The final piece of my Rose Bowl Preview. Check out the rest below.
Part Three: Predictions + Special Teams (the one you’re reading)
Back in the greatest modern era of Oregon football to date (~2007-2014), the general storyline surrounding the Ducks were that they were fast and flashy.
Those teams were pioneers of the hurry-up offense that we see all over college football today, and they also ran the run-pass-option (RPO) way before it was cool.
“Yesterday’s fast is today’s slow,” read an old Nike print ad from 2011.
Chip Kelly recruited for speed, practiced fast, and he was hell-bent on exhausting his lesser-conditioned opponents by the middle of the third quarter.