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Well, being college age kids, you don't know what you are going to get from one week to the next. So I prefer tOSU to be dominant against Iowa so regardless of how we play OSU is viewed as a top team, and if they have a bad game out west against Oregon, that's just too bad.

...like a mediocre team that played against one of the best teams in the country six days ago, had just travelled across the country, and was playing in a game that started at 9:15 pm and finished after midnight. I'm not trying to take away too much from Oregon's dominance, but MSU was set up to fail in this game, and it definitely showed. The table is set for next week now, B1G's equivalent of Alabama vs. Georgia. Gonna be a lot of hype.

I'd say the offense has not had everyone play their best at the same time. At the very beginning of the season the OL and running backs couldn't do anything and DG and the receivers had to get it done. Tonight felt like the opposite. Perhaps some of it's just different defensive strategies and and Stein is just taking what the defense gives him. But I think there is room for both to really shine at the same time to capitalize when they are dominant.

Oregon 37-16 3 4 289

I will say that MSU, after playing the best team in the conference having to travel across the country on a short week to play at 9pm.at night, is the B1G giving them to us on a silver platter. Whether they are an entree or a main course of their own is TBD. The spread definitely thinks they are an entree.

Lastly, outside of a brawl/melee, I've never seen a single player get 3 personal fouls committed against them in 3 seconds before. The defender face masked Holden, horse collared him, and then another defender open hand punched him in the face celebrating the fumble that wasn't. The refs should have called all 3 to get the point across, and technically could have enforced 2 of them, with face punch occurring after the play was actually over with the tackle.

I'm confused. As a former player of many sports, I can say nearly every penalty I ever got was unintentional. It's not the point. It's not like there is Targeting in the 1st Degree, vs Targeting in the second degree. We had a defenseless player get knock out cold while airborne and the B1G just told the conference that is still a legal scenario. And my understanding is "forceable contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless player is one of the definitions of Targeting, so that should have been called Targeting.There is no statement of intent included. It's not supposed to be a consideration.

I was thinking the same thing as we got into garbage time. Don't put Moore on the field. To DL's credit he didn't.

This. I'd take the loss of 5-10 yards of field position in exchange for the morale boost. Anything more than that, at it's a negative. Clearly to me the real star of the play was Muhammad, who prevented the reception the forced a turnover on down either way.

One really positive improvement I saw was the defense setting the edges as a priority, which was something they really needed to clean up in prior games. Sure UCLA's run game sucks, but we didn't let them bounce outside at all when they tried, which prevented any big run plays. UCLA rushed for -1 yard in the first half.

That was a big 10 style win. Also, the players took their foot of the gas after really dominating most of the first half. A VERY dangerous thing to do on an "After Dark" game in the southwest. I'm pleased with the win. I think the motivation will be there for Ohio State to play with our hair on fire.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/power-five-ad-memphis-honest-truth-bad-pac-12-realignment-offer geez man.

I watched parts of the game. It's a textbook Cristobal team at this point in terms of personnel. Cristobal has reached his ceiling at Miami, we'll just have to see how far that can take him. Cam Ward is excellent, and I'm glad Cristobal is not ruining him just yet. I see lots of high 4 and 5 star athletic talent that doesn't have a strong feel for the game. Nothing new there.

Hey now, OIT doesn't deserve to be slandered like that. Actually, they haven't had a football team for about 30 years. I went to OIT in1996 the inaugural year of their track team, which I walked onto. They had just redone the track and put a full length javelin runway right into the football field. The story I heard was they put the javelin runway in that way to make sure nobody got any ideas about starting the football program up again. That they got rid of the football team because of costs and that the players were too rowdy and troublemaking, for the small school.

I took the facts in the article and came up with a twist on the concern. You can be merely top 10 in recruiting and still win a Natty, if you have superior coaching, both developmentally and in game planning. My concern is the lack of local talent means you don't have the bandwidth to be great at both. We all flamed DeBoer for being a horrible recruiter at UW, but he spent the bye weeks before our games game planning how to beat us while the Oregon staff was on the road building the 2024 class. Coaching staffs are time and energy constrained between recruiting and being a coach. The extra effort required for recruit non-local is definitely putting us at a disadvantage, but it will manifest itself in some combination of recruiting AND coaching.

UNLV has been flip flopping, I wouldn't trust anything I read about them. UTSA should be added to the list of possibilities.

Aren't there like 30 other UCLA statistics that also look really bad that if they just turned them around they could compete better? I'm not really getting the point there. I think Oregon controls it's own destiny in this game. If we show up and play an away game in the southwest after dark we win. If we don't then we could lose or look bad winning again.

I thought the house case was class action. Is it not? I think the article subject could happen, but would not be the final destination, which will be more along the lines of what JPJ describes. I'm convinced that not every B1G and SEC school will make it into the pay to play league, and a few left overs from other conferences will find their way in.

Not completely true..the greater the number of individuals, the higher the probability of finding better players. Simple statistics. If I had 100 3 stars I'd argue I could field a better team than from 20 4 stars, especially at the college level.

I would flip it around to CAP-12. It's the common lingo in schools right now that "cap" means you are lying or faking it. My son is always saying "That's cap." When he sees or hears something that is trying to deceive us.

As opposed to the Will Howard/Avery Johnson affair. It's weird OSU ran their own QB out of town, yet picked up a QB run out of town from somewhere else. At least Howard's running ability is a fit for Kelly's offense.

Michigan State looks much like Oregon State did when Smith arrived, just starting from a higher floor. Their defense is not good. The QB is elite but inexperienced and not getting much help from the rest of the offense. They should be about the same as UCLA, maybe a little worse.

Did you miss seeing that they have Mario on their sidelines? Mario will lose interest in the high flying offense, and force the OC to put handcuffs on Ward to play 3 yards and a cloud of dust against the lesser teams in conference, exposing his team to a loss or two. It's like clockwork.

Will Howard on the other hand absolutely was going to lose his starting job to Avery Johnson who is amazing. OSU flopped picking Howard, but pulled the rabbit out of the hat bringing in Kelly to scheme him into something that can make the offense work.

Totally agree. There are many reasons for the 3 point home advantage and referee calls are one of them.