Stream-of-Consciousness Notes
2011 BCS Championship
Auburn vs. Oregon
By
Pete Fiutak
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2010
BCS Championship SOC Notes - Texas vs. Alabama
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2009
BCS Championship SOC Notes - Oklahoma vs. Florida
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2008
BCS Championship SOC Notes - LSU vs. Ohio State
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2007
BCS Championship SOC Notes - Florida vs. Ohio State
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - TCU vs. Wisconsin
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Ohio State vs. Arkansas
CFN 2011 BCS CHAMPIONSHIP POSITION BREAKDOWN
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Quarterbacks |
Running Backs
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Receivers |
Offensive Lines
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Defensive Lines |
Linebackers
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Secondaries |
Special Teams |
Coaches
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Auburn
Wins The National Title
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CFN
Analysis - The Fizzling Oregon O
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CFN
Analysis - The Auburn D On Fire
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CFN
Analysis - The Better Team Won
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CFN
Analysis - The Duck D Did Its Part
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 1st Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 2nd Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 4th Quarter
Pregame
- Deranged politicized assassins, "Papers, Please,"
cut off funding for people in desperate need of
organ transplants ... helloooooo, Arizona!
- Sort of makes the Cam Newton fiasco look even more
ridiculous.
- I'm a firm believer in keeping church, state, and
sports separate, but if Congress is shutting down
after the tragedy, it sort of makes playing a
football game up the road from where it all happened
seem a tad crass.
- What chance does Oregon have? It's going against
the Teflon quarterback. Several weeks after all the
hubbub and Auburn has already gotten its big break
getting No. 2 on the field.
- I truly don't think there was anything wrong with
Newton sitting courtside for the Lakers-Suns game,
while the rest of his team was sitting in the upper
deck, and I believe that Charles Barkley didn't have
anything to do with the sweet seat, which would've
been an NCAA violation, but still ... Cam shouldn't
have been doing anything, anything, that
came within 100 miles of appearing inappropriate in
any way. Not when he was so close to being on the
train out of town and off to Carolina.
- Teflon.
- I hope someone, somewhere is recording this game
so there's some record of it occurring, unlike the
USC win over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl.
- Teflon.
- Someone, somewhere is recording this game but has
to leave for something unavoidable. He'll get in his
car and will do everything possible not to hear a
score or get any updates, and then he won't be able
to resist and will turn on the radio. Four minutes
into hearing Jon Gruden, our hero will suffer an
unfortunate demise after giving in to his
overwhelming desire to drive his car into a
something solid.
- Look, Oregon fans, I'm not anti-Ducks and I'm
certainly not anti-Pac 10. But the conference was
awful this year outside of the top teams and I defy
you or anyone else to give me a case of a team, any
team, that lives and dies on running wide that can
do it against a national title level SEC team. It
just doesn't make sense. Oregon might be fast, but
it's going to try to run to the outside on a
consistent basis against a team with veteran
linebackers that have had a month to prepare.
- But the windsock is fully prepared to reverse
field in a big hurry if Auburn defensive tackles
Nick Fairley and Zach Clayton are barfing after the
second drive.
- The College GameDay pregame show with Urban Meyer
and Nick Saban was pregame at its best. Meyer is
fantastic at describing why the spread attacks work
like they do.
- The biggest upset of the night already occurred
when Meyer and Saban were able to fit their heads in
the stadium at the same time.
- And there it is. There was no way Meyer could get
through a segment without saying the word Tebow.
- These aren't the two most talented teams by a long
shot, but the players fit the respective systems.
- If you're going to watch the BCS Championship game because you saw an
ad that just came on 90 minutes before the game,
you're probably not reading this.
- You're probably watching The Bachelor, which is
apparently more important than the biggest college
football game of the season.
- You know somewhere in Alabama, with all the snow,
some Tiger fan who has been waiting his entire life
for this moment is blowing a gasket because snow is
clogging up his satellite signal.
- There's no truth to the rumor that Auburn is now
UA, for Under Armour.
- The Nike Ducks vs. the Under Armour Tigers. Kind
of makes $180,000 sound like chump change for what
Teflon is bringing to the table tonight.
- Seriously, how much money has the NCAA, ESPN,
Under Armour, Gene Chizik, the SEC, and the
University of Auburn made off of Teflon? You can't
give me a reasonable or rational argument that
Newton, or any college player, shouldn't be able to
get whatever anyone wants to offer them.
- Did the conductor of God Bless America just give
the O sign at the end? God might be able to bless
America, but he doesn't have a prayer of keeping
Teflon under wraps.
- People, we did this before when it comes to
high-octane offenses in BCS Championships. Oklahoma?
Two years ago? How quickly they forget.
- Don't get me wrong, though. I desperately want to
see this Duck attack blow up to make this a classic.
- Happy national title night, all. It's going to be
a long eight months.
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Auburn
Wins The National Title
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CFN
Analysis - The Fizzling Oregon O
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CFN
Analysis - The Auburn D On Fire
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CFN
Analysis - The Better Team Won
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CFN
Analysis - The Duck D Did Its Part
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 1st Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 2nd Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter
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2011
BCS Champ. SOC Notes - 4th Quarter