OREGON // AUBURN PREDICTION
By mark rogers
January 10, 2011
Pretty easy right?
Two teams averaging about 45 points per game.
Oregon held under 42 points just twice all year.
Auburn scoring 49+ in seven games.
Oregon running nearly 80 plays per game....80!
Auburn close to 70 plays per game.
Oregon averaging three punts per game.
Auburn less than three.
Cam Newtom. LaMichael James. Michael Dyer. Darron Thomas.
This is going to be a "track meet". The highest scoring football game ever played. The scoreboards won't be able to show the final score because there's no third digit!!!! And on and on and on...
Well what if someone came along and predicted a grind-it-out, smash mouth, low-scoring game?
You'd call him crazy. You'd ask what he's on. You'd think you were in the presence of a lunatic.
Well, guess what?
That's exactly what I'm predicting.
Why? Because no one ever proved anything just because something has happened before.
For 1,000 days the turkey gets fed and lives in peace. The turkey wakes up on the 1,001st day fully expecting to get fed and live in peace.
But you know what happens on the 1,001st day? He gets killed and eaten.
Don't be the turkey who thinks something is going to happen just because that's the way it's always happened.
My prediction is that the Auburn coaches have studied that Cal game extensively (Bears allowed Oregon just 15 points) and that the Oregon coaches have watched the LSU, Alabama, Kentucky, Clemson, 1st South Carolina game, and Mississippi State films (all games AU could have easily lost) and that the solid defenses of both schools show up and steal the show.
My guess?
Auburn 28
Oregon 17
Throw it all out the window. Previous scores and tendencies will matter tonight as much as what Cam Newton had for breakfast on his 13th birthday (which was probably a large amount of meat and some nails).
Nick Fairley is my hero and will have a huge game.
That Oregon D that shut out Portland State will be ready to play.
Call me crazy. But I'm going against the grain and calling for low-scoring football.
The pundits after the game will be saying, "who could have every predicted this outcome! Amazing."
And I'll say, "I did. Because I'm not a turkey." On that 1,001st day I'm getting the heck out of dodge.
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