Following the 100-96 overtime thriller against the BYU Cougars Sunday night, Oregon is now off to their best start since the 2006-07 season, a season in which Aaron Brooks and company started 13-0 and reached the elite eight of the NCAA tournament. As one of the remaining 10 unbeaten teams in the country, the nation has begun to take notice …
Craig Strobeck The Oregon Ducks needed overtime to beat Ole Miss this past weekend but they emerged victorious in their first real road test of the season. With the win, Oregon is now 8-0 and off to their best start since the 13-0 opening in 2006 — a team led by Aaron Brooks. Mississippi hit 15 three-pointers and guard Marshall …
Kevin Cline The Oregon Ducks concluded the regular season this past weekend with a dramatic 36-35 victory over the Oregon State Beavers. The win gives the Ducks six straight victories over OSU and in that same span, they have now finished each of the past six seasons with at least 10 wins — tying Alabama for the longest current streak …
With the loss to the Wildcats, the Oregon Ducks have slipped to 9-2 on the season, No. 13 in the BCS standings, and now have little chance of gaining a BCS berth unless chaos hits the nation in the coming weeks. What Duck fans do have to look forward to is continuing their dominance as a powerhouse football team, with a …
David Pyles Coming into Saturday’s game, the Oregon Ducks had five straight wins against Arizona, including two on the road. Yesterday, Ka’Deem Carey and the Wildcats made sure that streak didn’t continue, as Arizona raced past No. 5 Oregon to pull off the upset, 42-16. In Arizona’s biggest win in two decades, the Wildcats ended the Ducks’ national championship hopes …
The team that pulled last week’s big upset against Oregon, was in turn the victim of college football’s Week 12 big upset, as Stanford fell in dramatic fashion to USC, 20-17, on Saturday night. This loss propels Oregon back in the driver’s seat in the Pac-12 North. The Ducks are now the top one-loss team in the nation and, if chaos …
The Week 12 BCS standings were released Sunday, and it has cleared up a bit of the picture of who will be playing for the crystal football in early January. There are still four weeks of games left on most schedules – and considering what college football fans have endured thus far this year, the season is far from over. A …
Kevin Cline Half of the nation’s top-10 teams were idle this weekend, but Florida State made sure the BCS standings stayed in flux with their convincing win over undefeated Miami. It was an exciting calm before this week’s highly-anticipated storm of elite match-ups. Alabama remained in the top spot at No. 1 for the third edition of this seasons rankings, but the …
Kevin Cline After Week 9 of the college football season, the game of leapfrog continues in the top five for consecutive weeks now, as Oregon jumped Florida State to No. 2 in the second release of the BCS standings after an impressive win at home against the UCLA Bruins. Both teams are still chasing the reign of No. 1 …
Craig Strobeck The first official BCS standings for 2013 have arrived, and with no surprise, the undefeated and reigning national champion Alabama Crimson Tide is at No. 1. However, the rest of the field saw significant change, as upsets and the notorious BCS computer calculations once again took over the world of college football. Florida State nudged out Oregon for the …
from Video Upsets shook the landscape of the BCS conversation this weekend with seven ranked teams losing on Saturday, four of them coming against unranked opponents. The initial BCS rankings will be released this Sunday, and the top tier of teams has seemed to pull away from the rest of the field, but if there is anything to be learned …
Cliff Grassmick We all love college football for a variety of reasons, one of those being the unpredictability the sport offers week-in and week-out. This week had a perfect blend of blowouts and nail biters to make for an eventful weekend. The top 5 teams in the AP Poll remained the same for the fourth consecutive week, but this past …