UCLA-Oregon: Thursday Night Football

• Al Bundy

  Oregon has played great so far and deserves their ranking. I'm still interested to see how they would match up with a physical team. I think a physical team would present matchup problems for them the same way OSU did in the Rose Bowl.
• karen lotz

  

  Stanford isn't a physical team?
• Al Bundy

  karen lotz;529262 wrote:Stanford isn't a physical team?

  
  Stanford is only physical on offense. They don't play defense.
• karen lotz

  

  Hmmm, I see.
• enigmaax

  Al Bundy;529274 wrote:Stanford is only physical on offense. They don't play defense.

  
  Whether they are physical or not, I guess we can all have our opinions. And though I agree Oregon is going to end up facing a better one, Stanford's defense has held every single opponent under their season scoring average, including Oregon, so they obviously play a little bit of defense.
• Al Bundy

  enigmaax;529351 wrote:Whether they are physical or not, I guess we can all have our opinions. And though I agree Oregon is going to end up facing a better one, Stanford's defense has held every single opponent under their season scoring average, including Oregon, so they obviously play a little bit of defense.

  Stanford's defense is ranked 58th in points allowed, and they have only played one ranked team all season.
• enigmaax

  Al Bundy;529370 wrote:Stanford's defense is ranked 58th in points allowed, and they have only played one ranked team all season.

  
  I'm not saying they are great. Playing only one ranked team doesn't mean anything because rankings are based on wins and losses, not how good either your offense or defense is. They've played a couple of high scoring offenses that happened to score on them, but still at a lower rate than what they were scoring before.
  
  Take out the one game against Oregon and they're allowing around 18 a game, which would have them around #20. And that is the point, Oregon's offense made a decent Stanford defense look terrible.