Not to rain on your parade or anything, but Thomas is a Sophomore. It was nice to see us win without the offense completely dominating though.
Two years ago when Oregon played Boise State at Autzen. He also got a little bit of playing time in other games that year as well.
7 ASU turnovers....and they still managed to garner 31 points. (OTOH, how much of the the Duck's direct/indirect point total was precipitated by those miscues?) Scary proposition, IMO. In other words, I think Oregon was very fortunate to escape with this W.
Looks like Gameday is coming to Eugene according to local news (from what I heard). Texas fucked theirs up. Bama will have plenty of chances, and their game will be on CBS, so this should be good. We've had a ton of Gamedays in the past few years.
Any Pac-10 road win is a good win. And don't forget, this team for all intents and purposes beat #11 Wisconsin on the road last week. ASU vs OSU is gonna be very interesting.
Any time you can go on the road with pretty much an unproven QB and score 42 points with 5 minutes left in the 3rd, I'm happy! In conference play a win is fucking win!
Agreed. If it wasn't for turnovers and a couple miscues ASU could have beaten Wisconsin last week and the Ducks this week. This is the first real win for the Ducks, now lets see what they can do against the ranked opponents of the PAC-10.
handily is less out of place then lucky as a descriptor of this win. They were up for most of this game and pretty much beat their QB like a rented mule I'm happy with a road W but Thomas wasn't as accurate and composed as I hoped... they certainly didn't look like a team that should be involving anyone with national title thoughts. Things could have swung dramatically on a few calls/miscues by either squad. That one replay called fumble by ASU that Matthews covered would have been an easy convert, and did the refs really give it to the Ducks on the wrong 30 yard line? Next week's Stanford game is looking key, happy it's at home STOMP
With all the turnovers ASU handed to the Ducks in the second half, I would definitely attribute the word "luck".
Oregon's O-line played like shit....Thomas was getting hit consistently all night. This big thing about Thomas is that he didn't throw a ton of picks, which is easy to do when you are hot, tired, and getting hit like a punching bag
On the flip side. A team that turns the ball over 7 times doesn't deserve to win the game. I can remember two Oregon potential scores that were called back, one was the Matthews fumble pickup and then interception return that was called back for Pass Interference and it was shown that there was no contact at all. It was a weird game.
The same can be said for about every team in the top-10 outside of Ohio St. Alabama got by with the hair on their chinny chin chin, we all saw what happened with Boise St. against an unranked Va Tech team they squeaked that out, Nebraska looked ho hum against a S. Dakota St. team that is 1-AA. Lets see TCU not so much. Florida took 4 quarters to beat a Tennessee team that UO wailed on. Oklahoma has been exposed by both Air Force and Cincinnati. Stanford has looked very tough! Thank goodness we got them at home and they don't have the bowling ball that was Toby Gerhart. I'd say overall of the top 10 teams, The Ohio St, UO and Stanford have the best resume. Beating Oregon St doesn't impress me, because to bowl division sub-conference teams have done it, that team looks lost and needs to get things together bad.
Oregon's O-line is known for spreading the field out and creating holes. Pass protection isn't their forte. I cringe anytime its 3rd and long and Thomas sits back in the pocket.
