1. College Football 2012 Predictions: Each Team's Odds of Winning Their Conference

    The 2012 season cannot get here quick enough. College football ended just under two months ago and it already feel like it has been gone for an eternity...

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  2. Oregon Football Review: Grading the Ducks' Skill Positions in 2011

    With the 2011 regular season now behind the Oregon Ducks, their focus is on the 2012 season and winning a fourth straight conference title...

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  3. Oregon Football: 5 Things That Changed the Ducks' 2011 Season

    With the regular season out of the way, Oregon has earned its third straight conference title, a Rose Bowl win and are on their way to looking for another conference title in 2012...

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  4. College Football 2012 Rankings: 9 Teams Starting Unranked but Finish Top 25

    Seems like every year when the preseason top 25 comes out, the end result in January looks very different. Last year, teams like Cincinnati, Southern Miss, Houston and Kansas State all came from the depths of being unranked to finish in the top 25...

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  5. The Toughest 3-Game Stretch on Every College Football Team's Schedule

    One thing that fans and players love to do is take a look at the upcoming schedule and start to guess about what games are winnable, see when their big games are and take a look at how the schedule lays out...

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  6. Oregon Football: 5 Duck Players That Must Come Up Huge in 2012

    For the past three years Oregon has continued to find a way to retool its offense and stay on top of the Pac-12 conference...

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  7. 1 Thing That Could Derail Each BCS Conference Team's Season

    As we continue to wait for the 2012 season to kick off, college football fans are continuing to review their teams' schedule, depth chart and incoming recruiting class...

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  8. College Football: Mark It Down -- 14 Things That Will Absolutely Happen in 2012

    Despite the fact that the start of the 2012 season is months away, college football fans are already taking a long look at how the 2012 college football season could play out...

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  9. Oregon Football: 5 Offseason Goals for the Ducks

    With the 2011 season and recruiting period over, everyone will now start to look forward at the 2012 season. For most, spring games cannot come quick enough, but August is still a long way off...

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  10. 50 of the Worst Moments in College Football History

    Throughout the history of college football, there have been some plays, calls and moments that have elevated the sport to the popularity it has today...

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  11. One Game Every College Football Team Wishes It Could Opt out of for 2012

    Every year, college football fans start to take a look at the out of conference schedules and see what primetime games are going to happen in the upcoming season...

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  12. Oregon Football: 5 Reasons Chip Kelly Will Go Down as the Greatest Duck Coach

    In 2007, coach Mike Bellotti brought Chip Kelly onto the Oregon staff as the offensive coordinator. That may end up being one of the biggest moments in Oregon history...

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  13. Setting the over-Under Win Total for Every College Football Team in 2012

    Now that the recruiting period is behind us, college football fans begin the long wait. Soon spring practice will come and go and the summer months will leave fans longing for the sound of pads colliding...

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  14. Oregon Football: 5 Reasons to Be Excited for the 2012 Season

    For college football fans, this is a dead period of having to wait and wait, and while spring practice and games give us a short reprieve, the wait drags out all the way until August...

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  15. Oregon Ducks Football: 5 Keys to the 2012 Season

    With the national signing day behind the Oregon staff, the attention is now being placed on offseason workouts, spring practice and the 2012 football season...

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  16. College Football Recruiting: Grading Every Team's National Signing Day Class

    As is the case every season, national signing day came and went extremely quickly. High school seniors from around the nation made their commitment to go and play football at their program of choice and shaped the future of college football...

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  17. 2012 Stock Report for Every BCS College Football Team After National Signing Day

    As the letters of intent flew into schools all over the nation, the 2011 season finally has been put to rest and the 2012 season has begun...

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  18. Oregon Football: Arik Armstead and Bralon Addison Headline Ducks Class

    Once the dust had settled, the Ducks had all of their letters of intent in and signed and they could take a look at how their 2012 recruiting class shaped up...

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  19. Oregon Football: Arik Armstead Picks Ducks; Kelly Leaving Lasting Impact

    On Sunday, Oregon received news that Arik Armstead had made his choice to play college football with the Ducks and with that commitment, the Ducks have truly shown how far they have come...

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  20. Tracking Oregon's 2012 National Signing Day Targets

    As National Signing Day approaches, college football fans are like little kids on Christmas morning as they await to see what surprises await their program for years to come...

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  21. First Word You Think of for Every College Football Coach

    Since the 2011 college football season has ended, many moves have been made around the national landscape; coaches have been moved to new spots while some have remained at their old stomping grounds...

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  22. Chip Kelly's Heart Is in Oregon; Stays with Ducks, Turns Down NFL's Buccaneers

    Sunday night saw a flurry of activity as many sports and media outlets were reporting that Chip Kelly and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had reached an agreement that would make Kelly their new head coach...

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  23. Oregon Football: 4 Reasons Chip Kelly May Leave for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

    With the news from ESPN that coach Chip Kelly is closing in on finalizing his deal to become the head coach of Tampa Bay, fans and players are left to ask the question why...

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  24. Predicting College Football's 10 Most Improved Teams in 2012

    When you look back at the 2011 season, it becomes clear that some teams were both good and bad surprises for many fanbases. For every good surprise like Michigan, there were teams that fell flat and below expectations like Ohio State...

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  25. Report: Chip Kelly on Brink of Leaving Oregon Ducks; Heading to Tampa Bay

    Over the past few hours, the social media world has been set on fire with the idea that Chip Kelly has had meetings with the Tampa Bay officials, and KGW out of Portland is saying ...

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