Oregon vs Auburn, make your pick

Oregon wins 38-27, the auburn defense is gonna be shot by the 4th

Auburn 70-63.

Only slightly kidding. I expect this to be the highest scoring BCS championship ever.

Oregon by 14

Auburn, 44-7. Oregon isn't playing Pac-10 cupcakes this week.

I don't care. Just looking for a great game. Entertain me!

Going with Auburn, don't think the PAC 10 is in the same league. We'll see hopefully Im wrong.

The pace of the Ducks offense might shift the balance.

Auburn's offensive line has an an incredible amount of experience.

Cam Newton looked like a man among boys in the SEC this year.

Should be a great BCS championship game.

If anything the SEC was a cupcake division this year. Stanford, USC, Arizona and the likes were not cupcakes this year. PAC 10 was strong and Oregon will show Auburn that tonight.

Oregon by 10+ in a high scoring game.

Cam Newton is a man among boys? Yes, plus his family got paid $200k for him to play this year. Is NCAA = NFL? No. Auburn shouldn't even be in the game due to that violation.

Oregon by 10. Auburn got hot late, but people forget this si the same team that almost lost to Kentucky, and if they start slow like the Bama game, there's no comming back against the Ducks.

Oregon-41 WDE-31

After a long layoff the first quarter may be sloppy which could help the ducks get a lead. The Auburn size will become a factor after that and push the ducks around on the line.

Tigers by 20.

Only 1/3 of the US has Coax/TP/uWave TV so who cares ?

some crazy runner guy wrote:

Going with Auburn, don't think the PAC 10 is in the same league. We'll see hopefully Im wrong.

Riiiight....

Whilst I agree with the Auburn pick - the PAC10 isn't exactly cupcakes.

Did you see what Stanford did to VT?

Or what UW did to Nebraska? And UW was one of the worst "bowl teams" from the PAC 10

Stanford is BY FAR the best one-loss team in the country right now...and Oregon beat them 52-31....

Why no credibility for the PAC10? 2-1 in bowl games right now; with a chance to go 3-1. They tend to beat each other up fairly consistently...so you can't say with a straight face that it's a cupcake conference. Probably the deepest conference right now...

The SEC's entries into bowl games this year? 4-5 - with Alabama really the only "big" winner - and the best 3-loss team in the country ;-)

USC & ASU staying home from bowl games this year helped out non-PAC10 teams....

SEC routinely has patsies on schedules well into November...seriously - Idaho State in November? Louisiana-Monroe in mid-November?

Again - I still think that Auburn with Cam Newton will win, probably by 2 touchdowns - but to argue that the SEC is better than the PAC10 is meaningless until the SEC actually travels west for a regular season game against the better PAC10 programs.

After the conferences are over in November, college football becomes a phony network TV reality show. We need a 12 team NCAA playoff brackets of one conference champ each in December and an NCAA NC game on Jan 1.

I liked Auburn initially, especially after the comeback against Alabama and going undefeated in a very physical conference, as well as after what the SEC did to the Big Ten. But I'm liking Oregon more and more, especially if they find a way to contain Newton.

If we base it on the conference schedules, I think there is just too little data to call it. Just eyeballing it, my feeling is that this would be a very very close game if played in November.

As a poster above mentioned with regard to Oregon, this game is going to be all about how each teams' players react to the very long layoff between their last game and this one. Will the ducks not playing for over a month destroy their vaunted 'tempo?' Will Cam Newton have partied too hard between winning the Heisman and now, making him sluggish?

In terms of 'keeping the troops in line,' I would bet on Chip Kelly to do a better job, but really have no idea. All that said, I'll be rooting for Oregon.

Oregon. I just don't feel like the SEC was as good as it has been in past years and think Oregon's speed will give them problems.

Of course I have a horrible record on predictions, so take that for what it is worth.

Oregon by 13, Auburn gives way too many big plays. They wont be able to play catch up with Oregon.

It's a total toss up in my opinion. I grew up in Oregon and endured a childhood of losing seasons. Obviously, I want Oregon to win.

I have a funny feeling it's going to be a blowout. I'm not sure who's going to blowout who but my gut says this thing is over by halftime.

Both teams claim to fame is that they're awesome second half teams. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

this matchup reminds me of every other SEC-involved BCS national championship. SEC will dominate after oregon takes an early lead

Auburn 38

Oregon 17

(spread right now is pk, ML off, o/u 72)