Quack! The number one team in the nation!

[El Supremo]

Look at these margins of victories for the Ducks!

New Mexico..........W 72-0
at Tennessee........W 48-13
Portland State......W 69-0
at Arizona State....W 42-31
(9) Stanford........W 52-31
at Washington State.W 43-23

[JonLP24]

1. Arizona State has the closest margin

Killer turnovers in the second half buried the Devils. They had a two touchdown lead in that game too. :evilfrown:

[madinmaryland]

2. This guy is also talking about the team he thinks is number one...

[depakid]

3. Second string quarterback in most of the game

Second half points vs. opponents this season:

128 - 14

NY Times:

Oregon Turns Practice Into Nonstop Sprint With Precision as Goal



As Oregon began pulling away from Tennessee in the middle of the third quarter last month, a Volunteers defensive end approached Ducks center Jordan Holmes with a plea.

If you guys run two more plays at this speed,” Holmes recalled him saying, “I’m going to fall over dead.”

The tongue-wagging Tennessee lineman stayed upright, but Oregon never stopped. The Ducks scored 35 straight second-half points on the way to a 48-13 victory in Knoxville. The win showcased Coach Chip Kelly’s innovative no-huddle spread offense, which has averaged nearly a point per minute — 57.7 per game — thanks to a frenetic tempo that might represent the next offensive revolution in college football.

From Dennis Dixon to Jeremiah Masoli to Darron Thomas to a half-dozen pinch-hitting quarterbacks in between, the Ducks’ offense has not slowed since Kelly arrived in Eugene as the offensive coordinator four seasons ago. No. 4 Oregon hosts No. 9 Stanford on Saturday in a highly anticipated game that raises this question: Why do Kelly’s schemes allow just about any quarterback to lead the Ducks to the top of college football’s statistical categories?

The answer comes from the blur that is an Oregon practice, a kaleidoscope of colors, whistles and music. The practices are so intense that even team managers have to tape their ankles, and they illustrate the white-knuckle philosophy of a program designed to leave opponents in its wake.

“The tempo is unique,” said the former N.F.L. coach Jon Gruden, who nearly took a job at Oregon to learn Kelly’s offense. “They’re not the only no-huddle, but they’re as fast as any team that plays football.”

Other programs pride themselves on tempo, but Gruden said he had never seen an operation that was both this fast and this refined. Oregon’s practices last two hours, an hour less than a typical college practice, and there is so little time between plays that coaches must do their teaching with only a few words or wait until the film room. Kelly said that practice had become so sophisticated and fluid that getting off 30 snaps in a 10-minute period had become common.

That relentless pace and superior conditioning help explain how Oregon has outscored its opponents, 86-7, in the second half this season without ever running that staple of football conditioning drudgery — wind sprints.

“Practice is a wind sprint,” said Nate Costa, Oregon’s backup quarterback. “There’s no real need to do that additionally.”

The high-speed practices mean that wide receivers must learn to run backward to the huddle to see the next play. Receivers are taught not to chase after missed passes and to sprint to the referee, who is a manager wearing an official’s jersey, to hand him the ball after a completion. Obviously, the Ducks cannot start their next play until the referee spots the ball.

Four managers signal plays at all times in practice, with three using hand signals and another holding up large cue cards that feature everything from the “Caddyshack” gopher to a picture of the ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt. In some drills, managers posing as defensive linemen wear concoctions of duct tape and cardboard — inspired by samurai flags Kelly saw in a movie — that mimic the size of a tall defensive lineman with his arms outstretched.

“I was dizzy walking off the field,” Gruden said. “It’s a philosophy that is the damndest thing I’ve ever seen. I love it and can’t get enough of it.”

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/02oregon.html

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Personally, I think Boise State would whoop 'em.

I saw Chris Peterson, the Boise State coach say on ESPN that he'd issued a challenge to EVERY university in the country: We'll play you on your home field, no matter who you are, and no matter how highly you're ranked.

Guess what? NO TAKERS.

How in the fuck do you win a game 59-0 and LOSE a spot in the rankings? It only goes to show that the NCAA is interested in the almighty $ than they are in good football.

[Upton]

5. "How in the fuck do you win a game 59-0 and LOSE a spot in the rankings?"

Maybe because that 59-0 win came over a New Mexico State team that was winless at the time.

Btw, Chris Peterson and his PR firm are full of BS..

If he wants to play some tough teams, let him join a REAL conference..

[nomorenomore08]

6. The Mountain West isn't a real conference? But as far as the WAC I agree with you.

:)

[travelingtypist]

7. Nope. #2

And even teh Beavs got in to the top 25.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/polls/ap/