Strange sight, it was, at Husky Stadium on Saturday, watching those offensive linemen form a semicircle around the quarterback before a snap.
The Huskies, it turns out, were in what your grandpa would call a “huddle,” in which the quarterback calls out the next play to the teammates gathered intimately around him. For most Pac-12 Conference offenses, the huddle has gone the way of Hammer (M.C., that is), disappearing into an afterthought in this hyper-tempo age of college football.
These days, you’re more likely to find a four-leaf clover on Oregon’s turf field than you are to see the Ducks huddle.