Oregon on ESPN's Bottom 10 List

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Oregon on ESPN's Bottom 10 List

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/stor ... om10090909

Oregon is the 5th worst team on ESPN's bottom 10 list. Even Washington State isn't on the list. :D

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1. Western Kentucky 0-1 "Don't Let Me Down": After they put up only seven points and 83 total yards against the Vols, the Bottom 10 is confident the Hilltoppers won't let us down this season.
2. Eastern Michigan 0-1 "Ticket To Ride": A home loss to Army seems to indicate the Eagles will have a season-long ticket to ride in the Bottom 10. And they might be ticketed for a long ride.
3. New Mexico State 0-1 "Eight Days A Week": Even if new coach DeWayne Walker worked the Aggies eight days a week, that might not be enough to get them out of the Bottom 10 in '09.
4. Tulane 0-1 "If I Needed Someone": The Green Wave need someone. In fact, it looks like the Green Wave need a bunch of someones this season.
5. Oregon 0-1 "A Hard Day's Night": The offense struggled. LeGarrette Blount threw that punch. It was a tough first game for new coach Chip Kelly and the Ducks.
6. Virginia 0-1 "Do You Want To Know A Secret": Losing at home to William & Mary will land you in the Bottom 10 -- and put your coach in hot water.
7. Temple 0-1 "Twist And Shout": The Owls definitely are twisting and shouting after losing to neighbor (and FCS team) Villanova, but it's not the feel-good kind the Beatles hit inspired.
8. Duke 0-1 "Come Together": It looked like the Blue Devils had come together around David Cutcliffe, but a loss to Richmond indicates that is not the case -- at least yet.
9. Ball State 0-1 "I Want You": The Bottom 10 does want the Cardinals. We want them so bad, especially after a home loss to preseason No. 1 North Texas.
10. Washington 0-1 "Getting Better": A nation-worst 15 straight losses keeps the Huskies on the list, but don't expect U-Dub to be a part of our rocked band for much longer.

Waiting list: ACC (4-6 nonconference record), Florida Atlantic (0-1), Florida State's clock management, Georgia's offense, Hawks love (0-1), Illinois (0-1), Indiana (1-0), Louisiana-Monroe (0-1), Marshall (1-0), Miami (Ohio) (0-1), New Mexico (0-1), Rice (0-1), Washington State (0-1).
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Re: Oregon on ESPN's Bottom 10 List

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Whoa, flashbacks to the 70's all thats missing is the barkrats there.
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ESPN is always biased anyway. I didn't think Washington looked bad at all.
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doesn't really matter if Washington looked bad or not... they still keep losing and that's all that really matters. Let's not give their fans anything to get too excited about. Sadly, they will probably change that this week.

The 5th spot in the Bottom 10 is always reserved for a good team that lays an egg the week beforehand, which is where UO comes in (so it's not like they actually think the Ducks are that bad, but crap the bed again against Purdue and they might end up in one of the other spots).
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I think this list is pretty legit if you aren't delusional! We sucked last week! There is nothing in this list that says we will suck this week...just that we need to get things figured out which is absolutely true!
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IMO losing to a division 2 teams is more embarrassing than losing by 11 points to a top 10 team on the road.

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We looked awful in our game so we deserve to be on this list...now hopefully we can use it as motivation to correct what went wrong!

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yup, we earned that spot. The good thing is we seem to do well when everyone counts us out. so lets go crush the rest of the schedule.
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I'm sorry, but no matter how awful we looked, we don't deserve to be on that list after losing at Boise St. Oh well, no big deal.
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^Its not a ranking its the Bottom 10 list based on performance...so we deserve top spot, we layed an egg!
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