It’s weird to think we have 3 Pac games left in our history. It feels like the season just started.

Anyway, Stanford has been playing better lately, but if we zoom out big picture, they’re a program in decline with 4 straight losing seasons and a max of 4 wins per season in that time frame, whereas the Beavs are the opposite. Beavs at home. You have to love the Beavs in this game even factoring for Smith costing them 7 points, which he will do, and then he’ll chase those points, leading to a weird final score.

30-14, Beavs.

Goooo Beavs.

Man it’s a kick in the nuts that Smith f’d up that FG last week…could have been such a great ending setup for the season.

27-24 Beavs, but maybe not. Might still be a hangover from last week.

I guess the narrative has to be “recover and get the best bowl game you can” at this point.

Smith ruined our season, so this is where we are at. I think we’ll be able to run on Colorado and win this game, but I don’t know if the coaches will be (a) smart enough to do this and (b) disciplined enough to do this.

Therefore…

27, 24 Beavs as Smith takes a 4th and short FG and it winds up being the difference.

Awful start time, but go Beavs.

Feel free to use this thread for Utah/Oregon et al, too. It’s snowing here today (!!) so I’ll probably be watching more football than usual.

I’m going with a larger margin of 30-20, Beavs.

We’re at a super tricky part of the schedule. Back to back road games vs mid-tier programs in possibly hostile environments. Some altitude acclimation, etc. If the Beavs get through these games, we’re going to have an incredible ending to the season. Smith seemed slightly more conservative after watching Lanning’s blunders. I hope that continues. People think you have to be aggressive on the road, but I think you take points and stay close on the road. Force the crowd out of the game, make them all tense up, etc. This is better. Just take points until you don’t have a choice. That’s the best method.

36-24, Beavs