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CBS with a look ahead and a look back at B1G games. The B1Ggest, Hoosiers at OBD. The best W last week. UCLA is the obvious call, but how about UW's comeback at Maryland? And bless Jedd Fisch for blaming nothing on and having no complaints about coast-to-coast travel. The article notes that PSU most certainly misses Tyler Warren. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-indiana-meets-oregon-for-early-leg-up-in-cfp-race-obvious-missing-link-limiting-penn-state/

CBS - It's B1G Time for OBD and Indiana - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-indiana-meets-oregon-for-early-leg-up-in-cfp-race-obvious-missing-link-limiting-penn-state/

Pat, is that ewe?

Be Our Guest, I Guess? Coach Corso will be missed. ☹️ https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/10/06/oregon-ducks-indiana-college-gameday-guest-pickers/86548111007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&

Well I guess you could say DL is OBD's "Diamond in the Rough". 😁

Without a doubt, Cignetti is playing games with DL. He is smart to not add bulletin board material or pour fuel on the fire. I just doubt his true sincerity! In one article he said that Oregon is a great team and that his Hoosiers are a very good team. I doubt DL, staff and players are buying that! Last season the Hoosiers struggled against elite opponents. Especially in the trenches. Cignetti worked to fix that during the off season. Those fixes will be put to the test against the Ducks. The Hoosiers are well coached and will bring their best effort this Saturday. However, no sugar coated talk will help them in the rain on Saturday. This Duck squad is bigger, stronger, faster and deeper. Extremely talented players working together to become elite. Cinderella's fantasy ball should land with a thud in Autzen. While i think PSU will rebound and return to the rankings by seasons end, the Hoosiers may be the last top ranked team the Ducks face until the title game. That fact is not lost on DL and this team. As UCLA proved that upsets can happen in any game, I just dont see that happening this Saturday Go Ducks!

Lanning is special, and could end up as best if he remains at Oregon long enough, and continues to find and recruit extraordinary assistants. Think of it....many feel Will Stein is one of the best OCs in the college game right now, he was coaching at UTSA, and at a high school before that? Talk about finding a-diamond-in-the-rough! Nice article Alex...

Of course, you could be right, but Miami was in the same place last season with Cam Ward at QB and lost 2 of its last 3 games to miss the ACC champ game and the playoff. Miami has another home game this Saturday vs. Louisville. This will be Miami's 5th home game out of six games. One of Miami's wins is against a G5 team, another against an FCS team. Nice win against two-loss Notre Dame and its freshman QB starting on the road for the first time. But if the program was not named Notre Dame, would the team with two losses be No. 16 in the nation with a win over an SEC opponent who fired its coach the day after the game? Miami's other two ranked wins are against No. 24 USF and No. 25 FSU. QB Castellanos, as was the case at BC last season, started strong before tapering off. Cristobal almost pulled off a Mari-oh-oh 4th quarter in Tallahassee. Florida did not have Dallas Wilson (SIGH) healthy against Miami; nevertheless, the Gators shut down Beck and the Miami offense. Hats off to Mario and Miami, but there is more than half a season to play. In theory, 2-loss Texas and 2-loss Penn State are still in the PO hunt. Both have upcoming games against highly ranked opponents with a chance to prove their PO worth. Clemson is 2-3, with two home losses, and its P4 win came against the 33rd NFL team that should be ranked the 133rd college team. All three of these teams were hyped to the moon by today's hive mind hype machines, competing to see which bees in the hive can spew forth the most hyperbole. Clemson lost 4 games last season with the same guys on defense who were now sure thing All-Americans and first round draft picks. Klubnik had a good PO game against Texas in Austin, but his stats were padded in games against crummy ACC opponents, like an SMU team that Penn State embarrassed. Penn State lost one of the best 'jack-knifes' to ever play the game in Tyler Warren. The team was still to be coached by James Franklin, and Jim Knowles didn't have Caleb Downs to play with. The PSU offense put up more than enough points to defeat UCLA on Saturday, but the defense was terrible. Texas? Arch had started against and defeated two G5 opponents and a 2024 Mississippi State team nowhere near as good as this season's team. All of the Longhorns' top receivers left after 2024. One starter returned on the O-line. And hats off to Sark as a person fighting addiction, but what in his head coaching career has Sark ever won? One B12 title. Largely at the urging of one member who pointed out all of the above, our small change gaming group bet the Under on all three team's 2025 win totals. Which is nice. 😎 The team that has not disappointed to date with massive turnover from 2024 is OBD, with four starters back from last year's team. That's coaching, and equally important in today's pay-for-play and unrestricted free agency, it's great roster management. And, I have to give the same tip of the hat to Ohio State. To date, four teams are in the top 15 nationally in yards per play gained and fewest yards per play allowed: Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, and Texas Tech. (Texas Tech not only bought a very good roster, but it looks like the Red Raiders bought the easiest schedule in the B12.) Indiana is another well-coached team with very good roster management since Cig showed up. I think Saturday will be a close game before OBD's LOS superiority shows up. You can bet that with a better QB and WRs than Penn State, the young Oregon CBs will be tested. And Indiana has 2024 All-B1G talent at all three levels of its defense. PUT OUT THAT CIG!

Everything Oregon's Dan Lanning said in his Monday press conference ahead of Indiana

Injury update and Coach Lanning's comments pre-game. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon's Dan Lanning Gives Brief Injury Update Before Mas...EUGENE – Major implications on the Big Ten standings and the Heisman Trophy race are on the line, as the No. 3 Oregon Ducks are set to play their second-straigh

Mario tried to blow it against FSU. It just didn’t work. He was up Three scores in the fourth quarter and three and outed in under two minutes with incomplete passes. Then up only two scores, he basically did it again. Only FSU’s horrible on side kicks kept the collapse from being completed. The beautiful thing about the classic Mario face plant is the loss doesn’t have to be on the schedule.

Thanks Alex, good article today for our forum to discuss. I grew up in Eugene and fondly remember Len Casaonova and all the great assistants he had on staff. His coaching tree is mighty impressive. Many of them went on to become great coaches. I personally like Rich Brooks. I think he epitomizes the "Do More With Less" kind of Coach. I'm thankful that the two coaches before Dan Lanning (who shall remain nameless) proved that great athletes will come to Oregon. I am now a big Dan Lanning fan! He definitely loves Oregon. He wears his heart on his sleeve. The players know he loves them and wants the best for them. His tough love teaches them to work to improve themselves (and himself). If you could design the perfect coach, I think it would look like Coach Lanning.

Our Oregon football program has sported some of the best offensive minds in the game, and now (almost poetically), Dan Lanning’s defensive prowess & passion have elevated Oregon into a true blue-blooded powerhouse. They rank 3rd in the country in this week’s dreaded AP Poll, after beating Penn State in a Whiteout matchup where the Ducks were rarely in doubt, and ... Oregon Football: Where Does Dan Lanning Rank Today?

Oregon is a great university, it just so happens the conference you joined has some of the best institutions in the country. Top to bottom, it's great schools. But if you want to be higher than you are, just let West Virginia and Utah in and you'll be up on three schools. West Virgina Mountaineers On SIWhy the Big Ten Isn't as Realistic for WVU as the ACCWest Virginia may have a difficult landing in a Power Five conference if the ACC doesn't show any interest.

I tend to agree with this assessment. Cristobal needs to let his assistants pretty much run the show and not be Mari intrusive. Bonehead decisions is what I dislike most about Mari and i am not sure that he can resist if the going gets tense in a big game. Time will tell I guess.

A guy who paid his dues before getting a P4 HC gig at the P4 school with the most losses in CFB. CFB fans, 2024 was not a schedule-induced Indiana one-off. Cignetti was the recruiting coordinator for Nick Saban at Bama. His Dad was the HC at West Virginia for years and is in the CFB Hall of Fame. The Cignettis' ties with Saban go back to Saint Nick's roots, West Virginia. Cignetti was making $200,000.00 a year working at Bama. To his wife's chagrin, and his daughter's, who was a student at Bama, he took a $125,000.00 pay cut to become the HC with the University of Indiana, Pennsylvania Crimson Hawks, not Crimson Tide. The same school his Dad coached for before moving up to West Virginia. Then it was on to D2 Elon and then on to FCS James Madison, where he moved up with the Dukes to the FBS and success in the Sun Belt. Danno's career is the antithesis of Cignetti's. In his own sardonic way, Curt has gone out of his way to emphasize the success Dan Lanning has had a a 'young coach.'😁 Curt now makes $8 million + a year. In 14 seasons as an HC, Cignetti has never had a losing season. The impact of his hire on Hoosiers' football is right there with Prime Time, except for more wins. One reason I believed Indiana could be this season's Indiana was the manner in which Gig acknowledged his 2024 team LOS problems, addressed the same in the portal, as well as bringing in a likely 1st round draft pick at QB, and Maryland's best RB. OBD wins on Saturday, and it will be Cig's 3rd loss at Indiana, where Indiana used to have three losses or more in every season's first four games. His two losses. At the 2024 National Champion, Ohio State, and at the 2024 PO runner-up, Notre Dame. OBD has the better roster, no doubt. But I'm not sure there is a coach in CFB who would have his team better prepared than Gignetti for Saturday's visit to The Autzen Zoo. I think an OBD cover will happen, a cover of a line now bet down to: Autzen ZooMysterious movement in the betting line, odds for Indiana...Something weird is happening with the betting numbers ahead of Oregon's home game against Indiana. As noted in the article, this could be due to PSU's face plant in LA and OBD not having a win vs. a Top 25 opponent. The only Top 25 and Top 25 wins that matter will be revealed by the PO committee on 12/7/25. HOSE THE HOOSIERS! PUT OUT THEM CIGS!

Listening to Cignetti bluster...

He's no fool. He's not giving anything for Lanning to use against him.

Never forget that 4th quarter Beaver punt that Keenan took back 70 yards for a TD right into a rainstorm from the west. Ignited a comeback that Maurice Morris capped off with a score. Welcome home KH!

Not to be a contrarian (and not super holding onto this); but, I'm sorta liking what we are seeing so far (staying mostly status quo). I don't see a huge need to rush Hill/Davison into a lead 20+ combined carries per game (currently they are getting about 10). Davison just needs to keep doing what he has been doing (and he does have like 7 carries of 6+ yards so it isn't all just the super situational short yardage runs). Hill has been amazing as a home run hitter, with a crazy explosive run rate (15 or more yards) of 27.5%. Out of his 26 carries, 9 have gone for 10+ (66, 28, 24, 24, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11). However 10 of his carries (38%) have gone for 3 or less yards (3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 0, 0, -1, -1, and -3). Giving him more carries likely won't increase his explosive rate (as it is about as high as you are going to get); and, we probably see at this stage of his young career more of the tougher yardage runs until he grows into that true #1. Let's say the Ducks play 15 games (we are going to win at least one playoff game this year!). If the rotation is tightened up just a bit, leaning maybe alittle more into Hill/Davidson; and, Hill ends up with a 700 yard season, 600 for Limar, 600 for Whittington, 300 for Davidson, Moore is on pace for at least 300, and the backs that get the rest of the carries (Harris, Riggs, what Hughes has already given, Moga, plus any WR or TE runs) total 400 (I think realistic), that's 2900 total rushing yards. The last 3 years Oregon has rushed for 2211 yards (14g in 2024), 2583 yards (14g in 2023), and 2805 yards (13g in 2022). Last year was down to 4.6 ypc. Stick with what the staff is doing (fresh legs) I could see it back to around 2023's 6.2 ypc. It currently at 6.3 ypc. Probably needs to be noted, while the NCAA team statistics are still working themselves out to closer to where they will finish due to wildly different OOC scheduling -- it still is interesting to see Oregon's 4 FBS opponents are averaging 88th in rush defense (Montana State is #13 FCS). Currently 6 out of Oregon's 7 remaining scheduled opponents are top 30 in rush defense. Hard to predict what exactly that means but I could see an argument for experienced backs helping.

Yep, I had the misfortune of being at Boise State for the Blount punch but he was eventually reinstated (for the CW and subsequent bowl game I believe) so yes it was short-lived but still a nightmare for opposing defenses.