[SamAtoms1980]

Stanford 36, Oregon 31.

This feels very much like last year's game, with the roles reversed, right down to the weather.  They are just as desperate to showcase their team in the MNC as we were a year ago.  Their injury problems on defense are roughly on a par with our own on offense a year ago.  And remember, they have a devil of a lot more to lose than we do.  I bantered with an Oregon fan yesterday on another board, they are definitely tense.

Last year we were favored by 3½ and lost by 23.  They're favored by 20½ in this game, with the psychological circumstances as they are, there's no reason we can't engineer a swing of the same size, and win by five or six.

The Cardinal will win this football game.

[SamAtoms1980]

Stanford 36, Oregon 31.

This feels very much like last year's game, with the roles reversed, right down to the weather.  They are just as desperate to showcase their team in the MNC as we were a year ago.  Their injury problems on defense are roughly on a par with our own on offense a year ago.  And remember, they have a devil of a lot more to lose than we do.  I bantered with an Oregon fan yesterday on another board, they are definitely tense.

Last year we were favored by 3½ and lost by 23.  They're favored by 20½ in this game, with the psychological circumstances as they are, there's no reason we can't engineer a swing of the same size, and win by five or six.

The Cardinal will win this football game.