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I am split on how I feel about that SC/ND series ending. On one hand I'm sad to see traditional rivalries die. But on the other USC has a tough conference slate every year. Notre Dame can make their own schedule and still get their own reserved seat at the playoff table Florida is cancelling planned series vs ASU, NCSU, and Washington due to going to a 9 game conference slate next year. I'm disappointed because I live close to ASU and would've loved to see Florida come out here. I don't get many chances to see them live now that I'm 2,000 miles away and they don't leave SEC territory. But with nine SEC games along with FSU and Miami coming onto the schedule more, that's 11 P4 matchups. When the playoff inevitably expands I think we'll get a three loss or maybe even four loss SEC/B1G squad in. Personally I think three should be the maximum.

A good example of a player that was not on the radar from his previous play far exceeding expectations. Congrats Mr. Mixon.

I feel linebacker has improved this year. They have to do SO much that they can get kinda lost in the course of the defense. At times it feels like they're a DB and if they're not getting their name called that's a good thing because the ball isn't being thrown their way.

Do I need to sit down and do my Old Pac-12 rankings again this year? I did it last year for what I thought was the last time but maybe I revisit it once a year.

CORRECTION PAC 12 POWER RANKINGS WSU OSU

Rarely do I accept a submitted article by one of the SEO companies around the world, as they generally cannot provide anything new for our savvy audience here. But once in a while, (like the one above) they give us something new to ponder, as yes...I think we WILL break the draft record at Oregon this next year. There were some names in his article that I believe will be drafted, but the writer in Dubai, (yep!) did not mention. Bryce Boettcher is one example...can you come up with more?

Bemidji and Minot will face each other on Sept. 27. Even if both lose Sept. 20, the 0-fer Beavers would come to an end.

They may not match the record 15 players that the Georgia Bulldogs had drafted as part of the 2022 NFL Draft but give credit to the Oregon Ducks for trying! This past spring, the Ducks set a new school record with ten players as part of the 2025 NFL Draft class, and there are thoughts that number will be surpassed ... A Look Ahead To Ducks' 2026 NFL Draft Class

What a boost he has been to the defense!

I like the helmets as well, but only because they look like my kitchen countertops.

Dont really care about the uni's that much. Its all about kicking some rodent arse.

FWIW CBS Sports Matt Zenitz named Tosh Lupoi as DC of the week so we must be doing something right. Against our first unit NW had 170 yards and 0 points. https://x.com/mzenitz/status/1967601465876467854?s=46&t=xjCowF6XwCIg-xuLARP-5A

As long as there is never any orange I’m cool.

I believe Haloti and his wife have 3 sons. Ages 16 (TE and OLB), 13 and 11. The 16 year old has offers from Utah, BYU, SDSU, Colorado St and Osewe.

They may be great environmental engineers. But don't let them build / rebuild an athletic conference.

I admit that I do like that helmet, and thus I will have another new helmet for avatars!

Boy...I did not see this upside development coming at all! Can you believe his PFF numbers below? Mixon Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon inside linebacker Jerry Mixon was announced as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for his performance in the Ducks' 34-14 win at Northwestern last Saturday. It is the first career Big Ten honor for Mixon and the first for a Duck this season. Mixon continued his breakout start to his junior season in Oregon's Big Ten opener, recording an interception for the second game in a row while matching his career high with five tackles and adding a tackle for loss. He returned the interception 36 yards to set up the Ducks' fourth touchdown of the game. Mixon became the first Duck since Khyree Jackson in 2023 to pick off a pass in back-to-back games. He is tied for sixth nationally and first in the Big Ten with two interceptions and his 62 interception return yards are No. 12 in the country. On the season, Mixon is No. 1 among qualified FBS linebackers with a 91.5 overall defensive grade from Pro Football Focus, and his 92.7 pass coverage grade ranks second among all linebackers. The San Francisco native owns a career-high 10 tackles through three games, and he made his first career start in the season opener against Montana State. Mixon and the No. 6 Ducks (3-0, 1-1 Big Ten) will wrap nonconference play with an in-state showdown against Oregon State on Saturday in Autzen Stadium. Kickoff is set for 12 p.m. PT and will be broadcast live on Big Ten Network.

Minot State is coached by an Oregon native and former Civil War winning OSU Beaver QB named Ian Shields. He was also the OSAA player of the year in 1988.

Does Haloti have eligibility left?

I think the question is, who is willing to take the job? They are not competitive in NIL, they are allegedly $200M in the red, they have no fan support, their practice field is 60 yards long, their stadium is 45 minutes from campus, and they can’t get 30k fans to show up to their games. The only reason to take that job IMO, is for a short-term money grab. I don’t think anyone could look at that situation and think that it is going to elevate their profile as a coach.

I think that there is a concern for run D, particularly with the YAC we saw against NW. A few thoughts: Admittedly a big chunk of the yardage was in garbage time, and padded by the 79 yd run against the 2s and 3s. If the sacks and big butterfinger TFL by Stone are subtracted, there was still significant YPC for the NW RBs. This was even apparent in the first half while the starters were in. It is something to address, and I'm confident that DL and TL will take it to the 'doctor' this week. On the flip side, running the ball was NW's game plan as the only way they could hope to keep the game close was to slow it down, run clock (their TOP was 5 min longer than OBD) and keep the ball out of Dante's hands. Oregon let some of that go and made sure the NW passing game was ineffective. And ineffective it was, held to 135 yds on 50% completion rate, 3/11 on 3rd downs, 2 sacks, two picks, a big TFL and no penalties (though the 1st pick could have been a PI and would have been with the old PAC12 crews). The one stinker was on Offord, and that was a rookie error that can be corrected. Point is that the run game D had some concerns that the NW game plan amplified. It did the Ducks a favor by exposing an area of relative weakness and focus for clean up before Happy Valley in two weeks. Hopefully we will see it cleaned up significantly against the Beavs Saturday.

I’ll just say again that Florida International (house of pancakes) rushed for almost 150 in a blowout loss at Penn State. Do we think PSU will be easy to run against?

Since this is a career ending job, they need to be targeting a different demographic of coaches. A good head coach near retirement that always wanted to live in SoCal.

GOLD? Never seen that color on the ducks. It's disorienting. We look like UCF. Reminds me how the Webfoot unis were blue and made us look like Cal. I'm kind of glad we are wearing these for this game that nobody will be watching except Oregonians.

Charles OMG on the GIF..anyways..y is a loss I think it's a bit cat and mouse with the DL getting skinny trying to get into the backfield to be disruptive vs staying low and stonewalling and hogging OL at the LOS. We are really good at the former but not so great at the latter. If the other team can get 4-6 yards a carry, but every 3rd carry is a loss then maybe it's still worth it