Ducks have a win in the books for this week, with the players getting time off until Monday, a midseason break to catch up on schoolwork and be college kids for a long weekend.
There are several games on the national and PAC-10 slate that could have significant impact for the Ducks in the conference and BCS title chases.
Nationally:
#1 (BCS) Oklahoma (6-0) at #11 Missouri (6-0), 5 p.m. ABC
The Sooners have won four close games. They edged Utah State 31-24 in their opener, then thumped Florida State 47-17, nipped Air Force 27-24, squeaked by at Cincinnati 31-29, handled the Longhorns 28-20, then clubbed Iowa State 52-0. #17 Florida State (6-1) is their signature win, and their schedule got a boost when Texas upended Nebraska. Oklahoma has one other marquee game, November 27 when they host now-undefeated Oklahoma State.
Home team Missouri rates higher than Oregon on several of the BCS computers, but that's a bit of a head scratcher. Blaine Gabbert and the offense have carried Missouri through a lackluster slate of victims: Illinois, McNeese State, San Diego State, Miami of Ohio, Colorado and Texas A&M. They needed a last minute 70-yard touchdown pass to overcome San Diego State 27-24, and they're about to get found out. The Sooners should handle them easily, and next week the Tigers travel to Lincoln to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Currently there are ten undefeated teams in the Top 25, but four of them square off Saturday.
#6 LSU (7-0) at #4 Auburn (7-0) CBS, 12:30
Cam Newton gets his toughest test versus the Hat's defense, and Les Miles' extraordinary luck is about to run out. He'd need to put 13 men on the field to stop Newton, and the lumbering LSU offense isn't about to keep up with high-powered Auburn. The Auburn dual threat whiz is the frontrunner for the Heisman unless the Tigers stumble here or at Alabama November 26.
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