What the &$%#@!!!

First some Husky fans pay $500 to change the lights on the Morrison bridge to purple and gold (Of course Canzano had to chime in)... And now I start seeing ads for "The Dawg Den" on Ducksportsnews.com? Are you kidding me?


3 words... Thank you Huskies! Cheers to reminding me why I hate you so much and making this rivalry fun again... You've been silent for way too long. Too bad it will be back to normal next year after your QB bolts a year early for the NFL.

In the mean time, keep telling yourselves this is a "trap game." I think we'll find out the truth on Saturday. Go Ducks!!!

Breaking Down Some Numbers

I've heard some arguments recently how Oregon hasn't proved themselves in the Pac-10 yet because the teams they've beat are 0-8 in the Pac... But the teams the Beaver's have beat in the Pac-10 are 4-2! I thought I'd look into the 0-8 and 4-2 a little more... because numbers can be deceiving the way you use them.

First and foremost, 3 of those 8 losses are to OREGON!

The remaining 5 are all respectable losses:
2 - USC (who has won the Pac-10 the last 7 YEARS!)
2 - Stanford (who started 3-0 in the Pac-10 before losing to OSU)
1 - Arizona State (who may only be 1-1 in conference but despite how bad ASU has been playing this year... this loss was by Washington State)

Washington State has a bye and Cal & UCLA are playing each other this weekend. That means despite what happens, that 0-8 record will only be 1-9 after this weekend. Still sounds bad, huh?

Let's take this same logic and apply it to the Beavers... The teams they've beat have a record of 4-2 in the Pac-10 (Or 4-0 if not including the Beavers)... Sounds much better than Oregon's 0-8, right?!?

Let's take a look at those 4 wins from Oregon State's opponents (Plus 3 of the 4 are Stanford's wins).
2 - Washington State (enough said)
1 - Washington (Yes respectable this year... but they are still the team that went 0-12 last year).
1 - UCLA (respectable)

Oregon State's conference loss is to Arizona, a team that is 3-2 or 1-1 in conference (that 1 win being over Oregon State and one loss being to... Washington).

So what'd we learn from that exercise?!? Not much, not much at all... but since I'm already this far...


For $hits and giggles, let's take a look at Oregon's non-conference opponents... They are 11-6 (or 10-4 if not including Oregon). So far this season all of Oregon's opponents are 18-15 (or 17-10 if not including Oregon).

***If you exclude the two patsies (Washington State and Purdue whom only have 1 win each and are likely not to beat more than anther team or two) you are looking at an opponents record of the other 4 teams at 16-5 (or 15-2 if not including Oregon).

Take a look at Oregon State's non-conference opponents... They are 10-8 (or 9-6 if not including Oregon State). So far this season all of Oregon State's opponents are 20-14 (or 18-10 if not including Oregon State).

***If you exclude the two patsies (Portland State and UNLV whom only have 2 wins each) you are looking at an opponents record of the other 4 teams at 16-6 (or 14-4 if not including Oregon State).

Both teams seem fairly equal when you break them down like that...

Oregon's Non-conference Schedule (excluding UofO): 11-6 (10-4)
OSU's Non-conference Schedule (excluding OSU) : 10-8 (9-6 )

Oregon's Overall Schedule (excluding UofO): 18-15 (17-10)
OSU's Overall Schedule (excluding OSU) : 20-14 (18-10)

Oregon's Overall Schedule w/o patsies (excluding UofO): 16-5 (15-2)
OSU's Overall Schedule w/o patsies (excluding OSU) : 16-6 (14-4)

So after this long and extensive look at this... Just what have we learned? Mainly that the numbers don't matter yet and won't make complete sense until the end of the season when everyone has had a chance to play one another... Plus I pretty much just wasted 15 minutes of my life... And you wasted 5 for reading this (but what else do you have to do on a bye week?!?).

Nonetheless... bring on the rest of the schedule...
Go Ducks!

Top Non Conference Games in 2009

Collegefootballnews.com came out with the Top 50 Non conference games. 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50

Not surprisingly, 2 of Oregon's 3 non conference games ended up in the top 15...

• 12. Utah at Oregon, Sept. 19
• 7. Oregon at Boise State, Sept. 5

Here are where other Pac-10 non-conference games ended up

• 47. LSU at Washington, Sept. 5
• 40. California at Minnesota, Sept. 19
• 37. Arizona at Iowa, Sept. 19
• 35. Arizona State at Georgia, Sept. 26
• 28. Cincinnati at Oregon State, Sept. 19
• 27. UCLA at Tennessee, Sept. 12
• 25. Maryland at California, Sept. 5
• 4. USC at Notre Dame, Oct. 17
• 1. USC at Ohio State, Sept. 12

Willingham to Resign

Washington's Tyrone Willingham announced that he will be resigning at the end of the season. The Huskies are 0-7 for only the second time in history. I guess it was only a matter of time...

Injury Plagues the Huskies

If loosing by 34 to Oregon wasn't bad enough, the Huskies had to put their mascot on the injured reserve.

Duck / Husky Numbers

Here's are some interesting numbers going into tomorrows game...

• 2003 - The last time Washington beat Oregon


• 661 - Oregon's offense yards in the 2007 meeting between the Ducks and Huskies


• 465 - Oregon's rushing yards in the same game


• 446 - Average yards the Huskies gave up in their 2007 season


• 251 - Jonathan Stewart's rushing total in the 2007 game


• 113 - Andre Crenshaw's rushing total in the 2007 game


• 99 - Dennis Dixon's rushing total in the 2007 game


• 55 - Oregon's point total in the 2007 game


• 39 - First downs Oregon had in the 2007 game


• 34:23 - Oregon's time of possesion in 2007


• 32 - Average points the Huskies gave up in their 2007 season


• 21 - Points the Ducks outscored the Huskies in the 4th quarter in 2007


• 10 - Number of freshman or sophomore said to be starting for the Huskies in this year's meeting.


• 7.5 - Average yards per carry Oregon had against Washington in 2007


• 6 - Total rushing touchdowns by Oregon in the 2007 game


• 6 - Total Pac 10 wins in Willingham's 3 year tenure at Washington


• 5 - Win streak if the Ducks win on Saturday (Most in Duck / Husky history)


• 4 - Total wins the Huskies had in 2007


• 0 - Total wins against the Oregon schools in Willingham's tenure.

Husky Rivalry Links

John Hunt wrote an article on the Duck's preparation for the Huskies this year.

Nick, over at Off the Pond, recently posted a historical perpective on some Washington Husky stats and pleaded them to make the rivalry interesting again.

Moselely posted his Oregon-Washington predictions. Regardless of who's at QB I can't see the Ducks only getting 30 points on the board. Mr. Pac-10 predictions weren't that far off from my own. Here is Ted Miller's predictions for week 1.

While this is a cruical Pac 10 game for both teams, The Seattle Post described the urgency for the Huskies to pull out a win as it could possibly predict coach Tyrone Willingham's job security at Washington.

Can't wait to watch the Ducks make it 5 in a row and make history.

Go Ducks! Huck the Fuskies!

A Washington Perspective

I highly doubt anyone has ever said that Patrick Chung isn't a force to be reckoned with but Bud Withers with the Seattle Times reinforces that Chung is packs a punch.

Bob Condotta, another Seattle Times writer, wrote about the Husky seniors seeking to end a the four game loosing streak against the Ducks. If the Ducks win this year, count that a new record in 119 years of UW football. This quote makes me wonder what kind of Kool-aid they are drinking up there...

"The players don't like each other... They went to Oregon, we came to Washington. They wish they could have come to Washington"

Do they really? I highly doubt that our Oregon players wanted to go to a program that hasn't seen a bowl game since 2002.

Fun fact: Did you know Washington is 18 - 41 in that time span?


I don't think I've said it yet this week... Huck the Fuskies!

Husky Jokes

Here are two Husky jokes from Ryan W. and Jeff W. from last few year. If you have a good one, let me know and I'll post it.

The Washington Family

A family of UW football supporters head out one Saturday to the outlet mall to do their back to school shopping. While in the sports shop the son picks up an Oregon jersey and says to his older sister, “I’ve decided to become a Duck fan and I would like to wear this to school”...

The sister is outraged by this and promptly whacks him on the head and says, “Go talk to mother"…

Off goes the little lad with the Duck jersey in hand and finds his mother… “Mom?”

“Yes son?”

“I’ve decided to become a Duck fan and I would like to buy this jersey.”

Mom promptly whacks him on the head and says, “Go talk to your father!”

Off he goes with the jersey in hand to find his father… “Dad?”

“Yes son?”

"I’ve decided I’m going to be an Oregon fan and I would like to buy this jersey.”

The father is outraged and whacks his son on the head and says, “No son of mine is ever going to be seen in THAT CRAP!”

About an hour later they’re all back in the car heading home… The father turns to his son and says, “Son, I hope you learned something today.”

The son says, “Yes, Dad, I did."…

“Good son, what did you learn?”

To which the son replies, “I’ve only been an Oregon fan for an hour and I already hate you Husky bastards.”

Michael Jackson and Washington?

Q: What's the difference between Michael Jackson and the UW Program?
A: One lures kids into a fantasy world and uses them, is willing to pay millions to stay out of court, and has faded greatly over the years. The other is a musician.

More Oregon & Washington

Sure, we'd all be naive to say that Oregon hasn't done anything to piss off the Huskies...

• There have been numerous occasions of so-called "padding the stats" and "running up the score." In 1973, Oregon ran up the score on the Huskies ending the game 58-0. Only a year later the Huskies responded with a 66-0 win over the Ducks. Last year the Ducks rushed for a record 465 yards at Husky Stadium (at the time it was 192 more yards that Notre Dame had rushed all season).
• The Ducks took Bobby Moore (now Ahmah Rashad) and Jonathan Stewart from their home state. Bobby and Jonathan were ranked by the Seattle Times as Washington State's 4th and 5th greatest running backs of all time (respectively).
• Then there are the few occasions Huskies believe the Oregon and/or Oregon fans have ratted them out for recruiting violations.

Richard Linde a few years back wrote in a piece called "The Border War" that also does a tremendous job explaining and emphasizing why there is hate between the two schools. Most of which is reiteration in the articles and links above, but noteworthy none-the-less. Side Note: Oregon didn't actually win in 1951 with a score of 63-6, that was Washington.

Ted miller recently ranked the Oregon/Washington rivalry as the 3rd most bitter rivalry.

By the way... I'm sure most of you know that Ted Bundy was a Husky.

Go Ducks!

Oregon's Hatred of Washington: Justified

Even though these links were posted by RJ Schaer over at AOL Fanhouse before the 2006 meeting between the Huskies and Ducks, it doesn't make them any less relevant. RJ did a great job of breaking down the origins of the hatred between Oregon and Washington. It's nice to go back to these each year to remind us why their is such a hated rivalry between these two teams.

• #1: Stolen Roses - Not only voting against the Ducks but pressuring another team to do the same.


• #2: Cheat, Probation, Repeat as Necessary - Kind of makes you wonder what Slick Rick is up to down in LA?


• #3: Husky Fans Tackle Oregon Player - And they call the Oregon/Oklahoma game a controversial game?


• #4: 'Yell Leader' Rob Weller - Karma's a bitch, isn't it?!?


• #5: Husky Dancing - Just when the rivalry seemed to be loosing some of it's steam... Leave it to Neuheisel to throw some gas on the fire. Here is an article by Bob Condotta at the Seattle Times released before the 2004 game and prior to the current 4 game winning streak by the Ducks.


• #6: Hater Jim Lambright - Mike Bellotti, the perennial preacher of hate...


• #7: UW Lies about Inventing "The Wave" - Seriously? That's like saying Oregon invented the duck call.


• #8: The Seattle Bowl - Hmmmm.... Some more karma?!? Still not bowling....


• #9: DuRocher - Seriously who wants to earn something when they can have it handed over? What RJ didn't know at the time he posted this is that weeks later Karma would bite yet again (Though even a Duck fan can't cheer for that).


• #10: Things Left Out of the Other 9 - Only thing left to say is "Huck the Fuskies!"