[FarmBoy]

I think the Pac12 scheduling rules require that both team have a bye before their Thursday night game. It kind of lessens the value of the Bye week, I would imagine, since you can't spend a full week on fundamentals and healing before going into game planning for the next game. Given Thursday night games are a new reality, and each team only gets 1 bye per year, I guess the "true bye" is going to become a thing of the past.

Well, unless the bus was just taking the kids from their hotel or the airport, I got the sense that they bus to away games for kids who want to travel. El Camino was basically lined with buses that had Oregon fans, mostly looking college-aged, milling about them before and after the '09 and '11 games. Google maps says it's 8.5 hours drive from Eugene to Palo Alto.

I imagine that the "U.SC let down" is basically a thing of the past, otherwise I'd be more worried about Big Game. I attribute half of the face plant we had in the '09 game to the fact that we played at the Coliseum the week before.

[FarmBoy]

I think the Pac12 scheduling rules require that both team have a bye before their Thursday night game. It kind of lessens the value of the Bye week, I would imagine, since you can't spend a full week on fundamentals and healing before going into game planning for the next game. Given Thursday night games are a new reality, and each team only gets 1 bye per year, I guess the "true bye" is going to become a thing of the past.

Well, unless the bus was just taking the kids from their hotel or the airport, I got the sense that they bus to away games for kids who want to travel. El Camino was basically lined with buses that had Oregon fans, mostly looking college-aged, milling about them before and after the '09 and '11 games. Google maps says it's 8.5 hours drive from Eugene to Palo Alto.

I imagine that the "U.SC let down" is basically a thing of the past, otherwise I'd be more worried about Big Game. I attribute half of the face plant we had in the '09 game to the fact that we played at the Coliseum the week before.