Gameday coming to Tucson

According to Ted Miller, ESPN Gameday will take in it's 2nd Pac-10 contest of the year and will be on hand when Oregon visits Arizona next weekend.

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It's weird that they're doing this for an unranked team...

Unless the decision was made prior to yesterday…

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by qrsouther on Nov 15, 2009 11:04 AM PST reply actions

Looking at the schedule, the Pac-10 is the only Big 6 league except for the Big East that is not decided already (at least who will be in the title game). And the Big East is far less sexy than the Pac on its best day, even to the Eastern Sports Promotion Network.

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by skywaker9 on Nov 15, 2009 11:13 AM PST up reply actions

ESPN employees get a bonus if they pass 1 Million LGB mentions.

And it’s so much easier than to write about football, which is hard work.

ESPN my everlasting gratitude for reducing college football to the orphan stepchild of WWF and Jerry Springer.

by gamedaytribe on Nov 15, 2009 11:09 AM PST reply actions

FYI, Byrd just got another pick for the Bills

JARIUS FTW!

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by skywaker9 on Nov 15, 2009 11:15 AM PST reply actions

I remember reading the Bills SBN blog during the draft and their fans were just killing the team for drafting him. I don’t hear too much whining now.

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by MarineCorpsDuck on Nov 15, 2009 11:47 AM PST up reply actions

More practical reasons abound.

What better place to spend a weekend in late November than Tucson — at least as far as football’s concerned? To my knowledge, they’ve never been to ANY Pac10 location other than LA or Eugene. ANY chance to get them out in this part of the country should be encouraged.

Plenty of storylines here — AZ’s the only team never to win the conference, and rarely are they even in the discussion this late in the season. They have a Surfer Dude at QB. They’ve fought through a lot of adversity and shown some pretty good resilience. They’ve benefited from a miracle finish (The Toe) and suffered from a bonehead screweup (note to Stoops: When in position for a winning FG, try not to call a pass play in the first place).

For Oregon, of course, there’s the chance to show The Punch another couple dozen times.

by benzduck on Nov 15, 2009 11:57 AM PST reply actions

To Bad the civil war

isn’t on a Saturday they would follow the ducks north

by Duck4Lif3 on Nov 15, 2009 1:54 PM PST reply actions

Maybe they’ll do a big finish where they come to Eugene for Thursday and head somewhere else for Saturday.

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by MarineCorpsDuck on Nov 15, 2009 3:31 PM PST up reply actions

And the initial line is Oregon -4

But I’m with the vast majority of folks who has no f-ing clue what will happen, most notably which Zona team shows up.

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by skywaker9 on Nov 15, 2009 2:34 PM PST reply actions

I really think it comes down to which Oregon defense shows up. I think when both teams are playing their A game, we win. If we play well I don’t think they can beat us. I think we only lose if the defense gives up 50 again, or if we have a bunch of turnovers/penalties.

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by MarineCorpsDuck on Nov 15, 2009 3:33 PM PST up reply actions