- artie_fufkin
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Re: Oregon Ducks quest for greatness Part II
"The Pac 12 champion was determined last Saturday in Palo Alto."
Good call.
Oregon can still get to the Pac 12 title game if it beats OSU, right?
I'm not sure what happens if the South ends up in a 3-way tie. Maybe none of them deserves to go and they just give the trophy to whoever wins the North?
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I believe so, due to the other loss Oregon took being out of conference (LSU) so it doesn't matter in the standings. The announcers said that Oregon wrapped up the PAC 12 North with another win.
So we hopefully beat Oregon State, the Pac 12 title game, and go play a great Rose Bowl. I guess when you settle for a Rose Bowl, things could be a lot worse.
Just a bummer for us, that lined up so perfectly for us to get back to the title game, but you can't fumble the ball like we did, have punts blocked, miss field goals, and not stop the run or the pass.
The one great thing out of this game is that Barkley looked very very good, I'm hoping Miami drafts him or Landry Jones. I'm almost sour on Luck, I know people love him, but I really don't see how he's better than Barkley.
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Re: Oregon Ducks quest for greatness Part II
"Just a bummer for us, that lined up so perfectly for us to get back to the title game, but you can't fumble the ball like we did, have punts blocked, miss field goals, and not stop the run or the pass."
Is Kelly taking any heat for his clock management in the last couple of minutes? I understand the concept of maintaining the momentum during that last drive, but with three timesouts he had a chance to win the game with a touchdown instead of trying to tie with a field goal. And the kicker wasn't going to make a long kick in that situation. You could just see in his mannerisms that he wasn't going out there with a lot of confidence.
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I'm not sure, normally 3 minutes is plenty of time, but we couldn't break anything off on USC. We could move the ball, but usually needed to get to 3rd and short each time we got a first down.
They will need to spend some time finding a kicker in 2012. Eventually we're going to need one, and Oregon won't kick a field goal unless they are inside the red zone.
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Unbelievable. These three teams ought to be fighting over invites to the Las Vegas Bowl, not over which gets to play in a "championship" game:
"Arizona State’s third loss in a row does not eliminate the Sun Devils from a shot at representing the Pac-12 South in the conference’s first championship game. The Sun Devils trail UCLA by a game and the Bruins hold the tiebreaker with one game to play.
"Arizona State must beat California next week and needs UCLA to lose to Southern California and Utah to beat Colorado. That would create a three-way tie between ASU, UCLA and Utah, with the Sun Devils getting the nod because they would have the best record within the division."
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I think overall the power in the two divisions will equal out. Stanford/Oregon is a lot stronger than anything on the other side, but this is just a down year for the other side.
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alz wrote:
I think overall the power in the two divisions will equal out. Stanford/Oregon is a lot stronger than anything on the other side, but this is just a down year for the other side.
Eventually, USC will pretty much reign over the South, but if you exclude Utah's run in 2009 when they were in a different conference and didn't play anyone, none of those teams has been a legitimate NCAA championship contender for at least a decade.
But as long as Tucson Tech continues its streak of Rose Bowl futility, I'm fine with the alignment.