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Michael West, please rant on! 🤪You are one of the best commenters in the West!

This 💯 The term “Blue Blood” really had become antiquated imo. To be "Blue-Blooded" means to have a noble, aristocratic, or royal lineage, originating from a family of high social standing. You can’t change your origin, so perhaps the entire concept of “becoming” a blue-blood is a contradiction

My favorite uniform combination are the ones that 18 & 19 year old studs like.

Or at least a single national championship sometime during the last century or so. However, I think it is highly likely that we will soon win a national championship.

That could be on auto loop in my coffin and it still would never get old!

Yeah.. I managed to black out those instances but I remember now. I have Also blacked out things like a bowl game in 2015 in Texas.... I'm am thankfully blissfully unaware what could have happened there.

Too many kids grew up watching Ed Reed play hybrid with the Ravens. The difference is Ed Reed would only creep up on designed blitz packages and he had Ngata up front to eat the blockers. Ed was also a physical phenomenon with years of experience and the ability to audible out when he recognized the route tree.

The only thing to me that Oregon lacks that all the other powers have is a vintage or signature look. It's ironic in a way, Oregon became known for their uniforms, but outside of Eugene there aren't many who can identify that one iconic look. I personally like the chrome wings helmet, but the first Oregon game I saw was Akili Smith in the 1998 Sun Bowl. That yellow helmet with the O on it.

Cmon GatOrlando. You know EXACTLY what I am going to say. Looking at the damn QB instead of taking his options away. Cost Georgia a Natty against Tua. Last week, Indiana's first TD was because the safety was looking at the QB instead of taking away the TD pass in the area he was responsible for. My Beloved Bryce Boettcher is guilty of this countless times. Though he does break up plenty of passes, his INTs always come from taking the option away, then turning around to a pass directly aimed at him. OBD have given up numerous third down conversions for that very reason. I can't emphasize enough how much I hate the fact coaches teach that tactic. It is the most egregious act in football. Rant done.

Will Nebraska ever win another National Title? Is Minnesota a blue blood? They have more claimed National Titles than Penn State with seven. Pittsburgh and Michigan State have six claimed titles each. These are all P4 programs with titles dating back sixty plus years. Michigan State has won the B1G and made a playoff. Are they a blue blood? I think it's time to just call the perennial contenders "Big Brands". Big Brands get the recruits, they have NIL, facilities and uniforms. They have big names attend their games and get the prime television slots against other Big Brands. What was a bigger game last year, Ohio State vs Oregon or Ohio State vs Nebraska? Those games happened back to back. One was remembered as a great back and forth. The other was seen as an almost letdown. The media didn't give Nebraska any credit for almost beating Ohio State. They said it was Ohio State still up in their feelings over losing to the Ducks the prior week. To me that was confirmation that Oregon is on the Ohio State level. Nebraska, not so much.

They can vacate that year all they want. USC is the 2004 title holder. Point blank. They were more than dominant from 03 to 05. They didn't take away Auburn's 2010 title despite everyone knowing AU bought Cam Newton. So I'll be damned if anyone outside of this forum wants to say USC wasn't titleholders in 2004. Mythical or not though, USC and UW were dominant the years they were deemed champs. I don't like the hate for our PAC8 brothers. They were more successful then, now they're not. I was happy the PAC12 was obliterated. I didn't feel the need to justify regional support for teams that didn't support college football like "they should have". But I support the four that joined the B1G. They earned those titles. They market their teams appropriately. That is what one does when one wins. We will do the same if(when?)we win ours. And I certainly see hundreds of thousands of Duck fans will be just as arrogant as the blue blood fans we hate. We may never get the respect we deserve. But it will be fun when we defeat more blue bloods. Because all they will have to say after we defeat them is we aren't a blue blood. Then we can say: well what justifies you as a blue blood now that you lost to us?

Hopefully, this stops during the Lanning era and we don't see any more Ducks dropping the ball before crossing the goal line. Maybe the reason it's been so prevalent is due to coaches thinking their players certainly know better; and as a result, they didn't think there was a need to coach them up on basic things to definitely not do. To tie this in with the thread that asked who we thought would be the ESPN Game Day picker this week; I would have been really upset if ESPN had chosen Glen Powell, as Ducks QB, Russ Holiday--and wearing a #10 jersey--to be the Game Day picker. I haven't watched the Chad Powers show, but I believe it was supposedly a Rose Bowl game with Ohio State, where he dropped the ball just before crossing the goal line.

I didn't recall that happening in the title game. Wow!! I was taught to hand the ball to the official if I ever scored as a youth and in high school.

We don't talk about the shoe thing Jon. The only shoes we bring up are Free Shoes University as described by one Steve Spurrier. As for playing spoiler on Saturday and down the line. I'm for it as long as it doesn't keep Billy around another year. My hope is he has quietly been told this season is it and he gets to prove to maybe a program like Oklahoma State or even Arkansas that he deserves a second chance. Maybe he'll pull a Lane Kiffin and fail at his first big job only to succeed at a lower level one. No offense to Arkansas or Oklahoma State, but they aren't programs where National Titles are expected.

Personally... I struggle to look away. It's a fascinating train wreck. In many ways a really really bad Beaver team is a bad look for the State of Oregon. However... That matters less now as the two premier teams in the state are in drastically different places.

For a Gators fan: Be True to Your Shoe? And, Oh Spit! Love ya, Man. Aim at and take out A&M on Saturday: do the Texas two-step!

Thanks, GP. No doubt that HS recruiting is still a B1G part of the process. But, in today's CFB world, I think seasoned players from the portal matter equally, if not more. It's all about roster management today, not just coaching up quality star-rated recruits; recruits who don't play early are likely gone. ONE CFB program has not lost a starter to the portal, OBD. OBD's true Frosh and 2nd-year players are stepping up, which is great to witness. However, without an outstanding portal class, including an RB who couldn't step up, would OBD replacing 18 starters be ranked in the top 5? Since the inception of the BCS, no team without a Blue Chip Roster has won a title. This was true when a team had to win one game to be a champ, and far more so when you have to win three or four games in a row against top competition. No matter how they are rounded up, you do not win at a championship level without the Jameses and Josephs. Blue Blood recognition will come only post-Natty for OBD and not before Oregon secures two or more titles. Fair? No. However, even without a title, Oregon's name is dropped whenever the subject involves a discussion of CFB's top programs. No surprise, in the above post, Charles beat me to it! 😍

Great topic, and thanks to all who begin threads. I agree with HappytoBeADuck in that once we win two 'Nattys, and are consistently in the top ten...then we are "currently" Blue-Blood. Stop winning and that definition changes; Clemson won a couple, but are they Blue-Blood now?

Friend ND, I hope Saturday finds your Dawgs victorious on The Plains and scoring the W in the South's longest rivalry. The SEC scored OOC this season and IMO, deserves to have nine teams in the top 25. Yet, I'm kind of hoping that 3-loss SEC teams are PO benched again, and CFB goes to an AQ PO with PO play-in games contested on the last week of the regular season: Top 2 in the PO, No. 6 at 3, and No. 5 at No. 4. The in-conference SOS in 16, 17, and 18 team conferences will never come close to equal.

Wrong response. Oregon was after Phil Knight for YEARS, and he refused. Not until Oregon went by themselves to the Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl did Phil agree to help. Tell the Beavers...."Winners want to work with winners." Oregon deserved the support. What has Oregon State done? Tell them to blame THEIR administrators. Oregon State was overpaid for decades from the conference, and they cruised on it. They need to take responsibility for their own bad management...

"Oregon left the conference for money" they claim...then they steal 30 million from us. "Oregon destroyed the conference" they assert....then they go and destroy the Mountain West.

Wow. Great zinger,--a B1G one! He is the "KING" of the one-liners ...

The only opinions that matter are those of 17 and 18 year old high school players who have top talent and skills at football.

Precisely. The only yellow clothing anyone has is a T-Shirt...

I love to cheer Oregon. IMO Blue Blood programs have several National Championship Trophies. If several things continue to be as they are.....I suspect that will happen in the next decade. Once those are in place......other things follow.