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Both USC and Cal are poorly coached. Utah played USC close the week before and look what we did to them? Fool me once, shame on USC. YEEEOOOOOWW! I won't be fooled again! In other news, UW 2nd Down and 37...that must be a record or something. Now 3rd and 27, aaaand punt.

I'm so glad this Cal/USC game is hidden on the PAC12 Network. Horrible quality of play.

Heck if I know-dang Spectrum cable outage for last 20 minutes. At least the game isn't in doubt.

Thank you. Keep your head up. You'll be in the playoffs next year assuming Wittingham deals with the team's Achilles heel: their strength and conditioning coach.

I agree that's how it feels. A tip of the cap to your assessment of how good Utah is and how you thought this game would go. Can't let up. Need to dominate through the finish for the beauty contest. I mean the playoff committee.

Fantastic start to the second half. We came out like we started. Bo is playing at a Heisman level today.

Utah offense had success once they started playing with some urgency. We definitely had the momentum at the start of the game, but Utah took momentum going into the half. I think Utah will play tough from here on out. Need to come out in the second half like we started.

Utah defense woke up. Two 3 and outs for us.

Utah may be a little flat from the USC game but we are conceding nothing, outside the freak fumble, and taking advantage of everything. If Utah can't get it in gear soon it will be too late. 18 points may already be too much for their offense.

Having a play calling coach on the field like that just isn't fair to Utah. Heh heh.

Oregon D very stingy on yards after contact. I love it!

What the hell PI call was that? Tangled feet is not PI and the ball was uncatchable to boot.

No bad Bo today boys and girls! He came to play with confidence. It's on.

Cristobal was right to point out that there are three things that matter. Player evaluation, recruiting and development. Too bad he was only good at recruiting. Dan has already proved he is good at evaluation and recruiting and is on his way to proving he has coaches that are good at developing.

I think the biggest upset probability for the day is No 11 OSU playing at unranked AZ in the desert at 7:30 pm, a recipe for an absolute disaster of a game for a PNW school. And UA is without a doubt the best 3 loss team in the country with their new QB Fifita in place of De Laura. I hope OSU wins, but I'm not optimistic.

It's legal to steal signs in certain ways and illegal in others. As you'd imagine, the most effective ways are illegal, which is the way Michigan was doing it.

Yeah, I'm not sure what they are going to do. Most likely probablility is to start it on a different Fox network, but which one? The Fox Sports channel has football games of it's own. Edit: Fox's sports 2 has 3 hours of horse racing, so maybe that will be it. I don't know if there is a streaming option they can make available too.

You can get away with stacking the box because they don't have a deep pass reliably. Make them beat us over the top. Just make sure we've got a corner on Vaki and not an LB or DE.

The analogy here is like an NFL player that makes the pro bowl, gets caught taking roids, has to stop and is out of the league in two years 'cause he isn't good enough without them. We'll see.

Oregon Ducks 31 Utes 27 1 4 193 I feel like I'm playing the price is right and bidding over Charles by $1; sorry man, but we're pretty close on how we think this turns out guess.

I'm guessing we set a record for # of viewers for our games this year. We are barely over halfway through the season and we've been playing in the prime time slots on national TV week in and week out. 2nd Game day appearance now. We still play USC which will be prime time guaranteed. If Beavers and us win out that would be prime time too. It's almost like the old days when every weekend it was Notre Dame and you couldn't escape it. No you can't escape seeing us on TV. It's going to help recruiting.

Yeah, the TCU article is the most eye opening revelation. Remember the Trading Places movie with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd where they know the bad guys are going to use insider trading to beat the commodity market and they spoof the data results and bankrupt the bad actors? When you compare Georgia and Michigan's seasons last year, they weren't that different in terms of results, but when you compare TCU vs both in the playoffs the disparity was massive. Perhaps Michigan got to the playoffs because of sign stealing, and TCU was the only team with time to prepare for it and spoof their signs, causing Michigan to think pass left when it was run right. It's a very fine line between success and failure. It's definitely a quandary for B1G leadership. One person on this board that welcomed us to the B1G told us to have eyes wide open that everything is done for the best interest if TOSU and MU. This situation will certainly test that bias.

I agree with much of your logic, but we are #1 in YPG in the country. If we are held to a lower score it's likely because we have to settle for a bunch of field goals. 28 pts implies 4 touchdowns and no field goals. Not possible unless you assume Lewis misses every field goal try.

Guessing the score is like guess the 3rd down and 4th down conversion percentage for each team. I'll take optimistic route that Klein has added a few new no-brainer short yardage plays, like simple slants and our conversion rate is over 50%, and that our DL wins some battles keeping Utah a few conversions short at less than 50% like Washington State. Their will be some explosive plays on both sides, but not enough to dictate overall success. Final score: Oregon 34 Utah 30 The difference being we get one touchdown where they settle for a field goal. I am also assuming Lewis misses 1 field goal, because we will definitely outgain them in yardage.

No, I'm arguing their offense is no longer broken and is capable of scoring 5 or more points above their average (per your data), for a total of 30 points or more at home. The number 1 key to this game is short yardage down and distance. I think there will be a lot of those for both teams' offenses given both defenses abilities to minimize chunk plays.