Over last 3 years is 68 and the Ducks is 12
Ducks are playing with 4 and 5 star dudes and the Beavs with 3 stars across the Board
yet the Ducks can’t beat the Beavs. Is it coaching? Players don’t give a sheet? Rankings are that far off ?
How can you end up the 4th or 5th best team in the worse conference with all those 4 star players? Someone explain this sheet to me?
Imagine if Jonathan Smith had a QB.
Welcome to the land of higher expectations. You ducks have tended to win win win all the games you expected to win and many you didn’t.
now that you’re the hunted you expect to win them all. All the time.
rmember the 2000s when those beavers would occasionally trip up usf teams that wouldn’t lose to anyone else? Remember when Dennis Erickson had them playing nasty dirty and mean?
that Jonathan smith is a very good coach. Coaching trumps talent. He may be the best in the conference at turning a sows ear into silk. Not sure how he’d do with oregon or usc talent. But he gets the most out of what he has. And he even used like 3 qb this year due to performance or injury. So it’s not like he just got a magical kid and rode him.
osu played usc excellent early in the year at home. I think they were their toughest opponen all year
said they were a good team at rhe time and many laughed at me. Often teams like that. Are only good for a night. Show their potential one time. Or they fade as the year goes on when injuries and attrition take their toll. This beaver team continue to progress. They played Utah very well they should have beaten Washington. and then, when you look at their body of work, that means they lost to US C barely Washington, barely and Utah on the road. No surprise they were able to get her up. Focus and play a great game against Oregon.
having said that. I’m puzzled when I look at the oregon play chart. They went for it on 4d in their own territory up 3 td? They had a dropped pint on their own goal line? They ran into the line 3 times from the osu 5 and failed on 4 downs? They blew a 3 td 4q lead?
man thsts got to hurt. Got to be the biggest choke job in that rivalry history. No ccg and it was right there. No playoffs which was a long shot anyway. No rose bowl. And now osu has something for the highlight reel forever.
thsts what rivalry games do and are. Bigger than usual. Can’t shake rhem off and play the next week. They are so final. You carry them into the off season. Your rivals never let you forget. You’ve had the beavers number the majority of the time. This time they got you. its gonna leave a mark. And theylk never let you forget this one. Shoot they might even end up in a better bowl then the ducks
I feel for ya
The score was 31-10, the better players were dominating. Momentum in sports is a fascinating thing to watch. That L was on Lanning. On the road, in a rivalry game , he gift wrapped the W. Couged it. The Beaver coaching staff did circles around the hyped Oregon staff. Tosh, Meat, Dilly, and the defensive guru who has “ won every place he has been” choked. Be glad the Cougs gave away that game or it could have been worse. The Huskies to the Rose Bowl is shocking.