PAC 12: Oregon vs Stanford

This is the weekends most interesting college football game except for maybe Nebraska vs. Penn St. (UPDATE*** no showers will be taken before or after this game for safety precautions). Last week we had the ever anticipated LSU/Bama game. Tonight we have a west coast match up of (7) Oregon coming in to play (4) Stanford. The game is basically the over-hyping of two superstars, Luck and James. Andrew Luck, the senior out of Stratford High School (Houston) is likely to be the 1st pick in the NFL draft. LaMichael James had a disaster of a performance against LSU in the season opener where he was held to a pitiful 54 yards. Since, he's rushed for 1000+ yards en route to Oregon's eight game winning streak. With Stanford and Oregon both fighting for the PAC 12 title this should be a thriller. If Stanford wins they have an excellent argument to play in the national championship (if they can stay unbeaten). Don't be surprised if Oregon pulls this one out and you see them in the championship conversation at seasons end. Oregon has a sensational rushing attack, ranking 5th in FBS. Both teams score an insane amount of points, Stanford averages 48.2 a game.  The advantage on defense has to go to Stanford, they've only allowed 16 points a game. Overall their stats are similar on both sides of the ball, on paper its difficult to see weaknesses either way. All signs point to a great game, stay tuned because this ones going down to the wire. I'd really like to see Stanford place themselves on path to playing LSU early next year... plus I always love to see a fellow Houstonian win. 

James is actually also from Texas (Texarkana) 

Prediction Corner (post your comments):

Will  Stanford be in the National Championship game January 9th 2012???