The Wiz of Odds

Team Entrance Videos, Part 1

Love them or hate them, nearly every major college team now has an entrance video to play on their supersized video board. Here's a look at 30 team entrance videos, broken into three posts.

We start with Arizona State, which has a Saturday night surprise for visiting Wisconsin. Watch Sun Devil mascot Sparky crush the Wisconsin team bus.

Oregon

Oregon, which opens at home Saturday against something called Nicholls State, is expected to be in the thick of the Bowl Championship Series title chase. Having eight home games will help.

Thanks to Rachel.

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Oregon has firmly established itself among the elite teams and should have smooth sailing into its Nov. 3 game at USC, a team that beat the Ducks last season in Eugene. Regardless of the outcome, most scenarios have the teams playing a second game on Nov. 30 in the Pacific 12 championship game.

Thanks to Rachael.

The Best Team Money Can Buy

Quarterback Bryan Bennett gives the world a tour of the Oregon locker room.

Give the People What They Want — Duck Cheerleaders

Yes, we could have used an action shot from Monday's Rose Bowl to lead this post, but we're all about giving customers what they want. And that means an image of the Oregon cheerleaders.

This shot, along with the others after the jump, are courtesy of Image of Sport. You can view Image of Sport's full gallery by clicking here.

As for the game, it was a classic, with the Oregon Ducks holding off the Wisconsin Badgers, 45-38.

Bellotti's Monthly Pension Tops $41,000

Mike Bellotti has a gift that keeps on giving.

Bellotti, the former Oregon coach and short-term athletic director, gets a monthly pension of $41,341.67 from the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System, the Oregonian reported.

Bellotti, 60, is one of 837 people who get more than $100,000 a year from the system, but he's at the top of the heap by a sizable margin. Next on the list is Frederick Keller, an interventional radiologist with the Oregon Health & Science University who probably doesn't have the slightest idea what "Cover 2" means. Keller cashes a monthly pension check of $31,459.45.

Bellotti, now an analyst for ESPN, had a final compensation package between $1.9 and $2 million from Oregon. He made no apology for his fat pension.

"Put in all the taxes I've paid to the state of Oregon," he told the newspaper.

Bellotti was Oregon's offensive coordinator from 1989-94. He then became head coach, a position he held until March 30, 2009, when moved into the athletic director's seat. Nine months later, he quit to join ESPN.

Then, in a move that took large brass ones, Bellotti demanded a severance of $7 million from Oregon president Richard Lariviere, who learned from university general counsel that Bellotti had no contract with the school. He was merely working under a handshake deal.

Lariviere took stock of his legal position and wisely settled for $3 million.