This is finally a winnable game. I doubt they pull it off. The line is -11.5 right now. That seems right. After this game, the Beavs get into a handful of games that they can actually win. I’m leaning potential win but somehow they manage to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat (a pick six or something like that).
Houston 42, Beavs 28
FIRST!
This is a joke game btw, not that I think it’ll make a huge difference in the outcome. I tend to agree your score prediction of a two score loss.
^Home game lol not joke. Although with the way they’ve been playing this year it could certainly end up being a joke.
While Houston has a good offense, their defensive line is not that good according to CFB analysts, however, if MM can’t get the ball to his receivers, it won’t matter. I think it’s time to go a different direction at QB as MM has proven he is not a capable starter.
The backup is also really bad at his job.
I’ve decided that 0-12 would be unforgettable. We can do this…
They’ll win 3 or 4.
Nobody forgot the Huskies going unvictoried for an entire season…
Is it a bag out this Friday where all fans wear a bag over their head like in the past when a team sucked.
Beavers probably will wear all black…haven’t done that yet…
Alumni Fans will clothes suitable for their homes or any activity besides watching Beaver football.
Hope the students still show up and have fun and the Beavers finally win.
No. They are wearing black-orange-black
https://x.com/BeaverFootball/status/1971259603976585239/photo/1
From USAToday:
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People actually pay that much to go to a college football game? I’m sure there are cheaper options, but that’s crazy.
You could probably get a ticket for 54.99 a month for 12 months, that makes it sound affordable.
In a re-rank of all 136 teams, OSU is at #125, and the lowest of all former PAC foes and future PAC/MWC foes. The next closest is UCLA at #121.Stanford is #111, Okie State #109.
I know its all subjective, and outside of about the top 20-25 teams its probably just best to group the remaining number into about thirds, but the perception is pretty telling.
OSU helps “rebuild” the Pac (MWC), and instead of starting out as one of the top 3 teams in the new conference next year, will start out probably in the bottom third to quarter.
Flyfishing is great in October and November if you haven’t tried it…trout are eager to eat in preparation for winter….great way to spend your Saturdays.
So is deer/elk hunting. I remember one OSU football coach who was insistent on scheduling a home game on the deer opener and wondered why he got so much push back on it….
That was Pettibone in his first year. He thought for some reason that fans would stay at the game, because they were already missing out on hunting.
That was Homecoming too… against Fresneck. We got spanked, and a lot of people left at halftime to go hunting.
I think Houston rolls.
An undefeated Texas based team with NIL funding that far outpaces OSU.
OSU goes 0-5 next week.
I hope you are wrong, but I’ve seen nothing that gives me much optimism with this team. MM plays like he is avoiding injury-already planning ahead for his next school, much like DJU did during his brief tenure.
Agree. Angry thinks they’ll win 3 to 4 games. I’m not seeing that with how fundamentally bad this team is. I think they’ll be lucky to win 1 or 2 games. Many of the guys are already checking out and thinking where they can transfer and as losses pile up it will only get worse.
Plus they had a bye week, travel and time zone shift will be easy…
The Beavs are becoming the traffic accident you can’t bring yourself to look away from. It is no longer a rooting interest but a sad curiosity to see how badly they will lose each week. I have zero hope in the staff figuring anything out, or maintaining the locker-room over time. The players are pretty much checking out as mentioned already. Murphy acts like he doesn’t want to be there already, and it is easy to expect many more will have “season ending injuries” that limit the roster again this year.
Bray has the intensity that was appealing to the team before they all realized the staff doesn’t have a clue. So decent, thoughtful players will begin hedging and looking for an exit. The only guys left will be the ones with no options, or underclassmen needing to get on the field.
I’m ready to see Guthridge play the last half of the schedule. I’ve seen enough of Murphy, and Johnson. Let Johnson switch to a slot receiver and run fly sweeps/trick plays with him. He isn’t going to be the qb of the future after 3 years of trying. Utilize him like the Steelers did years ago with Randle El.
Although we can’t depend on Cav’s oline to hold up, and we can’t trust Gundy to have any type of offensive strategy either.
Gundy’s O is a pile of poo poo.
I heard people trying to call it a pro set, and I watched it thinking, “Wtf is this stuff? I’ve never seen the pros do this shit in my life.”
Not even the Bengals yesterday looked as inept on O as we have. I couldn’t tell you what our O system is called, other than a pile of poo poo.
You clearly missed the ineptness of the Raiders yesterday, with Carroll and chipster steering the ship.
The beavs need a reset in coaching and players that are committed to the university/the team, not hired guns that are willing to fold the second things don’t go well so they can save themselves for the next bag
The Raiders were okay on offense.
They sure made Mariota look good, though… even with him making quite a few mistakes.
I will say Geno ain’t the answer for them, though. He’s regressing.
Geno was never all that good, last year he was downright bad very often. There is a reason Seattle moved on.
“The Beavs are becoming the traffic accident you can’t bring yourself to look away from. It is no longer a rooting interest but a sad curiosity to see how badly they will lose each week”
I dunno, it’s not that interesting. The lack of consequences for poor okay implies there’s no quality depth, Koala Gundy talks about “spices” in “the spice cabinet,” but extending his analogy further, he has no recipe. Comments in here are more interesting than the team and games.
At this point, I just hope the students have fun, because players, coaches, and alumni sure aren’t enjoying themselves.
UNC, now that’s a fucking car wreck: a 73-year old Super Bowl winner is embarrassing everyone but his gold digging, 24-year old handler/GF.
“Just how bad can this Bill Belichick experience get?
The best part of Belichick’s game day occurred when his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, came in close for a pregame talk on the sideline. Whatever Hudson said didn’t help.
North Carolina got creamed 34-9 by Central Florida. This result is far worse than the Tar Heels’ blowout loss in Belichick’s opener. Why?
Well, in the opener against TCU, North Carolina faced an opponent that returned a healthy chunk of production, including star quarterback Josh Hoover. Sonny Dykes is settled into his fourth season coaching TCU. By comparison, Belichick flipped North Carolina’s roster with more than 70 newcomers between transfers and signees. So, maybe we should have expected Week 1 growing pains, right?
Fast-forward to this game against UCF. The Tar Heels were up against an opponent that navigated a massive roster overhaul of its own, after rehiring Scott Frost for a second stint leading the program.
This result proved Frost and his staff did a vastly superior job reshaping the Knights’ roster than Belichick and company did for UNC. Some had theorized Belichick and his NFL mates, including general manager Michael Lombardi, would demonstrate a keen eye for talent. So much for that. Belichick assembled a bunch of fresh faces, but this squad is worse than Mack Brown’s final team.
UCF’s transfer quarterback Tayven Jackson outperformed North Carolina’s own transfer, Gio Lopez, and the Knights’ rebuilt offensive line bullied the Tar Heels.
It didn’t help that Belichick referred to UCF as “Central” in the leadup to the game, almost as if UNC was facing some high school team. Frost used Belichick’s terminology as extra motivation.
“We’re UCF,” Frost said, following the beatdown.
Just how bad could it get for Belichick? The November schedule includes a game against lowly Stanford. A loss to interim coach Frank Reich would amount to rock bottom.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/09/22/week-4-recap-bill-belichick-north-carolina-football-unc-dabo-swinney-clemson-future-cfp-acc-big-12/86280630007/?tbref=hp
Never imagined this after any one of his Super Bowl wins…
Any teams hosting UNC should arrange for 70-something female fans in the stands to be accompanied by early 20-something guys…could be hilarious.
I moved to Houston a couple of years ago because I met a woman online and we got into a serious relationship. Unfortunately she was literally crazy (nothing like bonding at the ER for her psych evaluation because she is completely losing it, having to hide knives, finding her gashing her leg with a knife in the bathroom, wrestling away knives, etc) and she also sabotaged the relationship in multiple ways. I should have just stayed in Oregon.
That said, the weather in Texas is better than in Oregon at least. I expect the Cougars to kick Beaver ass like my ex kicking my mental health in the ass. Good god don’t date crazy women, people. It’s been a year since we broke up and I still haven’t even had a desire to date anyone after that mess. Women ruined for life for me probably just like beaver football ruined for life with the demise of the PAC
Fuck Texas btw
Dat no income tax tho.. sigh
I do not miss the weather in Houston one bit… ever.
And I don’t miss the power bills, traffic, or property and sales taxes… or traveling hours to get someplace remotely nice for fishing, hiking, camping, or outdoors activities.
I will say the food selection is much better. I could go for a burger from Bubba’s right now. But avoid Sugarland for restaurants of any kind.
Pro tip: always order at Whataburger “without mustard.” They pre-make burgers, especially for rushes, and those burgers just sit in the chute. W/o mustard means they need to cook a fresh one.
Oh yeah Houston weather sucks. Mosquitoes everywhere, poop on the sidewalks, humid as hell, random storms and crumbling “infrastructure” that goes down anytime the weather hits freezing or there’s a windstorm. I moved to another city after we broke up. I don’t miss Houston at all.
Ironically Corvallis has the ag school, yet Houston is the city that smells like literal poop.
Amazingly I don’t think I’ve had Whataburger despite passing by it. Had some good barbecue though.
Damn…Oregon is still here…
Mental health is a challenging, underrepresented issue. Some people talk about them almost like it’s their rescue dog, and there’s moral vanity in introducing them, but Even conditions ranging OCD to bipolar really make relationships extra challenging.
But there is hope out there….and other states to live in.
ACC moving to 9 game conference schedule too, joining B10, B12, SEC…
Less supply for Beavers to try and schedule P4 teams…
We made SEC Shorts!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcHJhGfc52U
What is SEC shorts?
Think PleaseDon’tDestroy but for College Football.
I said it and people said I was on drugs. But here you go:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2025/09/primed-for-a-turnaround-oregon-state-football-has-one-of-nations-toughest-schedules-so-far.html
I just saw that so given the schedule,maybe things will get a little easier. If they can upset Houston, it might be a spring board for the rest of the season. That said, if the QB play was just a average along with special teams play, the Beavs could be 1-3 or 2-2. Cal and FSU were winnable games minus all of the self inflicted mistakes. We shall see but I think 4-8 is being optimistic.
Yeah, I thought pre season they could be 2-2 at this point, and Houston at home on a Friday night with students on campus could be a fun game…reality is it’s not worth the 5 hour trip.
TT and UO both projected to playoffs, both were road games (obviously).
Both have two of the biggest football player pay budgets too…
Mike Gundy fired at okie state. Should the beavers make a play for him now?
That hire would not excite me. Time for him to enjoy retirement.
Hey Mike. We see you can’t win when your team has Power 5 media money but little in the way if NIL.
How would you like an even bigger challenge? Oh, and the pay will be less too.
Is it a bigger challenge though? Is it really?
Everything is relative, if Oregon State stopped focusing so much energy on pretending they remain a P4 school and actually focused on just dominating the new PAC and not worrying so much about “scheduling P4 schools” I think OSU could be a job where a coach could excel relative to his real competition.
That said, Gundy wouldn’t be my preferred choice.
He falls into the category of career redemption option just like Jimbo Fisher, Bryan Harsin, Tom Herman, Dana Holgorsen.
Hindu and Fisher were the most successful of that group and both had huge buyouts so they are sitting on millions in the bank and may like the chance to just coach at a different school.
It doesn’t matter though because aisle OSU won’t act on any of this, even when they have an inexperienced head coach who stated
He didn’t really want to be a head coach.
“It doesn’t matter though because aisle OSU won’t act on any of this…”
True, sadly.
We thought we had a wanna-be head coach, instead we have a don’t-wanna-be head coach.
What is Harsin doing these days? I wouldn’t mind giving him a go on the staff in some capacity.
CAL OC?
I thought Baldwin was their OC but you are correct. Wow, what a staff they have.
Heard from BSU fan that Hardin was run due to bad culture and players didn’t respond to him for what its worth
Seems angry, pouting, probably needs a break.
Was he an OC previously or DC?
No. And not Dabo Swinney if he is axed.
What is more likely to happen in the next 3 years, the beavers put together a decent winning record season like 8-4 or the ducks won a national championship?
win
Sadly, I’d wager on the ducks if those were my choices
Yup.
Keep in mind Knight has been building to this for some 20+ years of facilities and Nike/fueled “branding.” When the rules changed they were ready to capitalize on buying player talent.
They knew they couldn’t become a “traditional” football power and went “anti-tradition,” at least in terms of image and branding. Spending your way to the top 10 is actually pretty traditional.
OSU acted like they never saw this coming, but also lacked a financial benefactor of similar magnitude.
By the way, to clarify , it is at home. Students should hopefully bring energy to sideline.
Thread title should be “…v. Houston” or “Houston @ Beavers.”
BTW, Beavers have 3 games against “Cougars” this season, must be a program record!
Done
OK… Hear me out… we keep Brey at the helm, and…
Barnes gets on the phone and calls in every favor, and squeezes every penny he can from the donor class… put a second mortgage on Reser Stadium.
At the end of the season, boom, hire Mike Gundy as OC and Dabbo Sweeney as DC. One year contracts, and a promise to wreck havoc on the system.
They drag 30-40 of “their guys” from their current teams to Corvallis with them and we go all or nothing on 1 year at fame and glory.
If it works, we are back on the map, if it fails… we still suck?
and Every game is an “orange out”!
Saw a stat that the 7 teams that had the top 7 transfer portal classes last offseason are currently sitting at 27-0 on the season.
List in order is LSU, TTech, Miami, OleMiss, Oregon, FSU, Missouri
Bray couldn’t manage that…inadequate experience.
Plus Sweeney allegedly isn’t – or wasn’t – into stocking classes with NIl transfers.
RB coach Pickering as quoted in the big zero, can y’all make sense of this?
“We are going to have some intense ball security,” Pickering said. “And we just have to be enamored with our gameplan of going forward, and how we want to attack this bunch (Houston). Being physical in the run game. I think we want to get creative in the run game. Just having an ability to make people miss in space, structuring and formatting to know where defenders will line up.”
I don’t care if they are “enamored” with the gameplan; just that the plan makes sense and is executed.
Is that how they talk to the players?
I know interview questions get old, are rehashed, and mostly unoriginal, and the desire to mix up responses must be strong at times, but what a bullshit word salad….
OSU alumnus would apparently rather be part of Blazers ownership group then spend money on Beaver sports:
“A new lawsuit could disrupt the sale of the Portland Trail Blazers to a group of investors led by businessman Tom Dundon, according to a media report and a source with knowledge of the lawsuit.
The suit, filed Monday in Delaware, seeks to bar the deep-pocketed founders of Panda Express from joining Dundon’s investment group.”
Sounds like they want to make money, not burn it
Exactly. She’s worth 7.7B.
What’s a billion or two between friends though? I mean it’s her alma mater.
Honestly, this, this, this.
If you have 7.7 billion and give 1 billion away it will take less than a month to get that billion back. And you get the bonus of your alma mater being more fun to watch.
Someone working for OSU needs to sell this to these billionaires.
I mean I kinda get your point but it only takes a month to make a billion back, say what?
“Before he became the next big thing in the college football coaching fraternity, before he won 13 of his first 17 games at forgotten Syracuse, Fran Brown had to change what was acceptable.
Two things stood above all else, he told USA TODAY Sports in April: it’s not acceptable to lose and not acceptable to avoid competing.
….
No one practices to lose games,” Brown continued….
And started working on redefining what winning looked like at Syracuse.
It didn’t take long to see why Brown, only two years into his head coaching career, will be the hottest prospect in this year’s hiring cycle. If you can win big at Syracuse, you can win big anywhere.
Winning looks like taking a wayward program lost in the shuffle of big-time college football, and winning 10 games out of the gate. This from a team that, before Brown arrived in 2024, was using a tight end at quarterback because it had no one else.
Winning looks like taking a beaten down player from the transfer portal, and turning quarterback Kyle McCord – unfairly blamed for all of Ohio State’s problems in 2023 – into the nation’s leader in passing yards per game.
It looks like following a 10-win season in 2024 with three wins in four games this season, including a road rout of Clemson last week. Two weeks earlier, after an overtime win over UConn, Brown had his team running gassers after the game, in front of the home crowd, because he didn’t think they were competing hard enough.
…
But it’s more than winning, it’s the buildout and framework and ability to sustain. It’s believing in your values, and never wavering.
It’s not paying a million dollars for a wide receiver when your total NIL budget is about twice that amount. So when Syracuse’s All-ACC wideout Trebor Pena wanted his, Brown told him to find it somewhere else.
Four games into this season, Syracuse wideouts Justus Ross-Simmons and Darrell Gill Jr. have combined to catch 28 passes for 528 yards (18.9 ypc.) and eight touchdowns. Pena transferred to Penn State, and has 13 catches for 166 yards and one touchdown.
And a fat NIL contract.
…
“When you eliminate competing, you eliminate the reward,“ Brown said. “And then it becomes acceptable to lose.”
Instead of being unacceptable to relinquish one win.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/09/24/fran-brown-syracuse-rebuild-coaching-next-big-thing/86316004007/?tbref=hp
Why can’t Barnes strike coaching gold like that?
Speaking of coaching changes, here’s what Wilner wrote in his piece picking the Civil War (BTW he got the spread right):
Comment: Oregon will take every step necessary to win the game while not humiliating the Beavers — and thereby doing its part to help preserve Trent Bray’s job security. The Ducks don’t want OSU to make a coaching change; the current situation suits the folks in Eugene just fine.
Barnes did find a 10 win coach in Smith, but the wheels fell off immediately.
What I read is Syracuse found a good coach, but will lose him in the next coaching carousel.
Nothing will be fixed long term at OSU until we’re competitive financially with P4 teams. And we won’t be competitive financially because we’re going to be getting G5 media money going forward and we’ve already tapped most of our donor resources just to keep the program alive the last 2 years. Sadly, the last 2 years were better for us financially than the next decade will be. The war chest is depleting.
bingo
We haven’t spent any Pac12 money on ourselves. We just took a haircut on revenue spending. We went from $120M a year in spending to the high 90s, which reflects how much revenue difference we had from 23-24 to 24-25.
Those years of legal counsel can’t all be pro bono
How much money did we and WSU get from the old Pac when it broke up and there was the big lawsuit? What happened with that money?
I’d rather see Barnes take risks on a staff that may be a 2 year home-run before they get poached, than try another risk averse attempt to keep the status quo. It is a given we won’t be able to keep treading water at the former PAC12 level, so adjust accordingly and develop a different mindset on the University wide approach to sports.
How can OSU football ever succeed if the AD is living in a fantasy world of previous days? Shift the focus to find an up and coming coach & staff from lower division football that has shown the ability to build a program, wants a shot to prove his own system works in a better conference, would be excited about a modest pay raise but isn’t seeking $10 mil/year etc, knows plenty of supporting cast coaches to fill all the roles required and actually wants to compete to win.
When Barnes hired Bray, did he consider any of those things beyond the lower price tag for Bray compared to JS? My mantra has become, in the end it doesn’t really matter because I already know Barnes won’t try it and he will take the path of least risk every time. OSU is stunted and will continue to spiral.
I don’t think Barnes will fire Bray, but I am always going on the assumption that Bray will resign at the end of the year. My guess is that Bray will step away due to frustrations and his inability to create a culture that he knows is needed, but he is instead getting the blame for the whole mess. I expect a “peace-out losers” from Bray by early December. But I’m certain Barnes isn’t even considering that Bray might leave at the end of the year. I have very little confidence in Barnes.
Not to disagree with your larger assertions but I think keeping Bray wasn’t a money saving situation as much as it was a ‘continuity’ situation. The entirety of the AD, and the football team especially, were in complete disarray. One reason fans were especially excited and especially pissed with Martinez.
When everything is crumbling trying to keep some some semblance of order seemed appropriate. Now that things have settled in and the landscape is more clear, it also seems appropriate to take some more risks and look for elements to try and propel the AD forward with new vision.
Is Barnes that person, time will tell
“it was a ‘continuity’ situation”
SPOT ON
Yep
No!
I’d rather see Barnes leave OSU.
Amen!
Those years of legal counsel can’t all be pro bono
Will Stein’s name has emerged as a top candidate to replace Gundy at Okie State. I’m not sure he’d take a job like that but it depends on his long term career goals. No matter, as Oregon’s just a plug and play program with players and coaches.
He’ll get a better offer than that I bet….
Clemson will throw big money at someone soon. Dabo has worn out his welcome.
Openings so far:
OK St
UCLA
Va Tech
Likely openings by December:
Florida- Napier has lasted probably 2 years longer than he should have, Gators won’t stand for being the 5th bet football team in the state
Wisconsin- Fickell hasn’t done anything since he arrived from Cincy, Badgers fans are over it and want to go back to Barry Alvarez style
Clemson- Dabo has a 5* qb and had way too much hype preseason and the fans aren’t happy
Kentucky. (Stoops has been there a long time but probably doesn’t have many running cover for him)
Alabama- DeBoer must win the SEC and probably get to the semis to have a shot at pleasing the Tide fans. If he loses 4 games, he is out for sure
Mich St- JS isn’t liked by the fans, if he loses 5 and can’t win a big game, I bet he is let go.
Nebraska- Huskers are tired of never winning a big game and they think Mahomes is their qb. Rhule will be in trouble by November.
North Carolina- A hopeful experiment gone wrong, and the hoodie will bow out or be shown the door. UNC is an embarrassment
Utah- I think Whit retires if they struggle with more injuries this year, the DC is designated to replace him already
There will be some coaches hopping ot these opportunities as well, which will open up other spots to backfill.
You left off Bray at OSU?
Can the beavs afford to fire Bray? Probably not.
Keep.hom.om as defense coordinator and rework his contract.
I’d be good with DeBoer, maybe Bray as DC if he still wants to coach at OSU. Liked DeBoer’s offense at UW and their attention to detail.
Heck yeah, I’d be all in on DeBoer if he was ever somehow an option. He’s been successful everywhere except when he was asked to fill Nick Saban’s shoes.
He also had great veteran QBs at UW and Fresno State.
arkansas will also be open 2-10 is in play
An offensive coordinator getting a better job than Oklahoma Srate?
Who is he and why should I give a shit?
Congrats to tbe Seattle Mariners tonight. AL west champs for the first time since 2001!
Thank you, Mr. Napkins!
Nice to see that, fun to read and watch highlights of the Big Dumper get to 60 HRs…
Maybe they could play Cleveland for the AL championship so we could see Kwan? What former Beavers are post season bound?
The only Beavs postseason bound so far are Boyd and Conforto, off the top of my head.
What a game…bought tickets for last night about 3 weeks ago sitting at home in Tucson. Wanted to see a game this year and snagged 10th row at the entrance of the M’s dugout. Flew up and the perfect combinations occurred so it could be the clincher. Three homers in the first, Cal’s was fucking bomb, one hitter by Luis and then the 60. Place was going crazy—-celebrating on the field….etc.
Most historic game I’ll ever see.
Former CAL QB Mendoza I wish OSU could have landed doing well:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/09/25/college-football-quarterback-rankings-fernando-mendoza/86330110007/?tbref=hp
Gundy from OSU to OSU. Start the rumor now….
I’m absolutely not enamored with Gundys at OSU.
The pitcher was pretty great.
He’s not 40 although he’s still a man. I think his expiration date has come and gone. That being said the guy had a great run at his alma mater. Not like some elf like dick we are familiar with.
You mean Gunderson to Okie State?!?
Sold!
As noted above the Bray hire was a “continuity hire” and I agree it was partly that, and partly a cheaper option, and less arduous at the time than a full scale and genuine coaching search for Barnes. It was in every way a hire of convenience, and dollars.
So can anyone name a “continuity hire” in the recent past that was actually highly successful?
I can only consider Whittingham at Utah but he was my comparison for high hopes with Bray. Are there any others?
Was Helfrich considered a continuity hire?
I don’t think a lot of programs are driven by a “continuity” narrative in decisions for hiring coaches. I’d say Helfrich cured Nike form making continuity hires and they just go and find the next big thing instead…or at least keep swinging for it.
Ryan Day?
Notre Dame’s coach as well
Gary Andersen continuity for losing.
Excellent
I would only add that the situation with OSU and the fuckery with toady smith and the attempted dissolution of the pac really put the school behind the *-ball, a completely different ‘continuity’ situation than other schools.
It very likely was doomed from the beginning but Bray provided SOME stability.
Things are obviously more stable and it’s probably time to move on at this point
Scanning an Olive article with reader questions, apparently Lanning so much admitted the “rivalry” benefits UO because of their hectic travel schedule and lack of threat posed by OSU…OSU doing it for $, and is unlikely to get other P4 teams to Reser given P4 conferences are going to 9-game conference schedules….
What a surprise!
Team wearing black/orange/black tonight….students on campus….will Reser and the team have energy?
Reser will have plenty of energy until they see how poorly MM plays the qb position for $1.5 million. Students will go silent once the o-line begins to implement their mental-error game plan. Then they may begin booing or just leaving once the special teams makes their appearance with a steady flow of gaffes.
I’ll guess the stadium will look like the Pettibone days of old, about half empty and not a lot of noise beyond a somewhat rowdy student section. I predict many fans won’t be back after half-time. If the school doesn’t care, why will the fans anymore?
OSU football is in real trouble and I don’t think anything changes that tonight. I hope they can rebound and get a win, but I’m not holding my breath.
Houston 31
Beavs 14
East side: wear orange
West side: wear black
We’ll see…
Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these things work at Reser. It’s not difficult but people just can’t seem to manage wearing one color they are asked to wear. Are the bluehairs too inept to look at the marketing, the AD not getting it to the correct venues for consumption, too many freezer burritos?
Stop pretending getting P4 schools to Corvallis is more important than winning games.
Winning will fill Reser. It doesn’t matter if that win is over a P4 team or New Mexico. Winning will fill Reser.
In all seriousness, this is infuriating.
No one’s paying to see the Washington Generals.
But they do pay to see a team dominate the Washingtin Generals
No season ticket holders pay to see the Generals.
The Raiders move to Las Vegas is predictor of seeing a stadium full of opposing team colors.
I actually liked the prison yard feel of Oakland-Alameda Co Coliseum and the atmosphere, win or lose. That bullshit in Vegas sucks ass, especially with all the losing.
Considering all conferences have now moved to only scheduling “P4 schools” none are are coming to Corvallis regardless. With that said why give a hand out to the yucks? Schedule who is willing to come to Reser to mix in with the new pac and let’s move the fuck on
To be clear.
You’re arguing season ticket holders would prefer to watch OSU lose by 40 to an Oregon over watching OSU beat UNLV?
Okay, agree to disagree.
Let’s talk baseball. MVP, Raleigh or Judge and why? I’ll start
1) what position has the most impact on the game? Answer: catcher
2) if you can’t even win your own division, are you really the MVP? IMHO, no.
3) playing catcher really takes its toll on the body.
4) switch hitting and hitting 60 or more Hrs has never been done.
5) Better WAR stats for Judge is very impressive but see #2 above.
6) having little protection around him before the trade deadline and he still got what 37 HRs before the break.
7) handling a very, very good pitching staff daily and calling games, called third strikes looking, throwing our runners, back my passed balls etc., see #3 above
Clutch moments at the plate this season, all higher leverage ABs:
Raleigh: 189 WRC and 29 RBIs (weighted runs created)
Judge: 66 WRC and 5 RBIs
BTW, hitting 60 HRs for a catcher has never been done in the history of the game and he’s not done yet. If he hits 62 to tie Maris, it’s a done deal.
This is a big game with the students back and it being somewhat winnable compared to the last game. Their defense hasn’t allowed a lot of points so we’ll c if the offense can produce. If they lose this they’ll likely lose next week on the road.
Poking around the 24/7 site, Houston has signed the #2 recruit in the country for next fall. Someone must be pumping some money into the program. The kid is a QB from the Houston suburbs.
Pretty much every Texas school has oil money and they’re all going to benefit from it in this no hold barred NIL era. Houston, TexasA&M, Texas, North Texas, TexasTech, Texas State, UTSA, Rice all off to solid starts this season
SMU in 13th place in the acc, poor roi
Ha! Feast AND famine….
In the other fall sport, the Beavs play Wazzu tomorrow in Pullman with their season-opening Rugby match. My son made the starting 15 as a true freshman. I will post the score once I get it. Football is still his first love, and he’s looking at attending walk-on tryouts next Spring.
So MM can punt and hand the ball off. Can’t throw for shit. Wtf happened since he’s been in Corvallis? Gotta be mental. Idk why we aren’t using some more option since he can run. Not looking good so far.
He’s over thinking it…these guys need to play with some aggression and have some fun and quit pissing on themselves….Geezus.
Another drive wasted by a 1st down deep shot that doesn’t connect.
The Mike Riley experience! Hip-Hip!
Caufield one handed reach to try to cross the line…….understand the effort but how about ball security.
On the int that set it up, nice, sure two handed catch without using the body.
He’s lucky the second defender didn’t grab it…
Then a wasted timeout…
Good job young Glasper!
Relatively fair assessment of Bray’s transition challenges….
Timeout was because the spotted the ball at 2 instead of half yard line. After the TO, it was re spotted. Good TO
Ah, thx.
That’s it. I’m convinced. We’re running the table the rest of the season.
Whooo!
No more sweating…
This offense is SO incompetent….amazing.
Have to hope the D wins.
Bray should make the O – and Gunderson – run wind sprints at halftime….
Glasper was shoved down out of bounds very late after his INT. No call, no protest from bray. Shoulda been a flag and that much closer to goal line.
How about that play calling, QB draw and then pass in the left flat out of a 3 wide right for TD.
14-0 Good Guys.
Heck of a defensive stand.
Students get some credit for cougar penalties.
The second level decks look empty? Or maybe they’re wearing black…
Ahhh, 3rd and 11, they get 36….so familiar, comforting…..
Beavs secondary has been helped by drops, could be lots worse.
Feels like the wheels are starting to come off. The offense could really show something and score here in the final 1:24. If it’s a cluster with time mismanagement, I think they will probably lose.
the Beavs have just set the trap…watch the Cougs take the bait, and….
SACK to end the half. 14-10 good guys.
Has this offensive staff got the brains to make successful adjustments?
Can the defensive secondary come up with better coverage in the second half?
Watch out for a cougar QB run in the second half, surprised we haven’t already seen him get loose.
There was a play when the holding penalty happened when hankerson tried to run outside to the left around the 3 minute mark. No one was guarding the slot receiver. Why didn’t Murphy call an audible and get an easy five yards? Turned it on at 14-0. Apologies. Zero surprise at the outcome of that field goal attempt.
Why in the f would u take a shot to endzone on 3rd and 2 there…..? horrible
Even the TV guys made a comment about the fans booing that call, just stupid football.
The special needs team is really bad. The snap was fine, the blocking scheme was non-existent.
The O-line just sucks at run blocking, and Gunderson keeps calling that same stupid play that gains 2 yards.
OSU has a punter….he’s gone next year I bet…
They really need to find a replacement for that stupid chainsaw cranking arm motion the students do whenever they’re on camera. It really comes off like they’re doing that bad arm motion people used to do to mimic mentally handicapped people back in the 80’s and 90’s. It just looks bad
Sully is a player! Nice 1:1 tackle
Sullivan having a decent game despite the PI.
Nice defensive stand there.
I’m surprised the broadcasting crew has given some brief context to Bray’s transition challenges and the OSU injuries.
Where’s Freauff? Injured?
Freauff has been in for at least one play.
Fun trivia: Name the last Big 12 team the Beavs beat and when?
BYU in 2012?
D improving, O and ST still 80-ish…
Open field tackling looks pretty good tonight.
Students look like they’re having some fun.
Hatcher with determination and production!
Keep Hatcher in at RB!!!!!!!
Share with Hank.
Tonight Hank 16 carries 2.9 avg, Hatcher 8 for 6.0
Hatcher much more decisive and quicker to the hole!
Anyone ready for another QB draw here?
Hatcher with bursts, suddeness…. going to be poached too?
Hatcher TD from 18, Cavanaugh smiles!
24-10 Beavs
This OL gonna take confidence.
Is Hatcher the next great OSU running back? He needs 10 more carries tonight.
Hatcher earning it!
Can he say “no” to the outside money next year?
Paying off the trivia question. While the Beavs have wins against teams that are currently in the Big 12, the last win against a team that was in the Big 12 when the Beavs beat them was Missouri in the 2006 Sun Bowl.
Genuine question: Who here knew Hatcher was this good? I thought Allah was nex, Hatcher a year away.
Hatcher looks like a starter from here on out, Hank a 3rd down back, 2nd back.
Bad, bad throw behind Walker
There was a receiver wide open to the right and the Murphy deferred to Walker.
It was a completely unimaginative series of plays that led to a predictable three-and-out. Houston has a good chance to tie this game up.
Looks like they’ll choke it away. The punter and Hatcher should be bought off somewhere else next year.
@#%#@&!!!!
I’m done with the Murphy effort. He is worse than DJ and I didn’t think I’d say that for a while. At least DJU made some good to great throws. MM can’t make a routine throw or a deep ball with or without pressure. I haven’t seen the beautiful deep ball that everyone was talking about during the summer/fall. He isn’t a winner and you can tell pretty easily.
Yeah, but he is $1.5 million richer than you or I. What bullshit is all I can say. I just don’t see the effort from this kid – at all.
We’re really about to give up 3 consecutive 4th quarter scores to lose this game that should have been in the bag, aren’t we?
Crisis averted…..i think
That’s it. I’m fighting Gundy in the parking lot after the game, for real this time.
Because Barnes wants to go back to 80’s football:
https://youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?si=m9EotDgcSKEDIkFA
You’re 0-4 with nothing important on the line, and you play for OT. I’d fire Bray just on that principle.
Best pass of the season.
How is such special teams incompetence even possible at the D-1 level?
Inbred coaching
Hopefully that’s enough for Bray to do something.
Doubt he gets rid of anyone, plenty of reasons already this season.
Nevermind. I’m fighting Jamie Christian
Why wasn’t ojeda kicking?
Brey should fire him right now, during the commercial break.
If the the Beavs win, Bray will get a contract extension….
They really need a new special teams coach. Just horrid. The long snapping has received a lot of attention, but the blocking and kicking is just as bad.
I’m not liking the Beavs chances in OT. At all.
REALLY need to fire Gundy after that sequence in OT. Goodness that was tantamount to someone having money on this game. So awful.
there is no way those are the 3rd and 4th down play calls? this coaching staff couldn’t win a high school game
Fuck it. I’ll fight Gundy and Christian at the same time.
Get in line!
Snatched loss out of the jaws of victory. This is a demoralizing loss as they get
How does Bray not try at least a fg there instead of going for it? No way Bray can maintain the locker-room after this debacle. Welcome back to 1996 OSU Beaver fans. We are officially horrible and a natiionally known embarassment.
attempting a FG is dumbest idea i’ve ever heard in my life there bud sorry to tell ya
With a guy that just had his first FG attempt at d1 level blocked and Ojeda apparently injured. No chance but the running play was just a poor decision to run it right up the gut!
Well, when your kicking team’s abilities are on par with those of a 6th-grade youth team, it gets a little dicey.
You have a 14-point lead with six minutes left in the 4th quarter with the ball in your opponent’s territory, and you somehow lose.
You FIND a way..that’s what you do! You find a way….
Well, how does 0-12 sound. I’m rooting for the opposite of undefeated!
05U
Does this mean we’ll see 2 for 1 tickets at Bi-Mart again?
punting on 4th and 5 from their 43 up 14 is as bad as it gets
Bray is horrible, i wanna like him but just way too old school and dumb
And it was a shitty Murphy quick kick that went out of bounds at about the 25, so they netted less than 20 yards.
They netted 18 yards… literal insanity… any normal guy who studies at all can make better in game decisions
the 3rd and 5 play before needed to be a run knowing we were in 4 down territory and to keep clock moving also
Yes, exactly. I’m tired of that quick kick. Murphy is not particularly good at it. I guess it’s used because of the long snapping issues.
4th and 1 and you run it from the shotgun when they are expecting run instead of passing or using the FB who was great any time he was called upon.
I had no faith we’d not blow the 14 point lead because we always do. And the media will yet again not hammer our head man because he’s “our guy”. Fuck that. This is Mike Riley 2.0 Playing to not lose instead of playing to win.
Playing not to lose with absolutely nothing on the line as an independent this year.
Huh?
So many questions.
Why switch out the kickers?
Why go away from Hatcher in crunch time?
You have short yardage, and you still run a play from the shotgun where the rb gets the ball when he’s standing still and not generating ANY momentum? And you wonder why he gets stuffed at the line because the hole closed up?
Don’t know how many times I saw an OL let a guy right on his nose go by and make a backfield tackle when it didn’t appear they had anyone else to block.
I understand there are a lot of new players, but dang. They don’t seem to be developing at all.
Maybe we can bust the 20-year Big 12 drought next year. They’ll have another two shots at it.
RYAN GUNDERSON THE LEGEND
you have to fire bray and this entire staff after this one. if you don’t, it just prolongs the misery and causes likely unfixable harm to the program. everyone is already checked out. not a single coach on this staff would have another d1 job; why keep them here to bury us further into the ground? you maybe get some excitement and a chance to turn it around next year if you clean the slate now. no recruit will come play for this.
I’m with you here. Anybody that is any good at all is probably eyeing the escape hatch of the portal. I don’t think we’ll ever get to see Hatcher’s full potential, Walker will probably leave, too. You have to start from scratch every effing year! This is crazy, but I do know that winning does help with cohesiveness and maybe having a real conference to play in, too.
Well, here is Bray on the presser, “we out played them and I saw a lot of good things. The running game was controlling the game, the defense played their hearts out and we just need to finish the game. It’s a tough loss but I have great confidence that we will learn from this and figure out how to close out a game. I really liked the effort from our guys and I feel bad for them but they are resilient. You need to know how to lose before you can learn how to win. On to App State next weekend and I expect a great effort from this team. They are not quitters and will use this game as motivation for the remainder of the season. Go Beavs!”
need to know how to lose……….WHAT?
You obviously didn’t get the tongue in cheek with that comment.
Sorry, thought you were actually quoting Bray.
No worries as I should have said it was a satire on his after game presser
yuck! Bray is just stealing money from OSU at this point and so are his coaches because it sure doesn’t look like any of them are actually coaching.
Who was that corner they said we got from florida st in the middle of the week he seems good… am i dreaming or did the announcers say something about that
#12 Hussey. Had two solo tackles and a pass breakup tonight. Looked good last week too.
We know he brought in his kid to be QC for Special Teams, buts what evidence is there that this guy Robb Akey is adding value?
Hard to believe we’d see worse play if the Akey kid and Jamie Christian were both sent down the road.
This staff is full of grifters who are “advisors” taking money without any accountability. Many of the coaches are the definition of the Peter Principle and shouldn’t be in the current roles they are in, and it shows. Barnes needs to take some definitive action, but he won’t. Bray is just kicking the can and not being honest about how bad this is going to affect recruiting etc going forward. This is not a good look for OSU and it is imperative that they don’t just fall off the cliff and become a true laughingstock of college football. Sadly, I think that is where they are headed pretty soon.
No doubt App St has a really athletic dual threat qb and run some sort of spread offense with lots of motion and the Beavs won’t have a shot at slowing them down.
Don’t need a running QB to burn Beavs D, Houston didn’t use theirs. The defensive secondary just can’t seem to cover longer routes, I expect any opponents have seen that. Not saying a running QB can’t do plenty of damage too.
The special teams and offense are rightfully getting heat from fans for this loss, but the defense shouldnt get a pass. We gave up 2 straight 75 & 65 yard TD drives at the end of the 4th when this game should have been in the bag up 14 with 8 minutes left.
OK, but the D did force 7 punts. That shoulda been enough.
Secondary was not great. Houston receivers dropped two potential TDs. Blitz was not getting to Wegman in the second half, and Bray kept doing calling it, exposing the DBs. No adjustments, despite being a “great” coordinator. I give the defense a C+/B-.
0-5 next the Beavs will be 0-6, and then 0-7.
They won’t win until October 18th vs. Lafayette. Then maybe Sam Houston State. 2-10 is most likely, possible 3-9 with a win vs. either Tulsa or Wazzu. How many fans will be at Reser the next game, 10,000? I’m done with this team.
Why go away from Hatcher in crunch time?
Why switchout the kickers?
I’ll never understand making the running back try and gain a yard with a handoff from a standing still position four yards back of the line.
Caleb Ojeda was injured, that’s why the switchout kicker.
OK. It wasn’t mentioned on TV.
Still, someone should dial up Paul Chryst and get him on a plane, pronto.
I call BS on the ‘injury’, he appeared healthy and mobile on the sideline, in fact he looked like he was pouting. I think Bray was trying to make a point, as bad as it was in timing, that there is no confidence in ST, especially the place kicking. This loss was clearly on coaching, lack of it and ST play. I haven’t seen a loss like this in many years. This is a broken team and the coaches don’t have the ability to fix it.
He could have had a pulled hamstring or groin issues.
I called it. 0-12, people. We’ve got this….
Hopefully they get someone good with the number one pick
I love the stench of another blown game in the morning as it smells like someone dropped a freshly squeezed deuce.
Where’s the Jack Hammer when you need him?