Who you callin' a Dumb Fork?: Pac-12 Check
We're talkin' about stonks, the road to Vegas, and of course, our Beavs.
We’re back. I took the Bye week off to mourn the Duckies, but we’ve got Friday Night Madness this week with Cal coming to town, and the rest of the conference has plenty going on, too.
First, here is this week’s Reader* Poll.
*I had results from last week, never posted them, and then I just made an executive decision to swap ASU & OSU, and then swap USC with their daddies, Utah. If you have a problem with me wielding that kind of power, the full-fledged reader poll will return for Week 8. Let your voice be heard there.
The Good: What the Fork?
Everybody give a big west coast welcome to Arizona State University AKA “The Dartmouth of the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area”—sorry Dad, GCU gets to be Harvard. You’re only a real college if you’re publicly traded.
LOPE$ UP (to the Moon)!
Academics aside, the Sun Devils put on an absolute whoopin’ of UCLA two weeks ago, and then beat up Stanford on Friday night. Maybe ASU is finally going to win the South after all?
But if the history of the Pac-12 has told us anything, it’s that the Devs have set themselves up very nicely to lose AT Utah this Saturday in what is sure to be a classic #AfterDark moment.
The Bad: I took last week off, and so did my Beavs!
If anyone was still unsure about the Beavers being a serious contender for the conference, we officially have our answer.
After a couple weeks of winning big games, Oregon State fans like myself had every reason to fall in love with football all over again. They got their hopes up, they talked their shit, and they even had dreams of winning the North…
But then they went lost a road game to Wazzu that they really weren’t supposed to lose.
And that’s how you know they’re officially ready to join the rest of the big boys at the top of the conference.
Because we literally all always do that.
The Badder: Our beloved Oregon Ducks. Still.
Until a victory over Cal can cleanse that Stanford loss out of my brain, the Ducks have to be in The Badder.
Everything from injuries, to not showing up until the second half—and some interesting officiating—cost us our perfect season.
I will never overlook Stanford again. For as long as I live. You would think that I’d have learned that lesson by now, but if you read this blog regularly, you’d know that I am actually incapable of learning.
After losing to the Tree, the season went from Big-Picture-College-Football-Playoff-debates to Small-Picture-battling-every-week-between-our-four-most-intimate-neighbors-to-win-The-North.
Beat Cal. Beat UDub. Beat Wazzu. Beat The Beavs. That’s the battle.
Of course, you always want to do all of those things. And you also want win all the other games, too. But those games are The Ducks’ playoff picture now. Get to Vegas.
Welcome back, folks. Go Ducks.
Can I get a Yale of Greater Maricopa County?