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Tom Hansen

Unfortunately, the Heisman jury seldom considers West Coast evidence and that may happen again. The good news is that when I am the Chief Justice of college football, I will be able to: 1) Direct the verdict to the proper winner. 2) Take away voting rights of anyone who didn't list Christian McCaffery No. 1 on their ballot. 3) Take away voting rights of anyone whose ballot is postmarked prior to the Monday they are due. 4) Take away voting rights of anyone whose ballot is postmarked at all, since no one should still be using snail mail. The bad news is that when I am Chief Justice of college football, I will eventually have to wake up.

Hopefully he won't be re-united with his brother. Man it is hard to figure out when a student-athlete's decade of eligibility is over. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

Wish him well, as well as all the others who choose the same route. I hope all the players do what they think is best for themselves. I'll always root for the leftovers.

The only way to watch the game and save the dog!

If we would have had this sort of potential chaos in prior years, an expanded playoff would have come about sooner. For instance, this year, if 'Bama were to beat Georgia, but FSU, Michigan and ewe dub (I know, ain't gonna happen, but bear with me) all win, they have to put 'Bama and all those 13 - 0 teams in and the two-time with one loss in three years defending Champ is left out. If that had happened in previous years, the next year the playoffs would have been expanded, or the SEC would have succeeded from the NCAA and held their own tournament. Of course, if the above happens, ESPN still has enough time and money to expand the playoffs this year!

I'm confident, not overly so, just confident. Of course, that will disappear around kickoff and hopefully reappear at the end of the first quarter.

Where can we put the toilet paper roll?

Go Ducks. Keep the committee focused on the eye test.

It doesn't diminish the regular season for me. I live and die by every game. If the Ducks are 2 - 2 (Good Gosh forbid) I'm still invested in game No. 5. I want my team in the hunt as long as possible, past a single loss. And when that dream dies, watch them ruin someone else's season. Plus, it's only a matter of time before a 3 L team makes the 12-team playoff. This year LSU is lurking at No. 13. Another perk of going to the BIG is that it is one of the only two conferences that would get a 3 L team in.

We won't get a chance, they go to 3rd world countries. . . of course, Seattle may qualify!

Does he have a vote? If so, it needs to be forfeited.

Doesn't matter if you get caught at anything, just ask Michigan.

Reports surfaced suggesting that 10 schools are dangling name, image and likeness deals worth at least $1 million in front of the WSU quarterback, said to be considering a graduate transfer. Among them supposedly are Auburn, Oregon, Notre Dame, Texas A&M — and Washington. Although no way to verify. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

Congrats to him, and good $C can't poach him. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

I think Boo's remarks about FSU being a "different" team without Jordan Travis means they are the weakest link in the top 5. Therefore, if the games go "chalk", Ducks will jump them and they become Bulldog bait. AND, a traditional Rose Bowl swan song with a Pac 12 champ vs the champion of "one of the two conferences without a math major".

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Agreed, made me look at my tax bill to make sure I wasn't being overtaxed for being transitive.

Sarcasm alert. . . Sorry David, you lost all credibility when you included the sentence "It’s a credit to Washington for being the only team to make it through the regular season undefeated this year." And shame on your editor for letting it fall through the cracks. Other than that, fine article. In addition to the demise of the Conference of Champions as we knew and loved it, just like when Tricky Dick resigned, the press won't have the Pac 12 to kick around anymore. So, I guess it is only fitting that the iceberg struck Pac12anic conference can best be described by the verb associated with one of the remaining teams, they "couged it".

Thanks for the warning, I thought Charles was getting punked for the first few seconds. Kenny Wheaton scoring will never get old (that was my first game back at Autzen since graduating in '72), plus "the latest Browning pose" is priceless after Verdell's OT score.

Can't wait to see what Jonathan got. MSN WWW.MSN.COM 7 Mil base. 1.5 Mil for making playoffs, remember it is now expanded to 12 teams. 3.5 bonus for Natty. 11 Mil for assistants.

Interesting stat, per Jon Wilner point differential in conference games. The Ducks outscored their nine opponents by 225 points; the Huskies, by just 76.

The Pac 8 was why I went to Oregon. . . I wanted to go to a Pac 8 school. This was 1968. Stanford wouldn't return my calls. Cal was a too radical. USC and UCLA were in "LA", 'nough said. My sister was at ewe dub, the state wasn't big enough for the two of us. That left Oregon St and Oregon. As the Knight Templar said to Indiana Jones when he chose the wooden chalice "you chose wisely". So, I too am very sad to see it go. But, onward and upward. GO DUCKS!

FIRST OFF, remember to keep your comments civil and within Forum Rules! Brenda Tracy, the victim of sexual assault/violence at Oregon St in 1998, is the root of the reason Michigan State's coach is fired. And now, Oregon St loses its best coach in years to the dumpster fire that is Michigan St. I'm not going to call if karma or anything else as Brenda should not have had to suffer either indignity. I'm just extremely pleased that she has been able to do so much good from such EVIL.