Oregon has played great so far and deserves their ranking. I'm still interested to see how they would match up with a physical team. I think a physical team would present matchup problems for them the same way OSU did in the Rose Bowl.

Stanford isn't a physical team?

karen lotz;529262 wrote:Stanford isn't a physical team?

Stanford is only physical on offense. They don't play defense.

Hmmm, I see.

Al Bundy;529274 wrote:Stanford is only physical on offense. They don't play defense.

Whether they are physical or not, I guess we can all have our opinions. And though I agree Oregon is going to end up facing a better one, Stanford's defense has held every single opponent under their season scoring average, including Oregon, so they obviously play a little bit of defense.

enigmaax;529351 wrote:Whether they are physical or not, I guess we can all have our opinions. And though I agree Oregon is going to end up facing a better one, Stanford's defense has held every single opponent under their season scoring average, including Oregon, so they obviously play a little bit of defense.

Stanford's defense is ranked 58th in points allowed, and they have only played one ranked team all season.

Al Bundy;529370 wrote:Stanford's defense is ranked 58th in points allowed, and they have only played one ranked team all season.

I'm not saying they are great. Playing only one ranked team doesn't mean anything because rankings are based on wins and losses, not how good either your offense or defense is. They've played a couple of high scoring offenses that happened to score on them, but still at a lower rate than what they were scoring before.

Take out the one game against Oregon and they're allowing around 18 a game, which would have them around #20. And that is the point, Oregon's offense made a decent Stanford defense look terrible.