Bowl Predictions

As always, Espn and others have their weekly bowl predictions...

Both Espn writers believe the Ducks will play in the Rose Bowl against either Wisconsin or Penn State. Both would be fun matchups, though I would rather see us play Penn State since we've played Wisconsin in the past century.

They also have USC playing the National Championship, Cal playing in the Holiday, ASU playing in the Sun, Either OSU or UCLA playing in the Emerald, and Arizona playing in the Las Vegas.

A Yahoo.com writer predicts the Ducks will play in the Holiday Bowl against Kansas. He also has USC playing for the National Championship and an 8-4 Cal team playing in the Rose.

Uniform Change...

According to McNamara, looks like there has been a change in the uniform combo today. The Ducks must be trying to wear all their uniform combos that they have lost in the last few years. Today they will be wearing the white helmets, white jerseys and green pants they wore in Oregon's goose egg (and first goose egg in many years) against UCLA last year.

Storm Troopers

Here's hoping the Ducks have another record day in "storm trooper" unis!

Must Be Tough...

It must be hard trying to recruit kids to a school in a warm climate, in a big city, in the middle of a football rich state and especially with a ho-hum list of attendees for their games.

Batman 3...

So, I'm sure most of you have seen "Dark Knight" and are eagerly awaiting the next movie in the series. Here are some rumors about the possible cast in the next movie. Who knows until a press report is actually released (or a decision is made), but it's fun to speculate.

Some Early (Early, Early...) Season Numbers

Forde's article made me look up a few numbers that I thought people would find interesting from the first 2 games...

• 1st Downs - 57 (compared to 36)

• Total Yards - 1186 (compared to 548)
• Average Yards per Game - 593 (compared to 274)

• Total Rush Yards - 666 (compared to 182)
• Average Rush Yards per Game - 333 (compared to 91)

• Total Pass Yards - 520 (compared to 365)
• Average Pass Yards per Game - 260 (compared to 183)

• Total Time of Possession - 52:08 (compared to 67:52)
• Average Time of Possession per Game - 26:04 (compared to 33:56)

• Total Points Scored - 110 (compared to 34)
• Average Points per Game - 55 (compared to 17)

• 7 different players have scored rushing
• 4 different players have scored receiving
• 3 different Qb's have passing touchdowns

• 11 different players account for at least 1 touchdown (passing, receiving and/or rushing)
• 5 of those players account for 1 touchdown (receiving or rushing)
• 3 of those players account for 2 touchdowns (passing or rushing)
• 3 of those players account for 3 touchdowns (passing, receiving and/or rushing)
• And of course... 2 field goals

Forde's 40

As he does every week during, Pat Forde's "Forde Yard Dash" previewed the Oregon / Purdue game this coming weekend. You have to love some of the stats he put in his article.

Ah... Pure Comedy...

I heard another one of these prank calls on 1080 this afternoon and what made it even better is whom it happened to... Pete Carroll.

I couldn't find the one they played on 1080 and it was the only call that was actually screened. The same guy called and asked whom Pete Carroll believed in the Pac-10 was actually packing 10. Classic. I heard it was an Ohio State fan just having some fun. I'm sure Carroll will have the last laugh on Saturday.

A Football Reporting Twist

If you've never been to "Off the Pond" (formally "Blogging with B") then you've probably never read Nick's FOTB (Fiance of the blog), formally GOTB (Girlfriend of the blog), blog posts. Last year Nick came up with the clever idea of interviewing his girlfriend, now fiance, on (primarily) football topics. If you have a minute, it's entertaining to say the least....

Here are his most recent posts...
Slick Rick calls that a debut? Let's try some FOTB.
We've learned so much tonight... how much Nick does not know.

Here is his archive of past FOTB posts for your enjoyment... A pink penalty flag just might work.

Grellow Helmets Return

According to Andy McNamara, the Ducks will be donning the yellow (grellow) helmets on Saturday's game against Utah State. While I'm not totally opposed to the helmets, they are by far my least favorite... Getting rid of the flames would be start.

The fact they have never won in them may be a large factor into why the Ducks are wearing them this weekend. Barring a complete disaster, the Ducks will be 1-2 after this weekend. 33% ain't bad.

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.

Thurmond to Wear 29

Andy McNamara confirmed that Walter Thurmond III will be wearing Todd Doxey's 29 in this weekends game against Utah State.

Scoreboard Baby!

So even Ted Miller got into the discussion about Pac-10 and SEC.

More on Todd Doxey

Jason King from Yahoo Sports wrote a great article that dives more into the life and death of Todd Doxey. It's sad to see such a good kid leave this earth so early.

Pac 10 vs SEC

So I was planning on doing some research regarding the Pac-10 and SEC but a few people beat me to it here and here (and I'm sure other places).

One thing they didn't note was the home games. Where since 2000 the SEC had 8 home games while the Pac-10 had 7. If you include this year it would be SEC 8 home games and Pac-10 9 home games.

After last nights UCLA win over Tennessee, the Pac 10 is 10 for 6 since the turn of the century. But it is looking to be like 10 for 7 after Georgia visits ASU in a few weeks. Still, you take out the 2 conference powers (USC and LSU) the Pac 10 is currently ahead 6 - 2. Even if Georgia wins in a few weeks that would only make it 6 - 3. That is still a 66% winning record. Not bad at all.

Even Bob Rickert from the Oregonian believes that the gap isn't as wide as the media makes everyone believe.