The Beavs were off this weekend but the Ducks trounced ASU which means, with the season more than half over, both Oregon State and the University of Oregon are still in the hunt for a share of the PAC-10 Conference title in football (UO, Cal, OSU, USC all have one conference loss). This is good news both for die-hard fans and those who have never so much as watched a single offensive series.
This study produced at the University of Kentucky demonstrates that success on the field can improve a school’s academic profile. Simply put, when a school wins a lot of football games, they get more TV exposure; more eyeballs around the nation turned to the campus means a higher application rate. Anecdotally, both campuses saw this type of surge in the 1999-2002 time frame when both the Ducks and the Beavers were in the BCS picture.
Watch for potential fireworks at the end of November when the two teams face off in The Civil War.
