Jack Hunter Holiday Bowl: No. 22 Arizona vs. No. 20 Nebraska The Wildcats (8-4, 6-3) stunned USC (8-4, 5-4) to earn a spot in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl on Dec. 30 at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium. Arizona will face off with Nebraska, which is coming off a heartbreaking 13-12 loss to Texas in the [...]
For the second year in a row the No. 13 Oregon State Beavers football team (8-4, 6-3 Pacific-10) came up one game short of earning themselves a share of the Pac-10 Conference title and a trip to the Rose Bowl. And for the second straight year, it was the Oregon Ducks celebrating their Civil War [...]
Ivar Vong About 90 days ago, I watched all the way from Chicago as the Ducks were dismantled by Boise State on national TV to open the season. I distinctly remember thinking that our BCS hopes were dashed. I even remarked to a friend, “Well, there goes our season.” Shows how much I know. The [...]
Ivar Vong Everywhere you looked, there were roses. There was a rose in the hand of Jeremiah Masoli’s mom when she hugged him in the end zone. There was a rose in the hand of University President Richard Lariviere when he hugged a sopping wet head coach Chip Kelly. Then there was a rose in [...]
Jack Hunter From the outset, the Oregon football team made it clear: The war for the roses would be fought in the trenches. The Ducks (10-2, 8-1 Pacific-10 Conference) rushed for 288 of their 489 yards in defeating Oregon State (8-4, 6-3 Pac-10) 37-33, in front of a record crowd of 59,597 at Autzen Stadium. [...]
Jack Hunter Oregon head football coach Chip Kelly has preached all year long to his team that they are going to take things on a day-to-day basis and not get overexcited or look too far into the future, but with the final regular season game falling on a Thursday night against the in-state rival Oregon [...]
Leslie Montgomery One hundred and twelve times the University has played a football game against the Oregon State Beavers. In those games the Ducks are 56-46-10 against their rivals from Corvallis. But never has the Pacific-10 Championship and Rose Bowl been promised to the winner. “It being the last game makes it that much [...]
Lucas Clark: For the No. 7 Oregon Ducks and the No. 13 Oregon State Beavers, Thursday night will either be a storybook ending or a demoralizing defeat. The Ducks entered the season with national title aspirations but after their slip up at Boise State on Sept. 3 and again at Stanford on Nov. 7, Chip [...]
Jack Hunter The largest crowd in Autzen Stadium history was 59,592 for the USC game this year on Halloween. The largest crowd in Beaver Stadium history (the home of Penn State and the largest football stadium in America) was 110,753 for a Penn State win over Nebraska in 2002. The Big House in Michigan squeezed [...]
Part of my job at the Emerald is filling out our “By the Numbers” section for GameDay. I usually approach the numbers by highlighting what I feel are important statistical matchups between teams, along with strengths and weaknesses of each team that I find notable. The rest of the numbers consist of whatever I find [...]
Dave Martinez Arizona at No. 20 USC (12:30 p.m. Saturday) ABC The Wildcats enter this matchup a week removed from an exciting 20-17 win over Arizona State. Though Arizona appeared to be in command with an early 14-0 lead at halftime, the Sun Devils were not ready to quit. In what would be their last [...]
Courtesey of Jeffrey Basinger Four weeks into the season things weren’t looking good for ninth-year head coach Mike Riley’s Oregon State football team as it sat 2-2 overall and 0-1 in Pacific-10 Conference play. But now more than two months later, Riley and the Beavers will be taking on the Oregon Ducks for a trip [...]
Leslie Montgomery The Oregon Daily Emerald caught up with senior defensive lineman Simi Toeaina after practice this week to discuss everything from his relationship with his cousin Jeremiah Masoli to his home in American Samoa. Here’s what he had to say: Oregon Daily Emerald: Tell me a little bit about being cousins with Jeremiah Masoli. [...]
Jack Hunter If you’ve grown up in the state of Oregon, you might know how important Thursday night’s Civil War is to Oregonians. For the week leading up to the game, the state is polarized into yellow-green and orange-black. Families take sides, and Christmas can either be great or awful depending on whether or not [...]
Andrew Gerstlauer The Platypus Trophy is the unofficial trophy of the Civil War football game between the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers. You might not have heard about the uniquely shaped trophy because it was just in 2007 that it was given the title. Before then, the trophy featuring an odd combination [...]
Jack Hunter As corny as it seems with the holiday season upon us, the Oregon Ducks have a lot to be thankful for this year. They are sitting atop the Pacific-10 Conference with a 7-1 record and ranked No. 10 in the nation. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli can do no wrong by fans right now and [...]
Alan Walsh With about a minute to go in the Oregon-Arizona game and the Wildcats up 31-24, Arizona’s student section started spilling onto the sidelines. It was a sight reminiscent of 2007, when the same student section in Tucson, Ariz., started jumping the barrier to get a prime location to celebrate a 34-24 over the [...]
Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli punched in the ball from one yard out in the second overtime, beating Arizona 44-41 and placing the Ducks (9-2, 7-1 Pacific-10 Conference) in firm control of their Rose Bowl destiny. Down 31-24 in the fourth quarter, with Arizona students lined up on the sidelines anticipating a rush of the field, [...]
Ivar Vong Two games are left in this season. Just two games separate the No. 11 Oregon Ducks and the postseason — whatever that might bring. The pressure is mounting for Oregon, and with a key battle on Saturday in Tucson with second place Arizona, it’s even harder for the team to ignore that this [...]
Courtesey of Michael Ignatov The 2007 season was one of both a lot of joy and a lot of pain for Oregon fans. There was senior quarterback Dennis Dixon leading the Ducks to wins over Michigan, USC and Arizona State and a No. 2 ranking. Then there was Dixon’s knee injury and three straight losses [...]
