Last night the Ducks racked up more rushing yards in a single game than Washington State has done all year. Kenjon Barner basically ran halfway to New York and the Heisman Trophy presentation with how far he traveled last night. Although their defense didn't look pretty in the Duck's 62-51 win over USC, Matt Barkley, Marquis Lee, and Robert Woods will typically do that to you. At the end of the night, however, the Ducks Won the Day once again.
Pitt and LSU, thanks for nothing. LSU is a little more acceptable of a lose given that they only had a three point lead throughout the fourth quarter and everyone can basically guarantee that Les Miles will outcoach himself in at least one big game a year. Pitt, on the other hand, was up 14 points in the fourth quarter and had a chance to win the game in double overtime with a 33 yard field goal. Saying they blew that game would be like saying Facebook struggled with its IPO. The only consolation out of this is that this pretty much ensures that Notre Dame will lose one game before the end of this year They have been too close in too many games to keep having Irish Luck looking down on them.
Here's my feelings on Kansas State: they are the ones that the Ducks have the most to worry about. Frankly, I just don't think that the Big12 is really that good. They have a test left with Oklahoma and they will have to get by the Big12 championship as well. But the way that they have been running over, through, and around teams thus far, I don't have high hopes for a KSU loss.
That is, unless, their field general Colin Klein, who left last night with a hand injury, suffered anything more than minor injury. Klein is the danger of that offense, a mini-Tebow if you are so inclined. He has the option on basically every play to pull it in and take off down the field. He is the primary guy who runs over and through opponents, punishing linebackers and safeties with his size and strength. He isn't the strongest passer in the world, but when defenses have to put seven in the box to keep him contained, even I could complete some of the passes he throws. And my spiral is more wobbly than a broken top.
But as I said above, Klein left the game last night with an undisclosed hand injury. And let me tell you how I feel about that: I don't want it to be a serious injury. I want KSU to be full strength and play it out. If the Ducks are #3 in the BCS poll that is released later today, then I want them to finish the season #2 and not have any astricks by it. A major injury to Klein and a subsequent drop in the polls by KSU would put a gigantic, fluorescent astricks by that #2 for the Ducks. Even if they did win the championship over Alabama (who by the way, last night proved they are not unbeatable), there would still always be that "what if Klein..." lingering over the 2012 season.
Auburn fans in 2004 still complain about their lack of an opportunity to prove they were the best team that season. Hell, Utah's attorney general only just now dropped his lawsuit against the BCS that stems from Utah's failure to play for a national championship during the Urban Meyer days. I don't want those kinds of questions and hypotheticals to exist if the Ducks make it to the national championship. If the Ducks win, I want it to be straight up.
Unless Notre Dame is that undefeated team left on the outside. Then I will just laugh and laugh and laugh.
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