One Good, Three Bad in Footballville

One great outcome and the rest, well, not so good this week in my own private footballville.

As a reminder, I attended and graduated from the University of Oregon, I was born at the University of Iowa and as a long time resident of Seattle I keep tabs on the Huskies and Seahawks.

My Oregon Ducks got back on track with a beat down of Arizona State. The high flying O continued to race down the field and score a lot of points, this time against a very good ASU defense. The Duck D that played so well in all but the Stanford game showed up again. If not for a strange ASU interception down by the Oregon goal line, the D would have held ASU to 14 points. The win extends the Duck's record to 8-2 overall and 6-2 (and alone in first place) in the Pac-10. All is good...for this week. However, upcoming games at Arizona and then the Civil War at Autzen will determine which school wins the league championship and plays in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1, 2010. In fact, it's likely that the Civil War game will determine if Oregon or Oregon State plays in the big game. Should be an interesting two weeks.

The Iowa Hawkeyes lost a close one at Ohio State. Iowa was without their starting QB due to injury. Oh well. They still have a good record at 8-2, and will be playing in a decent bowl, but with the defeat Ohio State wins the Big-10 and will play in the Rose Bowl.

The UW Huskies lost in embarrassing fashion to Oregon State. The same things that have plagued them all season did so again - porous defense and an interception-prone QB - and now it appears the team may be quitting a bit on the season.

The Seahawks lost again. No surprise to me at all. At least they put up a fight this time. Kinda.