GameDay: Ducks Win Again!

Trafton B.

September 18, 2010 - 6:39 PM

Dang it felt good to be back at Autzen Stadium! Too bad we didn't have much a game to watch though. 

Oregon proved once again today why we're the #5 ranked football team in the nation with a 69-0 rout of the Portland State Vikings. I know it was against a team from the FCS Big Sky Conference, but still it takes some talent to put up 69 points regardless of what team you're playing.

For those of you keeping track that puts the Ducks up to an NCAA best 63.0 points scored per game. When you consider that there are only 60 minutes in a game you realize that Oregon is averaging more than a point per minute. In our three games so far this season we've outscored our opponents 189-13. Not too shabby.

We knew it was going to be a long day for Portland State when the Ducks scored with ease on their first three drives. First, LaMichael James ran untouched for 66 yards to the end zone on his third carry of the game. On the next drive Chip Kelly decided to go for the first down on 4th and 5, which ended up in a 47-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Maehl. Not long after, Portland State fumbled on their own 7-yard line, which quickly led to another touchdown pass from Darron Thomas to Jeff Maehl. At that point I looked up at the scoreboard to see that there was 10 minutes and 15 seconds left in the first quarter. We had just scored three touchdowns in under five minutes. Nice.

On a side note, I'v embedded a video of the Oregon Duck that aired on ESPN Gameday this morning. The background for the story is that the DUck has to do pushups for every point scored by the offense every time they score. For today first touchdown the Duck ran to the endzone in front of the student section and did seven pushups. For the second touchdown the Duck had to do fourteen more. And thus by the time the clock read 10:15, the Duck had already completed forty-two pushups. If anyone wants to guess how many pushups the Duck did against Portland State, send me a comment to answer the riddle at the bottom of the post. I'll include the answer in one of my posts next week. 

Like I said earlier, it still felt good to be back at Autzen. Back eating hotdogs and brats at the Loftessness tailgater. Back walking through campus and across the Willamette footbridge. The walk was especially refreshing due in part to the scattered showers throughout the afternoon. Every Oregon fan knows that "It never rains on Autzen Stadium!" Apparently that rule did not apply today.

More and more friends are trickling back into town. The old MacAlister crowd was just about back in full form, and we weren't the only ones taking in the sights and sounds of Eugene. Fall classes start a week from Monday and there was a noticeable influx of students and families in Eugene this weekend.

Summer break is winding down. Hopefully I can get a little time off work to enjoy the last few days of freedom. Our friends are trying to organize a camping excursion or a trip to the coast at the end of next week. It's been a most enjoyable summer, or summers if you think of it as my California summer and my Oregon summer, but I'm ready to get hit the books again.

One more season of football. One last year of undergrad. One final hurrah at the University of Oregon.

Question of the Week: How many pushups did the Duck do during our 69-0 victory against Portland State?