Huskies defensive coordinator share's plan to stop the Beavers ground game with their head coach during their first meeting on the upcoming match....... "Uh ohh"
Bigger than a USC upset. This is an undefeated Washington team playing their 2nd to last game of the season. The Huskies last game is at home against WSU holding a conference record of 1-6. This is the super bowl for both teams.
https://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/80344/reser-stadium-has-history-of-top-10-upsets Those were the games I was talking about. I was there in 2008 against USC. I understand the importance.
Beavers are tough to beat in Corvallis lately the challenge for OSU in this game is that, IMO, the weakness of their defense is defending the pass. OSU has been pretty lucky in that they haven't had to face any elite QB's. Their two losses have come against WSU, who had Cam Ward playing like an elite QB, and against Arizona who got a great game from their QB. The other somewhat prolific QB they faced was Shedur Saunders in Colorado, and that was a close game now, all those games were on the road. They get the huskies at home. BUT, Penix is by far the best QB OSU will have faced, and the UofW receivers are by far the best group of receivers OSU has faced. Washington leads the nation in passing offense; have led the nation for 2 years now. They are the real deal, and again, OSU's passing defense is suspect, especially the secondary the best way to stop a passing attack is to pressure and sack the QB. OSU is good at that, so that's a plus. I wouldn't bet on this game
If they do (and beat the Ducks), conference title game berths get interesting. 3-way between UO, OSU, UA (most likely scenario) No H2H, all 4-1 on common opponents, Beavs have the best record over the highest-ranked common opponent 4-way between OSU, UW, and UO (requires UW to lose to WSU) UA and UO get berth over UW and OSU because of losses to common-opponent WSU 3-way between UO, OSU, UW (requires UW to lose to WSU and UA to lose to ASU) OSU wins H2H with UO/UW, and then UW wins H2H over UO 3-way between UA, OSU, UW (requires UW to lose to WSU and UO to lose to ASU) H2H is even (1-1 each), UA gets in via common opponents (win over WSU), and then OSU gets in over UW via H2H So bottom line is that if OSU wins out, unless the 4-way-tie scenario occurs, the Beavs are in the conference title game.
Civil War game is at Autzen this year. Love the Beavers but that is a tall order this year. The Ducks are very good.
True--all that was based on the notion of the CW being a battle for a title-game berth. Since it's the Beavers' thread, I figured this was the place to look at Beavs-win-out scenarios.
Not knocking ya at all. Just a tough out is all. I'm torn a bit? I'm Beaver Alum so I pull for Beavs but this year might be a chance for Championship in Oregon.
If I were in the other thread, I would state unequivocally I'm all in on rooting for a playoff bid. Would love to see UW lose a game or two or three.
Williams is probably the most talented; Penix plays in the perfect system with the best group of WR's; Nix is most in command of a game
I live in SoCal and there's lots of buzz that Chip Kelly will be fired at the end of the season and that UCLA's #1 target will be Jonathan Smith. I believe Smith is from Pasadena and would be coaching in his hometown. That's just the rumors on talk radio down here.
UCLA is not a good job. Jonathan Smith could do much better than that. UCLA was somewhat relevant in the Pac 8/10/12. It might become irrelevant next season and nobody will care.
