College Football Week 12
 

First big game is Oregon at Arizona this week. Arizona is much better than they usually are and I don't know a duck fan that isn't extremely nervous about this game. Both teams got last week off so there is no short week issue. Hopefully the game will be over by half-time and on paper Oregon should win comfortably but I'm still pretty nervous.

Also F ESPN for talking about Bonds and not running College Football Live.

edit to add other big games:
UH goes to Nevada tomorrow, that may be their toughest game yet. The only game among likely title-game contenders is Oklahoma at Texas Tech Saturday night. OSU and Michigan play for the Rose Bowl with OSU having an outside shot at the national title game. Kentucky at Georgia has SEC title implications.

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I know, I know, I could go look it up (and I will), but what's the big ABC Saturday Night game this week? Or are they running [censored] god [censored] [censored] NASCAR again?

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I know, I know, I could go look it up (and I will), but what's the big ABC Saturday Night game this week? Or are they running [censored] god [censored] [censored] NASCAR again?

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OU at Texas Tech

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I'm an Oregon fan who's not nervous about this game. All the other Oregon fans I know keep telling me I should be, but for some reason I'm not. I'm nervous about playing at UCLA instead. I don't know, I can't rationalize it, I realize I probably should be nervous and all. I'm just... not.

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I miss when this week was Rivalry Week. Seems like everyone moved after Thanksgiving but the Big Ten. Annoying but OTOH it would kind of suck for a lot of students to have that game on Thanksgiving Weekend.

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I'm an Oregon fan who's not nervous about this game. All the other Oregon fans I know keep telling me I should be, but for some reason I'm not. I'm nervous about playing at UCLA instead. I don't know, I can't rationalize it, I realize I probably should be nervous and all. I'm just... not.

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The best thing for the Ducks is the extra time between the last game and this

otherwise, this would be a classic letdown situation

it's enough where I'm not betting the game.

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Yeah, the time off was key, both because it makes it less of a letdown situation and also because it gave Dixon more time to rest his knee.

Semi-related question, how real do you consider the "letdown game" effect to be in general? Have you ever seen a quantitative analysis of this particular bit of conventional wisdom that was worth the time it took to read?

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I'm an Oregon fan who's not nervous about this game.

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I'm an Oregon fan who's nervous about EVERY game. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I don't care what he's done in the NFL, I still love Joey.

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Also, have I mentioned how much I love Jonathan Stewart?

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Wow, Tarynne Mowatt is HOT.

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I think I've said before that Jaison Williams drops a lot of passes? Yeah, confirmed.

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Williams didn't hold on. What a [censored] surprise.

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PLEASE GO FOR IT

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I don't care what he's done in the NFL, I still love Joey.

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Right, I knew there was a reason that I had something against your school (aside from Phil Knight, the jerseys, and our recent losses). Typically I root for Pac-10 teams when not playing Michigan but for Joey Harrington, may you die a thousand deaths of infinite pain.

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GO DUCKS!!!!


(Born n bred Oregon homer here).

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Haha! Nice start!

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Nice to see Bellotti roll the dice a little and go for it there. Not that it shouldn't be an obvious decision but he's been too conservative in those spots.

I like going for 2 as well.

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Was that the first ever successful use of the swinging gate? Nice camerawork by ESPN there.

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On the other hand, nothing surprising yet (except perhaps that Arizona forced two third downs). The real questions are what does the defense do and do we keep our foot on the gas?

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luv the way the ducks make another team come from behind

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Was that the first ever successful use of the swinging gate? Nice camerawork by ESPN there.

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It wasn't even Oregon's first successful use of the swinging gate. Also WHAT A PICK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oregon might have to run to have success

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begin floodgates, please

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Opening up the playbook, nice!

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Crap, nice [censored] catch, Jones.

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That sucks because we practically put it away there. Plus that turns a TD pass into a pick which hurst Dixon in the Heisman.

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/floodgates

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CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dixon hurt. Uh-oh.

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ummm.... that sucks

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he sure doesn't look too hurt on the sidelines, i think he was more scared than hurt...

....i hope

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haha the in-game betting line for kickoff yardage just moved from +115 to -171 nice line making bodog

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Yeah, um, I'm nervous about this game now.

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This whole injury is pretty bizarre.

I've never seen such a reaction with people crying and the father brought in without it being a major injury. And yet he's walking around joking with people and obviously not in a lot of pain.

That actually has me more worried that it could be more of a long-term thing, though I'm not sure that's fully rational.

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Arizona can't stop Stewart even when they know he's coming.

Also Dennis Dixon = Avon Barksdale

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Dixon = Barksdale is confirmed.

Stewart: 40 carries, 250 yards, replaces Dixon in the Heisman race?

Dixon injury: WTF? Everything does seem weird about it... I have no idea what to think.

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Dixon = Barksdale is confirmed.

Stewart: 40 carries, 250 yards, replaces Dixon in the Heisman race?

Dixon injury: WTF? Everything does seem weird about it... I have no idea what to think.

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i was thinking more like 285

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