30Duck

I was just thinking before you posted this that Mario's response to Ty's performance was, "See"

Always have been. Now the public is salivating over Cincy. We have to become SMU fans, the Mustangs are @ Ciccy in 3 weeks, and Michigan State needs to lose to Purdue, Maryland or Penn State, but beat Ohio State. Nebraska could have helped the Ducks, but they lost to Michigan State in 2 OT.

He's certainly off to a good start. If he could replicate Marshall's versality the Ducks would be in great shape.

Washington 20 Stanford 13 An offensive explosion for the Huskies this season, Stanford led with 3:16 left in the 4th quarter, and now the loss to Stanford looks worse. Herm & the Sun Devils with their typical end of the season flame out lose at home to WSU, 34-21.

It makes sense to me, 52-29 is a better margin than Oklahoma has managed on a regular basis, The Ducks were in control the entire game.

Always the best week of the year. Beavs still a work in progress, and those crazy Cougars,

Head over here to make comments about the Colorado game.

Early in the 2nd quarter, Penn State leads tOSU, 7-3 and USC's record setting WR, Drake London was taken off the field on a cart.

Right now it looks like beating tOSU isn't enough to get the Ducks ahead of them, though Chris Petersen thought they should be.

We show the Beavs some respect and this is what they do? A fumble on their first play, and now they trail Cal, 17-3 with 9 minutes left in the 2nd quarter.

It was unsettling to hear the chatter, "Ohio State playing really well, looks like another playoff for them" then, "Oregon, 7-1, but no margin for error"

That's what happens when you do well against everybody EXCEPT Michigan State and Ohio State. Harbaugh had it going at Stanford, then he was doing a good job at the 49ers, then he went back to his alma mater and had a rocky road so far.

No argument here, it makes sense, competitively, N vs S, and again, the two best records will probably be in the North. Oregon & Stanford probably would have played each other back in the day.

That was the best game AB has had this season. His passes were crisp, some right through the windows, ran well. He looked the QB of a team in contention for the Playoffs. Cheers AB!

Must See TV. Imagining how the Committee will see things is unfathomable. Especially early when their guiding principle is, "Don't be concerned with how it looks now."

93 yard TD pass puts Michigan ahead, 7-0.

Corso picked UCLA over Utah, lookin' good, Utes,

Yep, other games are being played, some will even matter. When you see a score, have a comment to make about the other games, post it here. Ohio State is ranked above Oregon. But Orgon beat Ohio State? It would seem that Penn State beating Ohio State, giving them 2 L's would be good for Oregon. But would it? Beating Ohio State is Oregon's crowning achievement, Isn't it better for Ohio State to stay with the 1 L?

Mario wanted to be aggressive? Wanted to score? This sums up exactly why back to back championship coach Cristobal has some of us in knots! "Not now!" you explain, reminding him that you have made it clear that you don't want all those points. You're winning now, all that noise is unnecessary. 1-0, you've got it. Get another 1st down, and the time will run out. But now you want to score? Chip, he was on the other side of the field. He used to coach at Oregon. He loved points! But once his team went 9 minutes, without scoring, on purpose!!! Because that was the best way to get the W! But you wanted to score?

Might as well mention, Herbie, Joey Galloway, both Buckeyes.

Fowler, Herbie, Tannen, Burton all took the easy way to fill air time. They aren't interested in actually discussing Why the fans were booing, just that they were. Every time Oregon had the ball, Fowler brought the booing up, wasn't interested in looking at stats that might have encouraged the action. Too be fair, Play- by Play is not the forum for an in-deph examination of fan reaction, but move it along Fowler. It's hard to say which grew more tedious, Fowler/Herbie and the booing, or the Stanfords assertion that Oregon, "might be overrated?" during the Arizona game? Both were examples of lazy broadcasting just spouting off with as little thinking possible.

I don't even think its close to which game will be the toughest for the Ducks. Forever it hasn't mattered that the Ducks had a lot more talent, those Scrappy Beavers always played the Ducks tough. This year the talent scale still favors the Ducks. But the Beavers have more than they have had for a long time. Never before in the history of this match-up will "Who Wants It More?" be the deciding factor.