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I've always thought it was cool to venture into unchartered territory for a big time college football team. How sweet was the blasting of the Maize & Blue at the Big House last season? Of course history shows the Ducks didn't fare so well during some of the lean years. The 85 squad found it's way to Lincoln and a 63-nothing pasting at the hands of the Cornhuskers. A decade earlier Barry Switzer's first National Champion Sooners laid one on Don Read's UO team to the tune of 62-7. Yikes! Hope the payday was worth it. At least they stayed within 55 points. Three years earlier, in 1972, Dick Enright's Ducks took it on the chin at Norman, 68-3.
During the Mike Bellotti era Oregon has gone into some difficult venues and played tough, coming up just short at Camp Randall against Wisconsin in 2000, 27-23 on their way to a Holiday Bowl victory and #7 final ranking. The Sun Bowl season of '99 started with a hard fought 27-20 defeat at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. No question a win Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette would represent the first time the U of O has won road games out of league in back to back seasons against BCS conference teams. It's a huge game, and another opportunity for the head coach to take this program a place it's never been in so many ways!