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Unless circumstances require otherwise, I don't believe we'll the B1G O Reveal before OBD plays in a White Out.

Great observations. I very much dislike FOX coverage of college football and I’m grieved that they are the primary broadcaster for the B1G. Gus Johnson is over the top too much. Good play-by-play guys can maintain a balance between exciting plays and dismayed fans from the opposing side. He grates on me to no end. They don’t keep a score ticker and they don’t give gamebreak highlights from other games. Those very much add to the Saturday viewing experience.

Norvell hit the transfer portal lottery in 2023, was portal-pathetic in 2024, and looks to have hit the lottery again in 2025 with a QB who lacks the offseason love of DJU, but is far more athletic. Plus, Norvell made two great coaching hires. Bringing in Gus Malzahn (a name that lives in OBD infamy 🤬) from his head coaching job at UCF, where he was treading water, to coach up QB Castellanos and implement a 21st-century offense, and DC Tony White from Nebraska, looks to be (in a possible Week 1 overreaction) two terrific hires. Again, it was only Week 1, but the Nebraska D that carried the Huskers to a bowl game and a winning record last season did not look as cohesive versus Cincinnati as it did last season. FSU looked gritty, focused, and determined. The highly touted Bama O-line? Meh. FSU hosts Miami, Pitt, and VA Tech. Plays tough games at Clemson and Florida, but misses SMU and Louisville. The Seminoles have a very good chance of playing for an ACC title. And if Bama does figure it out, Saturday's win could have an impact on PO seeding.

Didn't hear or see Bear Alexander. Wonder why.

Didnt hear Hughes named called much.

Give Lee Corso's prediction of LSU defeating Penn State for the title looks pretty good after the No. 9 Bayou Bengals road win against No. 4 Clemson. The visiting QB, LSU's Garrett Gussmeier, whose Dad, Doug, is the New Orleans Saints OC, looked far more composed and in control than did Clemson's Cade Klubnik. LSU plays Florida, South Carolina, and A&M in Baton Rouge, and will have the better QB on the road against Ole Miss, Bama, Vandy, and Oklahoma. LSU misses Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee. And don't forget 'overlooked' Georgia. The SEC's standard bearer was buried under an avalanche of Arch hype (tripe?), and how terrific Bama would be with DeBoer reunited with OC Grubb. Georgia plays Bama, Ole Miss, and Texas in Athens and is the SEC's Top Dawg until proven otherwise.

Thank you, Steven. After the top three or four, these rankings are a WAG. UCLA No. 12? Utah on the road, played with its Bruin food. B1G 16-2, which is nice. 2-1 against the P4, where the results mean more (ask Kalen DeBoer.) The B1G competition is more difficult in Week 2. Iowa's Kirk Ferentz is now tied with Woody Hayes for the most overall wins by a Big Ten coach, but will be the underdog in Ames, Iowa, against 2-0 Iowa State. Illinois has a tough game on the road against Duke. GameDay will be in Norman for Michigan versus Oklahoma, one of Week 2's headline games. Boston College visits Michigan State, and 1-0 Oklahoma State is OBD's 1st P4 matchup of the season. UCLA is -10.5 at 2-0 UNLV in a game Dan Mullens and his Rebels will be fired up to play. With USF's beatdown of Boise, Tulane, Navy, James Madison, USF, and UNLV are among the frontrunners for the G5/6 PO spot. Tulane has its home win over a bad P4 opponent, and UNLV will be looking to pick up a P4 win. As to starting the season with block buster games? Meh. I would have liked to see Texas at TOSU, and LSU at Clemson, with a couple of easy wins under the belt. But FSU out of the gate looked to be in mid-season form. 😁 How bout Lee Corso! Wins his first and last Hat Dance with Ohio State victories over Penn State and Texas. Lee has LSU defeating Penn State in the PO champ game. LSU looked the part last night, and LSU QB Nussmeier looked far more composed and in control than did Clemson QB Cade Klubnik. Lasso the Cowboys!

Dante looked the part and played smart. The aforementioned play on 3rd down after the blocked punt may have come up short, but did result in 3 points. DL praised that decision post game. Moore did not try to squeeze the ball into a tight window with its inherent risk of a pick, something he has learned from his UCLA days and with the help of DL screaming in his ear at practice. By and large his passes were accurate and on time, he didn't tend to lock on a primary receiver and he had a couple quick check downs that moved the chains. The two incompletes to Sadiq were more on Kenyon than Dante, and I suspect the former will spend some extra time on the Juggs machine this week. Novosad ran the offense well but really underthrew Kaspar on the go route that resulted in a long gain but not a TD. Against a high quality safety or DB that could have been a pick, even considering the WR's height advantage. Good to see Moga use his wheels and Thomas get in for a few garbage time snaps.

LOL, now you give us the freedom when their is nothing to complain about! It's like your parents finally letting you take the car out by yourself for the first time and it's Sunday morning and all your friends are out of town. Joking aside, I appreciate the introspection and adaptability. Hopefully there is little to lose our "stuff" over this season.

What I noticed, in this small one game sample, is how methodically the Ducks spread the field. Oregon challenged from sideline to sideline. As an added observation, the quarterbacks when passing seemed to search the entire field of play, and find the best option to pass to with a couple of exceptions. With a deep group of skilled and talented receivers this opportunity should only get better as the team gels.

I think I'm just as impressed how some of the top tier transfers are fighting for a spot against our HS recruits. I'm really pleased with the level of development I'm seeing from our young talent too.

I kept thinking that I hope Oregon is making their list of who they are going to pay dearly to keep one more year if we don't win a natty. Can we keep 1st round talent happy in Eugene for 2026 like Michigan in 2023 OSU in 2024 and Penn State in 2025. If we don't win it all this year 2026 should be our year.

I'm curious what people's thought are on Will Stein's offensive scheme for this year. To be clear, the ultimate metric of offensive is point per drive (and in a perfect world also factored by starting field position), and we did really good. It's an interesting sample against Montana State, where it seems pretty obvious the coaches were treating the game more as a proving ground rather than trying to exploit every match-up, so in a way it was a great look at the scheme Stein would really like to run this year, even though the playbook was kept small. But I don't believe it was kept so small that we didn't see the strong tendencies of this offense through the season. The.thing that stuck out to me is the lack of eye candy and option football. This appears to be a relatively straightforward pro-style scheme where the goal is to impose our will against the opponent with our better talent. The isn't much in the way of who has the football and presnap misdirection. There simply is a "am I going to hand it off, throw wide to the left or the right or down the field"; basically the defense has to guard the whole field every play. The real quick decision making being imposed in the QBs is working through their progression, not RPO or run option football. I'm guessing there are two reasons for that, #1 they prefer the Oline not have to hold back on blocking down field past five yards. These road graders routinely were past 5 yards when run blocking. The other reason is I'm still not convinced our QBs are great at split second decision making, at least not yet, maybe by the end of the season or next year. Lastly the QB and RBs seems strongly coached to take what the defense gives you, don't swing for the fences, which contributed to more methodical drives rather than a large number of explosive plays. I kept thinking to myself, so this is what it used to look like for Bama fans when they beat every mediocre or bad team by the same 60-10 score with very little in the way of amazing highlights, just pure domination. What do you all think?

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Post week 1 BIG rankings. Ducks still No. 3, NW overtakes Purdue for No. 18. Big Ten Power Rankings Following Week 1

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DrJack, enjoy the season ahead, and keep on pondering. Go Ducks!

I hope Nico Iamaleava invests well because he tanked his draft status by going to UCLA. Utah will win the Big 12 if they keep playing like they did. Could this be Whittingham’s final season? Look for the ESPN hype machine to rev back up after Texas and Bama get their first wins. They just can’t help themselves. Florida's defense held a scrub team to 80 yards total offense. That’s hard to do against any team. They’ll give SEC teams fits this season. FSU’s matchup with Miami on October 4th just got a lot more interesting. The Bama loss should push College Gameday to State College, PA on September 27th if OBD and Penn State remain undefeated. However, I’m not holding my breath. Once again, ESPN just can’t help themselves.

It feels like Christmas. College football is truly the best time of the year. General thoughts for discussion, in no particular order: - Felt good to pummel a team that should be pummeled. Relative to Idaho last year, I like where the OL is at to start the year. - Dante Moore looked great! I realize the competition level of M St., but at least he looked as good as he should have. - I believe Dante Moore has the best arm talent I’ve seen at Oregon. Not to be confused with he’s the best QB Oregon has ever had; only time and more games will determine that. But he can make every throw, it looks effortless, and he has a rocket arm that also makes a pillow-soft, catchable ball. Excited to see him develop. - Amari Washington jumped out on nearly every defensive play. What a joy to see. - I loved the “look” (height / size) of our cornerbacks. Should be able to go toe-to-toe with the athletic receivers they’ll face. - Any concern about the Ducks’ secondary given M St. only had one receiving weapon that they couldn't stop? Granted it didn’t result in a lot of scoring, but I expected an adjustment. - What an awesome, refreshing performance by the Ducks. Clean and efficient play all game on both sides of the ball, regardless of the competition level. - How wonderful to see Bama go down. I’m still flummoxed as to why DeBoer is struggling there. - Watching College Game Day was a real treat. I didn’t grow up with cable, so I rarely watched CGD, but the tributes to Lee Corso, and the old footage, was very nostalgic and enjoyable to watch. - Darn you Texas. I hate tosu with all my heart, and you let me down. - GO DUCKS!!!! Would love your response to some of the comments, or your observations about the game / day of football.

Let's see where we are when we play a team with a pass rush. But it was fun to watch the performance put on.

Gratz CRL! Everybody was a winner with that performance... well, save for Montana State. 😆 Go Ducks! 🦆

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