Poyer Garners Honors

OSU senior cornerback Jordan Poyer capped off a great season with a handful of honors. In addition to all Pac-12 honors he was named to the American Football Coaches Association All-America First Team.

He also was named to the CBSsports.com All America Team.

Congrats to Poyer, the coaches and his teammates on a great year.

#13 Beavers to Take On Texas in Alamo Bowl

Fresh off a 77-3 season-ending win over Nicholls State which capped a 9-3 season, Oregon State learned Sunday they will face the University of Texas in the Alamo Bowl December 29.

The Beavers, who had a turn-around season for the ages after finishing 3-9 in 2011, were selected for the Pac-12's third place bowl game against the Longhorns of the Big 12 Conference who finished with a 7-5 record.

Beavers Show Fight But Succumb to #10 Kansas

Oregon State fought hard in a road game tonight against the #10 ranked Kansas Jahhawks, but came up short, 84-78.

Kansas shot 60 percent from the field for the game but somehow let the Beavers hang around. OSU twice rallied in the second half, even closing the lead to three points in the final minutes before the final whistle.

Post Season Awards

Congratulations are in order for the following OSU Football players, selected by PAC-12 Conference coaches for outstanding play this season. This is the most first-team recognition for the Beavers since six players made the first team in 2009.

First Team:
Jordan Jenkins, Senior
Jordan Poyer, Senior
Markus Wheaton, Senior
Scott Crightion, Sophomore

Honorable Mention:
Andrew Seumalo, Senior
Grant Enger, Junior
Rahsaad Reynolds, Junior
Brandin Cooks, Sophomore
Trevor Romaine, Sophomore
Isaac Seumalo, Freshman
  

It's Bowl Prediction Season

Grab an egg nog and get in on the action. The end of the regular season means the daily shuffle and discussion of which teams are going where has begun.

Here's how USA Today see's the bowl lineup.

116th Civil War Game Tomorrow

Beavers Hoops Team In DC

The Oregon State Men's basketball team got to enjoy some time at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC with the President.

Seumalo Named Award Semifinalist

Oregon State senior DT Andrew Seumalo was named a semifinalist for the Burlsworth Trophy, given annually to a top walk-on player in college football.

Seumalo and his #15 ranked Beaver teammates take on the Oregon Ducks this Saturday in the Civil War game at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon.

Tough Loss At Stanford Drops Beavs in Polls

Oregon States's 27-23 road loss to Stanford yesterday dropped them to #15 in the latest AP Top 25 poll released today. The 7-2 Beavers play Cal at home in Corvallis this Saturday.

Stanford, now 8-2, moved into sole possession of second place in the Pac-12 North Division behind Oregon and to #14 in the national poll. The undefeated Ducks moved to #1 in the poll and await the release of the BCS poll today.

Short-Handed Beavers Get Big Win

Saturday's 36-26 win over ASU in Corvallis proved that the Beaver's can and did respond to adversity in order to win when they must.

All-world cornerback Jordan Poyer didn't play. Starting RB Storm Woods played just the first series and former starting QB Sean Mannion held a clipboard and watched Cody Vaz ably direct the OSU offense. The result... a slow, somewhat disjointed first half followed by a dominant second half and a convincing win. While the scoreboard showed that OSU won by only ten points, the game wasn't that close for most of the second half.

On Track:
Big plays on offense
Defense bottles up a very mobile QB
Ground game does the job
Win the turnover battle

Cause for Concern:
O-Line gives up too many sacks
Slow (could have been disastrous) start

Former Beaver Wins MLB Gold Glove

Former Oregon State second baseman Darwin Barney won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award for the National League this week. The award, given to the top player at each position was Barney's first and capped off a great year in the field.

Barney's sterling defense yielded him a .997 fielding percent which was tops in the NL. What's more, this year he set a new record with a 141-game errorless streak. The streak lasted 1,154 1/3 innings and ran through April 17.

Great job Darwin. Congrats!!

Happy Halloween

Have a safe and happy halloween. Another good reason to wear ORANGE.

The Great Pumpkin

UW Recap

Last week's poll on BeaverFanOnline asked how Sean Mannion's return to the lineup would affect the offense. Boy, was that prophetic!

As we all saw, Mannion's return did affect the game. While some have said he wasn't sharp, tried to do too much too soon or simply had a bad game, the result was not good. The offense wasn't able to move the ball enough in the first half and the interceptions squandered field position and what opportunities we could create for ourselves.

The second half was a different story entirely. The offense moved the ball, hit big plays and helped control the game. Unfortunately, more interceptions by Mannion and Washington's energy and big plays was too much to overcome.

The $64,000 question of course is now Mannion or Vaz? Vaz got his shot late in the game last week. It impacted the end of that game Seattle and will certainly impact what the Beavers do on offense going forward.

Prediction: Pain

When asked for his prediction of the outcome in the big bout in Rocky III, villan Clubber Lang answers simply...

"Pain!"

If you want to talk about how good of a line was or how great that film was we can. Today I'd rather talk about what I think the Beavers can inflict on Washington Saturday night in Seattle.

This year's Beavers have done a great job of growing and doing enough each week to seize control of a game and get the win. What's most important is that they have changed the brand of football they play and the manner in which they play it. Physicality, controlling the line of scrimmage and controlling the clock lead to WINS. I don't see any reason that won't continue this week.

Another night game, another road conference tilt? You bet! But our Beavers have shown they are up for any challenge. If do most of these:

Play physical and control the line of scrimmage
Run the ball for 100 yards or more
Keep Sean Mannion upright and give him time
Stretch the field on offense
Pressure Washington QB Keith Price
Control the clock
Win the turnover battle

They will win...

I say it will be 24-14 Beavers!

Good Read About Seumalo Family

Check out Kerry Egger's story at PortlandTribune.com