Link Roundup: A Baldwin Award for Oregon

Three and a half working days left to more football. Why not spend the time reading these links?

• Storm tracker 2010! We’re on high alert with possible thunderstorms, heat and humidity.
• Jason Vondersmith says Oregon’s defense starts with its defensive ends while Rob Moseley has a great piece on the impact of defensive line coach Jerry Azzinaro. However, Oregon didn’t record any sacks against New Mexico and OTP now sees it as a glaring and unacceptable weakness.
• The Oregon Ducks won a coveted Baldwin award (Alec, not the others) for its domination of New Mexico.
• Beaver beat writer Paul Buker asks what we’d be saying if the Ducks and Beavers swapped opening weekend opponents. Uh, we’d be saying congrats to Oregon on a great win and being 1-0.
• The Ducks move up in the polls significantly (#7, AP and #8, Coaches) which only goes to say that pollsters care about how you win
• I’ve always wondered if cranking up the volume in practice can really assimilate players to the actual raucous environments they play in.
• From the department of obvious, Tennessee hates Lane Kiffin.
• A fan’s accounting of five reasons to love college football. I didn’t know there were so few.
• From SEC country, the debate begins on Boise’s national title worthiness. The debate should never start. Great team, yes. BCS bowl, of course. But title game? Completely unfair to teams that go through a season-long conference grind. But take solace in the fact that a vote for Boise is a vote for the combustion of the BCS.
• Daily roundups from Ken Goe and Addicted to Quack.