i had fun getting wasted in Juarez, enjoyed the SunBowl events, most of the Ducks fans we met were nice & while the UTEP stadium wasn't exactly a top notch facility, at least they sold tall boys of Tecate & the hills/scenery surrounding the stadium looked cool from inside, almost like they built the bleachers into the sides of a crater.
the game? sucked from the start. getting absolutely sharted on by Jonathan Stewart & a third string (?) QB was bad, but it worked out cuz we literally left the stadium after the 3rd & headed straight to the airport.
Oregon was certainly a bad game, but in the grand scheme of things it really didn't mean much. winning would have provided a little bit of redemption for the Rutgers loss & subsequent season meltdown, but win or lose it was a footnote in a season that completely fell apart after Piscataway. IMO it really seems that Rutgers loss sucked the wind out of the team & took the chip off their shoulders. they were never the same after that.
after going into a ranked, sold out Jordan Hare & beating Auburn then beating WVU at home in front of 68k fans, that team was capable of beating anyone... they just didn't.