Stanford Defeats Oregon State, 38-13: Postgame Thread

It was a depressing rainy game all-around… Injuries, bad officiating on both teams, and some sloppy play, but it’s another road win for you guys. I hope Owusu is okay, though the number of bad hits he’s taken this year is concerning.

If you make it to the NC, please give the SEC a good beatdown :)

in Black and Orange is losing too!

K State leads 24-14 mid second quarter.
Hope they can hold on. OkSU can strike very quickly.

Richardson has run for 50 and caught for 60 already. No TDs though

maybe the south division isn’t a foregone conclusion?

Kansas State/Oklahoma State
-So close….but on the outside shot we meet up with them in the NC or the Fiesta, at least we know they’re incredibly vulnerable to the run.

Washington/Oregon
-Ducks have their typical insane speed and interchangeable-parts offense, but don’t seem to have the same smooth, relentless efficiency I remember from last year. If we get some pressure on Thomas and keep edge contain, we have a good shot.

LSU/Alabama
-Went about as well as it could, short of Richardson coughing up a game-ending fumble. While the talent was outstanding, the product on the field was not, and almost guaranteed there will be no rematch. Plus, Luck is almost guaranteed the Heisman now unless he costs us the game against Oregon.

Stanford/Oregon State
-Ugh….they are beat up. And lucky to get out of Corvallis with a convincing box score/stat line. But they get Howell back, and hopefully Ertz and Toilolo as well. They’ve taken care of business so far, and now they’re in the position we all hoped for 9 games ago: undefeated, with the Ducks coming to town and the Pac-12 North on the line.

Let’s hope they make it 10-0.

It’d have benefited Stanford a lot more a blowout by LSU. There’s already advocates for a re-match, saying that LSU and Bama proved they’re head and shoulders above everybody else.

And disagree about Richardson. He played great against the best defense in the country. Luck has some cushion, but he’d play solid on ESPN gameday next Saturday.

This is a belated response to redoscar. I have no reason to hold him in high regard. I have taken him to task on this site for unfairly maligning a couple of young men who missed out-of-range field goals for Duke (from 45 and 49 yards, for goodness sake), and he has never responded. But he has a point about Stanford’s unbeaten out-of-town record since WWII. Not a conclusive point yet, though. The 1951 team lost only to Illinois in the Rose Bowl out-of-town, and, whatever the 2011 team’s bowl destiny, we don’t yet know the outcome. Sadly, the 1970 team lost to Cal at Berkeley, having already clinched the Rose Bowl, in which it defeated what was called the greatest collegiate team of the century, Ohio State.The post-WWII qualification is a wise one. The 1940 T-formation pioneer team was undefeated, at-home or abroad, through the Rose Bowl And the Vow Boys in their senior season, 1935, lost only to UCLA at home..