It’ll be a Civil War for the roses. This you know and when all that really matters is getting to Pasadena, would you want it any other way?
Forget national titles. That’s nothing more than a made-up fantasy to line the pockets of the NCAA. In any given Pac-10 season, you line up for 12 games to have that one shot to be the last team standing.
You grind week in and week out in a true round-robin battle for conference supremacy. Every team has a chance to top the others and an undeniable, merit-based champion emerges by season’s end.
This year, that champion will call the state of Oregon home. It’s a Civil War with stakes higher than ever seen in series history. The game will define both the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory.
The build-up has 11 days to go and the blog ain’t going quiet into that night. There will be rivalry, a family at war (mine), game and team analysis, a day of thanks, maybe one or two mentions of 65-38 and plenty more. Folks, the “War” is on.
Note: What you won’t see is any 1,000 word blog recommendations for who to root for. If you haven’t figured that out by now, well, I can’t help you anyway.
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In keeping with the spirit of hating your rival even if they are blood relatives I just got off the phone with mom and dad. You are not welcome home for Christmas this year.
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That’s OK Nick. You are welcome to our house for Christmas. Nothing but Ducks!!
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Crap, does this mean mom won’t be dressing up a room in orange and black for me this year?
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ducks house is always open to eather duck or beaver would not have it any other way. go ducks!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wait. I meant to say Duck House is always open to either Duck or Beaver. Would not have it any other way. Go Ducks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kevy, Santa is not gonna be happy with you.
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Bah Humbug! River rats get coal in their stockings.
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You’re far too accepting. You can’t be letting that kind of vermin in your home.
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how come we have to play ASU all over again i thought we beat them?
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go beavs
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I can tell in just those two words you don’t even believe it. I mean, a complete lack of caps, no exclamation mark? It’s timid. It’s scared. You fear this game.
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unlike the ucks, i don’t need to be flashy and florescent. it isn’t about looks. come on over to lunchpail u and we’ll teach you a thing or two about that! booya!
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Alright, now I’m feeling it a little bit!
So tell me, though. As a teacher, would you agree with the following equation?
Flashy + Fluorescent + Effort + Grit = 65 over 38
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i would agree with it, but would probably still give you an F. as a history teacher i enjoy these stats though:
Overall wins in 2000s
beavs 80
ucks 86
Bowl Record in 2000s
beavs 6-1
ucks 4-4
Civil War wins in 2000s
beavs 5
ucks 4
AP Top 25 finishes in 2000s
beavs 4
ucks 5
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I’ll grant you that everything has been pretty even for the last decade. The thing that’s keeping OSU down is they haven’t had anymore seasons like 2000 where they just lit the place up. After that 2000 season, Oregon has had top 12 finishes in 2001 (#2), 2005 (#12), and 2008 (#9) and they also had that 2007 run that ended tragically (yeah, tragically). Basically, the Beavs need to start winning some of these bigger non-conference games and stop stumbling around in September.
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