Fans at Autzen Stadium who watched the Oregon-Pacific game saw why four of five football publications
picked Oregon to finish ninth in the Pac-10 conference.
Polls relegate Ducks to cellar,
disagree on Pac-10 champion
If preseason predictions are an
accurate prognosis of the health
of a college football team, then
Oregon's grid team should climb
in bed, take two aspirin, and call a
doctor immediately.
The Duck's condition looks,
well, bad.
While Pacific-10 prognasticators
can't seem to agree on the con
ference champ, they all seem in
unanimity on where Oregon will
finish this football campaign — in,
or at least near, the cellar.
Four of five polls or publications
pick the Ducks to finish ninth, in
each case just ahead of the
Oregon State Beavers, while
Athlon consigns the Ducks to
tenth in the conference.
The predictions:
•Sport Magazine: This monthly
rival to Sports Illustrated picks
Oregon to finish ninth in the
Pac-10, a conference the magazine
calls the No. 1 in the country.
Sport bases its Pac-10 choice on
five categories: talent, coaching,
excitement, interconference play
and bowl appearances.
"The football may be good
where you live, but the numbers
say it's the most on the Coast,"
Sport says after awarding five of
the conference members 'A'
grades.
The Southeastern Conference is
the only other with five A-rated
schools. The Ducks find a D-plus
on their report card, with the
following comment: "With scores
like 10-4, 10-7,13-13, 10-3, 13-7 and
7-6, you'd think we were talking
about the Oregon baseball team.
The Ducks' fine defense is gone,
and the offense has yet to arrive."
Picks: 1. Arizona, A-plus. 1a.
Arizona State, A-plus. 3. UCLA, A.
4. Washington, A. 5. Southern
California, A-minus. 6. Stanford, B.
7. California, B. 8. Washington
State, C-plus. 9. OREGON, D-plus.
10. Oregon State, D.
•Pacific-10 Skywriters: This band
of 18 sports writers who toured
the Pac-10's schools during the
last two weeks of August stuck the
Ducks in ninth place in the con
ference, barely ahead of the cellar
dwelling Beavers. Oregon guard
Gary Zimmerman finished second
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