David Marsh

On3California fires head football coach Justin WilcoxCalifornia has fired head football coach Justin Wilcox toward the end of his ninth season in charge of the program, On3's Pete Nakos has learned.Not all that unexpected. Cal hasn't been terribly good under Wilcox and well they haven't been very good under any head coach in the last twenty years really. Cal and Stanford are both looking for new coaches now. It will be interesting to see who they go after and if they decide to try and take football more seriously. Wilcox will probably go off and be a DC somewhere again for a while and get another shot at a HC job. Cal just doesn't have the resources to be all that successful. I don't think he was the right fit for Oregon but I don't harbor any ill feelings towards him. Just another coaching vacancy to watch.

Or maybe they recognized that the refs were letting their offensive PI's go uncalled and instead called defensive PI's? Hahahhahahahha no they would never admit that the refs called something in their favor and it be the wrong call. Speaking of Oregon's defensive backs though they did a pretty good job. They kept USC receivers in front of them and there were few yards after catch. I don't know how Oregon's defensive backs could have covered some of those receivers much better or those PI calls any better as USC receivers were pushing off against them. Loads of slop to go around but the better team still won.

I don't want to get in the conference championship game. Right now we only get in if Ohio State loses which would mean a rematch with Indiana which I think would be fine as I think we could cook something up for a rematch. But I would rather have time for the team to get healthy for a playoff game at Autzen.

Well... I think the curse was passed on to Harvard. They all called Harvard to beat Yale and Yale won.

Felt like the Pac-12 where breathing on a receiver resulted in a flag. I think several of those PIs the coaching staff looks at and will shrug off because those flags haven't been thrown for the majority of the season. I think it was just this ref crew.

We will have to wait and see on the injury front. Pickard played well enough that risking Poncho probably wasn't worth it. Looked like Poncho was seeing if he could make a go of it at one point. World I think had a few snaps but they didn't want to risk him. Harkey went out and came back in. I think we'll see many players back next week.

The refs were definitely calling things like we were on the Pac-12 that's for sure.

Battle of the backups... So who has better back ups in that matchup?

All will be ok... As long as we run the darn ball!

I didn't realize Cristobal was THAT good.

I think Dak is the only one that is a maybe to play. Pretty sure Stewart is out ... might get him for a playoff game if we are lucky. Gary Bryant is probably out for another week at least.

That seems more like a trophy that is forced upon the loser. I can get behind that too.

Cristobal and Franklin are two sides of the same coin. Cristobal has shown he can win those big top 10 match ups. Think Oregon v Ohio State and then lose to an unranked team in the most embarrassing way possible... Think Oregon losing to Stanford in the same season. You can make the same comparisons with this year's Miami team I just don't remember the wins and losses off the top of my head. Franklin wins the games he's supposed to and loses the top 10 big games. If they could put the two together they'd have a darn good coach.

And we had a semi special uniform for the Grateful Dead tribute.

As a stand alone.... Yeah they look cool. But this is game 6 we have worn black with only green or yellow as an accent color and not the main event. In exhausted of it.

They won't get to hold it.... It'll just make them angry.

I saw this coming... And it's fine. Making the playoff is clear and easy. Just win.

Two receptions stick out to me right away. Sadiq's incredible lay it all out to get the ball reception that set up the first TD run. Easily an incomplete pass. Then the McClellan TD catch could have easily been an incomplete. That TD was entirely about the ruling on the field as a touchdown because if it was ruled incomplete I don't see evidence to overturn it to make it a TD in that situation, just like how there really wasn't any definitive evidence that the catch was made in-bounds. Make either of those an incomplete pass and Moore ends the game (probably) around 86% which is lower than Mariota's 87% (I believe that was the previous record). Credit to all those receivers and the pass protection for sure!

Oregon and USC are in the B1G now and this rivalry needs a trophy to fight over every year. May I suggest... a Pac-12 Championship Trophy? Bonus of this trophy would be... it angers the Beavers, and Cougs as the last remaining Pac-12 members. It would extra anger the Beavers as the last 1.5 Pac-12 Champs. It would anger Washington for not being included. UCLA would probably not care so much.

Other thought... if the west coast schools were to "come back" they wouldn't come back to the Pac-12. Pacific Coast Conference anyone? That would be Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford ... and maybe we snag Utah and the Arizona schools to put most of the band back together but leave OSU and WSU out to dry. Not going to happen... but it is by far the more likely scenario for the two.

I also like uw2. Because Wisconsin is UW.

I could see Cal and Stanford sneaking into the B1G with certain strings attached. If they both opt to take a much lower payout than even Oregon and Washington for a good while, so maybe something like 20 mil instead of the Oregon and Washington 30mil. They would need to come in at a major pay cut while also saying they would take football more seriously. Right now is their opportunity to invest as much as they can into football and in the next season or two show some meaningful improvements. In terms of academics they fit in just fine so that could give them a significant boost. I'm also sure that UCLA would help get Cal in because they wouldn't have to pay Cal anymore if that were to happen. I could see Oregon, Washington and USC wanting them in for more west coast games. Strangely enough the B1G might have to turn back to a division system and get more creative towards the end of the season with open scheduling to pin these smaller division against each other... kinda like a mini tournament for the B1G Championship. But this would be asking for far more creativity from a conference than they are probably interested in. I think the whole thing is a long shot at this point but I can see it happening if the right set of circumstances come up.

And Kiffin and his family have been at UF and LSU in the last week. The carousel is ramping up!

Do they mean UCLA? Because Oregon and USC are doing fine this year and Washington is above average. and UCLA is getting a new coach to try and revamp their program.

Gotta play your schedule. A brief look at the Ducks out of conference schedule, the only part of the schedule we have control over. Montana State - A pretty good FCS team, but an FCS team. But most FBS teams play an FCS team and the result is that the FCS team is going to lose. Oklahoma State - A Power 4 program and usually a pretty good program. They were not good this year and there is nothing the Ducks could have done about that but scheduling them wasn't inherently scheduling a cupcake. Oregon State - Well... a G6 team and most teams schedule a FCS team, a G6 team, and a P4 team. Oregon State became exceptionally bad this season. As for our conference schedule, as which we don't have any control over... we miss two of the worst teams in the conference in UCLA and Purdue which Indiana and Ohio State both got UCLA this season and Indiana gets Purdue yearly. Rutgers and Northwestern are both ok teams and Iowa is better than their record... they after all have three of their four losses to teams ranked ahead of them.