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I do have to say, I think we got a bit lucky with the refs, it's probably one of the first games this season where I feel that, also got a little lucky with the fumble from Gabriel, but we just edged it out in terms of who I think deserved the W. Obviously the defense will need to play better, but it is so good to see the offense get back on track and continue the good play from the Washington game.

They should get in, but they'll talk about how Bama has better wins and ignore the fact they got boat raced by a bad Oklahoma team while also losing to Vandy.

Never under estimate the power of the brand, I think SMU will be left out.

Great game by Gabriel, delivered throw after throw. Stayed so calm in the pocket, moved to the spots where he could get the ball out, just an awesome job where we needed every pass we got form him. Offense obviously stepped up in the last two games.

Can we at least at some point fake the WR screen, because it makes no sense to continue to give up 2-4 yards on 1st down when it's so obvious their game plan is to stop that play.

Whole defense just looks inept defending the run, we'll lose in the playoffs if that's how it is, D-line getting bullies, LBs and safeties just making horrible decisions, no ability to get off blocks, embarassing.

Terrible time management there by Lanning, what are you doing just allowing that much time to go off the clock. What are you doing!!!!

Weak, that's what are defense looks like, very very weak upfront, getting beaten up front, Harmon and Caldwell are losing a lot of money out there right now.

Defense has to start bowing up, this is not good, getting bullied out there, DTs have to start doing better.

I hope the students that are staying in town have a way of getting tickets at a reduced rate, it would really suck if the university just says to them "oh well, sucks to be you"

Funny thing about SMU is that they are basically getting nothing in terms of money from the ACC, they bet on themselves that they would step up and succeed, and by gawd they've done that this season. I think it's sort of Ironic that during this year where we truly see the new world of college football with NIL and conferences being upturned it's SMU the one program that got the death penalty coming back to prominence. I can only imagine how much their oil baron boosters are loving this.

I really like that. I have to say I don't really want college football to become a place where this sort of thing doesn't happen. Of course I want Oregon to get as many great players as they can, but it's nice to know that for some guys staying home and playing for the hometown team still means something.

Pretty amazing that according to 24/7 we have the highest average ranking in the country just above Texas. We don't have as many recruits, but it's a pretty incredible haul, we didn't really lose many guys, and we picked up a ton as it went along. One guy that I think isn't getting talked about as much as he should is Jordan Davidson, it's been a while since we picked up a high school RB with his size. James and Bucky have been really tough runners, so it isn't like we've been soft there, but there is something to having 220+ slamming into a defense over and over again. I remember with Stewart and Freeman just how beat up the opposing team would be at the end of the game.

Bama lost by 21 to a bad Oklahoma team, that right there excludes them from any playoff discussion, you can not lose by that much to a 6-6 team. At the very least I think Ole Miss is more deserving than Bama, they beat Georgia and SC decisively, and while they do have a loss to Kentucky, none of their losses were by 3 TDs!

You have to remember if we do beat Penn St. on Saturday, they will most likely fall out of the #5 slot, who is put in there depends on who wins in the other various games. I really wouldn't complain until we see the entire bracket. The biggest thing I find outrageous is Bama in the playoff, they have no business being there, Ole Miss and Miami are more deserving, no team that lost to Vandy and got destroyed by a bad OU team has any business being in the playoff. At least Miami's losses were close, I'm not one to defend Miami, but I really don't think we should be rewarding programs for having 3 losses of which two are to really mediocre teams.

Looking back on the game, we got a bit lucky that Mark Sears who is a great scoring guard had an awful shooting night, I think he went something like 1-11 from three. Not saying we weren't deserving, just that we survived a bad shooting night by Bama who is typically a very good shooting team. Our average will go up, but we need to get some guys going, Barthelemey is the only guy who seems to be getting off to a good start shooting the 3. Really need Shelstad to start being more consistent with his shot.

Yeah, but it's pretty rare to see a team jump into the top ten after not being ranked, I think we're a top 15 team, I just don't think we'll be ranked there. Also ranking don't come out until Monday I believe. GoDucks.com have Bama as #9 which they are currently.

Well, we tried to screw that up, but we did enough, Bittle with the huge put back dunk. Then Bama is just a half second late with their attempt that was good. Huge win, we should be in ranked around 20-15, really I think we look like a top 15 squad right now. We beat two top 20 squads, SDSU just beat Houston, A&M beat Rutgers, so we everyone we beat then went on to win the rest of their games this week.

Ugh, can't let them take an open three like that!!! Come on Ducks, finish this!

Barthelemey with the big time teardrop! Up by 4 now. Keeshawn is probably our best bench player in a long while, seems to always come up huge, could have used him last year in the tournament!

58 seconds, Ducks have the ball up by 2, surprised we got the call on that goaltend.

Had them where we wanted them, then we just stop playing defense and letting them shoot open threes, got to lock down on defense better.

See below... ------------------------------------------- Ducks up by 4 in the 2nd half, 16 minutes to go. Huge game for basketball to really make a statement.

I don't think you do, you still have the playoffs, if they end up out of the playoffs then you might pull the trigger, but I think you have to wait to see if they're in it. I don't think the players would respond well if you fired him right now. If he end up in the championship game, or wins the whole thing then he's redeemed himself, if he doesn't then you can show him the door immediately and get the search going in earnest.

Mullings is so so wrong, Ohio St. was in the right fighting them when they tried to plant a flag. It's one of the only times where I would support such actions, you can't let that happen. Michigan is such a classless program if that's what they think is okay, they cheated last year, and now this.