrich will see a familiar face across the field when they travel to Lincoln. Cornhuskers coach Mike Riley spent 14 seasons at Oregon State before moving east two years ago. Helfrich won both meetings against the rival Beavers and Riley, who went 4-10 in Civil War games. Nebraska opened the season with two blowout victories against overmatched opponents and will face its first real test. Oregons offense, as usual, has been flying (48.5 points per game), but the defense has had trouble closing out games.INSIDE THE NUMBERS: Of the 12 FBS teams to average at least 50 points, three come from the Pac-12: Arizona State (56.0), No. 8 Washington (53.5) and Colorado (50.0). ... California senior QB Davis Webb has thrown for 963 yards and nine TDs in two games so far. ... Colorado has won consecutive games by at least 35 points for the first time since 1994 heading into Saturdays road game against No. 4 Michigan.IMPACT PLAYER: Kalan Ballage, Arizona State. 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Greubel Poser and Aja Evans held off U.S. teammates Elana Meyers Taylor and Lolo Jones to win the womens race, and Holcomb teamed with Sam McGuffie to win the two-man race -- his sixth gold in the past seven international two-man races on his home track.Every single person out here wanted to win today, Holcomb said. To have a victory, to be on top, no matter where it is, its nice; just getting back to that mentality of winning again. It is a mentality. Putting together two runs. These cold conditions make the ice very hard and very slippery. Being the veteran on the tour, my experience paid off today.For Greubel Poser, it was the second straight year she drove to a World Cup win at Lake Placid.She and Evans finished their two runs on a frigid day in 1 minute, 52.02 seconds, taking advantage of super-hard, super-fast ice to set a track record along the way. Meyers Taylor and Jones were 0.14 seconds back in 1:52.16, while the Canadian team of Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries and Cynthia Appiah was third in 1:53.05.It just shows how strong Team USA is, Meyers Taylor said.ddddddddddddGreubel Poser and Evans broke the track record in their first heat, finishing in 55.81. Thats a significant shaving off the former mark, 56.28 set by Meyers Taylor and Cherrelle Garrett two years ago.We were so excited to see that time when we crossed the finish line, Greubel Poser said. I was screaming -- we were just so excited to know that we went that fast. We literally gave everything we had at the top.And in the mens race, only U.S. and Canadian sleds reached the podium as well -- a rare World Cup bobsled day with nothing but North Americans in the top three spots.Holcomb and McGuffie won in 1:49.47. Canada took silver and bronze, with the team of World Cup points leader Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden finishing in 1:49.74, 0.01 ahead of Chris Spring and Lascelles Brown.The four-person race is Saturday, and Meyers Taylor is expected to be one of the drivers in the field -- pushed by a team that will include her husband, Nic Taylor. She would be competing against male drivers for the third time in World Cup competition, after doing so twice in the 2014-15 season and finishing 13th and 16th. ' ' '