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Weekend Wrap: Stanford stuffs the Ducks

By Bruce Feldman

Sunday, November 8, 2009

The toughest thing for people to wrap their minds around when it comes to college football, I think, is that every week stands alone. By nature, we all love to search for trends and evidence about how teams are on rolls and have things figured out: "Well, since Team A beat Team B, and Team B blew out Team C, then Team A will hammer Team C." We want to believe that there is carryover. The subjective rankings system that drives college football only sucks us in to that mindset even more. Howev ...

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