Why do the Duck gather such a following?

artie_fufkin wrote:

APRTW wrote:

Why do the Duck gather such a following?

In-state, it's probably because of location. Eugene is a decent-sized city, and Corvallis is in a rural area. And Oregon has had more success in football. I don't think OSU has been to the Rose Bowl since the '60s, even though they've had some pretty good teams (including the 2000 version that waxed Notre Dame by about 40 points in the Fiesta Bowl.)

But you live near to other ocean?

And that answers that question early. Darren Thomas looked like he'd never seen a football before, and we gave them 4 turnovers for over half their total score.

Ah well, it was a good run!

don.rob11 wrote:

My wife and our 3 married children graduated from LSU .

My only mildly negative thought about LSU is I wish JaMarcus Russell had been eaten by Mike the Tiger before the Raiders drafted him.

ASU @ Oregon next week. LaMichael James dislocated his elbow in the 4th quarter of the Cal game. Hopefully he will not need surgery to fix it, that's a huge blow for us.

don.rob11 wrote:

My wife and our 3 married children graduated from LSU .

Hmpphh . . . hillbilly state.

"he popped the elbow back into place"

Ever dislocated anything? It hurts more when it's out than when you pop it back in.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (10/07/2011 10:59 pm)

"Well we can hopefully get by with Barner for a while. We'll need James back for Stanford though."

Defintely. It's a shame what amounts to the Pac 12 title game is being played during the regular season. Oregon and Stanford are the two best teams, probably followed by Warshington.

ASU played us really tough, they faded towards the end, but in Oregon? That was a very good showing. I had no idea if we'd be able to win until very late in the game...

James needs to come back quickly... Barner is not James.

Things working out well. Wisconsin took a loss, and Oklahoma is fucking hurting.

That could bump them to 7 on Monday, still having LSU/Alabama and Oregon/Stanford! That would put them up around 5.

Go Ducks!

Well the season is winding down, and Oregon needs a letdown from Oklahoma State and possibly Alabama.

The latter however might be wiped off the boards, due to Oregon having 2 games against USC (1 this week, then the Pac 12 Championship), who is ranked 18.

Oregon's pedigree for a National title?

1-loss to what is now the best team in the land. 27-40 on a "neutral" location dominated by LSU fans (Texas).
23 point victory over #4 Stanford.
14 Point victory over #18 Arizona State
?? against #18 USC

?? Pac 12 title game against #?? USC

This is not enough to trump a perfect Oklahoma State squad, but would be enough to potentially bounce Alabama (who will not get to play in the SEC Title game) difference currently is .9099 Alabama and .8755 Oregon. That gap could close with Oregon playing USC twice, their annual rivalry game with Oregon St., while Alabama plays two unranked, and no conference championship.

Here's a situation me and my LSU buddy wanted to present.
Assume: LSU falls to Arkansas, and OSU loses to Oklahoma. What now?!?

Now you have to hit number 11 on the rankings before you see a 2 loss school.
Now you have Ok St. who beat Texas Tech, who beat Oklahoma who beat Ok St.
Now you have Arkansas, who beat LSU, who beat Alabama, who beat Arkansas.
Now you have LSU who beat Alabama and Oregon, but might not get a sniff at such a game after losing late in the season despite beating the two teams playing for it? (according to rankings, it would be Alabama/Oregon....)
Are you really going to allow Alabama a national title game when they didn't even get to play in the SEC title game?

So the logical question? If this transpired, who gets to play for the title?

I'd almost love to see 10 1 loss teams have to get filtered through because I don't believe a playoff will arise until the BCS has a situation that really highlights how broken it is.

Last edited by alz (11/18/2011 12:41 pm)

and it's all for naught.... goddamn oregon... shit game