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College football has a name for the final week of a long season.<\/p>\n

It’s called Rivalry Week. Traditional rival schools square off against each other on the football field. They’re usually in-state rivalries.<\/p>\n

For those of us who grew up in Oregon, Rivalry Week takes on a particularly distasteful tag. It’s known there as the Civil War. Oregon vs. Oregon State.<\/p>\n

Why distasteful? Well, for one thing I dislike the use the of the term “war” to describe a football game. I’ve had a ringside seat in a real war and a football game bears no resemblance to it, you know?<\/p>\n

I even heard Tiger Woods once describe a round of golf<\/em>, for crying out loud, as being “like war out there.”<\/p>\n

You get my drift.<\/p>\n

Well, Rivalry Week is going to present some interesting athletic matchups. The Oregon-Oregon State game, for example, will enable the Oregon Ducks to stay in the hunt for the coveted football playoff that will determine the national championship.<\/p>\n

First things first, though. They have to beat OSU, then they have to defeat whoever wins the Pac-12 South title in the league championship game to be played at the San Francisco 49ers’ new field at Levi Stadium.<\/p>\n

OK, I’m boring the daylights out of fans of the Big 12, the SEC, the Big 10 (or is it Big 13?) with all of this.<\/p>\n

I’ll stick with my original premise.<\/p>\n

I wish they wouldn’t call it “war.”<\/p>\n

It’s just a game.<\/p>\n

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