Oregon is 2-4 and searching for answers. Oregon State is 2-4 and searching for a healthy body to play at quarterback. Before the season, I'd penciled in this week as a good time to check in with the Civil War and project a winner.
After all, most seasons, by now, you can get a sense of what a team is about and where its season is headed. But the Ducks are caught in a storm, and I'm not sure the locker room will keep from being splintered if they lose on Friday at Cal. And, even as OSU's two most winnable games left on the schedule come in the final two weeks of the season, I'm not sure who the Beavers are going to survive the month in front of that.