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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.

I remember way back when the The Bottom Ten was published weekly in the sports section of the RG and Oregon was almost always in it. Not fun for the fans, players, or coaches of the teams so listed. While I'm excited about the Ducks being in the B1G, I'm still a little in shock that the PAC-12 no longer exists, and hope that Oregon St. and Wash. State can get a new conference going that will give them some athletic success and financial security.

Colin Cowherd now considers the Ducks a "Blue Blood" program . . . for what it's worth. Nice to hear a prominent national voice, who LOVES his blue blood programs, talk up the Ducks.

First things first. When some d-bag starts talking to me about “natty’s” I always ask what position they played in their team’s winning of their “natty”. When they mumble something incoherent as they usually do, I ask them how they contributed. I will give some level of credit to a season ticket holder or booster, but I typically despise “jock-riders” and I let them know. If it’s a USC OR fusky fan I remind them that all championships were mythical before 1998. Meaning, they were awarded based on the opinions of media voters. After 1998 they were awarded via a championship game. USC won in 2004 but it was vacated, so they only have a mythical AP championship from that year. When they try to legitimize mythical championships then I use last season as justification for Oregon’s first national championship in football since an official selector voted us number one. Remember to remind all fusky fans that they only have 2/7 of a national championship. They were one of five teams who claimed the 1960 championship and one of two teams who claimed it in 1991.

I understand where you're coming from. But I'm straddling both sides of the fence when it comes to the Beavers and Ducks. I married into a Beaver family (what was I thinking?!) They have been downright nasty when it comes to the U of O. Even my own wife and step-kids won't hesitate to say something negative about our Ducks. I basically stay silent as to not irritate them and just say "scoreboard!" Beav fans point to Phil Knight, saying if it wasn't for him, the Ducks wouldn't be where their at. Agreed. Then I mentioned that two OSU graduates, Jensen Huang, President, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia and Andrew Cherng, president and CEO of Panda Express could have donated money to OSU if they so desired. Huang is currently the 6th wealthiest billionaire at 161 billion, Cherng has 7.3 billion. Knight is worth 33 billion. It just so happens that Phil Knight is a sports fan while the other fellows are not. My late step-son had mentioned that OSU graduates are loaded with cash, they're just not involved in the sports world.

It’s become so prevalent that they made a series on Hulu where it’s the basis of the whole show. Oregon has done it multiple times (Chad Powers not included). Byron Marshall did it twice in the same season. Once in the national championship game against Ohio State and once against South Dakota. Both happened on long TD’s. Luckily, he barely got across the goal line in the Ohio State game. He was skilled but not very intelligent.

When I saw the Ducks" schedule whenever it came out, I told my great Duck buddy that Oregon was in the catbird seat for playoffs 2025. My critique is not of the best half dozen of the B1G teams, but the other dozen seem like cupcakes to me. Hopefully NIL will help to improve the competitive balance of the conference over time.

Was Joey Harrington ever a guest picker? Sort of wish the guest picker could be more local legends than just nationally known. I'm sure the crowd would love a LaMichael James or Luke Jackson or even a Cole Hocker.

All I know is that the “blue blood” programs don’t really want to play us at Autzen.

Same with the Pom-Pom’s (or “shakers” as the SEC folks say). The short folks are definitely at a disadvantage.

Second time for Sabrina. She joins many other "multi-pickers." Charles Barkley leads the list with 6 guest picker roles. 11 people have appeared 3 times or more. An additional 19 (including Sabrina) have appeared twice.

Joe Walker is going to score.

Sorry to say that I think we are a basketball school since that is where our blue bloodline is located ever since that fateful day in 1939 when we owned ALL of the NCAA Basketball Championships.