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Top 25 Intel: No. 11 Oregon

By Chris Sprow
ESPN Insider

Friday, June 19, 2009

If you talk to Chip Kelly, the new head coach at Oregon, you never worry that perhaps you accidentally called Lou Holtz instead. It's the difference between the two in salesmanship and optimism. Give Holtz the Taj Mahal and he'd complain about the cleaning bill. Give Kelly a burning outhouse and he'd call it warm and cozy. Oregon's football team this year is somewhere between those extremes. It could be oversold or undersold, depending on what -- or whom -- you want to believe. Kelly, for one ...

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