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Posted at 8:45 AM EST.

WASHINGTON +7 over Oregon

Alaska Airlines Stadium at Husky Stadium – Seattle, WA

Streaming: ABC

7:30 PM EST. November is known as a month of chaos in the college football landscape with such tumults often coming from the opaque of circumstances. Enter the Oregon Ducks who are the new hope for the Pac 12 to return to the College Football Playoff. Oregon has found itself sitting #4 in the inaugural College Football Playoff rankings. A huge emphasis on Oregon’s “résumé” is their win at Ohio State in Columbus in September and as such, the story goes that should the Quack Attack win out, they will be on their way to their second playoff appearance in school history. It seems simple enough with the Huskies on this week’s menu followed by Washington State, Utah, and Oregon State to close out the season before heading to the conference championship game to punch their ticket.

Given the disappointment Washington has been in 2021, it seems like a slice of pie here to spot a converted touchdown on the road to the Huskies. When we consider that Oregon has covered 13 of the last 15 meetings and six of the last seven in Nirvana-town, this game has bailout written all over it given the late start combined with the market’s appetite for the Ducks.

The market and the polls for that matter may actually be giving Oregon a bit too much love here. Outside of the aforementioned Ohio State win, what credible win do the Ducks actually own? UCLA on the road, where they trailed by 14, came back, and then managed to almost blow a 17-point lead they built up? Outside of that, Oregon’s wins came against Colorado (a dreg), a narrow win at California (where they could have lost as Cal led in the fourth quarter and choked), Arizona (another dreg), Stony Brook (a FCS team from Suffolk County, New York), and Fresno State (a game they could have also lost).

Make no mistake, should Oregon play down to the level of their competition here, they could be going home with their season shipwrecked, as once upon a time Washington was considered the “other team” in contention for the Pac-12 crown. Nothing can right their ship better than taking down the proverbial big dog of the league and playing the role of the spoiler. The fact that the line opened with Oregon spotting less than a converted touchdown (-6.5) here suggests that there is little buyin from the experts on Oregon’s credentials. Take the points.

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