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Originally Posted by McLovin
will find out today.
Oregon probably will have needed to have beat an opponent of the quality of LSU to get #1 in the BCS.
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Nope. Oregon will be #1. And they deserve it. They have reinvented college football. If you haven't watched them play then you won't understand.
They are the best conditioned team in college football. They are small and fast. They take advantage of the college rule that says if the offense does not substitute the defense is not allowed time for substitution. They run the fastest no huddle offense ever seen. In practice, they run 50 plays in 10 minutes.
No one can run with theses guys.
The only way to beat the Ducks is to fake injuries like Stanford did to try to slow them down (it failed), or have an Umpire who delays putting the ball in play allowing the defense time to substitute. That happened in the Rose Bowl last year against Ohio State and coach Kelly filed a complaint. Pac 10 Umpires know the Oregon pace and put the ball in play fast.
If you let the Ducks play at the pace they want, they are hard to beat. It's a completely different game the way they play it.
“The NFL scouts on the sideline, the first time they come and watch practice, they're like, ‘What the heck is this?'” Costa said. “They're mesmerized by it. There's nothing like it.”
Oregon works on its prolific spread offense at full speed | | The Bulletin