Is It Too Early To Discuss College Football?

Oregon Ducks. LSU Tigers. Week 1. I'm excited.

Excuse me if I'm jumping the gun a bit here, but I just received confirmation of my tickets to attend this Week 1 heavyweight match-up at Jerry Jones Stadium in Dallas, Texas---appropriately named the "Cowboys Classic."

Being a huge Oregon Ducks fan, this game will dictate our season. If you haven't heard, we lost Cliff Harris due to a plethora of infractions including $8,000 in unpaid tickets. He could be suspended for one game, one game, forever . . . who knows.

Fortunately for Oregon, their bread and butter is the offensive scheme master minded by Coach Chip Kelly. He has these guys running at warp speed which makes my Ducks the most highly watched team in the nation. Sorry Big 10, no one wants to watch the power running game for 60 minutes.

That's about where my enthusiasm ends surrounding this game. The SEC is big. Duck Nation found that out the hard way in the national title game. Oregon recruits small linemen, and if the offense isn't running at previously mentioned warp speed, the big boys on defense from our opposition stay fresh and thus we lose our advantage. SEE: Auburn Tigers/Oregon Ducks National Championship game.

I have my wager placed on LSU Tigers +2 even though I will be rooting for the Ducks. LSU carries the same storyline into the season as Auburn did last year with a transfer QB who was probably paid $180K to attend LSU. If Jordan Jefferson gets the nod, Oregon has struggled with overly mobile QBs, too. Either guy poses a problem along with a power running game and stout defense.

The most glaring aspect of Chip Kelly's record with Oregon is his dubious distinction of not being able to win games with extended preparation. Chip lost to Boise State in 2009 to open the year, he lost to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, and he lost to Auburn in the National Title game. All of these games had extended planning (offseason or extended layoff before bowl games) which neutralized the surprise of the Oregon gameplan.

LSU will have ample time this summer to prepare for the Ducks. I hope Chip gets this monkey off his back, but I can't put my money on him.

The winner will have an inside track to the BCS Title Game.

"Can't wait!"

Sarah to answer your question... HELL no it's not too early...  we are 9 weeks away from opening kick off... congrats on your tickets... that will be one hell of a game... I think you're right in taking LSU... LSU had to play Georgia Tech a couple of years ago in the Chik-fil-a bowl and prepare for their unconventional style of offense... they demolished Georgia Tech... LSU will be bigger than Oregon much like Auburn was... plus they will have the speed... This should be a great game but I see the Bayou Bengals taking it

Go back to MLB

Where are your seats at?

Les Miles is always the butt of jokes and there are plenty of times I screamed at the TV he needs to go but the one thing you can't deny him is when he has times to prepare for a game his teams do well. He has never lost the first game of the season (which includes 2005 at Arizona St and 2010 North Carolina in Atlanta). He is also 5-1 in bowl games. The one loss being against Penn St on a late FG on a soggy field in the Capital One Bowl. LSU's 5 bowl victories have been by an avg margin of 26 pts. Each of these instances he had a month to prepare.

No one would pay $180k for Zack Mettenberger. And if they did wouldnt he be the starter?

Please go the fuck away. 

i don't like seeing you on LSU

Damn. This broads taking a lot of heat, maybe I better go check out whats been going on in the other forums.

Enjoy the trip.  I will make it to one or two Duck games, but not this one.

To say we paid Cam 180k is ludicrous, everyone knows Miss State Ole Miss Vandy and Kentucky have to pay more for football recruits than the other schools in SEC. We probably paid him in the 90-120k range and kicked in a few monthly  visits to the "Gold Club" in Atlanta.Get your facts straight woman

Please dont tell me you are going to be posting in the cfb forum now.

ban her/him wtf ever it is...

I must say that LSU will be a fairly large play for me.  LSU fans are probably the wildest bunch from the South you can tailgate with, but I assume you already knew this. Enjoy

lsu is now at -4

Happy 4th of July weekend miss Hot Stuff

Not this DUDE again

Whats wrong with her posting here?

Can someone, anyone please explain the anomosity towards this woman?

Im asking seriously here because i dont know, it just doesnt look right for so many treating her like a peice of trash, to her credit, she hasnt responded but come on fella tell me what she has done wrong in your eyes, Atleast so I can form an opinion on the matter.

I don't participate in her threads as much as others do, but from what I've seen and heard, she isn't who she claims to be.  And like most people, Covers members don't like the wool being pulled over their eyes.

Pretending to be a women is just Sick...(not the first time on Covers)

I think you should Log Out

Create a New username , Something like FrankJPhilli

Maybe you could come clean ....Talk about how DoubleUp gave you the Courage to Finally be a MAN

 

 

 

I like her stab at the BIG 10. It's obvious she never watches any games from that conference. How many power run teams are there? 2 maybe 3? OSU is multiple. Michigan ran the spread. Illinois is a running spread team. Indiana is a passing pistol team. Purdue, not power running. Northwestern, not power running. Etc, etc, etc. Then the winner of this game has the inside track to the National Championship? I guess Stanford, Alabama, Florida, S. Carolina, etc just all lay down after this game.

First of all, because she/he is a fraud. Second, she/he posted articles about the nba, baseball, hockey and other sports and now cfb. How many "women" do you know that know much about 1 sport, let alone THEM ALL.

I smell bullshit.....and my nose is never wrong.