Article: POWERFUL DUCKS TAKING A DEFENSIVE APPROACH GOING INTO FIESTA BOWL WITHOUT MUCH RESPECT, `UNDERDOG' OREGON TRIES TO BUILD UP ITS GAME.(Sports)

Byline: Richard Obert Special to the News

PHOENIX -- The University of Oregon is ranked No. 2 in the Associated Press and USA Today / ESPN polls and is led by a Heisman Trophy finalist, but all the Ducks hear is how great the University of Colorado football team is.

How the Buffaloes are the hottest team in college football, after ripping Nebraska and Texas and capturing the Big 12 Conference championship.

How Colorado is in the wrong bowl, that the Buffs should be playing top-ranked Miami for the national championship in the Rose Bowl, not the Ducks in the Fiesta Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium on New Year's Day.

``It's great,'' Oregon ...

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