The Real #1 Team in NCAAF

With all due respect to Oklahoma (ranked #1) and my personal favorites, Boise State (ranked third), I have to admit as I watch the number two ranked Oregon Ducks lay the wood to UCLA on ESPN, I have to admit that the Ducks look like world beaters.

Talk about a no huddle attack. They run an offensive play every 18 seconds. That is amazing. They put the Bengals of the '80's and the Bills of the '90's to shame. This is faster than most teams run the no-huddle at the end of games. This team flat out flies . . . and destroys the competition.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw Stanford, led by one of my favorite players, quarterback Andrew Luck (who would look terrific in Bengals' stripes next year), jump ahead by three touchdowns over Oregon. But the next time I checked back, Oregon had the lead. It doesn't take much to score points at a frenetic pace when you run a play every 18 seconds!

Forget that boring spread offense that has infected college football where the quarterback fakes the dive and runs around tackle for four years (ala Tim Tebow). This is a real spread attack. It reminds me of a cross between the Buffalo Bills no huddle with the Houston Oilers run and shoot attack! This is offensive football.

But I have to admit, that while they may have the best offense in college football, their endless combinations of pants, jerseys, and helmets is easily the ugliest in all of sports. At least they junked those horrible jerseys with the fake looking armored plating on the shoulder pads.

These make one long for the good old - and incredibly boring - jerseys of Penn State or Notre Dame.

Oklahoma faces 11th ranked Missouri this weekend. And if they run the table, they still have to play the Big 12 Championship game. Oregon has USC left on their schedule (I think), but they absolutely shredded them last year and the Ducks won't play a Pac-10 Championship game until next year.

Oh yeah, they just jumped up 29-3 right now and there's still 3:34 left in the first half (that's another 18 plays for Oregon's offense!).

How interesting would it be to see Oregon and Boise square off for the national championship (Boise has beaten them two times in a row the past two years. Could they do it a third time?)