Best of ‘College GameDay’ at Michigan State-Oregon: Signmakers not yet in midseason form

Hosting College GameDay in Eugene, Oregon on week two is a tricky proposition, at least if you’re hoping for a monstrous fan turnout and a steady stream of especially clever signs waving behind Chris Fowler’s head. Asking college students to turn up for a show that starts at 5 a.m. local time is tough, even at a football-crazy campus such as Oregon. Matters weren’t helped by the fact that Oregon’s classes don’t actually start for another two weeks.

The show at least ended with the kind of chaotic frenzy that fans have come to expect.

While there was a welcome lack of the horribly offensive signs that plagued the week one GameDay set, the overall quality of work felt a bit like homework done at the last second as the teacher is walking around the class to pick it up.

Take this, for example. What in the world is happening here?

Outside of the facts that Oregon is playing Michigan State today and the Ducks sometimes make it to the Rose Bowl, this just doesn’t make ... any sense.

Overzealous and undereducated Alabama fans are a favorite punching bag in this type of venue, but this is just poor execution right here -- the kind of thing you’d get Processed for in Tuscaloosa.

This too might have been an effective (if hackneyed) burn but for one inconvenient detail.

That just seems like the kind of thing an Oregon resident should either already know or at least think to Google before going all in on the GameDay sign.

This one Michigan State fan is carrying both teams on his back right now.

Things are rough for Washington State fans right now. Right, Tom Rinaldi?