OSU Football Nominated for Upset of the Year ESPY (vs. USC)

What do Mine That Bird, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Team USA (soccer) and the Oregon State football team have in common? They are the four candidates for The 2009 ESPYs Upset of the Year. The awards ceremony airs Sun., July 19 at 6 p.m. PDT on ESPN/ESPN HD.

Beaver head coach Mike Riley, James Rodgers and Jacquizz Rodgers will be in attendance at the taping of the 17th annual ESPYs July 15 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

Beaver Nation can help in the online voting or via mobile phone at www.espn.mobi beginning Thurs., June 25.

7 months ago Jake Bertalotto 10 comments 0 recs |

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I'd have OSU last among those finalists

Yeah, USC was good, but it wasn’t the type of upset that the others were because USC wasn’t a great team and Oregon St. was better than people gave them credit for.

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 25, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That's the reason

why they might get it, OSU was not though of as a competitor. I’d love to see them win the ESPY

"Twin-headed infinite swirling vortex of grotesque suckitude known as Tony Clark and Eric Byrnes"

by sergey606 on Jun 25, 2009 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It would be sweet....

And publicity of the Rodgers brothers isn’t going to hurt anything. Maybe Quizz could be play a role similar to Oden’s… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c48JtDNRydE

--JB--
www.buildingthedam.com

by Jake Bertalotto on Jun 26, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

That was such a great song.

I miss CV3000

by ConnorOSU on Jun 26, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Still though

They were the number one team in the nation. It’s hard to argue with that.

I miss CV3000

by ConnorOSU on Jun 26, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

True, but still to invert that logic a little

Team USA just beat the number one team in the world! And Mine that Bird was something like a 50-1 long shot to win. As much as I want more press and respect for my favorite team, it just doesn’t seem to compare (maybe though with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays).

So I’ll agree with the UCLA fan here, it was big time no doubt, but at the same time USC wasn’t quite as good as people made them out to be and OSU was better, plus there was history going for the Beavs with beating SC the last time they came to town (that was a much bigger upset when you think about it) so it wasn’t totally out of left field like Appalachian State beating Michigan the year before.

BUT it is still cool we made it on the list!

-RVM

by rvm on Jun 26, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs