UPDATE: Jeremy Manning, big Ducks fan from Washington, won the contest on Facebook last night. He guessed the final to be 52-20, only one point off! Congrats!
Saturday, October 6, 2012
GIVEAWAY WEEK ONE
As promised, this will be week one of the giveaway. It's nothing special, but for a hardcore collector, it's cool to have! I'm going through my memorabilia and found some stuff each week to send out to some fans. This week is an autographed
Dante Rosario 8x10. Rules: Post your score prediction for tonight's game.
Person closest (you can go over) will win! In the event of a tie, also
post how many yards you think Barner will have. That will be the
tiebreaker. Example: 54-20 Oregon, 155 yards. Head on over to the Facebook page to enter your predictions!
UPDATE: Jeremy Manning, big Ducks fan from Washington, won the contest on Facebook last night. He guessed the final to be 52-20, only one point off! Congrats!
UPDATE: Jeremy Manning, big Ducks fan from Washington, won the contest on Facebook last night. He guessed the final to be 52-20, only one point off! Congrats!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Oregon Ducks #2 vs. Washington #23 (10/6/12)
Before we dive into all of the upset hoopla, let's just take a look at this little statistic:
Sit back and relax, Duck faithful. I'm not one to base the future off of prior year's stats and figures, but Oregon is so consistent against PAC10(12) opponents that it's almost a damn near guarantee. Coming into this week, Washington is floating off of their 17-13 upset win over Stanford last week. Head coach Steve Sarkasian says that their defense will be ready for Oregon's high flying offense. So far this season against ranked opponents, Washington is averaging 10ppg and is allowing 29ppg. These numbers are slightly skewed by the 41-3 blowout they suffered to #3 LSU, but I believe that luck was on their side (this time, not working against them *crickets*) in the Stanford game. If they would have lost that game, their Pac12 record would be 0-1 to go with a 2-2 record and there would be no hype to this game at all.
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I've taken all of that into factoring my prediction that this will not even be a close game. The spread is a laughable 24.5 and Washington's numbers aren't anything to look at (101st in passing, 106th in rushing, 96th in points for). I can see Mariota picking the defense apart and Barner having his way with the run game. Clearly I have a bias towards Oregon, and I'll usually give credit to the opposing team when credit is due, but I can't see this being a showcase matchup that many people are hyping it up to be.
The Ducks have won of 27 of 28 at Autzen Stadium and have outscored the Huskies by an average of 25.3 points in winning the last eight meetings.
Sit back and relax, Duck faithful. I'm not one to base the future off of prior year's stats and figures, but Oregon is so consistent against PAC10(12) opponents that it's almost a damn near guarantee. Coming into this week, Washington is floating off of their 17-13 upset win over Stanford last week. Head coach Steve Sarkasian says that their defense will be ready for Oregon's high flying offense. So far this season against ranked opponents, Washington is averaging 10ppg and is allowing 29ppg. These numbers are slightly skewed by the 41-3 blowout they suffered to #3 LSU, but I believe that luck was on their side (this time, not working against them *crickets*) in the Stanford game. If they would have lost that game, their Pac12 record would be 0-1 to go with a 2-2 record and there would be no hype to this game at all.
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I've taken all of that into factoring my prediction that this will not even be a close game. The spread is a laughable 24.5 and Washington's numbers aren't anything to look at (101st in passing, 106th in rushing, 96th in points for). I can see Mariota picking the defense apart and Barner having his way with the run game. Clearly I have a bias towards Oregon, and I'll usually give credit to the opposing team when credit is due, but I can't see this being a showcase matchup that many people are hyping it up to be.
Final score prediction: 41-17 in favor of Oregon.
All of that aside, and turning the tables towards me, I have no excuse for abandoning this blog as well as my facebook for the better half of two seasons. I know that a lot of people have come to this site (over 105,000 page views globally) over the years and I feel bad for letting everyone down. But, I'm here to stay this time. Please keep showing this site and the Facebook page love and I'll keep writing, reporting, and posting! I love all of you guys and I definitely think that the Duck Nation is the best in the country! Quack attack, let's fly! Win the day.
-Lee
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