Keep watching that scoreboard, folks
Jesse Severson
Issue date: 11/19/09 Section: Sports
Scoreboard watching has become the new favorite hobby of Beaver football fans.
After dropping games to Arizona early and at USC, Oregon State has just kept winning games. The stars have aligned perfectly to set OSU up for a possibly winner-goes-to-the-Rose-Bowl Civil War game against the Ducks.
This past Saturday, while walking to the game against the Huskies, my father and I discussed all the possible scenarios like a pair of scientists trying to figure out an experiment. So if Stanford beats USC, and Arizona loses two games to either Cal, USC or Oregon, and the Beavers keep winning… could it be?
It felt like the scene from BASEketball when Dan Patrick and Kenny Mayne are talking about the possible playoff situations:
"If the Beers beat Detroit and Denver beats Atlanta in the American Southwestern Division East Northern, then Milwaukee goes to the Denslow Cup, unless Baltimore can upset Buffalo and Charlotte ties Toronto, then Oakland would play LA and Pittsburgh in a blind choice round robin."
The Beavers would need a handful of cards to fall their way, but hey, it's college football. Crazier things have happened.
So while the Beavers were busy turning the Huskies into puppy chow, there were many eyes staring at the scoreboard near Valley Football Center.
That scoreboard became the beautiful woman in the room.
In the first quarter, I nudged my dad and pointed it out: Stanford 14, USC 0.
Halfway through the third, we saw what many people saw: Stanford 28, USC 21. Cheers from the Beaver fans sitting in my section.
Then the wheels fell off for the Trojans. Update after update, Stanford seemed to score another touchdown. There's no way, I thought, as the Cardinal's score jumped to 35, then 42, then 48, before finally settling on a symmetric 55.
What if Stanford beats USC? Check.
Driving back home to Portland, we were ecstatic. The big one was out of the way. Now if Arizona could just drop two games, the Beavers would be in business.
After dropping games to Arizona early and at USC, Oregon State has just kept winning games. The stars have aligned perfectly to set OSU up for a possibly winner-goes-to-the-Rose-Bowl Civil War game against the Ducks.
This past Saturday, while walking to the game against the Huskies, my father and I discussed all the possible scenarios like a pair of scientists trying to figure out an experiment. So if Stanford beats USC, and Arizona loses two games to either Cal, USC or Oregon, and the Beavers keep winning… could it be?
It felt like the scene from BASEketball when Dan Patrick and Kenny Mayne are talking about the possible playoff situations:
"If the Beers beat Detroit and Denver beats Atlanta in the American Southwestern Division East Northern, then Milwaukee goes to the Denslow Cup, unless Baltimore can upset Buffalo and Charlotte ties Toronto, then Oakland would play LA and Pittsburgh in a blind choice round robin."
The Beavers would need a handful of cards to fall their way, but hey, it's college football. Crazier things have happened.
So while the Beavers were busy turning the Huskies into puppy chow, there were many eyes staring at the scoreboard near Valley Football Center.
That scoreboard became the beautiful woman in the room.
In the first quarter, I nudged my dad and pointed it out: Stanford 14, USC 0.
Halfway through the third, we saw what many people saw: Stanford 28, USC 21. Cheers from the Beaver fans sitting in my section.
Then the wheels fell off for the Trojans. Update after update, Stanford seemed to score another touchdown. There's no way, I thought, as the Cardinal's score jumped to 35, then 42, then 48, before finally settling on a symmetric 55.
What if Stanford beats USC? Check.
Driving back home to Portland, we were ecstatic. The big one was out of the way. Now if Arizona could just drop two games, the Beavers would be in business.
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