Today should bring a little more clarity to the Pac-12 race as conference play begins in earnest. There are several intriguing match-ups today. There are three early games and two late games. Utah and Stanford have a bye week. Your early morning preview:Colorado @ Ohio State (-15.5)12:30 PM, ESPN2/ABCGame Thoughts: Colorado has looked better this season than the past few seasons. Ohio State ha
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Tonight we take a look at the two defenses as we head towards a Saturday night match up between Arizona and Oregon in Tucson.DEFENSIVE TACKLES:Justin WashingtonArizona: The Wildcats are led by returning sophomore Justin Washington. Washington started nine games as a redshirt freshman in 2010 recording 46 tackles. Included among those tackles were 11.5 tackles for loss, 6 sacks and a blocked ki
Read MoreLet's take a brief look at the Arizona team then break it down. Today we focus on offense, tomorrow defense and a score prediction.OFFENSEQB: Nick FolesArizona: Nick Foles returned for his senior season and has looked exceptional so far. Even in losses, Foles is completing a high percentage of passes without a single interception. In games against top 10 opponents when his team was behind and
Read MoreMuch has been made of the defensive performance yesterday. Lost in the talk, however, are some key elements to what happened.I do not think there is anyone will will debate this: the defense just flat out came out unprepared; there was no reason for the Bears to march down the field in 7 plays covering 84 yards to score and take the early lead. That being said, the defensive performance, while not
Read MoreListen. Do you hear that? That is the sound of critics and media types saying that the Oregon-Missouri State game on Saturday will teach nothing about the Oregon Duck football team. And, to some extent, they might be right. If you are looking for this game to tell you how good the Ducks are, move along; nothing to see here.That does not mean, however, that the game cannot be one that teaches the c
Read MoreOur Tailgate ViewAs expected, the Ducks rolled over a Nevada team missing it's most potent weapon from last season, the graduated Colin Kaepernick. Though the scoring margin is large and the fans will feel very comfortable with the manner in which the Ducks bounced back, you can be certain that coaches will find some things that need to be worked on; that is their job. I have yet to see a footbal
Read MoreODE TO PROGRESSOregon Duck fans know as well as anyone the long struggle it takes to rise from have not to one of the elite teams in the country. The rise of the Oregon program was not an overnight success.For the most part, Duck fans have been shielded from the cost of progress. Yet, ticket price increases and mandatory donation levels to maintain season ticket allocations have slowly taken hold.
Read MoreIn Notes From Underground, the classic short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, we are introduced to the lead character with this complicated, yet simple statement “I AM A SICK MAN.... I am a spiteful man.”Far too often, we as fans, our media counterparts and sometimes even the men in positions of power over the athletes we cheer feel as if we have some easy understanding of proper discipline based on o
Read MoreThe novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with his attorney.It appears that the college football world is now afraid to make decisions based on two trips into Autzen Stadium that traditional football powerhouses took with their coaches.The first trip spawned as the first in a home an home series with the Michigan Wolverine foo
Read MoreThis was not a great game... but it was not the debacle some would like to declare it. THE biggest mistake of the game is turning your back on the "D" when attempting to return a punt. There are a myriad of potential problems in this action and only one possible positive outcome... and that positive outcome is still statistically highly improbable. That play changed the whole complexion of the&nbs
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