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Yeah, I was thinking if it was darker green I would think it would be a big improvement, right now it sort of has a baby puke kind of feel, that sounds awful, but to me it's still an improvement on the brown.

Depends on how the game goes, if they win by two scores, then yeah I don't mind them jumping us. Ultimately it's a who cares situation, we'll probably play Penn St. in the championship game if they win. Really, who cares, it doesn't matter who is number 1 right now, it matters at the end of the season.

Disappointed to see Navy already down 14, thought they might give ND some trouble.

Who cares what Mark Ingram has to say, all those SEC guys just sniff their own butts talking about how hard a game against Kentucky is. Yeah we beat Boise by 3, you know who Boise has???? JUST THE BEST PLAYER IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! Kentucky has a putrid offensive, absolutely putrid, and they should have lost. It's malarkey how these guys just pump up their own brands, I will say at least Fox has one west coast guy, ESPN doesn't even have one guy who would be considered a west coast guy on their network, not one color guy, not one studio host, heck I don't know if they have a sideline reporter who is from the west coast, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

There are a lot of things that are absolutely wrong about college sports. Coaches make way more than they should, cut those salaries down and it would free up a lot of money, way too much money has gone into the arms race of facilities, no college team should have facilities that are vastly better compared to the pros. Football and Basketball players are pampered beyond belief (most of what I'm talking about is major college sports of course). Now I understand how it's the market that has driven all of this, without the facilities Oregon wouldn't be where it is today, coaches are simply being paid what the market dictates, players are what generate the revenue of athletics. I get all this. It now has come to the point where it has destroyed olympic sports, the athletes who are truly student athletes. It's really sad, and while I don't blame the football and basketball players, what is sad is that they do have a part in this ,and they probably won't give one iota about these fellow athletes. Of course a huge portion falls back on the coaches, the athletic directors, the boosters, media, lawyers who see an opportunity for a pay day based on the argument that the scholarship model is comparable to slavery (which is an absolutely ridiculous idea), everyone is a part of this. Now we have innocent student athletes who will not be rewarded for their hard work in their sport, whether it's the male volleyball player who loses their partial scholarship, or the walk-on who dreamed of simply suiting up for the hometown team.

Of course we do, won't be a basketball season without the Ducks being screwed by the injury bug, it's always us.

When Altman talked at the media days about how they were finally healthy coming into a season, all I thought about was the monkey's paw curling up one of its fingers. He had to say it!!!! And of course the basketball gods had to have one of our players get injured. The team is cursed to never be fully healthy....NEVER!!!!!! I'm excited, I love Dana, I love the type of basketball he plays when he can get the guys going, I'm excited to see Bittle come back, I'm excited to see how Shelsted and Evans develop in their second year. Ducks could be the real the real sleeper of the country, just imagine if the NCAA weren't corrupt and actually gave Dante the year he deserved instead of giving guys like McCormack a 9TH YEAR! Make absolutely no sense whatsoever!

I'll be honest, it's a weird feeling, I think I saw someone else say in another thread that they felt like this was the first time Oregon felt like they might be the #1 team, for me it's sort of the opposite. The last time we were #1 I felt like we we the #1 team. I think despite how we've looked the last 4-5 weeks, the Idaho and Boise St. games still make me feel like we are a top 5 team, but not the #1 team. I'm not saying we aren't deserving, we are definitely deserving of the ranking. I think it's because we don't have the 77-7 type blowouts I get the feeling like we aren't quite as dominate. I don't know, it's weird, the current team is such a different type of team compared to the Mariota years. We are so much better on defense, but the offense is not quite at the same level, we also don't have the same innovation that we used to have, we are much more similar to the teams that we play, we aren't a novelty, we play pretty much straight up. Honestly wanted Texas to pull it out last night since being #1 makes me nervous, it didn't go well the last time we had it.

Oklahoma? Mayfield, Murray and Hurts (Hurts only played there a year, but still)

Sooooo I'm guessing we'll be number 1 unless we see some sort of amazing comeback....though I'm sure there will be plenty of number 1 votes for Georgia even with the loss earlier in the season. It will feel very very weird as I don't feel like we're the no. 1 team. Just feels like a very weird season with all the change. I think playing Purdue yesterday was the first time where I just felt like it was bizarre. Weird environment there, weird game, weird to play a second time on a Friday, we dominated yet we gave up 200+ yards rushing. Just nothing feels right to me.

Jeanty or Hunter is the best player in college football, they should be the leaders right now. If Jeanty finishes even close to Sanders record that is an accomplishment that can't be ignored, I don't care who he's playing, he deserves it. Hunter could be a top 10 player at two positions in the country. The Heisman should be given to the best player in college football, not simply the best QB for a top 5 team. There have been way too many times greatness hasn't been recognized. There have been some truly bad Heismans over the years, there is no way Jason White should be a Heisman winner over Larry Fitzgerald, Darren Sproles, and Eli Manning

Honestly looking forward to this, I prefer to watch that brand of basketball, far too often you'll see Pac-12 refs just whistle ever little ticky-tack contact.

For the first time in a while I actually liked what I heard from him, he acknowledge that he has been behind the curve in this new world of the transfer portal and NIL, he seems to have made an adjustment, he's brought in some good players, Kelly (the player) is an actual star, so I'm hoping they're going to have a bounce back season. I don't want to see him fail, I just want him to change so that he can bring the program back to where it was, we'll see this season if it was truly his assistants who were the real power behind the Sabring/Satou/Ruthy years.

One thing that I would quibble with is that it is very common for an Oregon kicker to miss a routine 44 yarder, that has been one of the problems with Oregon, we seem to never have a reliable kicker. Edit: One other thing is that the interception that should have been would have put Oregon at around the their own 35 yard line, so it wasn't a short field, who knows if we would have scored, the thing it certainly did do was it should have taken away 7 points from tOSU

I get what you are saying, I don't have really strong opinions on the subject, but I do think it's a tiny bit bush to do this. I don't know, it might be that I just haven't seen this type of penalty intentionally done, so I might be reacting to it differently from others. I certainly don't think it's some travesty of justice. I think the difference is that with a delay of game I believe you can decline the penalty (correct?). With this it's about taking time off. The rushing up to call of play puts the blame on the officials not the team. Ohio St. messed up already by not understanding the rules on the previous P.I call. It's certainly a rule that needs correcting, as I'm sure we'll see this again at some point.

I have to admit, I'm actually rooting for Jeanty. That guy is so frickin' good, he deserves it if he approaches the single season rushing record, and it would be good for the sport if a running back from a group of 5 team won it. If Hunter had stayed healthy I could see him as worthy as well. I do not see anyone other than those two as the best player in college football.

I've got a question for those around here. Why do you think Northwest fans in general have a rep being really good environments? Oregon/Basketball have had great reps for loudness, Blazers have traditionally been regarded as very good to among the best when they have a good team, Timbers and Sounders generally have some of the best environments, the Seahawks, Huskies, Sonics (when they were there) generally have been regarded as loud crowds. For Autzen, we are really blessed with a stadium designed that maximizes the sound, I can only imagine what it will be like if we redo the North side of Autzen to mirror the South, that will be electric if it ever happens.

Klatt is disappointing, but I still love him, I think he's incredibly balanced in his approach usually, sometimes people just disagree, I disagree with him, but I trust he doesn't have an agenda. Cowherd is simply human garbage, always on the side of the team, player, coach, whoever is the biggest name he will side with them, he roots for only the big market teams, talks about how dynasties and big markets have to be at the front for the sport to thrive, puts down any little guys. Always a blowhard, always toots his own horn, a dispicable person who hurts the national conversation. Completely ignores his small market roots, and openly talks about how it's always in a person's best interest to move to the biggest market, he can shove it. Sorry if this goes against any community rules, I hate that guy!!!!

I disagree with this a bit, he does represent the university, and the university is a major part of this community. I coach at the high school level and I always tell my players they not only represent the program, they represent the school, and the community that live in. Holden is doing the same thing but on a much bigger level. I don't think he should be kicked off the team, but he does have a responsibility to be better. I would agree that the hierarchy of that responsibility starts with himself, his family, his teammates, his coaches, and so forth down the chain to the overall community of the university. I will also say that I was not offended like he did something that will affect me in my life, I was more upset by what he was doing to the team/university that I support.

Honestly surprised it's that high on that channel, I would believe it if it was on something like FS1 or ESPN2, but on the CW that's a great number!

That MJ push on Byron Russell was ridiculous, I'm pretty sure 11 or 12 year old me was screaming at the T.V, I did not like Jordan or the Bulls, and was always against them. The push by Smith was pretty obvious, it doesn't get called enough, the offense typically gets away with murder at times with how much they push off to get separation. I've been especially upset with this game how few times the national media has not talked about the interception during the first drive, that was out this world ridiculous, and yet I've heard a lot more about the Smith's PI or how there was one second on the clock, or anything thing else, tOSU was gifted a TD and nobody other than us is talking about it!!!!!!

Over the course of the game, I thought we got hosed on two calls, the interception and the P.I in the first quarter. Other than that I thought it was called pretty well. The problem is that not reviewing the interception is just fireable in my opinion, it is so obvious that it should be reviewed that the person in the booth has to be called out and possibly fired, it's inexcusable, and at best incompetent. It looks mightily like bias because it's so easy to just buzz down immediately and not let OSU to go hurry up.

As a lifelong Seattle Mariners fan, the idea of reaching the world series is like some magical dream! This game really was the feeling of not simply being an upstart who is simply ahead of the game, it's simply because we have built this program to where it feel like we truly belong. With the Mariota, Dixon, even Harrington years, it sort of felt like we were getting there through being ahead of the game with scheme or we had a generational talent that we leaned on, this season feels like the culmination of work started with Cristobal (you do have to give him credit for starting to get us up there in terms of recruiting) and now we have what could be our Woody Hayes, Bowden, Saban, the guy that is here forever and establishes us as a perennial top 7 or so program.

I personally supported the decision to go for it on the 4th and goal, at that point it felt like a game where you might need to keep pace TD to TD. I also felt like the defense might be able to stuff them at the line of scrimmage if they decided to run. I was also thinking about it on that last drive. I was so convinced that the receivers for tOSU would get them in field goal position, and I had confidence in their kicker to make it. I thought you might have to force them to score a touchdown. In the end I actually supporter either decision at the end of the game. I don't think I would have regretted either decision (of course I say that with hindsight).

Sorry you can't say we had much luck, where did we get lucky? The "onside" kick? sorry the tOSU didn't get out of the way of what might have been an intentional play. You know what is lucky not having an obvious interception reviewed where the defensive player clearly is saying he got the ball, what's lucky is an incredibly obvious holding then pass interference call where the team is driving towards a TD. There was nothing lucky about that game.