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THE HCP said:
“Didn’t deserve to win”
What the fuck does that mean? In about 6 weeks look back and this win counts just the same as a 75 point blow out. No such thing as a bad win. Had TT squeaked this one out, would they have “deserved” it? On to the next one.
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yep & solid teams find ways to win when they are on the ropes.
 
After their comeback yesterday against CSU, all eyes are going to be on Colorado as they come to Eugene this Saturday. Gonna be big-time. I tell you one thing though--I do NOT understand the current spread on that game. Vegas has the Ducks as a 16-point favorite?? It's like they're begging you to bet on the Buffaloes.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
After their comeback yesterday against CSU, all eyes are going to be on Colorado as they come to Eugene this Saturday. Gonna be big-time. I tell you one thing though--I do NOT understand the current spread on that game. Vegas has the Ducks as a 16-point favorite?? It's like they're begging you to bet on the Buffaloes.
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Colorado is overrated; IMO, by a lot. ESPN is behind it as they have always been extremely cult-ish about hyping personalities, and Deion is their newest star attraction. It's self-serving as well because ESPN owns the current and next Big-12 media deal so they are simply promoting current and future product

Colorado should have lost that game, but their coaching staff turtled the offense on the last drive and went into a cover-2 prevent defense on the last 2 Colorado drives; the only thing that prevent defense has prevented is wins. The Buffs gained 170 yards on their last 2 drives while they had 250 yards in the first 53 minutes. Terrible coaching. Truthfully, neither team deserved to win

but 16 points is a lot to favor the current Oregon team by. They are a very imperfect team right now. There's lots of talent on both sides of the ball but they have way too many negative plays, and most of them are self-inflicted wounds. And the rate isn't decreasing. The biggest worry on offense is that the OLine hasn't jelled yet; not in the same zip-code of jelling. Too tentative; too confused; and too passive in run-blocking because of the confusion. Lots of missed assignments which allows opponents to constantly run-blitz. It's understandable considering they returned only one starter, and he was the lowest rated starter from last year's team. Oregon isn't doing as good of job of disguising their plays as last season, but again, I think that's because the OLine is not dependable. It didn't help yesterday that the first 2 TE's in the depth chart, Ferguson & Herbert, were banged up and didn't play much at all

the defense still has the same vulnerabilities as last season. Now, the DLine is a lot better and that should help. But Tosh's defense is just schematically unimpressive. I don't have confidence in the Duck D at all

right now, I'd rate USC/Washington as the top-2 in the power rankings; Utah/OSU as the next tier; and Ducks in the 3rd 'they-should-be-better-than-this' tier. I haven't really seen UCLA/WSU/Cal, but they may be as good as Oregon in a couple of weeks if the Ducks don't dramatically improve
 
PtldPlatypus said:
After their comeback yesterday against CSU, all eyes are going to be on Colorado as they come to Eugene this Saturday. Gonna be big-time. I tell you one thing though--I do NOT understand the current spread on that game. Vegas has the Ducks as a 16-point favorite?? It's like they're begging you to bet on the Buffaloes.
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Because Vegas knows that Colorado will get exposed against a good team in a road environment. The spread was 13 pts before Hunter got hurt.

They’re begging people to take Colorado because they know the general public will take the bait on the flash in a pan team.

Colorado’s defense is going to get lit up.
 
Not exactly a Prime performance for the Buffs. His son seemed weighted down by that thick chain around his neck.
 
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