Quack! Quack! Oregon Ducks Destroy Cal

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If there's every a cry that should drive fear into an opponent, it's not the quack of a duck. Unless, of course, there's around 54,000 of you doing the "quacking" in Autzen.

And by "quacking," of course, we mean yelling. That's because Autzen Stadium was loud today. Very loud.

That's because their team, dressed in awesome 'throwback' green and yellow shirts, the Oregon Ducks hammered sixth-ranked California 42-3 in one of the most one-sided games of the year.

On one hand, California was awful. Quarterback Kevin Riley gave us another reason to malign him with a dreadful 12-32, 123 yard performance, while Jahvid Best—who figured in our "underrated" discussions only last week—managed just 55 yards as Oregon's fast defence held onto him for dear life. And the defense? Let's not talk about it, shall we?

But we might not be giving Oregon much love here.

While Best can move about the proverbial train, the Ducks managed to stop him. See any of the Bears' D able to stop dimunitive quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who threw had 253 yards and 3 TDs, and his running backs put up over 200 yards on the floor? Anyone see how they got near Ed Dickson, who's 138 yard, three touchdown wide receiving performance was a joy to watch? They couldn't live with Oregon going forward all day long.

Oh, and round of applause goes to the ESPN cameras, who made a huge amount of effort showing those Oregon cheerleaders. And the way their team is playing, we'll be seeing a lot more of them, too.

Adam Duritz, the lead singer of the Counting Crows and HUGE Cal Bears fan, told his Twitter readers that he just died a little inside after his team's loss.

And you know who else did? The rest of the Pac-10, and the college football world—who thought Oregon football was dead after the loss at Boise.

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