David Marsh

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.

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.

We wore the yellow top in another game last year I want to say. I want to say we went full bumble bee one game.

I mean this is from 10 years ago but it makes me smile every time.

I think they opted against stormtrooper v PSU because they wanted some contrasting colors against the all white backdrop. Stormtrooper all white with an all white backdrop might have been a bit much. It would have been really cool no doubt.

This goes back to my complaint about the generation O uniform collection we're running. It has two different color pallets... A retro and a modern. There isn't a green top in the modern color palette. There is the highlighter yellow though and that was the uniform I was expecting with the crowd wearing yellow.

I've been doing a Pay nothing approach to college football this year... or pay nothing more than I am already paying. I picked up a TV antenna for the games on Fox, NBC and CBS and any other over the airwaves games. It has worked pretty well and the picture quality is pretty good as well as like a decade ago all the over the airwaves stuff moved to a digital HD feed. Otherwise ... I came across on another Duck forum a site that streams all the other channels. Those channels have looked fine on my phone, which sadly has been my primary streaming device as I try not to just have the TV on all the time with the kids around who will get upset that it's not their shows. Granted... I do make them deal with me watching my ONE Duck game a week. If anyone is interested in this legally dubious site you can send me a direct message. I don't know how Charles would feel about it just floating around otherwise. I haven't encountered anything wrong with it but any site that is just streaming all the TV channels without requiring a fee is a bit fishy.

I mean yes... it is more important for most coaches and players. But... the NCAA still needs to give the illusion that these are student athletes. So trying to ensure they can transfer and enroll in a timely fashion is important. Also... as soon as a player enters the portal they surrender their scholarship. So it might put some student athletes stuck in limbo where they aren't enrolled in a school. If college football is broken away from college none of this matters but for the time being it is still connected to education.

Issues at that point with students enrolling. They do still need to be student athletes. The new window makes that a bit more difficult but pushing it into February means many students might not be able to enroll until after spring camp which is counter productive. For schools on the quarter system, like Oregon, that wouldn't be so bad but more schools are on semesters and that locks students in or out until summer.

A lost opportunity for a Husky is a gained opportunity for a Duck!

Oh it could get worse... They have Northwestern this Saturday. If they lose that game then Franklin is going to get Kiffened, fired on the tarmac and not allowed to get on the bus home... but this is a home game for Penn State so I guess the equivalent to that is firing him in the tunnel and locking him out of the lockeroom.

I watched Franklin's post game and they did put a spy on him. But... Either the spy wiffed their tackled on Nico or Nico caught them on a play they went man and didn't have a spy. I don't know how actually true that is or isn't but that's what Franklin said. Penn State Washington without a stating linebacker who was really one of the primary communicators. However, Moore ran for some important yards and first downs against a full strength Penn State defense. So their defense has problems.

I'm not sure Day was glad to see him go in that sense. From a bunch of sources I have read/listened to was really the Day and Knowles had run their course. Day had become more of a micro manger and Knowles lost some of his autonomy. Warranted or not... That sort of thing gets old fast. So we'll see what happens at Penn State. Personally, I'm not sure he is the best DC in college football but the media loves saying it and Knowles is getting paid like the best DC so he better have answers.

Pare had an interesting piece on how dynasties are kinda dead in college football and that's because the depth on every top tier team is thinner than ever. I see his point but I also can absolutely see teams that know how to reload and preserve their rosters could build some sort of dynasty. When it comes down to it there are few in the college football media that knows enough about every team to actually be truly informed. In the past with the super powers it was easy... Bama, Georgia, Clemson, Ohio State and whoever else you want to add to the list is going to be good and will contend. I mean how many times have we watched an Oregon game and found the announcers to know almost nothing about the team? A lot! And now the amount of teams that could potentially make the playoffs (not contend for the national championship) has exploded and these pundits don't know. Penn State Washington the bigger brand and the easier pick so they picked Penn State over Oregon. The old assumptions don't hold as.much weight as they used to because 10 years ago Oregon probably loses that game against Penn State.

In fairness .... Boise is not on par with Boise from last year.

Maybe Mario Cristobal has finally figured it out... But then again... The big games MC was usually prepared for, it was the games that were supposed to win that tripped him up.

This is now the ultimate nightmare scenario.. . 0-6 start Oof

Let me pose this question to those thinking Oregon's win over Penn State is diminished. Do you think Penn State would have lost today if they won last week? I think they would in that scenario.

Not an entirely new scheme as that would require more than a couple weeks to install. They were up against an entirely new offensive mentality for sure. UCLA was playing with free money because their HC was fired and the season was written off. Why not get aggressive with the play calling? That's what they did was play like there was no tomorrow and frankly for that staff and those players at UCLA there might not be a tomorrow. Jim Knowles is time and time again referred to as the best defensive coordinator in all of college football. His defense just got ripped to shreds by a first time offensive coordinator and a program everyone has written off as dead. Penn State prepared their heart out for Oregon and Oregon shattered their heart. They're culture was broken coming into the game today. Now Penn State is in a state of do or die crisis. And it wasn't just the defense that got beat... But that Penn State offense just couldn't move the ball.

Andy and Ani's take for those interested.

Penn State still has a loaded roster. But they didn't play like they cared. They showed up to playing the LA sun and accept their free win over 0-4 UCLA. Credit to UCLA who was playing with house money and they knew it. It didn't matter what they did because they were expected to win. Penn State just phones it in for a half woke up in the second half offensively and still looked utterly confused against UCLA's offense. I haven't watched too much UCLA football this year. Probably as much as their own fans. So I don't know what they really did differently offensively but they played like they wanted to be there and cared. Penn State didn't want to be there. Even if UCLA was throwing new stuff at them they didn't adjust and didn't play sound fundamental football. This was a hangover game and it bot them. We'll see if Penn State bounces back.

I'm going with Oregon broke them. They were out of it for the first half of this game. Turns out it's hard to win when you take a half off.

Last year I believe the most college football carnage took place on bye weeks for the Ducks. This year hopefully holds true and does the same!

The luck of the underdogs is starting to run out.

Teams can go two ways after a tough loss. Adjust and refocus and go on a tear. Ohio State did that last year twice after Oregon and more of after Michigan. Or Completely fall apart. Penn State is opting for number 2 right now. Not to say a second loss may set them right but they didn't take UCLA seriously. No win team... Easy win. Wrong ... This is college football no win is easy. They just can look easy.