Much like recruiting has its dead periods, college football news has its dead periods – and between post-regular season and pre-bowl games, is one of its quietest. Oregon fans may not have noticed in recent years, as their presence in BCS bowls has led to plenty of words being written about their team leading up to those marquee games, but with the …
Kevin Cline For die-hard football fans, the calendar is broken up into two sections, football season and the off-season. The off-season is primarily spent wishing for the runaway train of football season, where once the season starts, die-hard fans jump on and bid adieu to their friends and family until the winter. Only the absence of footballs at season’s end …
Craig Strobeck One of the complaints of the modern shift in college football, with conference realignment and the addition of a playoff amongst other changes, is the end of annual matchups in many historical rivalries. Yet it is Oregon’s biggest rival in recent years, the BCS, that the Ducks will happily say goodbye to as this era ends. After four …
Kevin Cline Is Mark Helfrich’s team taking on a new identity? Did anyone see that ending coming? What about Oregon’s other senior receiver? Following the closest Civil War in more than 30 years that was part of the craziest weekend in college football in recent memory, some thoughts: Mark Helfrich is Beginning to Establish His Own Identity as Head Coach Remember …
Kevin Cline After beginning the season ranked in the Top 25 and coming off a 2012 season where they won nine games, expectations were high for the Oregon State Beavers this season, or least the hope was for more than six wins. Book-ended around those six wins were an embarrassing season-opening loss to FCS school Eastern Washington and a regular …
Craig Strobeck Saturday’s schedule saw a huge win for Oregon, and I’m not talking about what USC did. While the game against Utah may not have been an overly impressive victory – Oregon didn’t score at least 55 against an unranked opponent for the first time all season – it was still one that was sorely needed for Oregon, both for 2013 …
Craig Strobeck The Spread Offense will never work. Stanford’s win over Oregon was clearly evidence of that. “Power Football” will always trump speed and innovation. So give up Ducks, old-school football has and will always prevail. This is the narrative that emerges following seemingly every Oregon loss. When Oregon loses, the argument never seems to be that Oregon with its …
Wikimedia Commons In the modern lexicon, there isn’t a word that reveals one’s level of online presence better than the word “troll.” (For those unfamiliar with the term, check out Wikipedia’s page on the subject. If you are still unclear on the definition, find the person in your life that spends the most time on Reddit and have them explain …
Craig Strobeck Thoughts from Oregon’s game against UCLA last Saturday: Saturday’s Win Was Much Bigger than People Realize The Ducks had 21 points going in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game. Since Oregon beat Cal 15-13 in 2010, the following have been the results of games when the Ducks had 21 points or fewer to start the fourth quarter: L, …
Craig Strobeck Worried about what we saw in Oregon’s game against Washington State last night? Concerned about Oregon’s long-term prospects for the season? Don’t worry; here is your weekly affirmation that everything will be ok — for now. Washington State is Much Improved . . . Yes, Oregon was a 40-point favorite over the Cougars last Saturday, but this is …
30fps.mocksession.com It was the logical choice for ESPN’s College GameDay: Washington, who was ranked 16th in the nation, and also a team coming off a three-point road loss to a top-five school, is now having their biggest rival — the nation’s second-ranked program — come to town in the highest-ranked matchup in college football last Saturday. Yet, the fact that …
from video Spirits were high in Seattle Saturday morning. Fresh off a narrow three-point loss on the road to Stanford, the Husky faithful were confident that this was the year, after nine failed tries in a row, that Washington would finally get the best of Oregon. An estimated 10,000 fans arrived by 3:00 AM for the first-ever appearance of ESPN’s …