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• The renovation of Arizona's practice facility is almost done. Wildcats recruiting picks up with two commitments.
• Ranking the Big Games from a California perspective.
• Unable to get a medical hardship waiver and a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA, former Stanford offensive lineman Matt Kopa has moved on to the NFL. A Cardinal tight end is transferring to Baylor.
• UCLA has extended its apparel contract with adidas.
• USC QB Matt Barkley seems to have a crush on a famous singer. The Trojans are getting healthy this summer.
• What a nutty offseason.

The NCAA has denied Stanford offensive tackle Matt Kopa's petition for a sixth year of eligibility due to injury hardship, but Kopa will appeal the decision, coach Jim Harbaugh told the Stanford Cardinal Football Examiner.

Harbaugh said the final decision should be delivered in three weeks.

Kopa was the Cardinal's starting right tackle last year but he broke a bone in his left foot in the season-opener vs. Washington State and sat out the remainder of the season.

Chris Marinelli shifted into Kopa's spot last year, but he also is gone. Senior Derek Hall now steps into the first-team role at the position.

Here's a list of the Pac-10 players invited to the NFL combine, courtesy of The Sporting News.

First of all, it's incomplete. Underclassmen will be added later, such as USC receiver Damian Williams and UCLA DT Brian Price. And a number of seniors also will get invitations.

My immediate guess is that Washington linebacker Donald Butler and Oregon defensive end Will Tukuafu will end up receiving invitations, among others.

Arizona: DT Earl Mitchell, CB Devin Ross

Arizona State: DE Dexter Davis, LB Travis Goethel, OT Shawn Lauvao, WR Chris McGaha, WR Kyle Williams

California: DE Tyson Alualu, WR Nyan Boateng, CB Syd'Quan Thompson, WR Verran Tucker.

Oregon: RB LeGarrette Blount, TE Ed Dickson, CB Walter Thurmond, S T.J. Ward.

Oregon State: QB Sean Canfield, OLB Keaton Kristick.

Stanford: TE Jim Dray, RB Toby Gerhart, OT Matt Kopa, DE Erik Lorig.

UCLA: OLB Kyle Bosworth, CB Alterraun Verner.

USC: OT Charles Brown, C Jeff Byers, RB Stafon Johnson, S Taylor Mays, TE Anthony McCoy, G Alex Parsons, CB Josh Pinkard, CB Kevin Thomas.

Washington: DE Daniel Te'o-Nesheim.

Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck had surgery on a finger in his right, throwing hand and won't start the Sun Bowl against Oklahoma, the Stanford Daily -- the student newspaper -- reported and ESPN.com confirmed.

Coach Jim Harbaugh wouldn't rule him out of the Dec. 31 game in El Paso, Tex.

"He's going to be out of practice at least two to three weeks," Harbaugh told the Pac-10 blog Monday. "He's not ruled out of the game, but based on what we know right now, he won't start. We'll have to see how his finger heals and see what his availability is for the game. It will be a game-week decision."

Luck's backup is senior Tavita Pritchard, who has started 19 games in his career but was eclipsed by Luck during spring practices.

Obviously, a huge blow to Stanford's chances.

The Sooners now likely will gang up on the line of scrimmage to stop Toby Gerhart and dare Pritchard to beat them with the passing game. A defense couldn't do that with the talented Luck running the Cardinal offense.

Of course, it was Pritchard who engineered the stunning victory at USC in 2007.

"This team doesn't make excuses," Harbaugh said. "There's injuries in football."

The Cardinal already lost linebacker Clinton Snyder, defensive end Erik Lorig, offensive tackles Matt Kopa and Allen Smith and defensive tackle Brian Bulcke to injuries this season.

Of course, Oklahoma knows all about losing star players to injuries. It's played without All-American tight end Jermaine Gresham the entire season and quarterback Sam Bradford, the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner, most of the year.

Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller

Stanford right tackle Matt Kopa fractured his foot against Washington State and will be out six to eight weeks.

The Cardinal already were replacing two starters from 2008's line and used a pair of redshirt freshmen against the Cougars.

Senior Chris Marinelli will move from left guard to right tackle when Stanford visits Wake Forest on Saturday. Junior Andy Phillips, an 11-game starter in 2008, will start at left guard. There's also the possibility talented but oft-injured senior Allen Smith could get back into the picture.