Boise State has made the goal clear; it’s BCS or bust. And who can blame them? They have a marquee game at home on national TV to sell voters on the legitimacy of their BCS campaign. After Thursday, they get to disappear for the next 3 months and rack up wins against the likes of [...]
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ESPN Surveys the Nation
ESPN polled 85 FBS players from around the country for a feature in the next ESPN the Magazine. It can also be found online, but you’ll need a subscription to view it. There were a few interesting items in the article relating to the Pac-10 and Oregon. The most overrated team in the nation according [...]
Obligatory Conference Predictions
When you go into hiding for the better part of a year, you should have something really poignant for your first post. Well, I don’t. Instead, I’m going with the tried and true prediction entry that I mostly loathe. Might as well get it out of the way and move on to better things. Besides, [...]
The Flomax Midseason Report
The season is half over and given the bye week, it’s a good time to review. This look back is brought to you by Flomax – Creating stronger streams since 1863. BCS Conference Most Likely to Lose its Automatic Qualifier Status The Big East is bad and the BCS has provisions to review conference eligibility [...]
Let's break it down
I don’t do this often, so consider this a treat. Today, wait for it…waaaaaait for it…I am actually going to attempt making serious insights into a football game. Yeah, I’m nervous, too. Let’s see how this goes. Gotta’ Run That Football The running game is clearly Oregon’s strength. Wait, wait wait. Nick, if that’s what [...]
It's just Oregon vs. USC
Sitting in the chiropractor’s waiting room, I thumbed through a recent issue of Sports Illustrated where I found a little sidebar about how the Pac-10 would offer no challenges to USC this year. It was yet another in a long line of dumb articles that get written with the idea that anyone actually knows anything [...]
Pasadena's Roses are Anyone's to Have
Something happened on Thursday night in Corvallis. Yeah, yeah, Oregon State pulled the upset of #1 USC, I know. But something bigger happened. All those teams with their Mountain West losses and cross-country whoopings just got a new lease on life. The national champion isn’t coming from the Pac-10 this season. The conference isn’t in [...]
Pre-Season Predictions – Useless, but Everyone's Doing It
You can’t have a blog, run a website, post in forums or basically breathe oxygen without at some point sitting down and doing your pre-season predictions. As such, I might as well do mine. But before I get to that, I’d like to remind you that I did get 1 out of 10 exactly right [...]
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4th Annual Coaches’ Awards – Pac-12 Style!
