We Called It: Arizona Over #2 Oregon

Ok so we didn't believe it when we called it, but we saw the signs. Dennis Dixon's unforced leg injury made the upset a mere formality.

I don't credit this to parity, I think that's a lazy description for what's happening this year in college football. College football is a game with uneven matchups but so much more psychologically at play that provides this great variance that we see. And tonight that variance was an injury to Oregon's quarterback absolutely putting his team into a shell.

His backup tossed an interception that was returned for a touchdown, they surrendered a weird punt return touchdown and then basically quit until late in the fourth quarter. That's college kids for ya.

And now the red-shirted college kids are storming the field, reminiscent of Rutgers' upset over Louisville last year.

The effects are far-reaching. With Dixon's injury, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is the runaway favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. He would be the award's first-ever underclass winner.

Elsewhere, Kansas is now the clear favorite to play LSU in the BCS Championship Game. Kansas! Heaven help us trying to sort things out if one or both of them lose any of their remaining games. This is big.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

11-16-2007 @ 1:09AM

tien said...

"He would be the award's first-ever underclass winner."

Um, Matt Leinart? And countless others?

11-16-2007 @ 1:13AM

Brian said...

Leinart was a redshirt junior.

There are no others.

11-16-2007 @ 1:21AM

uofazwildkitty said...

BEAR DOWN, ARIZONA!

11-16-2007 @ 1:24AM

getyurfactsstraight said...

Hello? Archie Griffin won it as a junior AND senior

11-16-2007 @ 1:26AM

You guys need a dictionary.

Upperclassmen are strictly juniors and seniors:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/upperclassman

There has never been a freshman or sophomore Heisman Trophy winner. Tim Tebow is a true sophomore.

Get your facts straight, getyurfactsstraight

11-16-2007 @ 4:20AM

LOL! said...

What a wonderful choke job by all those criminals masquerading as college ballers..

To all those high schoolers still being enticed by uncle Knight's booster money filled envelopes that he gives out every week..Yes, you may have some pocket change and yes, you may dress well on game day but you will just end up blowing out you knee and then living out the rest of your sorry lives in a trailer park in Eugene..

Just DON’T do it!

11-16-2007 @ 8:25AM

Ryan Ferguson said...

What in the world is wrong with people today? Two separate people in this thread don't know what an upperclassman is... and then took to task the guy who had it right!

Surely if you can't get "underclassman" right, you've been wrong about lots of other things in your lifetime. Ergo, you'd think that being wrong lots of times would lend itself to the person in question not, uh, calling other people out when they perceive an error, allowing for the self-aware possibility that they, in fact, were the one in err.

Embarassing.

11-16-2007 @ 9:33AM

eska said...

hmm, you called it?
"Personally, I don't see it happening but let's take a look at something interesting here."- on the chance of upsets
yeah, you nailed that one.

11-16-2007 @ 9:49AM

evwulf said...

Why do people waste their time reading what other idiots have to say? I'll never understand that.

11-16-2007 @ 9:56AM

grapevinesooner said...

"Elsewhere, Kansas is now the clear favorite to play LSU in the BCS Championship Game. Kansas! Heaven help us trying to sort things out if one or both of them lose any of their remaining games. This is big."

Only if Mizzou, KU, or OU lose any of their remaining games where they're not playing each other.

Otherwise, it'll be rather simple to determine who gets one of the two slots. Whoever wins the Big 12 title gets to play for the National Championship.

11-16-2007 @ 10:37AM

Gamecock Man said...

It's amazing how many people post on college football boards whose level of intelligence shows little evidence of ever having actually attended a college.

11-16-2007 @ 11:39AM

Justin said...

And another one bites the dust.

11-30-2007 @ 12:23AM

blndybluey said...

Terd Smuggler

11-16-2007 @ 4:28PM

Since Oregon lost, there is now a big question: Which Big 12 team is going to lose to LSU in the National Championship game?

Mizzou, KU, or OU?

11-16-2007 @ 6:27PM

rick said...

lsu, west virginia, oklahoma, and missouri ALL have losses coming

11-16-2007 @ 6:33PM

lsu to ga. in sec title game, w. vir. to cincinnati, missouri to kansas, oklahoma to kansas in big 12 title game. that leaves, yes you got it, ohio state #2.