re: Oregon 62 - USC 51 F

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Oregon 62 - USC 45 4Q

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USC's D

At least USC made Oregon play their first full game all year.

I've changed my mind after tonight. UO is best offense in country and will ring up 28+ on anyone. I hadn't seen them play anyone with same type of athletes until now. They are better with Mariota than Massoli and Thomas.

USC's D isn't great and open field tackling was poor - but damn Barner isn't easy to track down...he's more shifty than LaMichael.

Judging anyone's D by Oregon is basically retarded. Most everyone else is in the same boat.

Fun fact:

USC has given 60+ points for the first time in their 124 years of playing football.

Shows you Oregon is just better than they have ever been before.

Our 2010 USC team was far far more shitty and Oregon won 53-32. Last year USC took it to them at Autzen. Thomas left for a reason...this Mariotti was going to take his job.

Good to see a good, old fashioned, grind it out, defensive battle.

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.this Mariotti was going to take his job.

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Ma-ri-o-TAH. I think his Mom was actually just feckin with the announcers when she told them that's how "Mariota" is pronounced. Now they just say it "Ma-ri-OH-ta."

However you say it, the kid is really good.

SC hung 51 on Oregon, and we still lost that game. Unbelievable. I like the way we kept counter punching them, but they're a hard team to keep from scoring. Obviously.

So, oddly enough, thanks to the bRuins laying the smack down on Zona, USC can still win the PAC 12 South by beating ASU and then ucla in the coming weeks.

Then there's the potential for knocking the Irish out of the MNC picture for the regular season finale; and a shot at knocking the Ducks out in the PAC 12 Championship game. Call me masochistic, but I'd like to see it happen that way.