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Barring a huge upset next week, the Oregon-Colorado game will feature two unbeaten teams. ESPN is doing gameday at Colorado next week, and the Colorado hype (much deserved) will be through the roof by the time Colorado gets to Eugene. It is already crazy; the Colorado-Nebraska game had more viewers than Texas-Alabama. I'm sure Lanning will want to walk back that line about Colorado not winning anything; Sanders is already using it. The game might get historic ratings.

I am so happy that the game is not next week; Oregon will need at least two weeks to clean up the issues we saw on Saturday.

73duck wrote:Barring a huge upset next week, the Oregon-Colorado game will feature two unbeaten teams. ESPN is doing gameday at Colorado next week, and the Colorado hype (much deserved) will be through the roof by the time Colorado gets to Eugene. It is already crazy; the Colorado-Nebraska game had more viewers than Texas-Alabama. I'm sure Lanning will want to walk back that line about Colorado not winning anything; Sanders is already using it. The game might get historic ratings.

I am so happy that the game is not next week; Oregon will need at least two weeks to clean up the issues we saw on Saturday.

Maybe its hubristic but I think trying to compare playing in Lubbock on the road will not be anything like playing in Autzen. Essentially the same home field advantage that Tech got is what we'll have and a lot of us didn't give TT that respect. (I also haven't heard anything bad about the fan experience from those who visited)

I don't see Sanders, Penix or Williams trying to run QB Power against us early and often like Shough did. DJU will do it but some of those run fits are also more unique to the player. I'd much prefer it if Caleb Williams tries to beat us by going up the middle like that frankly and Sanders has to have like 30 less pounds on him so if they hurt us running it will be outside scrambles and I think we're probably much better suited to stop those right now. That Boettcher sack against Shough was a lightning bolt.

There were a lot of things, starting with running two guys out for the opening kickoff with the same number, and ending with Jackson's inexcusable late hit on a drive that was gifted to TT (Basso should have gone down). If they continue doing stupid stuff like that against Colorado, they will lose.

That would be a bad look with the whole country watching.

I'm more optimistic than pessimistic right now. The TT game was effectively our first game of the season... the PSU game was a glorified scrimage in which we held out several key players and both teams sat their starters early. We were as vanilla as vanilla could be on both sides of the ball.

Teams usually improve significantly between their first and second games. I might worry if the Hawaii game is a total crap show, but for the time being I'm excited that Oregon could make so many mistakes and still grind out the win in an extremely tough road environment against a team (and QB) with a pretty big pulse.

We were a few bonehead penalties from making that game a blowout.

Hopefully the Oregon vs Colorado game will be a statement win similar to Oregon vs UCLA last year.

Duck07 wrote:

73duck wrote:Barring a huge upset next week, the Oregon-Colorado game will feature two unbeaten teams. ESPN is doing gameday at Colorado next week, and the Colorado hype (much deserved) will be through the roof by the time Colorado gets to Eugene. It is already crazy; the Colorado-Nebraska game had more viewers than Texas-Alabama. I'm sure Lanning will want to walk back that line about Colorado not winning anything; Sanders is already using it. The game might get historic ratings.

I am so happy that the game is not next week; Oregon will need at least two weeks to clean up the issues we saw on Saturday.

Maybe its hubristic but I think trying to compare playing in Lubbock on the road will not be anything like playing in Autzen. Essentially the same home field advantage that Tech got is what we'll have and a lot of us didn't give TT that respect. (I also haven't heard anything bad about the fan experience from those who visited)

I don't see Sanders, Penix or Williams trying to run QB Power against us early and often like Shough did. DJU will do it but some of those run fits are also more unique to the player. I'd much prefer it if Caleb Williams tries to beat us by going up the middle like that frankly and Sanders has to have like 30 less pounds on him so if they hurt us running it will be outside scrambles and I think we're probably much better suited to stop those right now. That Boettcher sack against Shough was a lightning bolt.

TTU running Shough so much sheds light on important context for this game.

The reality is Oregon had/has goals beyond just winning that game, and TTU really didn’t. If we had run Nix 20 times it would’ve really helped our run game but we weren’t willing to risk him getting injured. TTU was perfectly willing to risk a Shough injury, and anything else it took, to win that game. That’s what can make games like Saturday’s much closer than fans feel they should’ve been, but shouldn’t necessarily be a cause of concern going forward.

Lots of big games in week 4.

Florida State vs. Clemson @?
Colorado vs. Oregon @ 12:30
Ohio State vs. Notre Dame @ 4:30

StevensTechU wrote:Lots of big games in week 4.

Florida State vs. Clemson @?
Colorado vs. Oregon @ 12:30
Ohio State vs. Notre Dame @ 4:30

ABC has their big game of Texas/Baylor going up against OSU/ND at 430.

Duck07 wrote: ABC has their big game of Texas/Baylor going up against OSU/ND at 430.

That's a white flag saying they won't attempt to compete with OSU/ND, in my estimation. Texas/Baylor probably isn't one of the ten biggest games of the day.

73duck wrote:Barring a huge upset next week, the Oregon-Colorado game will feature two unbeaten teams. ESPN is doing gameday at Colorado next week, and the Colorado hype (much deserved) will be through the roof by the time Colorado gets to Eugene. It is already crazy; the Colorado-Nebraska game had more viewers than Texas-Alabama. I'm sure Lanning will want to walk back that line about Colorado not winning anything; Sanders is already using it. The game might get historic ratings.

I am so happy that the game is not next week; Oregon will need at least two weeks to clean up the issues we saw on Saturday.

Personally, I hope Lanning doubles down on his statement. He was right, Colorado hasn’t done anything for this league until this year. Sanders is going to make a deal whether Lanning walks it back or not, so might as well go with it.

wlduck wrote:

73duck wrote:Barring a huge upset next week, the Oregon-Colorado game will feature two unbeaten teams. ESPN is doing gameday at Colorado next week, and the Colorado hype (much deserved) will be through the roof by the time Colorado gets to Eugene. It is already crazy; the Colorado-Nebraska game had more viewers than Texas-Alabama. I'm sure Lanning will want to walk back that line about Colorado not winning anything; Sanders is already using it. The game might get historic ratings.

I am so happy that the game is not next week; Oregon will need at least two weeks to clean up the issues we saw on Saturday.

Personally, I hope Lanning doubles down on his statement. He was right, Colorado hasn’t done anything for this league until this year. Sanders is going to make a deal whether Lanning walks it back or not, so might as well go with it.

Lanning should double down, and this time say I’m sure Sanders has already earned that Florida job he was wanting for next year.

The game will be on ABC (ie, you won't need cable to see it) 1:30 mountain time on Sat the 23rd. It will probably be the most viewed game ever played at Autzen. Hope Oregon is focused and ready. My favorite outcome would be an Oregon win on the 23rd, and Colorado bounces back to beat USC the following week.

StevensTechU wrote:Lots of big games in week 4.

Florida State vs. Clemson @?
Colorado vs. Oregon @ 12:30
Ohio State vs. Notre Dame @ 4:30

Heard the cougs and beavs think they have a shot at game day

FSU Clemson is the ABC early slot; 9 am PT. OSU WSU is at 4pm PT; indeed a gameday-worthy game if both are undefeated, but I think they have been to Pullman recently. Colorado Oregon won't be a gameday game either; it is probably going to be the Ohio State Notre Dame game. Oregon at Washington in October looks like a likely gameday slot.