How the HELL does the team get hyped up? I mean seriously? You can try, but how can anything compare to the whirlwind past week? That being said, the Beavs look to be back on track and as long as they don’t start out slow I think they win again.

You know this game also reminds a bit of the Hawai’i game two years ago. OSU just keeps floating under the legit radar and everyone is excited about this BCS buster team that is going to prove to the nation they are the real thing (Hawai’i). As such the Beavs were going to get thrashed by Colt Brennan on national TV.

Sure it was later in the season and there wasn’t all this “pay back” talk, but there still was all this other similar type of talk. Let down from the big Civil War win. Doesn’t matter in the Pac-10 standings (and again I know Hawai’i was later in the season and the bowl berth was locked in for us, but again this connects to that whole let down factor). Non-BCS school taking down the Pac-10 school. OSU being in a hostile environment. Etc.

But we know what happened in that game.

Again, the early in the season non-conference games have haunted OSU, but this one really is after a turn around the corner for the team whereas those others were before the big win happened to turn the season around.

It’s football so who in the hell knows, but I’m feeling slightly better about this one than other non-conference games.

I’m excited and nervous!

He may not be a dangerous punt returner as far as cutting fools and what not, but the kid is a solid returner with sure hands.

But it’d be a big help if he was. He’s a solid kicker folks, just had one bad game

I was really used to thinking that every time the Beavers lined up for a PAT or FG that points were going up on the scoreboard.

Just checking. But a touchdown and an extra point puts us up eight. A FG allows Utah the oppertunity to score and win.

Incomplete anyway…whatever….

our 2 minute defense did

If the team took this as an insult and played with their hair on fire the rest of the year?

Ugh… I’m incoherent and stunned. I need to watch last year’s civil war or something to cheer up.

he watches the play, takes five steps, then throws the flag. Obviously many other things, other than the play, enter his head in those five seconds. Or however long it was.

thats why he threw the flag. at first i thought it was a personal foul or unsportsmanlike conduct, but i cringed when i heard pass interference

Letting that guy behind you when they need to score a TD was terrible. Defense held so strong all night even when the offense was off and to end it that way.

This game was the difference between good and great.

Needed somewhere to vent.

The Beavs are a damn good team, and usually I’ll give props to the victors like Stanford did out play us much of the time so have to give them credit, and Penn State very much was the better team, but tonight…tonight I just can’t really go there. That game was given away by the better team tonight (IMO) and like everyone has pointed out this will sting all year long. Even if we did the near impossible and won out the rest of the conference games (tough task, not impossible I guess, but it will be tough) this one will hang over us. It is strange I think I would have handled it better if Utah just came out and flat out beat us you know something like 35 to 21 or 35 to 28.