21 point underdogs but they not ducking no smoke in Prime Time. #19 Colorado Buffaloes at #10 Oregon Ducks Official Game Thread. Sat 9/23 at 3:30pm

[Professor Emeritus]

Oregon is not a blue-chip program. Stop the cap. They choke on the big stage

Where the fukk does this dumbass claim come from?


In the 15 years since Chip Kelly took over, they're 14-9 against top-10 squads and 7-7 in bowls, including 3 Rose Bowl wins, 1 Fiesta Bowl win, 1 Holiday Bowl win, 1 Alamo Bowl win, and 1 Redbox Bowl win.

In their two NCG appearances, they had one tied until the final second when Auburn advanced the ball on one of the luckiest plays in NCG history. The other was a one-point game until the fourth but Oregon faded cause injuries and suspensions were forcing them to play 4th and 5th string WRs who kept dropping critical passes all game.

Seriously, where does the "choking" claim come from? Usually when they lose big games, it's because the other squad is clearly better. When have they lost a big game they should have won?

 

[Reality]

Where the fukk does this dumbass claim come from?


In the 15 years since Chip Kelly took over, they're 14-9 against top-10 squads and 7-7 in bowls, including 3 Rose Bowl wins, 1 Fiesta Bowl win, 1 Holiday Bowl win, 1 Alamo Bowl win, and 1 Redbox Bowl win.

In their two NCG appearances, they had one tied until the final second when Auburn advanced the ball on one of the luckiest plays in NCG history. The other was a one-point game until the fourth but Oregon faded cause injuries and suspensions were forcing them to play 4th and 5th string WRs who kept dropping critical passes all game.

Seriously, where does the "choking" claim come from? Usually when they lose big games, it's because the other squad is clearly better. When have they lost a big game they should have won?

They had a couple of big choke jobs in the BCS era IIRC. One let a one-loss Bama sneak back in to the National Championship game I believe, and I vaguely recall another no-business-losing-this-game loss that cost them another season.

For better or worse, they give me and a lot of people Mark Richt era UGA vibes. Formidable, but you'd be surprised if they delivered a national championship. Expectations were always higher for UGA even.

Oregon hasn't gotten over that hump and we live in a "championship or nothing" kind of sports culture. Is what it is.

 

[Astroslik]

Oregon is now a blue chip powerhouse? Lmaooo

They’re biggest claim to fame are dope jerseys and innovative offenses (if you can even call it that) lol

USC is the only blue chip program in the west.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They had a couple of big choke jobs in the BCS era IIRC. One let a one-loss Bama sneak back in to the National Championship game I believe, and I vaguely recall another no-business-losing-this-game loss that cost them another season.

For better or worse, they give me Mark Richt UGA vibes. They haven't gotten over that hump.

You're talking about the Stanford games in 2012 and 2013.


In 2012 they lost a fluke game against a very good Stanford team (ranked #6 at the end of the season). Oregon outplayed them all game but lost a TD on a blown block, failed on two big fourth downs tries deep in Stanford territory, and missed two short field goals. It should have been at least 24-7 late, but was 14-7 when refs made a terrible overturn of a call that gave Zach Ertz a game-tying touchdown even though you can still see him losing control of the ball before he reaches the ground AND his shoulder first touches the ground out of bounds.....yet the replay judge somehow overturned the ruling on the field and called this a game-tying catch.



Outside of the field goal kicker, there was no "choke" there, it was just a close game against one of the best defenses in the country and they caught some bad breaks.



The next year Oregon was undefeated until Mariota hurt his MCL late in the season, then they lost to another excellent Stanford team (ranked #5 at the end of the season) because Mariota couldn't move at all.

Oregon Ducks QB Marcus Mariota downplays knee injury

Stanford was a borderline top-5 team both of those years, and Oregon still only lost extremely close games due to extenuating circumstances. Like I said, outside of the field goal kicker, no one "choked" in either of those games.

 

[klutch2381]

Yall really think program building in college football is easy, huh? Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M had one of the best recruiting classes in history just a few years ago, and they got nothing to show for it.

Deion is ahead of schedule, but he still has a LOT of work to do.

I think a lot of these dudes just don’t follow the sport like that. College football really is about levels. There’s the “we-ass” level (FAU, current Va Tech, Umass, et al.), there’s the “not really good, but not we-ass,” level (this is where Colorado is at right now), there’s the “alright but not quite good,” level (teams like Missouri normally occupy this space. On a given day, they could beat a really good team), there’s the “we would beat most teams in the country convincingly” level (teams normally like Penn State or Oklahoma when they’re good), there’s “the GOOD ass team” level (teams that if they have their antennaes are up for the game… it’s a wrap, see: last few years Georgia, Bama, Clemson, etc).

It’s damn hard to get into that last level. Damn hard, and y'all are saying it like it’s going to be easy . It’s not just recruiting, but it’s building an infrastructure where you can plug and play high level recruits rather easily into your schemes; yet, the schemes are complex enough to still befuddle opposing defenses/offenses. Most coaches in college football fail miserably at this because it’s not just you, but more so about having the right coaching staff admixture in terms of philosophies, chemistry, right amount of ‘cruiters juxtaposed to “minds” on your staff, etc. What made a team like Clemson so deadly recently is that they were loaded with elite talent, but they had a simple system in terms plays/reads, however one that was equally hard to defend because they had a great offensive and defensive mind at the helm—and they we’re recruiting, recruiting.

It’s also the school’s football culture (Rice has an 8 billion dollar endowment and will never be a football school), the facilities, the boosters, and so on. NIL is a huge thing now in recruiting and the transfer portal—and flat-out—Colorado
is never going to outspend UGA, Alabama, UF, Ohio State, or even FSU on “foosball” or in terms of what the fan base will pony up monetarily; so he is going to be recruiting at a disadvantage. It’s going to be hard to take that step into GOOD ass team realm. It took Kirby Smart years to get there after recruiting at an incredibly high level.

It’s also staving off complacency. Okay, you won the championship… now what? A lot of programs go into chill-mode for prolonged periods after winning it big. shyt, I’ve seen it happen with my squad. In 2014 FSU returned a lot of their championship team from 2013 and was somehow worse. HTF!? Why? They’d already won. Coach was ready to dip, players were ready to dip, and so on. That’s why the Saban shyt is wild to me. I know how hard it is to maintain being a really good team for a prolonged period of time let alone under the same coach. Building a team that can win it all is fukking hard, but building a team that could win it all seemingly every year is incomprehensible. Either way, this will not be easy for CU but I think Deion knows that too.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

@Rhakim Do you realize you cited a bunch of times Oregon choked?

Never have and never will.

Get ready to go back to obscurity.

Get ready for the snow of the Big 10.

‘Noles fan 4L here so you’re talking to someone who is a fan of a real blue-chip program.

 

[Big Boss]

I think a lot of these dudes just don’t follow the sport like that. College football really is about levels. There’s the “we-ass” level (FAU, current Va Tech, Umass, et al.), there’s the “not really good, but not we-ass,” level (this is where Colorado is at right now), there’s the “alright but not quite good,” level (teams like Missouri normally occupy this space. On a given day, they could beat a really good team), there’s the “we would beat most teams in the country convincingly” level (teams normally like Penn State or Oklahoma when they’re good), there’s “the GOOD ass team” level (teams that if they have their antennaes are up for the game… it’s a wrap, see: last few years Georgia, Bama, Clemson, etc).

It’s damn hard to get into that last level. Damn hard, and y'all are saying it like it’s going to be easy . It’s not just recruiting, but it’s building an infrastructure where you can plug and play high level recruits rather easily into your schemes; yet, the schemes are complex enough to still befuddle opposing defenses/offenses. Most coaches in college football fail miserably at this because it’s not just you, but more so about having the right coaching staff admixture in terms of philosophies, chemistry, right amount of ‘cruiters juxtaposed to “minds” on your staff, etc. What made a team like Clemson so deadly recently is that they were loaded with elite talent, but they had a simple system in terms plays/reads, however one that was equally hard to defend because they had a great offensive and defensive mind at the helm—and they we’re recruiting, recruiting.

It’s also the school’s football culture (Rice has an 8 billion dollar endowment and will never be a football school), the facilities, the boosters, and so on. NIL is a huge thing now in recruiting and the transfer portal—and flat-out—Colorado
is never going to outspend UGA, Alabama, UF, Ohio State, or even FSU on “foosball” or in terms of what the fan base will pony up monetarily; so he is going to be recruiting at a disadvantage. It’s going to be hard to take that step into GOOD ass team realm. It took Kirby Smart years to get there after recruiting at an incredibly high level.

It’s also staving off complacency. Okay, you won the championship… now what? A lot of programs go into chill-mode for prolonged periods after winning it big. shyt, I’ve seen it happen with my squad. In 2014 FSU returned a lot of their championship team from 2013 and was somehow worse. HTF!? Why? They’d already won. Coach was ready to dip, players were ready to dip, and so on. That’s why the Saban shyt is wild to me. I know how hard it is to maintain being a really good team for a prolonged period of time let alone under the same coach. Building a team that can win it all is fukking hard, but building a team that could win it all seemingly every year is incomprehensible. Either way, this will not be easy for CU but I think Deion knows that too.

 

[Arcavian]

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@Rhakim Do you realize you cited a bunch of times Oregon choked?

Never have and never will.

Get ready to go back to obscurity.

Get ready for the snow of the Big 10.

‘Noles fan 4L here so you’re talking to someone who is a fan of a real blue-chip program.

People who use choke to mean, "Lost a close game against a great team", without any actual sign of choking, aren't college football fans. They're just drama queens.


I'm not very familiar with your "real blue chip program", have you ever even won a playoff game? I do remember what happened the one and only time you qualified for the playoffs:

Oregon 59-20 Florida State (Jan 1, 2015) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Oregon Ducks vs. Florida State Seminoles NCAAF game, final score 59-20, from January 1, 2015 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

No wonder you're salty about Oregon. Imagine giving up 60 to a "choking" squad whose 1st-string TE and WRs were all out with injuries.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

People who use choke to mean, "Lost a close game against a great team", without any actual sign of choking, aren't college football fans. They're just drama queens.


I'm not very familiar with your "real blue chip program", have you ever even won a playoff game? I do remember what happened the one and only time you qualified for the playoffs:

http://[URL]https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/400610177

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No wonder you're salty about Oregon. Imagine giving up 60 to a "choking" squad whose 1st-string TE and WRs were all out with injuries.

I was waiting for this.

this was the end of your chapter…

42-20 loss as the favorites.

Out here beating y’all chest about Colorado.

​

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

People who use choke to mean, "Lost a close game against a great team", without any actual sign of choking, aren't college football fans. They're just drama queens.


I'm not very familiar with your "real blue chip program", have you ever even won a playoff game? I do remember what happened the one and only time you qualified for the playoffs:

Oregon 59-20 Florida State (Jan 1, 2015) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Oregon Ducks vs. Florida State Seminoles NCAAF game, final score 59-20, from January 1, 2015 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

No wonder you're salty about Oregon. Imagine giving up 60 to a "choking" squad whose 1st-string TE and WRs were all out with injuries.

Listen…you don’t want it with me. Oregon is not the hill to die on. F**k a playoff game. Have Oregon ever won it all?

It’s rhetorical.

When I talk, deal with it, and move tf on.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You've literally never won a playoff game, but think you're "blue chip" cause you were a great team in the 1900s.

I was waiting for this.

Of course you were waiting for it, we beat you by FORTY. You admit that shyt still on your mind and got you up in Oregon game threads 10 years later still upping the thread days after it over, looking salty as all get-out.

Outside of a two-year stretch with Crab Legs, you ain't even finished top-5 since 2000. We've had six top-5 squads in that same time.

In your mind, "blue chip" just means you were good back when actual segregationists still boosted your program.

this was the end of your chapter…

42-20 loss as the favorites.​

Before the title game we lost our star TE, our best star WR, our second star WR and best returner, and our best backup WR too (the one who cooked your ass). Had third-string recievers dropping balls on every crucial third down and a chump benchwarmer TE who failed to convert three different goalline TD chances. Our line wasn't gonna match OSU, we won on our skill position play and just didn't have the guys on the field.

But why are you bragging about a title game loss when we BEAT your ass to get there with most of those guys already out? You talking about choking when your team turned the ball over on 4 straight possessions when the game got tight in the 2nd half. Looks like that's what happens when you don't have a flukey ass loser of an Auburn squad to beat up on.

Out here beating y’all chest about Colorado.

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Where did you see me beating our chest about Colorado? I literally said that I don't even think we're that good this year.

You're the one posting at midnight in an Oregon thread two days after the fact. Try and find the last time I even thought about what Florida State was doing.

 

[jwonder]

Oregon ain’t no fukking blue chip lmao … why you think Lanning was so thirsty to capture some of that attention off of Deion? most east coast people don’t even stay up to watch them nikkas…shyt Colorado has more national championships and the same amount of heisman winners as Oregon

Bruh. Oregon has no championships and never will. They are Gonzaga is college football.

Their best years were with Chip Kelly. Them days are over. Now going to the B1G. It's a wrap

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

You've literally never won a playoff game, but think you're "blue chip" cause you were a great team in the 1900s.





Of course you were waiting for it, we beat you by FORTY. You admit that shyt still on your mind and got you up in Oregon game threads 10 years later still upping the thread days after it over, looking salty as all get-out.

Outside of a two-year stretch with Crab Legs, you ain't even finished top-5 since 2000. We've had six top-5 squads in that same time.

In your mind, "blue chip" just means you were good back when actual segregationists still boosted your program.






Before the title game we lost our star TE, our best star WR, our second star WR and best returner, and our best backup WR too (the one who cooked your ass). Had third-string recievers dropping balls on every crucial third down and a chump benchwarmer TE who failed to convert three different goalline TD chances. Our line wasn't gonna match OSU, we won on our skill position play and just didn't have the guys on the field.

But why are you bragging about a title game loss when we BEAT your ass to get there with most of those guys already out? You talking about choking when your team turned the ball over on 4 straight possessions when the game got tight in the 2nd half. Looks like that's what happens when you don't have a flukey ass loser of an Auburn squad to beat up on.






Where did you see me beating our chest about Colorado? I literally said that I don't even think we're that good this year.

You're the one posting at midnight in an Oregon thread two days after the fact. Try and find the last time I even thought about what Florida State was doing.

Sounds like excuses. Difference is I’m not making any for Florida State losing to some ducks by 40. That was the same team who got whipped by Ohio State. Injuries didnt matter then so no excuses against tOSU.

2014 is the 1900s now? Lastly, Florida State is popping right now! We count championships, little guy. Not playoff wins. You’re not going to move the goalposts to fit your narrative or shame me. Ducks suck. Never won sh!t, will never win sh!t, and about to become a yearly punching bag in the Big 10.

A return their true place in college football…obscurity and irrelevancy.

 

[jwonder]

Sounds like excuses. Difference is I’m not making any for Florida State losing to some ducks by 40. That was the same team who got whipped by Ohio State. Injuries didnt matter then so no excuses against tOSU.

2014 is the 1900s now? Lastly, Florida State is popping right now! We count championships, little guy. Not playoff wins. You’re not going to move the goalposts to fit your narrative or shame me. Ducks suck. Never won sh!t, will never win sh!t, and about to become a yearly punching bag in the Big 10.

A return their true place in college football…obscurity and irrelevancy.

Yeah FSU won the chip. Then the next year they definitely had a hangover like when teams going to the Superbowl. They didn't play hungry. Damn near every game was close and they almost lost to GA Tech and Boston college that season

But still got another chip in the case the year before. What Oregon NC case looking like