“This game scares me because I’m actually going to score with Oregon. They're on the road in just under a week, Purdue put together a performance where they pushed Illinois to the rim and tried for the two-point conversion and came up just short.” . But I also think they've shown their hand with Ryan Browne running the football, and I think Oregon's ability to keep that at bay has suddenly catapulted itself into second place in the Heisman Trophy conversation. Maybe it comes into play for (offensive coordinator) Will Stein to keep him in the game a little bit longer to get him a little more stats, and if that's the case, I think Oregon gets the 27.5 points pick up.”

“This has nothing to do with time zones, it has to do with something that goes back through multiple coaches and multiple generations, and these are the top five teams playing Purdue in West Lafayette. I'm not calling now.” All I'm saying is that the immediate upset (27.5) is a heck of a lot of points for a short week after a huge win against the Purdue team that I think came with that quarterback run game maybe could shorten We saw Oregon get up early and take on Michigan State. This is a team that likes to do their business and then maybe come out of the game as healthy as possible and there's no shame in that. They're clearly one of the best teams in the country, just 27.5 is a lot of points when you “Consider the short week, the hangover and once again the juju of the Spoilermakers.”

Chris Hansen covers University of Oregon football, men's basketball, track and field, cross country and softball for The Register-Guard. You can reach him at [email protected] and follow him on X @chansen_RG.