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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Wow, the college playoff system is proving how awesome it is in the first year.

Small thread hijack.
Anybody wanna buy an Oregon Duck national chump shirt? Anybody? Nike pre-printed a lot of them. Any takers? Anyone?

Old school defense and offense asswhups gimmicky offense again. This is what happens when you play a season full of cupcakes, then face a real defense.


Even all of the pretty uniform combinations couldn't get a national championship.

This article sums up why I can't stand the ducks and more or less quit watching college football.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/oregon-...175000988.html

At Oregon, the transformation of the football program has, for better or worse, coincided with a physical transformation of the university. Nike founder and former Duck Phil Knight has generously bankrolled state-of-the-art facilities across campus, turning a sleepy college town into a center of gravity in college sports. The Oregon brand is practically a master class in viral marketing, led by Puddles, the zany, Disney-inspired mascot that’s a mainstay on ESPN.
Unsurprisingly, there have been growing pains as the program becomes The Program. There was a whiff of recruiting violations at the tail end of Mike Bellotti’s tenure. Player conduct issues since then have ranged from the obnoxious (players whining about the Rose Bowl) to the outrageous (a star running back punching an opponent after a season-opening loss), besmirching the university’s reputation. (Over the weekend, two Oregon starters were benched for smoking weed.) For years, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on state-of-the-art athletic facilities have turned faculty members and alumni into fierce opponents of Oregon athletics.

This:

But the Ducks are a big, flashy, talented, media-savvy part of the problem. They're Exhibit A in the case against the super conference era, when big programs generate billions of dollars of revenue at the expense of athletes’ health and education. The Ducks may not be the worst offenders, but if they fulfill their promise and become a truly elite program, they will bear a huge responsibility: Where champions lead, others will follow.

/ rant mode off.