Oregon St. 28, Stanford 36 (final)

[OHSportsFan]

Once again, a football player's infatuation with stretching the ball out near the goaline results in a fumble. When will they learn?

The only time that is necessary is on 4th down...anything else- Live to fight for another down. This happens way too often lately, at least it seems that way to me.

 

[Magua]

I only got to watch parts of the game here n there, but how did Stanford look? Im curious to see their progression under Harbaugh and believe it or not I hope they start to turn it around and do well out west.

Mainly because he called out Michigan and USC in his first season lol

 

[3074326]

Stanford actually looked pretty good from what I saw, but the comments in this thread lead me to believe that Oregon State is just a terrible team. Judging from the highlights, I'd say it's a little bit of both. Maybe more of Oregon State being terrible.

 

[Dryden]

Stanford actually looked pretty good from what I saw, but the comments in this thread lead me to believe that Oregon State is just a terrible team. Judging from the highlights, I'd say it's a little bit of both. Maybe more of Oregon State being terrible.

Oregon State looked really inexperienced for stretches in the game, which was to be expected since they only had something like 12 returning starters. Of course, either QB on their two-deep chart would be considered among those returning starters, which makes Moevao's unforced errors unforgivable. For a player that committed TOs in bunches last season, you'd think he'd have bothered to learn to read a defense in the off season. Looked like he had no clue last night what Stanford was doing.

That said, what really impressed me was what Ron Lynn has done already with Stanford's defense. He doesn't have the fastest, most athletic material to work with, but those kids were in position to make plays every time it looked like OSU was going to storm back and break the game open.

 

[TheIronColonel]

As bad as Stanford is, Oregon State had to replace pretty much their entire front seven. You're going to suck for a while as the unit builds cohesion. I'm pretty sure if this were 6 games into the season, Oregon State would have won.

At any rate, neither team looks to challenge USC, but maybe one of them goes bowling this year.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

I loved the idea of adding over/under on the game wager threads...
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...until I bet the "under" on a Pac-10 game. :crazy: ... :2004: