re: Curious: how many people here expect an LSU beat-down of Oregon?

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The way I look at the matchup:

Offense:

QB: Oregon
OL: LSU (by a lot)
RB: LSU (you guys have the one great one. . .LSU has a whole crew of slightly less great)
WR: LSU (by a nose)
TE: LSU
OC: Oregon (by a lot)

Defense:

DL: LSU (by a lot)
LB: LSU
DB: LSU (by a lot)
DC: LSU

Does this mean we will blow you out? No. It is all about execution.

The biggest X-Factor to me is time of the game.
-LSU plays lights out for the opening game of the season.
-OU is a mixed bag to open the season.

Ultimately, I think the recipe is a blowout. I think this is the wrong season for OU to play LSU. . .and LSU got lucky with the timing.

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The positions in bold are in question in my mind.

RB: Barner has more experience than Ware and Ford combined. He has nearly 1,200 yards rushing receiving with around 900 of those on the ground. Ford and Ware combined barely match Huff's total on the ground last season, our true frosh RB/WR. Throw in Lache Seastrunk at third string and De'Anthony Thomas and I don't even thing you can talk about LSU being better. I am not even including Tra Carson.

TE: Peterson and Clements are definitely good. I think this matchup is hard to gauge. Paulson is set for an all american type of season. Paulson had more catching production than Peterson and Clements combined plus he will probably be the #1 of our passing game. Oregon is TE U with Peele, Dickson, Rosario, Wrichster all in the leage from last decade. All of them are producing. Lyerla is going to be special. Curtis White is a 5* kid and Christian French looks like he won't be kept off the field. Although, I think with Brandon Williams cutting his career short that the position is a very close call.

LB: Both of these units are questionmarks for both teams. However, our top 3 are without question: BoLO, Clay and Kaddu. I think this unit is very close.

DL: I am not going to even go there. LSU fans will have to believe it when they see it. Sorry, but you're pinning your hopes here on a DE that is recovering from an ACL and a true frosh. Adams is the stalwart and nothing leads me to believe that he is stronger than his counterpart Turner. Our interior with Heimuli, Hart and Keliikipi should be considered more experienced, imho. Our other end Jordan is fabulous.

You won't believe me that this is closer than you'd like to believe.

DB: We're absolutely stacked there as well but whatever.

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I know how deep you are Mingo, Adams, Edwards, Montgomery, Agawwahwodoyouspellmy name, et al. I get it...stacked. But let me tell you something...we stacked too.

However, most of your poster have admitted that you're hoping for Freak and Montgomery to be disruptive, a la Fairley or Heyward.

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Experience, sure.

I think any of Ware/Ford/Blue/Gore would sit #2 on your Depth Chart

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Barner rushed for 3,000+ his senior year in high school in the one of the, if not the, toughest league in Cali. We're not talking about a slouch here.

frick Gore too. Why the hell would he be #2? Pedigree? Barner has produced, dude. De'Anthony Thomas BE better than Gore.

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Peterson is the most dynamic receiving threat out of the TE position. Not even close.

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Do you know who Paulson is?

I'll try to get there at 6 but my wife is out and I got the kid. I can't get ahold of her. How can I recognize you?

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This is so inaccurate. DE is arguably our best position along with CB

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Dude, no one is knocking your CB's or your DB's in general. We all know you have incredible talent there but in some ways unproven. This is just me, but I rank you #3 DB unit in the nation. Is that knocking? And with only Bama and UO better. Anyone that studies UO knows and says we have the most loaded O backfield, but this year I think people will see that we also have the #1 DB unit as well. I really do not think you pass against us there, maybe mismatched against Linebackers or such, or DE's, but not our DB's. In less then a month, we will know...

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Because he is better than the guys you have at #2. Duh.

I think Magee would make your 3-deep, too.

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Yeah, dude, Magee would make our fricking three deep. Somone tweets that he can't be kept off the field and now he would be our 3rd string fricking running back on the rotation that Rivals, CBS, Yahoo calls the best in the nation. You BE trippin'.

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Yes I do. He is the guy that would ride the bench behind Peterson, at LSU

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Paulson is a guy that will be catching balls on Sunday.

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Well we could talk circles all day and we aren't going to gain any ground. We are obviously both huge fans of our teams, and we aren't going to budge on who we think is superior. But right now, you have bigger problems, for our grammatically challenged buddy, DuckflyinaPAC, is trying to buy you dinner and sex you up. Pics or it didn't happen.

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We'll be talking about how the porter goes down so smooth like Ford when he meets a tackler.

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Your top guy is off for that game, isn't he? We have all of our guys. . .and I am not convinced that we are head and shoulders above you with all participants involved. I don't think your top corner is better than Claiborne.

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Cliffy is out for the LSU game however he is not super great at run support. He is too small and light for that. All our other CB's are only 1 notch or 2 less in cover skills but with much better tackling abilities. Again, as brought up in another post, Loosing Cliffy will not at ALL dent us vs LSU. We are so deep there at CB that it should be a crime. We might even be better for it because LSU will not be passing against them anyways and we need better run support. The only thing we may miss is punt returns from Cliffy being out. However we are like 5-6 deep there too. UO is hardly lacking in speedy return guys, so Cliffy being out for a mostly run only team is not even going to dent us, let alone it may work out better for us for this game only.

And yes, there is no better CB out there at Cover Skills then CLiff Harris. He IS Mr. Pass lockdown! However, his elite skills will not be required for this game as this is LSU people, LSU freaking U on Offense, let alone facing America's best DB unit. There WILL NOT BE ANY LONG BALLS THROWN VS OREGON!!!