The series

Oregon won at Tennessee, 48-13 in 2010, in the only other meeting between the schools, made memorable by the lightning delay and then two 70-yard-plus scoring plays by sophomores LaMichael James and Cliff Harris. Ten Ducks, though no starters, are still around for today�s rematch. For the Volunteers, defensive end Corey Miller and right tackle Ju�Wuan James started against the Ducks in 2010, and fellow senior Michael Palardy handled UT�s kickoffs then and is its full-time placekicker now.

You look remarkably like an empty seat

This will be Oregon�s 91st consecutive sellout (cough, cough) at Autzen Stadium, dating back to 1999. Only Nebraska, which hosts UCLA at 9 a.m. today, with 327 consecutive sellouts dating to 1962, and Notre Dame (232 since 1973) have longer streaks.

SEC wins the football trivia battle, too

The Southeastern Conference weekly press release provides this nugget on Tennessee QB Justin Worley, who�s making his sixth start today. In his three wins, he�s completed 70 percent of his passes with five touchdowns and just one interception; in his two losses, he dropped to 45.5 percent, no TDs and three picks.

Familiarity breeds except among zebras

Game Notes hates being wrong almost as much as putting its name to the end of this filler, but so it goes. Last week�s Oregon game at Virginia was not officiated by an ACC crew, as stated last week. Instead, it was a Pac-12 seven headed by referee Shawn Hochuli, the son of NFL ref Ed Hochuli. At some point, college football needs to standardize its officiating to get past the regional paranoia, because sending seven guys making nearly $1,500 per game (pay and per diem) cross country for a nonconference game makes little sense. And after 11 penalties for 119 yards against Virginia, compared with five for 33 in the Fiesta Bowl with ACC refs on patrol last January, maybe the Ducks would have preferred the Pac-12 boys stayed home, too.

Great play that should have won our day

We also whiffed last week on what should have been the special teams play-of-the-game story. How badly? Our X�s & O�s guy in his postgame blog called it a blocked field goal, which if started at the Virginia 14-yard line would have made it a 103-yard attempt. Fortunately, our own Chris Pietsch captured an excellent photo for your Sunday paper of Josh Huff�s punt block that set up Oregon�s second touchdown. Virginia�s �shield� formation gave UO special teams coach Tom Osborne plenty to exploit, and Huff, a gifted senior wide receiver, did the rest on the Ducks� five-man, jail-break rush against horrifically bad blocking. It was �Win the Day� in action at its finest, and it deserved more notice.

Paging Matt Barkley to the Eagles sideline

Amid the spasms of joy over the Oregon Way having taken the NFL by storm last Monday night, did anyone notice that Washington came within a successful onside kick of nearly beating the Philadelphia Eagles and robbing Chip Kelly�s game ball from beneath his chinny-chin-chin? Over-under on Michael Vick�s up-rightness this season: 10 games. Nick Foles? Two.

There�s seven of �em and they�re back again

The conference has the same seven officiating crew chiefs for the third straight season. Pac-12 refs worked 13 of the 19 games involving conference teams the first two weeks. Game Notes likes to monitor such things for silly reasons, such as maybe a 91/2-yard onside kick showing up again someday.

� Ron Richmond