Did it live up to the hype? I would say no, but SEC honk will tell you otherwise. That was just a good 'ole grudge-match. A slobber knocker. Whatever.
Look it was a good game, and both teams had great defenses going in, I get that. But neither team scored a touchdown, I don't need to see it again. Should both teams win out, I don't wanna hear the controversy that there should be a re-match.
I gotta burn on the Big East for a second. This has been bothering me for a while now. The Big East, or Big Least as I like to call it, should lose its A.Q. status from the BCS. It's a joke. The only legitimate teams that were there, are leaving. You weren't a BCS conference before, and adding Boise State, UCF, SMU, Houston, and the service academies doesn't make you one now.
Finally before I get to the Ducks, I wanna talk about this situation going on at Penn State. It's disgusting, and JoPa comes out of this looking pretty bad. AT BEST, he was oblivious to what was going on around him. AT WORST, he was covering up child sex abuse for many years. He's gotta go.
Now onto the Ducks.
That's now eight in a row over the huskies, all by at least 17 points. And yet their fans will still tell you, we wanna be like them. Riiiiiiiiight! But now the Ducks got a huge match-up down on the farm against Stanford. A game in which I think will be far more entertaining than last week's "game of the century."
There have been some big moments throughout the history of this series, in which Stanford leads 44-29-1, but Oregon has gone 9-2 vs. the tree's since 1998.
In 1994, Oregon beat Stanford 55-21 to keep their Rose Bowl hopes alive. In 1995, Stanford probably cost Oregon a return trip to the Rose Bowl by beating them 27-24. One of the highest combined conference scoring games came in 1997, in which Stanford won 58-49. The Ducks crushed stanford in '98, 63-28. The thing I remember most from that game was Michael Fletcher's HUGE hit on a kickoff (you can watch a clip of that at the end). Of course no Duck fan will forget blowing two, 14 point, fourth quarter leads to Stanford in 2001, losing the game 49-42, and the loss costing Oregon a trip to the National Championship. Then there was last year's game in which, Oregon came from 17 down, to dominate in the second half and win 52-31.
That brings us to this year, which is probably the biggest in the series history, with some interesting sub plots.
You have Oregon, which is new school, with their fancy uniforms and exciting offense going up against Stanford, which is old school, with its classic power I formation offense.
They use a lot of TE's, they're gonna line it up, pound it, pound it, then hit you over the top with play action. Which system will prevail?
Stanford has the nations longest winning streak, and Oregon has the conference's longest winning streak. Each team's last loss came to the other: Oregon to Stanford in '09, Stanford to Oregon last year.
There are also conference, BCS bowl positioning, and national championship implications on the line. Should be a good game, and Wednesday I will give my thoughts on my feelings about Oregon's chances.
---As always, keep reading, and supporting Landon Stiner.
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