CORVALLIS — The sea of shirtless dudes jostled as one.

The crowd kept growing as more filed in. A seemingly endless line of testosterone stretched back to the student section. They hooted, hollered, and whipped their shirts in the air. Their collective blood alcohol content could probably fill a swimming pool.

But their energy wasn’t transferring to the field.

Oregon State football was flat, dying on the vine, staring down the prospect of a home loss to a Lafayette team it paid $500,000 to make the long journey from Easton, Pennsylvania. 0-8 was a distinct possibility, even after firing their coach . It couldn’t get this bad, could it?

The Beavers hardly noticed the mass of mostly pale bodies growing in the south end zone. Players’ body language was tense coming off the field at ha

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