“This game scares me because I’m actually going to split the points with Oregon. They’re on a trip, a short week, Purdue is coming off a performance where they took Illinois to the brink and tried the two-point conversion and fell just short. But I think also that they showed their cards to Ryan Browne, their quarterback who runs the football. Now that that’s on tape, Oregon can suddenly keep that under control jumping themselves into second place in the Heisman Trophy conversation role for (offensive coordinator) Will Stein to keep him in a little bit longer to get him just a little bit more stats, and if that’s the case, I think Oregon takes it down and covers the 27.5 points.”

“This has nothing to do with time zones, this has to do with something that goes back through multiple coaches, through multiple generations, and that is top-5 teams going to play Purdue in West Lafayette. Now I’m not calling the outright upset, I’m just saying, (27.5) is a lot of points for a short week after a huge win against the Purdue team which I think, with that quarterback run game, might can be shortened This thing. We saw Oregon get up early and wrap it up against Michigan State. This is a team that would like to take care of its business and then maybe come out of the game as healthy as possible and there’s no shame in that in clearly being one of the best teams in the entire country it’s only 27.5 that’s a lot points when we look at the short week, the hangover and again, the juju of the Spoilermakers.”

Chris Hansen covers University of Oregon football, men’s basketball, track and field, cross country and softball for The Register-Guard. You can reach him at [email protected] and you can follow him at X @chansen_RG.