Wow Beavs.

I find myself asking "What happened Beavers? Come on it was Washington State, WASHINGTON STATE!" For those of you who don't follow college football (or are not married to a man who lives, eats and breaths college football this time of year) let me fill you in. Saturday we played Washington State. Washington State has been the worst football team in the Pac-10 for quite a few years. So when this weekend's game rolled around we thought this should be an "easy win, well maybe not easy (considering the past few games) but we should win" haha. Washington State hasn't won a Pac-10 game since 2008, that is 2 years, 2 years! Well, as you can probably guess that losing streak, for WSU ended Saturday. Lets just say it was a very disappointing game for Beaver fans. I'm not sure what happened to the team, but to me Saturday's team was nothing like the team that played agains TCU or Boise State earlier this season. What happen to the guys that would go out on the field and play their heart out? We have 3 games left this season. All three will be extremely hard (that is if we play like we did against WSU).  The next three games are USC, #7 Stanford, and the Civil War. And we have to win 2 of those 3 to qualify for a bowl game. So honestly, this season could end pretty ugly. But, with all this said, this Beaver fan is not, may I repeat, IS NOT jumping ship (like a number of other Beaver fans I know, won't mention any names, but you know who you are).

Paul Buker a sports writer for The Oregonian put it nicely:

I do not see a program in crisis, just a lot of sad people who had such high hopes for 2010 and now must come to the reality that 2010 will be a huge disappointment unless a completely different OSU team shows up for USC and Stanford. And Oregon.

As the beat writer, I am already thinking about next season, and how entertaining it is going to be to watch Quizz and James - one of the greatest brother acts in college football history - finish their careers together. I am already thinking about what a pleasure it has been to cover them, and how much I will miss seeing them around the OSU campus.

But nobody's died here.

Did I say Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and New Year's are all ruined now, because this team isn't going to a bowl game?

Well, not for everybody, at least those who have some perspective.

And yes, I'm quite certain that all will be forgiven and no one will call 2010 an utter failure if the Beavers could win the Civil War game and blow Oregon's championship dreams to smithereens.

See, you're smiling, aren't you?

Hold that thought.


Yes, I was smiling. So, I will have high hopes for the rest of the season and will hold that thought. We took down #1 once before and I believe we can do it again. GO BEAVS!

Beating #1 USC 

September 25, 2008