Weird Science: Oregon’s Area 51 and the experiment to save college football

Johnny Manziel, one of college football’s brightest stars, needs a transfusion of character and responsibility.

Marcus Mariota, Oregon’s superb, disciplined, unfailingly modest quarterback, needs about a pint of Manziel’s swagger and brash creativity.

Phil Knight and the Ducks didn’t build an Area 51 for nothing.

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