You wish you had a crystal ball, where you could predict the future and predict what's going to happen next fall.

If Cole ends up playing Saturday, we're fully confident in his ability to lead the offense. He doesn't get enough credit for being as good of a runner as he is. He also has a good understanding of our offense.

In those years, Oregon and Oregon State were trying to get bowl-eligible, have a winning record, crack the upper half (in Pac-10). Now, they're in the top half every year. They expect to go to bowls. They're looking at being nationally ranked.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. It's the No. 1 rush defense in the league, being our defense, against the No. 1 rush offense (Idaho State). It's the No. 2 rush defense, being their defense, against the No. 3 rush offense in the league. So something's got to give. It may be the team that throws the ball best wins the game.

The best thing he did was he took care of the football. He moved the chains. He hit some passes under pressure, which we also needed to do to get them out of their blitz game. When we did that, they were kind of out of answers.

The offensive line is an area in which we need to improve from what happened last year, and there were a lot of things that contributed to that. I like what I've seen so far this spring. This is the one position on our team where we are extremely young, but I believe talented. This is probably the one area that we've made the most progress since day one of spring practice.

It's good for our down-the-line kids and our freshmen to get a chance to play, because as the fall wears on, they're not going to get much opportunity. Then we could get in a situation where at the end of the season, we might need them. The more live reps we can get them now, the better.

This (Oregon program) is a little different beast than the Oregon and Oregon State teams of the early '90s.

This a great opportunity to play against one of the best football programs in the country and to test ourselves against a team from the Big Ten Conference. Obviously we will have our work cut out for us.

We missed a couple of tackles, it looked like. It looked like we didn't get off a couple of blocks, and they got out on us. Our containment guy got a little out of position, and we let (Stewart) outside and we couldn't catch him.