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Oregon State Football: The 2007 Civil War Game

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A decade later, the 2007 college football season still stands out as one of the wildest of all time. I’m serious, it was absolutely crazy and you can relive the strange season here. We had the curse of teams ranked #2, Mike Gundy’s “I’m a man, I’m 40!” speech, Kansas being (very) good at football and so much more.

Despite the generally chaos throughout college football landscape, the perpetually underrated Beavers actually came into the season with semi-high expectations. They were returning a majority of their defense, which had been ranked second in the nation for total sacks, eighth in tackles for loss and was in the top 20 for rushing defense the year before.