National Championship challengers?

I don’t know about you but I am not used to so much preseason hype for the Oregon Ducks. Just five years ago the Ducks were a good home-field team that were better known for producing NFL flops (see Smith, Harrington).

Five years ago USC was atop the conference and pounding each and every one of their Pac-10 foes. USC was like Mike Tyson and the rest of the conference was the lowly Hector Mercedes. Suffice to say, USC had their way with the Pac-10

However, we now fi...

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