I think the injury to Adams hurt Oregon because i think with him they "Might" be have 2 more wins/2 less losses. His play at Mich St where he was missing wide open receivers, especially the last one down the sideline. I think they'd have beaten Wazzu, but maybe not Utah as the Utes were just smoking that night. But I think it's a pretty deep conference Wazzu is getting better, Cal is getting better, even Colo is getting better. They are beating up on one another.
With respect to Stanford, Kevin Hogan cant fumble 2 snaps when they are in plus territory. Just my take
With respect to Stanford, Kevin Hogan cant fumble 2 snaps when they are in plus territory. Just my take
One other thing, it may work out pretty good if Stanford or Utah dont make the CFP and here's why. It may send their teams to not only the Rose Bowl, but to either Fiesta or Sugar where they can play SEC/Big12/Big10 teams. If they win those, then it would show very well for the conference. Just a hunch because we've been wanting to see some of those type of games. It would also prop up a team like USC if they run the table to play in one of those games.
Probably right. I think Oregon is the fastest team right down the line position to position.
New players like Taj Griffin and Charles Nelson are prepared to maintain the tradition of speed at UO.
A couple of untimely losses to SEC teams and now their linemen are bigger and badder too, but still fast.
New players like Taj Griffin and Charles Nelson are prepared to maintain the tradition of speed at UO.
A couple of untimely losses to SEC teams and now their linemen are bigger and badder too, but still fast.
I think the conference is deep. What makes the conference deep is the middle. From ASU, Zona, Cal, Wazzu, and UW, there are no easy outs other than Oreg St. I think USC (minus the drinking of Sark) would have been the class of this conference. Just look at how negatively he impacted that team in losses to Stanford and Washington. Trying to throw the ball every down when you can run it, make yards and protect the defense.
Your conference would look a lot better if they could win some key out of conference games over a good team. ASU losing to A$M and Oregon to MSU didn't help. I would love to see Stanford knock off Notre Dame. If for no other reason that it would make for a Playoff clusterfuck... And I love chaos.
I think Oregon would have beaten MSU easily had Adams not broken his finger the week before. Its night and day watching that kid pass the ball now that he's healthy. I dont think MSU is as good defensively as they've been in the past.
The ASU game, I was there and that was a 7 point game mid 4th quarter. My devils have under acheived this year. They were not ready for the Christian Kirk effect nor the pass rush from the Aggies DE's
I would add, what P5 conference has any great OOC wins?
PAC 12
UTAH beat Michigan, thats not bad.
UCLA beat BYU?
SEC
Bama beating Wisky (I dont consider Wisky even good).
Arkansas lost at home to Toledo!!
Other than Tenn & A&M, no one else even challenged themselves OOC. We know Bama is good, but the other teams are riding their coattails.
ACC
Clemson beating ND
UNC beating Illini, but also lost to So Carolina who is horrible.
L'Ville lost to Houston
Big12
Okie won at Tenn
TCU beat a game Minny team that has given most of the Big10 fits
UT was blown out by ND
No one else challenged themselves
Big10
Iowa win @Pitt
Mich St win over Ore
Not even gonna call VT a quality win for OSU. That's the same as Bama's win over Wisky
I'm probably missing some as I'm doing this off the top of my head
The one game that sticks out the most to me is Clemson's win over Notre Dame. Not only a good win for Clemson if ND goes undefeated the rest of the way, but a good argument for a one loss ND team to make it into the playoff over another one loss team. Losing at Clemson by 2 points is probably about as good of a loss as you can have. Much better than OU's loss to a garbage Texas team. That's why I hope ND loses to Stanford. If they do, it means a one loss Big 12 team has a good shot of getting in.
