Kevin Cline As the current Oregon football team begins preparing for their showdown against the Texas Longhorns (whose coach, Mack Brown, is expected to resign after the Valero Alamo Bowl), college football has entered the elongated calm before the storm of bowl games. The weekly rhythm of the football season has come to a halt, and many are left with an unfamiliar …
Craig Strobeck The Civil War game featured the most speed and running skills by Marcus Mariota since the Washington game, as he ran for a couple of first downs and pulled the ball in some Mid-Level Zone Reads. However, the majority of plays were NOT using the Zone Read by design, and these play variations generated some interesting conversations between …
Kevin Cline It would appear that after four straight years of BCS appearances, the University of Oregon football team will be left on the outside looking in. Most likely the team will be headed to the Alamo Bowl, something that most pundits and fans would not have predicted before the season began. Yet here they are. There is nothing wrong …
If you were not near a TV or news feed today, then you missed out on some of the greatest games we have seen all season. When it is Rivalry Week, you can just throw out the records and expect both teams to bring it. So many exciting finishes, and I think we just might have a Heisman winner …
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 …
Attitude is everything. And, while it was only two Ducks who expressed disappointment not being able to play in the National Championship, one has to wonder if that attitude has affected the rest of the team. To many fans it was disheartening to hear Josh Huff and DeAnthony Thomas expressing their lackluster enthusiasm about a return to a Rose Bowl. …
If you grew up playing the original Nintendo system, you might be familiar with an old arcade game called “Marble Madness.” We’re talking about the first Nintendo – you know the one: a directional pad, the shiny red A and B buttons, Select, and Start button. A sleek five-button controller — like God intended. This game would mesmorize kids with elaborate mazes that …
David Pyles The cool Saturday was clothed in dreary gray with uncharacteristically wet weather, and it only got drearier in Tuscan for the No. 5 Oregon Ducks. Although most in press row wondered aloud if Arizona had publicized the contest at all when the game kicked off, thousands of empty seats were quickly filled as news spread that the Wildcats were putting …
College football was fun today. There were so many entertaining games on all at once I don’t think I kept the TV on the same channel for more than a few minutes at a time. We had the exciting finish down at Auburn, while their rivals Alabama did not look like the N0. 1 team in the nation. FSU …
Craig Strobeck 1. “The world is a vampire, sent to drain.” — Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. My feelings this past weekend after the Oregon vs Stanford tilt on Thursday night are as close a Duck fan could get to having the life blood drained from its body. I ate and slept less, couldn’t turn on the TV to watch but …
I was starting to get worried about too many undefeated teams finishing perfect. Thanks to Stanford we had Oregon drop from the list of unbeaten. We still have Ohio State and Northern Illinois unbeaten thanks to their bye week coming at a convenient time . . . but do those teams really matter right now? Alabama keeps doing what …
If you were looking for upsets this week then just stop reading now. We had many of the top teams on a bye week, while the others took care of business between the stripes. College football fans will have much to look forward to next week, as Alabama plays LSU and Oregon takes on Stanford. Don’t forget, we will have Baylor’s …