Oregon still controls it's destiny
[Oregon had a loss to give. Thanks to their win over USC, and with Arizona still on the schedule, Oregon can still win the championship if they win out. The only thing that's changed is that Oregon now probably HAS to win all of it's remaining games.
Both Arizona and Stanford still have the toughest parts of their schedules ahead of them. Arizona still needs to beat Oregon and not lose at Cal, at ASU, and at USC.
Stanford -- with two losses but now with the tiebreaker over Oregon -- also needs to play at USC and at home against Cal.
Oregon is home against ASU, at Arizona, and home for the Civil War. Arizona is the must worrisome. Ya I know, don't discount OSU. But at Arizona, it's going to be tough. Their running back Nic Grigsby is hurt. But their QB Nick Foles is proving to be (say it with me now) "the toughest quarterback the Ducks will face".
What happened today?
Oregon scored 42 points and lost. No other team has dropped that many on Stanford and lost this season. But honestly, it wouldn't be fair to hang this on the defense and suggest that they're suddenly bad.
Stanford had two weeks to prepare for this game. And they didn't spend that time working on beating Oregon. They focused on being a better Stanford. Running, blocking, throwing, catching. The Cardinal did it all superbly today, just like Oregon did last week. The Cardinal could've beaten anybody today.
The good things to take from this game is that 1) the Rose Bowl is still there for Oregon. 2) The offense still works, although they sure could've done without all those dropped passes today. 3) Toby Gerhart is behind them. 4) They can regroup at Autzen next week.
More later, ] --kb
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Stanford had several perfectly thrown - perfectly caught long balls. The law of averages took the day off. If the receivers dropped just two of them, it could have been different.
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