Oregon forces 3 turnovers in the 4th quarter to hang onto a 42-31 victory against Arizona State

Gameday WILL be in Eugene. Let’s try to get more people there than Boise did.

Any video on the hit that Kenny Rowe laid on Cameron Marshall?

Robert Smith is already calling the upset for next week. He thinks we go down and Bama goes down. I think he’s overreacting a little bit we played a physical game in 100 degree weather and still put up 42 points.

A couple things that I saw yesterday that surprised me were that Luck is only 4-3 on the road, I thought he would have a better record for some reason. Also that the most 100 yard games by a Duck is 14 by Stewart I was shocked by that at first but then realized he was a backup at first then he also shared time with Johnson but James has also shared time with Barner and is already close to breaking that record so I’m still surprised by it.

we should’ve lost. we got lucky. games at ASU are always strange for some reason. we still scored 42 points. our depth is our biggest strength. hopefully Kenjon will be healthy enough to be effective. stanford frightens me like no one else except Alabama. my random thoughts the morning after are now done.

Those fake injuries by ASU were so frustrating … screw you Dennis Erickson

More importantly, we need to teach these sleepy college towns that have hosted GameDay this year how to make a sign.

any ideas?

- Oregon made Pete Carroll quit
- Welcome home GameDay
- GameDay has no clue where Corvallis is.

Notes:

I thought our defensive play-calling was a bit off. We were getting pressure and interceptions when rushing 4 guys. So why all the blitzes? It seemed like we got burned every time.

Did our o-line get worse this season? They weren’t good.

Jeff Maehl: hang onto the damn ball.

ASU’s fake injuries every time we had offensive momentum made me very angry.

Jackson Rice is a steely-eyed missile man. I love that guy.

Really, we couldn’t have wished for a better wake-up call.

ASU is playing pure-Erickson ball now: very, often too aggressive and relentless. They will win a few Pac-10 games. Not only that, ASU plays close to Oregon’s speed; I would put them as the second fastest team in the league after us.

But most importantly they keyed on LMJ specifically and the running game in general. Oregon had to win this game through the air and if it wasn’t for ASU’s overly aggressive offense allowing so many turnovers, the arm of Thomas is exactly what would have determined who would have won this game. The lesson here is that for the rest of the season we will be seeing opposing defenses load up against the run. That includes Stanford. Until Thomas shows that he can beat the opposing teams with his arm, teams won;t play us honest.

That’s only fair too.

Now Stanford is different then ASU. ASU is much faster; Stanford is bigger, more physical at the point of attack. But slower. On offense we will need to get to the outside of them and use a lot of misdirection, especially including play action passing. I am pretty sure we can do that.

The scary part, just like last year, is when we are on defense. ASU ran all over us, something that Tennessee hinted at and what Stanford and Ohio State did to us last year. Can our front seven step up? One thing in our favor is that unlike with ASU which ran hurry up like us and so did not allow us to situationally substitute, we’ll be able to do that vs Stanford. I maintain that part of Threet’s success is that he was able to throw into favorable match-ups with our linebackers or safeties guarding their big, fast WR’s. Versus Stanford we should be able to throw in more nickel and dime packages on obvious throwing downs. I also thought our defense reacted too much to Threet by blitzing so much, thus exposing our secondary.

But first we will need to stop Stanford’s running attack. We couldn’t last year and we lost. I know folks here love coach Azz but he needs to step up his line’s run stopping abilities. The DL needs to do a better job of absorbing blockers so our linebackers have clear access to the running backs, something that did not happen yesterday vs. ASU. Our DL is built to be a good pass rushing line; can coach Azz get them to read the rush better? The outcome of the game next week depends on it.

i had a nice bounce back week, going 4-1…I’m now 13-7 on the year.

“We beat ourselves,” Arizona State quarterback Steven Threet said after a 42-31 loss Saturday night. "There’s no other way to put it.

“It’s very disappointing to play well and make a couple of plays that cost the team a game.

or 8-10 plays that cost you. i’m not sure they teach math at ASU though so he’s forgiven.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/asu/articles/2010/09/26/20100926asu-football-mistakes-loss-oregon.html

Jon Wilner drops us five places on his AP ballot, to number 14, and has us below both Stanford and Arizona. So Arizona moves up by barely beating Cal at home in an offensive wasteland of a game, and we grit out a tough win on the road, scoring 42 pts, but Arizona clearly had the better win. Just speechless.

Last night’s game was a totally unexpected display on our offensive line’s part. And not in a good way.

Considering our experience and talent on the line, that just shouldn’t have happened. Consequently, I’m inclined to blame the heat for the offensive line’s woes. There was simply too little spacing and movement on their part. They were slow to get off the ball after the snap and I don’t think I saw one play where they got to the next level of blocking. I don’t think we ran any power plays for James either, possibly Chip Kelly’s awareness of the heat exhaustion for the line made him want to avoid pulling guards for a play.

We will play far better in the Stanford game in our own climate, albeit against a far better team and a far better quarterback. I’m more confident about the Stanford game than I was before the ASU game.

when did Eli Manning turn into Brett Favre. terrible play.

LGB active and getting some early looks for Tampa Bay vs Pittsburgh. 12 yd carry.

The offensive line was absolutely terrible. We got destroyed at the line of scrimmage. Despite that, I thought DT played very well despite getting knocked around. and having no running game He only had one pick, and a few critical drops by Maehl didn’t help things.

Yeah, the defense gave up a lot of yards, but I thought we stepped up when we needed to, which has really been the staple of our defense this year and last year.

ASU was a very athletic team; their freshman running back is a stud. I don’t think we played all that poorly outside of the offensive line soiling themselves, ASU is good. Threet has an arm, and was playing well until he started to panic and force throws. Our defense was opportunistic on the road against an offense that is extremely potent and getting better.

Also, the bad calls by the refs didn’t help. We’re looking at a blowout if the game is officiated fairly.

I am also less worried about Stanford given that we will be at home and fired up to play better. Stanford’s offense is a bit overrated at this point; I’m more worried about their defense being better than advertised. I don’t think Stanford’s WRs outside of Whalen (who will likely be out) and Owusu can separate, which will make coverage easier.

I’m totally concerned about the offensive line right now though. While we won’t face a front seven as good as ASU’s for the whole season, we looked VERY bad. This offensive line is starting to appear as though they just don’t have the talent to carry this offense. They were a weak link last year at times and they look about the same this year. That’s unacceptable given the experience out there.

We’re up to #4 in both major polls.

Jairus Byrd with his first take-away of the season. Fumble recovery.

was the ridiculous amount of penalties on both sides. What were the final numbers?

They haven’t changed the criteria for Pass interference call since you’ve been here. If not looking for the ball in man coverage is considered acceptable cover technique, then you must be really bad at it because either you flagged for PI or completely lose track of everything else that is going on during that play and still get beat.

I just appreciate the fact that we are at a point as a program now where our “gut check games” usually end up as wins. Seriously, we are on here complaining about a win … it wasn’t that long ago that we would be happy by any win, no matter how sloppy it was.

Relax and enjoy our team, they’re a lot of fun to watch.

That’d be 4th, we jumped TCU

J Stew TD!

Was the Boseko Lokombo touchdown. Our players were all over that ball – very heads up and knew what to do. Bo picked it up and started to run it back and the other players immediately looked around for someone to block. But there was’t anyone else to block. Why? Because the Arizona State players had no freaking idea what was going on. They were completely clueless about what had happened on that play and that they were getting scored on.

To me this was a great example of our team’s superior heads-up play, preparation, and all around football smarts.

I think everybody (Fans and players alike) got so cocky after disassembling three low tier teams that we deluded ourselves onto thinking that all of the games will be this easy. We just got a bog wake up call. We got one of those wake up calls last year if I remember correctly (BSU). Though last year it was just preseaspn hype that had everybody so cocky that we underestimated fbsu. Just like we underestimated ASU
  we need to learn from this and prove to ourselves that we are not the team that struggled/yesterday and when we are “on” we are the best team in the nation.

Pat Chung with the INT in the endzone for the Patriots. Doin’ work.

does anyone know of any recruits that will be in town this weekend?

Pretty funny stuff. Its the one fanpost thats there.

1) There will not be as many WR to cover…

2) It won’t be a 100 degrees

3) The game is at home with a racuous crowd in our favor

4) ASU could be very good

5) The defense of Stanford won’t be as fast

Oh, shit, who am I kidding??? I am overcomed by ONOES and PANIC!!!

I remember hearing that Portland State replaced a school that dropped off of Oregon’s schedule this year.

Who was that team? I cant remember.

Thanks to whomever has the answer for me.

Richie Igcognito update: starting for the Dolphins. hasn’t punched anyone yet this game. said in pre-game intro he went to Nebraska. phew.