{"id":32092,"date":"2018-09-03T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32092"},"modified":"2018-09-03T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:21:45","slug":"portland-state-vs-oregon-oh-the-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32092","title":{"rendered":"Portland State vs. Oregon: Oh, the quandary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You might be aware from this blog that occasionally I have written about University of Oregon football. The Ducks ascended to NCAA gridiron elite status, only to fall dramatically two seasons ago.<\/p>\n

They went from heroes to zeroes virtually overnight.<\/p>\n

I didn’t attend Oregon. I attended Portland State University, in the downtown district of my hometown of Portland, Ore. However, since the Ducks were winning a lot of football games and twice played for the national collegiate championship — losing to Auburn in 2011 and Ohio State in 2015 — I have become a Ducks fan. Hey, I’ll cop to being somewhat of a fair-weather fan.<\/p>\n

Now, though, comes the quandary. Portland State’s Vikings — who compete on the Division I-AA level — are traveling 100 miles down Interstate 5 to Eugene next Saturday to play the Ducks.<\/p>\n

What do I do? I know. I’ll root for the Vikings, understanding that they likely are going to get clobbered by the Ducks, who are showing some signs of life after a miserable season and then a rebuilding year in 2017. The Ducks have a new coach, Mario Cristobal, who went to Eugene as an assistant to one-and-done<\/em> head coach Willie Taggart, who left Oregon after a single season to return to his home state of Florida to coach Florida State University.<\/p>\n

But dang! I would love to see Portland State score an upset. Is it impossible? I direct you to what Appalachian State did to the University of Michigan, in the Big House in Ann Arbor, just a few years back. ASU on Sept. 1, 2007 handed the Wolverines the upset of the ages before a crowd of 109,000 stunned and shocked Michigan fans.<\/p>\n

As the saying goes: That’s why they play the game.<\/p>\n\n

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