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I imagine most of us recall the post game after Dan Lanning's first game at Oregon on 9/3/2022, where Georgia whipped Oregon 49-3 and Kirby Smart remarked, "They'll bounce back from this, and he knows we have better players. He'll never say that, but he knows we've got better players." The thought at the time from Kirby for Oregon fans (I believe) was for them not to worry as Dan would eventually get his guys and close the talent gap (to be patient). So here we are on April 11, 2026, and I thought I would take a look and see where things stand? There of course are different ways to do this, such as blue-chip ratios and roster talent composition rankings; but, I was thinking about it and those usually use all commits (usually about 85 out of 105 which most schools seem to roughly be sticking to so far). Not a bad way, but really using 85 includes nearly 40 players (no kickers included) who likely mostly won't impact the upcoming season. A close look at talent composition that mostly impacts the season should probably be the 44 players in the two-deep. So, I took a look at rough best guesses for Oregon and Georgia, and threw in Ohio State for another comparison point. I think I have a pretty good best guess on Oregon. Ohio State I follow somewhat closely. Georgia not so much so I took a Spring two deep from a pretty good Georgia site and compared it to a second Georgia site (all 3 teams in a 5 DB base defense). What did I find? All 3 teams arguably are now nearly about even in talent, at least on paper. In each two-deeps: Oregon: 9 five stars 18 top 100 players 37 Blue Chips Ohio State: 6 five stars 17 top 100 players 39 Blue Chips Georgia: 9 five stars 20 top 100 players 38 Blue Chips The Spring rosters. Not the highest rated roster one could put together, but a best guess on the actual two-deep. National ranking 247 Composite. OREGON TWO DEEP QB: Moore (#4) / Raiola (#7) RB: Davison (#172) / Hill (#230) WR: Stewart (#6) / Bair (#27) WR: Moore (#9) / Lott (#33) WR: McClellen (#86) / Hooks (#1875) TE: Johnson (#190) / Dixon (#655) OL: Crader (#247) / Addison (#102) OL: Iuli (#191) / Rogers (#821) OC: Laloulu (#344) / Brooks (#445) OL: Utu (#161) / Iheanacho (#29) OL: Wilson (#388) / Ferguson (#962) DE: Uiagalelei (#47) / Rushing (#26) DL: Washington (#246) / Breland (#36) DL: Alexander (#101) / Robinson (#262) DE: Tuioti (#213) / Wyatt (#202) LB: Jackson (#109) ) Williams (#199) LB: Mixon (#718) / Platt (#178) CB: Finney (#47) / Offord (#17) CB: Iffy (#55) / Scott (#51) S: Perich (#72) / McNutt (#73) S: Flowers (#102) / Woodyard (#116) S: Williams (#600) / Brew (#98) OHIO STATE TWO DEEP QB: Sayin (#20) / St. Clair (#4) RB: Jackson (#213) / Rogers (#97) WR: Smith (#1) / Guilford (#75) WR: Innis (#35) / Parker (#53) WR: Henry (#24) / McCuin (#922) TE: Christian (#408) / Roberts (#203) OL: Sierveld (#300) / Lowe (#74) OL: Montgomery (#120) / Van Sickle (#283) OC: Hinzman (#188) / Cook (#378) OL: Daniels (#771) / Padilla (#228) OL: Moore (#168) / Armsteong (#388) DE: Jackson (#60) / Atkinson (#249) DT: Houston (#26) / Smith Jr. (#245) DT: Smith (#41) / Walker (#96) DE: Grady (#114) / Russaw (#64) LB: Pierce (#204) / Alliegro (#1271) LB: Pettijohn (#101) / Alford (#144) CB: Matthews Jr. (#148) / Calhoun (#397) CB: Sanchez (#5) / Kelly (#374) S: McClain (#375) / Rocker (#841) S: Moore (#1116) / Bing (#208) S: Little Jr. (#84) / Timmons (#47) GEORGIA TWO DEEP QB: Stockton (#124) / Puglisi (#114) RB: Frazier (#49) / Bowens (#225) WR: Canion (#194) / Wiley (#91) WR: Humphreys (#487) / Taylor (#20) WR: White-Helton (#444) / Roldan (#306) TE: Luckie (#145) / Williams (#455) OL: Greene (#45) / E.Oghoko (#72) OL: Uini (#94) / Calhoun (#113) OC: Bobo (#664) / Tolliver (#1102) OL: Glover (#321) / Short (#250) OL: Gaston (#52) / Jackson (#990) DE: Griffin (#3) / McLeod (#117) DT: Hall (#40) / N.Oghoko (#757) DT: Harris (#66) / Williams (#62) DE: Q.Johnson (#368) / Gibson (#9) LB: Williams (#5) / Kruah (#340) LB: Wilson (#28) / Cole (#29) CB: Robinson (#2) / Conley (#592) CB: D.Jones (#50) / Williams (#93) S: Bolden (#13) / Morgan (#274) S: K.Jones (#668) / Branch (#58) S: Dinkins (#363) / Barnes (#399)

5-0 Ducks after three innings. Collin Clarke is very emotional, and can be a hot-head to other teams. He caught a line-drive right at him, and then had a stare-down with the batter that did not go over well with the Nebraska dugout, nor the umpires. Everyone was warned, and then Clarke kept them scoreless again. Angel Laya hits deep off the CF wall for a double, and then RS freshman Naulivou Lauaki Jr. sent a missile to LF to score Laya!

4-0 Ducks after two innings. This is a promising start for Collin Clarke as it appears he has good control today of his changeup pitch...which is hard to hit. Add his fastball and curve-drop, and he has a nice combo of pitches. He gave up a double, but dispensed with the rest of the Nebraska side easily. Jax Gimenez was plinked, and true freshman Brayden Jaksa continues his hot hitting streak with a hit to shallow LF, while Gimenez jets to 3rd! Jaksa steals second, so OUR BELOVED DUCKS have two in scoring position. The Pride of Portland, Ryan Cooney hits his second double to score two runs, as his rifled hit zips to the LF corner. Whew!

2-0 Ducks after one inning. Collin Clarke is the usual Saturday starter for Oregon with a 2.72 ERA, and he put them down in the first inning 1-2-3. The starter for the Cornhuskers, Carson Jasa, is an imposing presence at 6'6" (3.63 ERA) and routinely throws over 95 mph, and can touch 100 mph. Ducks have their hands full! Jasa is prone to walks, and walked Jax Gimenez, and then Brayden Jaksa hit a screamer down the 3rd baseline for a good start. Then Ryan Cooney knocked a big hit to the CF/RF gap to the wall the scored both Gimenez and Jaksa!

One key reason why the Oregon Spring Game is a can't miss showAutzen ZooOne key reason why the Oregon Spring Game is a can't miss...Spring games are no more than an impression. Position battles aren't decided and if stars ascend, they're as likely to be shooting stars.

Man of Oregon Wyndham Clark has received a lot of criticism for his off-course conduct since his US Open win, much of it deserved. Clark is playing well at Augusta, -4 headed into the 3rd round. But defending champion Rory McIlroy is golfing his ball. Rory birdied six of his last seven holes yesterday to take a six-stroke lead at -12, a tournament record. Best of luck to Wyndham today and Sunday. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/2026/04/10/oregon-ducks-wyndham-clark-masters-leaderboard/89563023007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_term=C

Happy Birthday, Dear Danno. Now, please put a cherry on the cake 😁 Dan was born under the sign of Aries. Aries are bold, energetic, and natural leaders who love being No. 1 and are rarely afraid of conflict. Their "ram" personality is governed by Mars, the planet named after the Roman god of war, second only to Jupiter in the Roman pantheon of gods. Beat Boise 🤬! Oregon Ducks On SIDan Lanning's Birthday Points Out Important StatisticOn Friday, April 10, Oregon Ducks football coach Dan Lanning turned 40 years old, highlighting four seasons with the Ducks with the program's first Big Ten Cham

I think they've been looking up at it (rock bottom) for several months now!

Raiola physically a full go. Mentally also. Oregon Quarterback Dylan Raiola Is Turning Heads For One Reason

Dante on new OC Mehringer. Seems Dante will have more impact on plays = his strengths. Dante Moore Reveals His Take On Oregon's Coaching Changes

OREGON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2026 BASEBALL | @OregonBaseball Ducks Fight Through Adversity to Win Series Opener EUGENE, Ore. — A dominant start and a dominant re-start were the keys to victory Friday for Oregon baseball. The No. 21 Ducks got six elite innings of work from right-hander Will Sanford, then were the better team coming out of a long mid-game rain delay on the way to a 7-6 win at PK Park over No. 19 Nebraska. Sanford (5-1) provided exactly what the Ducks needed after they’d dropped four of their previous five games. The sophomore scattered seven hits over six innings and struck out a career-high 12 to give Oregon (25-9, 9-4 Big Ten) a series-opening win in a match-up of ranked teams. “I’ve been trying to say this since the beginning of the year, but my job is to set the tone,” said Sanford, who was coming off his first loss of the season. “Even through adversity, I want to keep competing the way I did. I thought I did a good job at that, and it was a good win.” Sanford bounded off the mound with a roar after striking out his 12th batter to end the top of the sixth. With one out in the bottom of the inning, the two teams were sidelined by what ended up being a weather delay that lasted 1:42, but when play resumed Brayden Jaksa and Ryan Cooney hit back-to-back homers that proved to be the difference after a late Nebraska rally. Will Sanford Playing well coming out of a weather delay was something UO coach Mark Wasikowski and his staff have emphasized with this year’s team. It paid dividends Friday. “I told the group, I thought I really did a poor job of that last year as leader of the program, and it was one of the things that was a focal point that I really wanted to address; so did my coaches,” Wasikowski said. “We didn't feel like we came out of rain delays — or played through the rain delays or challenging conditions — very successfully last year. We've really tried to make that adjustment, and so I was pleased with the way they came out. I mean, if we didn't do that, we wouldn't have won.” How It Happened: A leadoff double and a two-out single gave the Cornhuskers a 1-0 lead in the first. They would manage just one more run off Sanford, a solo homer in the fifth. After the trouble in the first, Sanford allowed a single and a walk to open the second. But he retired the next three batters in order, the last two on strikeouts. “Metrically, he's got one of the best — if not the best — fastballs in the country,” Wasikowski said. “And it showed tonight.” The Ducks took a 2-1 lead in the fourth, on a two-run double by Naulivou Lauaki Jr. He struck out on a steady diet of sliders in his first at-bat, then got another on the first pitch of his next at-bat and pounced on it. RS Freshman Naulivou Lauaki Jr. and Drew Smith after his bomb. “Me and Waz have a little saying, ‘hit it through the Pepsi sign,’ right here in right-center,” Lauaki said. “So I was just thinking that, and then he hung a slider and I stayed through it.” After coming two pitches shy of an “immaculate inning” while striking out the side in the fourth, Sanford allowed a leadoff homer in the fifth. He promptly struck out two more in a row to reach 10 strikeouts through five innings, then struck out the last two hitters he faced to make it a dozen. In between, Drew Smith hit his 11th homer of the season in the bottom of the fifth, a two-run shot that made it 4-2 when Sanford returned to the mound in the sixth. After his final strikeout of the game, Sanford turned toward left field and let out a roar, then pivoted back toward Oregon’s dugout and pumped his fist. “His stuff's electric, and he competes like a son of a (gun) out there,” Smith said. “Just a tough, great kid.” The long delay for lightning and rain lasted nearly two hours. When it ended with Oregon batting in the bottom of the sixth, Jax Gimenez doubled with two outs, Jaksa plated him with a two-run homer and Cooney followed with a solo shot for a 7-2 lead. Those insurance runs made all the difference after Nebraska rallied for four runs in the eighth. It might have been worse for the Ducks, but with two outs and runners at the corners, the Cornhuskers tried to steal second, the runner from third broke for home when the Ducks threw down to second, and UO shortstop Maddox Molony gunned down the lead runner at home plate to end the threat. “That readiness and just being prepared mentally was really elite by Maddox Maloney,” Wasikowski said. “Just being in the game mentally at that level is why he's been such a good player for us.” Devin Bell got the last three outs of the eighth to stanch the bleeding in that long inning by the Huskers, then stranded two runners in scoring position in the ninth to earn his eighth save. On Deck: Game two of the series is scheduled for Saturday (12 p.m., B1G+).

Now they are losing coaches too?? Where is rock bottom? https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/mens-basketball/2026/04/10/oregon-mens-basketball-mike-mennenga-creighton/89558259007/#

Ducks win 7-6 as Devin Bell gave up base runners, but got it done. Whew!

7-6 Ducks after eight innings. A familiar late-game meltdown by our pitchers that saw Blake Crawford give up a 2-run homer, and Leo Ulemen gave up hits and a run to go with two wild pitches in the inning. I was eating dinner and could not recall the rest, or maybe I just spaced it out. Devin Bell came in to get the third out. He was poised at Portland for another save, but gave up the hits that lost the game; how will he do in the upcoming ninth inning?

7-2 Ducks after seven innings. Tanner Bradley is in relief, and he put down the Nebraska batters 1-2-3. It is spring in Oregon, as the sun is shining....while it is raining again. Game is still going though...

7-2 Ducks after six innings. Will Sanford kept them scoreless, and finished with a career KO mark of 12, and with 110 pitches. Jax Gimenez nailed a pitch to the RF corner for a double, and then Brayden Jaksa torqued the ball over the CF wall and hit the scoreboard. A two-run bomb! Then Ryan Cooney hits a solo HR to bring...Back-to-back JACKS!

Ducks set for first spring scrimmage inside Autzen as Dan Lanning evaluates Oregon’s progressOregon will hold its first spring scrimmage inside Autzen Stadium on Saturday as Dan Lanning evaluates Dante Moore, the offensive line and defensive development. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/ducks-set-for-first-spring-scrimmage-inside-autzen-as-dan-lanning-evaluates-oregons-progress-281170957/

Sounds like many Red Sox games I watched over seven decades while waiting for Godot, a/k/a winning a World Series. The low light came in a game where SS Pumpsie Green made four errors on 1 play! Pumpsie fielded a ground ball and overthrew the 1st baseman, failed to catch a perfect throw from the catcher backing up 1st base, collected the ball, and overthrew the third baseman. The ball bounced off the visitor's dugout back to the third baseman in time to put the player trying to get to third in a rundown. Yep, Pumpsie, now covering third, caught the ball thrown by the second baseman and dropped it while trying to tag the base runner out. After this series of muffs, exasperated announcer Curt Gowdy noted that his scorecard looked like hieroglyphics. GO DUCKS!

Just saw this...On April 7th, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (double AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays) defeated the Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox) by a score of 12-7. The Fisher Cats scored 10 runs in the second inning with only one hit. Two Portland pitchers combined for 10 earned runs on eight walks, four wild pitches, two hit batters, one sacrifice fly and a single. And all those runs came after there were two outs in the inning. Baseball sure is a strange game at times.

In the sixth inning...we only got through the Nebraska side as Will Sanford disposed of them, but damn....the dark skies began to just UNLOAD rain. We have quite a lightning/rain delay as the big drops obscured visibility--even up close. Flashes of lightning and thunder to do not promise a rapid return to the game...

College Football News - Will B1G teams cover the win total? Oregon 10.5 wins. Under, if CFN's 10-2 prediction is the final tally. PO contenders - 11-1 Ohio State, 10-2 Indiana, Oregon, Penn State 12 teams finish 6-6 or better. 7 teams Over and 11 Under. OBD is predicted to win 9 games. 50/50 at Ohio State and USC, and home vs UW. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/big-ten-football-win-totals-2026

4-2 Ducks after five innings. Will Sanford gave up a solo homer, but tied a career high with his TENTH strikeout of the day! True freshman Braden Jaksa nailed a grounder through the infield to get on base, and then stole second. The new clean-up hitter, Drew Smith, blasted a pitch over the LF Wall and hit his own image on the scoreboard for a two-run homer!

1-0 Nebraska after one inning. Will Sanford gave up two hits, but stranded two and limited the damage. 1-0 Nebraska after two innings, as Oregon stranded two runners in scoring position, and Will Sanford held them down. 1-0 Cornhuskers after three innings as Sanford gave up base runners, but held off the scoring. 2-1 Ducks after four innings, as Drew Smith nails a line-drive to medium CF depth, and Burke-Lee Mabeus zips a pitch down the middle to get on base and move Smith to third. Then RS freshman Naulivou Lauaki hit deep the LF/CF gap and to the wall to score both!

BREAKDOWN: Oregon safeties room looks GREAT as Ducks go through Spring Ball, Dan Lanning's options

👍👌😍 No May-Be About It, Show OBD that B1G money! YardbarkerBig Ten to earn massive payday for monster March MadnessThe rich are getting a whole lot richer. On Thursday, Associated Press reporter Eric Olson detailed the eye-popping financial windfall the Big Ten received from a massive March Madness.