Meanwhile, a big win for the Pac-12 Conference.

There was a mix up and New Mexico mistakenly sent a high school football team.

That was my opinion.

I was thinking "what, did they just line up a chump for the ODucks to play?"

At least OSU's opposition showed up to play. they were supposed to be tough. Wish the Beavers won that one, that would have been grand, but they did make TCU earn it.

Seventy-two to nothing? Sev.en.ty.two to nothing??? How childish.

Hey now.... those that determine the national rankings love it when the big daddies lay it on in spades over nothing schools. The SEC and Baby 12 have been doing it for years...

Margin of Victory was removed from the BCS equation years ago, due to the likes of Steve Spurrier whipping out the fake punt on fourth down, when already up by 35 points.

Now, a win is a win, as far as the BCS computer rankings are concerned.

But honestly, how many people would expect the Ducks to be classy and graceful in such circumstances?

"Margin of Victory was removed from the BCS equation"

True, but it dies affect the AP/coaches polls. Otherwise, how do you explain Boise St at #3 when they only play one real game and a bowl game every year?

Sorry, but with a team, you are out to win and you don't turn it off.

If you want to say scheduling patsies like NM is infra dig, OK, but if you have the ball every drive should be for a score.

Sky down, folks.

The amazing thing is that UO wasn't running up the score. The starters played two quarters.

The entire second half was subs and scrubs on the Oregon side of the ball. By the end a backup wide receiver playing quarterback and backup corners playing wide receiver. And it was run, run, run. Run the ball, run the clock and run out of the stadium. Oregon could have scored 100. Or more. I was there. And, for the first time ever, tempted to run down to the sideline myself as at 50-something, I still have eligibility left.

The Ducks did everything right in that first half and New Mexico did everything wrong. The result is what happens when a good team has a great day and a bad team can do nothing to stop it.

But was Oregon running it up? That was a backup tailback running for 200 yards in the first half and a backup corner returning two punts for touchdowns.

Yeah, New Mexico was that bad, especially for a team in a major conference (next on the Lobos' schedule are Texas Tech and Utah, the latter a conference game).

As for the Ducks, we'll find out how good they really are next Saturday in Knoxville. Tennessee hung half a hundred on its opening cupcake 50-0.

How did Stanford do in keeping their score classy and graceful against Sac State?

Stanford won by 35. Even a U of O athlete could probably tell you that that's less than half of 72. Ask him with a word problem: "If you were serving a 72-month sentence for burglary, while your friend was serving 35 months for drunk driving, how much more jail time would you have to serve than your friend?"