Duck fans remember 2012, and Trojan fans should. Oregon doesn't want that type of game again, but they do want to establish that kind of dominance.
It's a big weekend for the Ducks and Trojans, easily the best show in college football in Week 13 with the SEC playing body-bag opponents like Samford, Eastern Illinois, Mercer and Charlotte two weeks before the College Football Playoff final selection show, though No. 22 Missouri plays at No. 8 Oklahoma and Florida hosts Tennessee.
The conference where it just means more can't have both ways. All season long they talk about "the gauntlet" and how many ranked teams they've beaten and then as the playoffs approach they schedule a Tomato Can to protect those rankings, guaranteeing the league eight extra wins and turning every 7-5 team into an 8-4 team to preserve the illusion of how "deep" it is.