Game 35: Oregon Ducks @ California Golden Bears

Game 35: Oregon Ducks @ California Golden Bears

On the way to the bookstore, we ran right into a student protest. The students were protesting the eviction of the student run bookstore. They proceeded to block traffic for approximately 10 minutes chanting “Students over Profits” and “Whose University?

The Week that Was – Recap of Week 6 2014

Posted: October 7, 2014 A look back at Week 6 of the college football season. Well, Week 6 certainly was a crazy one with a bunch of upsets, great games, awful calls, etc. The powers that be need to find a way to spread these games out so we do not have a bunch of dud...

The Week that Was – Recap of Week 4 2014

Posted: September 23, 2014 A look back at Week 4 of the college football season. I will admit that I did not see very much college football this weekend. My job took me to Denmark over the weekend and while you can generally find NFL football in Copenhagen, college...

Week 4 2014 Preview – Pondering the Future

Posted: September 17, 2014 Random thoughts on the upcoming weekend of college football. 1. The weekend gets off to a fast start on Thursday with the Auburn Tigers traveling to Manhattan, Kansas to take on the Kansas State Wildcats. This is one of two games between top...

The Week that Was – Recap of Week 2 2014

Posted: September 9, 2014 1. I thought I was off to a good week, with the UTSA Roadrunners taking the Arizona Wildcats to the wire as I expected. Arizona was fortunate to get the win in this game. I still am waiting to understand how UTSA got this game at home. 2. The...

The Week that Was – Recap of Week 1 2014

Posted: September 2, 2014 1. The first Quest trip of the year got off to a lovely start (picture as much sarcasm as possible and then multiply by 100). Eleven of us sat in the Swamp for 5 hours and saw 10 seconds of football. Thank you mother nature. I can’t fault the...

Week 5 Recap

Posted: October 1, 2013 Miami at South Florida – I only mention this game because South Florida may be the worst team in D1. This game was 49-7 at one point. I bet Coach Taggert misses WKU right about now. Oklahoma State at West Virginia – Huge bounce back win for WVU...

College Football – My Take Aways from Week #1

Posted: September 3, 2013 Greetings, and glad the season has finally begun….and begun I mean all the Monday (or Tuesday) morning quarterbacking can begin. I’m probably as good at this, as I am making my weekly picks in our pool. So I am going to take a...

Oregon Press Release

Date: August 29, 2013 | …and this year one of their stops will be Autzen Stadium, to watch the preseason #3 rated Oregon Ducks host California in one of the loudest, best known stadium experiences out there. “We’ve wanted to get out west to Oregon and Autzen Stadium for several years now and the schedule just never worked out,” Jarrett mentions.

Where Do We Go From Here, What’s Next?

Posted – July 1, 2013 So where do we go from here? The sporting world is officially at a standstill in my opinion now that hockey and basketball are done for the year, even more so noticeable after having very active playoffs years for our local teams....

2013 Season Preview

Date: June 26, 2013 | First up on the list of new venues, the boys take a trip almost as far west as they will travel over the lifetime of this Quest, to Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, home of the Ducks. This will be the first Pac-12 game they have been to. Both are looking forward to seeing if the reality of Autzen lives up to the hype as one of the best college football venues in the nation.

Travel Report

Posted: May 16, 2013 The College Football Quest machine has been hard at work the past few weeks making all the travel arrangements that go into our quest schedule. Once the games are selected, I get right to work trying to secure our travel arrangements. Sometimes...