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EUGENE, Ore. — Tonight, we get the biggest thing to hit the state of Oregon since beaches without motor vehicles. It's so big, the state's largest newspaper, The Oregonian of Portland, has 20 press credentials.
You may have heard about it. Oregon hosts Oregon State in a football game that proves that what goes around, comes around, even if it sometimes takes generations.
The winner gets to make plans for the Rose Bowl. It will either be the Beavers, who have the NCAA record for consecutive losing seasons (28), or the Ducks, who in 1989 were so eager to end a 26-year streak without the postseason they bought their way into the Independence Bowl.
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