I think Oregon is going to have a nice little bounce back season too, they were decimated by injuries on defense last year.
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Other Games Thread - Sat, 9/3
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ahoelsken
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Kansas won a game, though! I'm kidding. Let's see what Texas does tonight before we say they had a worse week than our league did.
Pat Haden really did a number on USC. And on that charity.
Buffenuf
massive tool
FIFY! Need more than Heisman Boy this year in the North.
Buffenuf
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Any team that has Mora for HC, will disappoint in the end, if not well before...all the talent....wasted.
Any team than can run the ball is going to destroy them.
Buffenuf
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FIFY! The old DC was demoted about 10 seconds after their season ended. Now they have the Hoke-ster as DC!
Would love to see a thread just on Pac12 football. Yesterday was NOT a good day for conference reputation with WSU losing to little brother's little brother, USC being curb-stomped, Arizona dropping tight game with BYU.... Just read this LA Times article on USC and Helton. I hadn't even heard there were 2 players suspended due to sexual assault, and one even made the trip? What the hell is going on at USC?
"Trojans linebackers Osa Mosina and Don Hill both missed the game because of pending sexual assault allegations. Yet they have been practicing with the team through training camp even though Utah police informed USC’s Department of Public Safety of the allegations on Aug, 2.
Why weren’t both players suspended immediately? Why did one player, Hill, even make the trip to Dallas before being sent home?"
Further details on charges here.
"Trojans linebackers Osa Mosina and Don Hill both missed the game because of pending sexual assault allegations. Yet they have been practicing with the team through training camp even though Utah police informed USC’s Department of Public Safety of the allegations on Aug, 2.
Why weren’t both players suspended immediately? Why did one player, Hill, even make the trip to Dallas before being sent home?"
Further details on charges here.
Pac-12 North has 2 great teams in Stanford and Washington.
Pac-12 South has no great teams.
This conference is wide open, especially if you're in the South where a 5-4 conference record with the right tie-breakers could get you into the championship game.
Pac-12 South has no great teams.
This conference is wide open, especially if you're in the South where a 5-4 conference record with the right tie-breakers could get you into the championship game.
I watched the Oregon - Cal Davis game yesterday and I had a very different view of Oregon. The game was much more competitive than the 53-29 score indicates. Prokup looked serviceable at QB but a further step down from Vernon Adams last year. Cal Davis was a 2-9 FCS team that hung in for a half, and Oregon's defensive woes did not seem fixed at all.
Oregon is beatable if we come in healthy and angry.
Lonster
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Not sure we can Rule out Oregon yet.
Oregon has potential. Lots of Pac-12 teams have potential. They have recruited well and there's a lot of talent. But Oregon's got an extremely young OL, serious questions at QB and a defense that is not going to be any better than mediocre. I think they'll be dangerous to any team they play and win most games, but "great" would be pretty surprising to me.
Parity definitely seems to be up, thats for sure.
College football has so many swings in either direction it's just really hard to predict. SC and UCLA went into very tough situations starting on the road against SEC teams. Oregon will likely get much better. But we have real shots, especially against ASU, UA and Utah. Must win those.
It does and CU needs to take advantage of that parity. It could send the program forward quite a bit I'd think.
The defense looks like the same Mike Leach defense we have seen before.
Gabe Marks was allowed to keep going out there on an obviously badly sprained ankle, and Falk just seemed to lose his arm strength as the game went on. There as a lot to not like about the game as a Wazzu fan.
Wazzu dropped their opener to PSu last year IIRC, I would not read too much into that. The Pirate always leaves port slowly.
AZ looked waek on D, they are beatable.
USC got creamed by the best team in the nation, hard to say what that says about them other than they are some where between #2 and #100.
AZ looked waek on D, they are beatable.
USC got creamed by the best team in the nation, hard to say what that says about them other than they are some where between #2 and #100.
You're the one who's been saying that about them all offseason. Seems to be true.
What I think we saw this opening week was that the conferences look top-heavy this year.
SEC is Alabama with maybe Georgia in the East. And we'll see about Ole Miss against FSU.
ACC is Clemson even though they struggled, maybe Miami (looked good vs a cupcake) and we'll see about FSU against Ole Miss.
Big 12 is a hot mess. We'll see about Texas against Notre Dame. Only teams that looked good (OSU & Baylor) played a cupcake.
Big 10 had Ohio State & Michigan looking dominant and Wisconsin beating a very talented LSU. After that, some bad losses and not much impressive.
Pac-12 had Washington looking like they're supposed to and Stanford handling KSU. After that, bad losses and wins by teams we're not sure about.
Right now the season looks like it might be one where each conference is dominated by a couple teams and that we'll have very unbalanced conference championship matchups. But, hell, it was only week 1. We can revisit in a few weeks once teams find their identities and get their QB situations figured out.
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Yeah I think aTm had two big questions. 1- Did they get the good Trevor Knight or the bad. 2- Run defense. They're front 7 was loaded with stars, but had sucked against the run. I think year two under Chavis is going to make them really good. They could compete for the west.
Next week does not get any easier with traveling to Boise.
aik
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My hope of hopes is that as the Buffs progress in their season improving as a team they begin to face conference teams who have floundered, clearly have lame duck coaches who have lost the locker room and have nothing to play for, and capitalize by running at them early like they did Friday and playing smart, secure ball in the second half to close them out. Strength of the conference doesn't seem like a realistic concern in a year we can't be expected to leapfrog into the playoff discussion. Just get some damn bowl eligibility and that sweet recruiting class will take note.
somebody
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I get it, as in a stand of trees. Very clever.