... in 2009, becoming the first team since the 1991 Washington Huskies to do so.  They demolished most of the Pac-10 and came back from an early season flop.  But the Oregon Ducks still have to prove themselves in 2010.  They would have had to with or without a Rose Bowl Championship.

If the Ducks are ranked in the top 12 when the final rankings come out, they will have finished in the top 12 five times this decade.  The Ducks have shown that they can compete with anyone. (Let's remember that with about 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter of the Rose Bowl, the Ducks were down by two, having played a terrible game offensively.) But they have yet to win the big one.  They win big home games, they win bowl games that are...

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