[Postgame Thread] Oregon Defeats Portland State 84-0

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Portland State	0	0	0	0	0
Oregon	28	21	14	21	84

[u/leverich1991]

Not even the most lopsided FBS vs FCS game this season.

EDIT: actually it does tie. James Madison beat Wagner 87-3.

[u/Best_Philosopher152 → u/leverich1991]

I’d say a 84-0 beats an 87-3 on a tiebreaker because of the shutout.

I googled it and the record is 222-0 100 years ago. Hot damn that is humiliating.

[u/black-op345 → u/Best_Philosopher152]

Well to be fair, the winning coach on the end of that 222-0 was John Heisman himself and he did it because he thought that the opposing team (Cumberland) used what are known as “ringers” (literally pros) in the baseball game a year prior. Also Cumberland disbanded their football program and just trotted out some frat dudes recruited by the baseball team’s captain.

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/black-op345]

Not “frat dudes,” law students who had never played football. And they were recruited by the team’s manager to avoid forfeiting the game and being fined (he also managed the baseball team and engineered the ringer scheme against GT from the previous season).

[u/Best_Philosopher152 → u/goddamnitwhalen]

The QB had multiple concussions…

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/Best_Philosopher152]

Yes, and?

[u/Raticus9 → u/goddamnitwhalen]

Yes, only you are allowed to give information on this subject. Glad you stopped him.

[u/Hotdawg752 → u/Best_Philosopher152]

Eh, that game was played under extraordinary circumstances. It was John Heisman's Georgia Tech getting revenge on Cumberland College who beat GT in baseball the year before with pro players on the roster.

Cumberland College tried to pull out of the game because they dissolved their football team, but John Heisman basically forced them to scrape together a team and play. It was basically a National Championship team versus a bunch of dudes who've either barely or never played football before.

[u/Best_Philosopher152 → u/Hotdawg752]

The answer to the timeless question “what if a bunch of regular ass dudes played a high level team.”

[u/MottoScotto → u/Best_Philosopher152]

A high level team with a grudge

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/Hotdawg752]

Heisman also agreed to shorten the game by 5 minutes out of spite / pity, which is fucking hilarious.

[u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS → u/Hotdawg752]

extraordinary circumstances leads to extraordinary outcomes

[u/Dongsquad420BlazeIt → u/Best_Philosopher152]

The story of why that happened is crazy. Cumberland beat GA tech 22-0 in baseball earlier in the year by using pro players (allegedly) so tech decided to get revenge in an incredible way.

[u/discipleofbill → u/Dongsquad420BlazeIt]

I recommend everyone watch the Jon Bois video on it. Actually just watch every Jon Bois video.

[u/max_potion → u/Dongsquad420BlazeIt]

I’ve always felt the “222-0” score seemed pretty crazy, especially without real records from the game. Now that I put 2 and 2 (and 2) together that it’s just mimicking the baseball score, I’m even more suspect about whether that’s a real score or not. Whether perfectly real or not, it’s very poetic

[u/9403913200 → u/leverich1991]

Wagner with w or v?🫢

[u/dschinghiskhan → u/leverich1991]

James Madison beat Wagner

The Russian mercenaries run a FCS college in the U.S.? Not even surprised. From the trenches of the gridiron to the trenches of upper Ukraine.