A year after the Beijing Olympics, China may play host to another sporting event for the first time. Reports began to surface last week that officials from the University of Oregon were looking at the Ducks possibly playing a regular-season game in China, in 2009. The game the Oregon officials are looking at is between Oregon and Boise State, scheduled for Sept. 5, 2009.

Taking a college football team to China isn’t as easy as hopping on a plane though. To pull this off Oregon will likely have to dig up a corporate sponsor or raise money through sale of the game’s television rights. They also have to convince the Boise State officials it’s worth it to travel to another continent where football has little to no following. Talk about a cultural exchange.