the official 2010-11 college football thread! ver. Auburn VS Oregon?

[axl blaze]

the only argument all you fucking duck-haters can spew out of your know-nothing mouths are the bullshit "SoS" argument.. you know how tired everyone on the west coast is of hearing that bullshit?
try playing USC at the memorial coliseum every other year... or UW in Husky Stadium... 'Zona either at home OR on the road, stanford? oregon state? oh

all I have to say is that my Buckeyes thoroughly stomped on the Ducks last year in the Rose Bowl. this year would be no different. I am a fan of the Oregon Ducks, but they simply do not play defense well enough to beat a Big 10 or SEC team

however, the only aspect that they improved on from last year is their running game. with a bruising back, they have a better chance to pull off an upset. better, but not solid

 

[hair-O'winn]

all I have to say is that my Buckeyes thoroughly stomped on the Ducks last year in the Rose Bowl. this year would be no different. I am a fan of the Oregon Ducks, but they simply do not play defense well enough to beat a Big 10 or SEC team

god, i'm sick of that
ok, that is another thing you big10/big 12/sec fans spew, "last year this" "last year that", well in case you didn't notice, we have an entirely better team this year. our quarterback is only a sophomore and is already ten times better than masoli. the only reason we lost that Rose Bowl was because Masoli choked. Darron Thomas has much better poise and consistency and is both a better/faster runner, and probably 5 times as efficient of a passer. Masoli is a running back that happens to be an ok passer, but Thomas is whole different story. he is an excellent pocket passer that happens to run a 4.5sec 40 and can shed defenders like they're feet are planted into the ground.
just look at the huge difference between Thomas' 2010 numbers and Masoli's 2009 numbers. keep in mind Thomas still has 3 conference games and a national championship/bowl game to pad his stats.
CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Darron Thomas 152 244 2070 62.3 8.48 22 6 158.4
Jeremiah Masoli 177 305 2147 58.0 7.04 15 6 129.5

and here are Masoli's '08 stats in his first year as a starter for the ducks

Jeremiah Masoli 136 239 1744 56.9 7.30 13 5 132.0

quite a difference there, wouldn't you say? i'd say that's even enough to beat Terrelle Pryor and his Suckeye's easily. ask any ncaa fb analyst. that's why the ducks are ranked #1 and the Fuck-Bi's are what.. like 9th? yeah, 9th.

however, the only aspect that they improved on from last year is their running game. with a bruising back, they have a better chance to pull off an upset. better, but not solid

are you retarded, ignorant, or what?
what are you talking about..? our running game has always been strong and this year the stats actually remained eerily similar to last years.. it got a little better, yes, but that's to be expected when dealing with a decent number of FR and SO players and that's not really what made the difference.. it's our passing that helped us so much..
here, i'll show you.. (of course we still have 3 games and a NC to add to our stats, but you get the point..)

Rushing stats (2009)
NAME CAR YDS AVG LONG TD
LaMichael James 230 1546 6.7 60 (TD) 14
Jeremiah Masoli 121 668 5.5 48 13
Kenjon Barner 61 366 6.0 48 3


(2010)
NAME CAR YDS AVG LONG TD
LaMichael James 196 1331 6.8 76 (TD) 17
Darron Thomas 62 400 6.5 35 4
Kenjon Barner 42 275 6.5 41 (TD) 5

 

[hair-O'winn]

Week 11....Boo-Ya


7:30 PM ET No. 1 Oregon at California (+19.5) - I'm still pulling for your Bears, LapDawg, but ORE is too much. ORE 42 - CAL 20.

nah, Oregon will score at the very least 52 pts. 42 is the lowest score we've had all year and the Cal golden-showers are terrible! granted, it's road game in berkeley, but we went down to SEC country and scored more than that in front of almost 100,000 loud ass Vol fans, i don't foresee Cal giving us any sort of problem at all, especially after half-time.

i see a shut-out on the horizon.. i'm saying 53-10, with the decent possibility of Oregon holding them to a field goal or even scoreless.

 

[hair-O'winn]

yeah, but even though this is a down year for the SEC they still have some solid performers week-in and week-out in LSU, Auburn, South Carolina, and Bama

the Big Ten is equally as impressive with tOSU, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Iowa

the stand-out teams in the Pac-10 are of course Oregon, and then perhaps Stanford and Arizona. but the last two are stretching it

the Big 12 is delivering with Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma

as far as strength of conference I would pick the SEC or Big Ten this year, because they have four teams that appear above-average, while the other conferences do not appear to be as well-rounded

why is that a stretch???
did you forget that 'Zona already beat Iowa earlier in the season?
also, Stanford came into Autzen stadium (ORE) and put up more points than all of Oregon's other visiting opponents PUT TOGETHER
Stanford: 31
All of Oregon's other visiting Opp.'s: 29

 

[axl blaze]

are you retarded, ignorant, or what?
what are you talking about..? our running game has always been strong and this year the stats actually remained eerily similar to last years.. it got a little better, yes, but that's to be expected when dealing with a decent number of FR and SO players and that's not really what made the difference.. it's our passing that helped us so much..
here, i'll show you.. (of course we still have 3 games and a NC to add to our stats, but you get the point..)

it's nice that you just started posting in my forum, and this is most likely your first year in following college football as a whole (judging from your posts) - but please leave out the personal attacks. there's no reason to call me retarded

the "Suckeyes" completely dominated the Ducks last year, easily

the only reason your Ducks are ranked No 1 and my Buckeyes are ranked No 9 is because Ohio State actually plays a decent schedule. your most difficult game all year is Stanford. freakin' Stanford?

if the Ducks played in the Big Ten (or SEC), they would lose two games at least. are you really such a homer to think that your team could beat Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Ohio State? you can't be that drunk from the green kool-aid?

also, the Ducks would fall to any above-average SEC or Big Ten team because they don't play defense. I agree in that Terrelle Pryor is not a great QB (in the traditional sense). but gee whiz, he sure threw all over the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl game, huh? I don't even think he had to resort to running, which would be an easy touchdown, because he is about the same size as most Duck defenders (not counting D-line)

but, congratulations. the Ducks should make the National Championship, solely because their schedule is laughable at best

 

[hair-O'winn]

all I have to say is that my Buckeyes thoroughly stomped on the Ducks last year in the Rose Bowl.

oh yeah... i hardly consider 9 points a "thorough beat down"
learn to beat your opponents by at least 20 like ORE

 

[axl blaze]

they never had a chance. I was able to watch with a grin on my face, knowing the Buckeyes were going to win another Rose Bowl. how many Rose Bowl victories have the Ducks won? two?

man, these Oregon fans are bad. LapDawg was right in that they are far worst off than USCw when they slapped around the other Pac-10 teams who hardly even resembled a football team

I'm a Buckeyes fan, which means that I have been blessed with a program that rarely loses two games a year. I do like the Ducks, but you should act like you've been a winning program before (even if you haven't been in quite some time)

regardless, welcome to Sports & Gaming

 

[hair-O'winn]

it's nice that you just started posting in my forum, and this is most likely your first year in following college football as a whole (judging from your posts) - but please leave out the personal attacks. there's no reason to call me retarded

the "Suckeyes" completely dominated the Ducks last year, easily

the only reason your Ducks are ranked No 1 and my Buckeyes are ranked No 9 is because Ohio State actually plays a decent schedule. your most difficult game all year is Stanford. freakin' Stanford?

if the Ducks played in the Big Ten (or SEC), they would lose two games at least. are you really such a homer to think that your team could beat Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Ohio State? you can't be that drunk from the green kool-aid?

also, the Ducks would fall to any above-average SEC or Big Ten team because they don't play defense. I agree in that Terrelle Pryor is not a great QB (in the traditional sense). but gee whiz, he sure threw all over the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl game, huh? I don't even think he had to resort to running, which would be an easy touchdown, because he is about the same size as most Duck defenders (not counting D-line)

but, congratulations. the Ducks should make the National Championship, solely because their schedule is laughable at best

Stanford is also ranked higher than the buckeye's, and 'Zona already beat Iowa, so... yeah.. your point is?? oh yeah.. pac-10 is powder-puff conference huh?

last year is last year.. face it, the ducks are better than any SEC or Big 10 team this year.

no this isn't my first year following college football. i've watched college football/been a duck fan for about 4 or 5 years now.
i watched the ducks blowout Michigan 39-7 in the Big House
I watched the game where Dennis Dixon went down with a torn ACL and we lost our probable NC berth.. etc etc..
in other words, i've watched Oregon get consistently better and better each year, and simultaneously watched the Ducks get no love from ESPN, Fans, the BCS, etc. we've been a good football team for years, and this is the first year that anyone has noticed. Duck fans are sick of it. We're pissed off and our team is pissed off and we WILL beat either an undefeated BSU or TCU, or a 1-loss SEC team in Auburn (i will almost guarantee the tigers will lose to either UGA or Bama)



i don't "think" we could beat Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Ohio State... i KNOW we could..

Have you seen a single Oregon game this year??? i would understand where you're coming from if we beat even a terrible team like New Mexico by 2 or 3 TD's or something like that... but not 72-0. only a top ranked team can make a DIV IA college FB team look like the Junior Varsity team at your local high school.

anyways, sorry about the personal attacks.. i was pretty fucked up when i wrote all that and was mostly making jokes. i didn't really mean it as an attack on you personally, although it definitely looks and sounds that way... haha. no hard feelings? it's college football and we're college football fans. it can definitely get kinda heated in here.

 

[hair-O'winn]

they never had a chance. I was able to watch with a grin on my face, knowing the Buckeyes were going to win another Rose Bowl. how many Rose Bowl victories have the Ducks won? two?

man, these Oregon fans are bad. LapDawg was right in that they are far worst off than USCw when they slapped around the other Pac-10 teams who hardly even resembled a football team

I'm a Buckeyes fan, which means that I have been blessed with a program that rarely loses two games a year. I do like the Ducks, but you should act like you've been a winning program before (even if you haven't been in quite some time)

regardless, welcome to Sports & Gaming

trust me, we'd absolutely LOVE a rematch, and i can (almost) GUARANTEE we'd beat Ohio state, Iowa, Michigan state, and Wisconsin, etc etc etc.

 

[hair-O'winn]

regardless, welcome to Sports & Gaming

why thank you sir.

 

[hair-O'winn]

oregon has one of the most underrated defenses in the country.. i swear.. all you people talking shit about the ducks, must have not seen more than one or two games.
we may not be a big-10 power D school with 310lb Linemen, but we're pretty damn decent and a far cry from a team with "no defense"




Run defense: 3.38 yards per carry (20th in the nation) & 126.6 yards per game (34th in the nation), 1.97 yards per carry in the red zone (24th in the country; Cal by contrast is next-to-last).

Pass defense: 26 sacks (8th in the nation), 202.4 passing yards per game (39th in the nation), 5.5 pass yards per attempt (3rd in the nation), 54.7 completion percentage (19th in the nation), 15 interceptions (tied for 6th in the nation), 8 touchdowns (tied for 8th in the nation).

Misc defense: Only 64% of possessions end in scores (4th in the nation), 28 total turnovers, adding in the 13 fumbles forced by the Ducks (2nd in the nation), 30.1% in 3rd down conversions (8th in the nation), 69 tackles for loss (8th in the nation), 17.7 points per game (13th in the nation), 4.4 yards per play (7th in the nation).

Also Oregon has only allowed a total of 48 points in the second half. That's under six points a second half!

we definitely don't suck, alright? we've had 2 shut-outs this year and every game we've played (aside from the #6 ranked stanford game) have been blowouts.. the most anyone has scored on us was USCw's 32 pts and the least amount of points we've scored in a single game was 42, and that game was on the road.

admit it. our d is pretty damn good for a west-coast pac-ten team. we wouldn't be top-ranked without a decent D

 

[TheLoveBandit]

regardless, welcome to Sports & Gaming

+1.

It's good to have someone in here with some oomph for a team that isn't Big10+2 or SEC, as we seem to dominate the conversation.


I'm not sure where you're pulling your stats, but we know ESPN offers a few key ones on any teams home page (ref: ORE), but you may also want to lean on this one (http://www.cfbstats.com/2010/national/index.html), as it gives a lot better information and is sortable in a lot of cool ways whilst providing great depth.

What is lacking, however, is a clean way to know the quality of competition. For example, nobody can argue ORE's offense, they are a touchdown per game higher than the next best offense (TCU). However, what we don't see is if that is against the 20th best defenses in the nation (on average) or against the 80th best defense Likewise, you claim ORE's defense is so much better, and I can't argue a lot one way or the other - the offense scores so much it's silly, and if the defense gave up 40 pts/game, you'd still be winning. But is your defense facing pitiful offenses on average (TN is not a great win to be holding as a power SEC team ). I'm sure the data exists somewhere, but I haven't come across it, where we can see "Team A is rated #1 on Defense, and here are the rankings of the Offenses they've faced". Or the flipside of that, where "Team A's offense is #1 in this category (like passing), as compared to these teams on their schedule with the following rankings on Passing Offenses".

Until then, we'll simply be passionate about our opinions for our teams and against the others. However, we hope to remain civil about it, unless you're talking to a Buckeye fan.

 

[axl blaze]

it's kewl, things do get heated in here year-after-year. I count Pander Bear and TLB as my good friends IRL, yet if one were to peruse this thread, one would think that we HATE each other come college football season

hair-O'winn - next time you post multiple posts, do you mind editing your post so instead of four to five consecutive posts (all in a couple minutes), it is one post? this is a very popular thread, and we don't want it to reach capacity before the actual season is over. TIA

 

[TheLoveBandit]

One more from LSUfreek

NSFW:

This guy is awesome.

 

[axl blaze]

hahahaha!

 

[spaceyourbass]

yeah TLB that essentially backs up what I said above. however, you actually provide solid scientific, empirical proof. thank for that

also, I didn't think of how hilarious it would be for FLA/USCe to beat Auburn in the SEC Championship Game. hey, you have to be pretty pumped that at least FLA has a shot to win the conference? I know I am, as a Buckeyes fan, after that degrading Wisco loss. thanks Michigan State

USCe should have beaten Auburn a long time ago, but pissed away a big lead late in typical fashion. Too bad USCe has about no chance at Florida, being too thin with injuries. Speaking of injuries, (pending the win today) Flordia is one play away from an SEC Championship. The Georgia Bulldogs are fired up right now and are going to try to fuck Cam Newton up, no other way to say it.

 

[axl blaze]

I'm kinda rooting for Floriduh to win this game and the SEC championship game... only because it would upset all the planned out paved roads in college football this year. imagine FLA going to the Sugar Bowl in the stead of Auburn going to the BCS title game? hilarious!

 

[Pegasus]

The Georgia Bulldogs are fired up right now and are going to try to fuck Cam Newton up, no other way to say it.

They have to catch him first! He just ran all over them to start the game (4 run, 1 pass TD drive)...

 

[axl blaze]

where my college football peeps at today?

I have nobody to argue with right now, save for Pegasus. but he's like twice as smart as me (despite living in the college football black hole known as Massachusetts), so that's no fun

looks like the Buckeyes and the Nitanny Lions are going to be battling in classic Big Ten fashion. like TLB said, lots of gentlemanly handshakes. I just hope JoePa doesn't have to violently run across the Ohio Stadium turf right before the half, to use the shitter (I was at that game and it was hilarious, after it was confirmed he wasn't facing any serious medical problems)

 

[cj]

Man AJ Green is a beast Auburn looks shell shocked right now. I dont think Georgia can keep this up but we will see what kind of character this Auburn team has right now. 21-7