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A Take from Tech. Wreck'Em RedOregon HC Dan Lanning shares huge injury news as Texas Te...All throughout the season, Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning and his staff have had to adjust and account for injured stars. They’ve missed having a number of

September 12, 1970 - USC 42 - Alabama 21. The Sam Bam Cunningham game. Bama, using a wishbone offense that Bear Bryant kept secret before the game, defeated SC in LA the next season. Bear was long in favor of SEC teams being integrated and worked with SC and Oregon grad coach John McKay to have an integrated team play Bama in the South. One of the best OL players of all time, Bama's John Hannah, said after the loss in 1970 that he went to block SC defenders and found thin air. Spot on comment, ND. Bubba Smith and myriad players of color no longer had to play for an HBCU team or head north to play ball. Integration of the Southeast and Southwest conferences helped calm tensions in the South. Lee Corso was another person who helped integrate college football. An assistant coach at Maryland in 1962, and with the approval of HC Tom Nugent, Corso convinced African-American Darryl Hill to transfer from Navy to Maryland. Hill was the ACC's first player of color. Wreck Tech! And UGA, Diss Ole Miss!

I couldn't care less if ND joins a conference, but their ridiculous sense of entitlement needs to be bludgeoned by whatever means necessary. Seriously, they have the same CFP clout and monetary reward as an 18-team conference?! Then they bail when their already preferential treatment doesn't go their way? And we call USC spoiled children? Their "storied rivalry" with USC is passe anyway, nobody outside of those two fan bases gives a rat's behind anyway.

Maybe he can take Cowherd with him😁.

It appears when a college ensures its football program will become a dumpster fire by hiring low-character coaches that hiring a new coach to rebuild using a pile of ashes will be challenging.

Dan Lanning has the problem of how to feed all these great receivers. I do not know how you could justify replacing either Benson or McClellan from the starting line up. GO DUCKS!

Bora Bora, Barbados, Baltimore....😅

Luv that kid.

Smart move by USC.

Before seeing youre comment, I basically made the same observation. Different geographic location, but same result.😅 I would guess that he already had his reservations made months ago to get away, out of country, after the season

Yeah... leave the country as in go to Bora Bora on holiday for a couple of weeks.

I believe we are talking about two specific and different games. Yes, 51 against JMU was fun. But seemingly abandoning our run game against IU still seems odd to me. However, with that being said, Stein knows about 1000x more about football than I will ever dream of knowing. Any he certainly knows more about what was going on at that time during the IU game than I do. But, from my cheap seats, abandoning the run game against IU was strange. But I'm hopeful Stein must have had a very good reason for doing so. And after the IU game, our running game was back and punished our opponents throughout the rest of the season. So, with that being said, I'll rethink making comments that swim against the home town prevailing winds.

ND has no reason at the moment to join a conference. This however, might be the first domino towards changing that. I think they’re going to run into serious scheduling challenges once legitimate programs fully realize there is no advantage to scheduling a difficult OOC opponent. ND is going to start only attracting teams that need the exposure that comes from playing ND, and playing the UNLV’s of the world 12 times a year might start to bite them in the butt. I think they’re going to be relegating themselves to G6 status schedule wise. As to 3 loss teams in the field, get used to it. With a 16-team field and 9-conference game schedules across the board, I’m guessing a quarter of the field will have 3 losses next year. Just taking the straight up top-16 this year would have had 3 teams with 3 losses in the field.

Notre Dame just needs to join a conference. Even make a short term deal with the ACC and reevaluate after 5 years. If they were in the ACC this year they probably would have won the conference and then be in the playoff over Miami. Then playing USC earlier in the year doesn't effect their playoff chances as much.

Georgia looks as good as any team in the country (note: I picked a Georgia vs. Oregon championship game). Unfortunately for them and Ohio State they are both on the same side of the bracket. Right now that looks like it could be an epic semi final and either team can easily win that game. We’ll have to see how everything shakes out.

His growth this second half of the seasons has been significant. He used to either make a bug play or get 2 while running into a pile of linemen. His vision has improved considerably in games. I've been yelling at the TV for years as Whittington healthy or not has made both good and bad plays. But he is consistently getting good yardage now and that's because he's seeing the game better.

I'm both a Duck fan and a BYU fan. If you're looking for silver linings based on how the TTU vs. BYU games went, well I've got some soothing balm for you . . . maybe, since it depends on how good you think BYU is. Game 1: BYU hung with TTU through most of 3 quarters. They held TTU to mostly field goals. BYU has been starting a true freshman QB that is half RB and half QB (i.e., he can't pick you apart from the pocket with his arm at all). BYU depends on their QB and stud RB to establish the run to set up their passing game. BYU's RB (LJ Martin) is one of the top in the nation at YAC (yards after contact), but he was playing hurt in that game and was not effective; neither was their offense. Game 2: Again, BYU hung with TTU through most of 3 quarters . . . and even had an early lead with opportunities to extend. However, their running-reliant QB injured his ankle/leg in the first few possessions and was limping the rest of the game. Then the self-inflicted wounds came . . . 4 turnovers (2 INTs and 2 FUMB) between late 3rd Q and end of game, all of which set up TTU deep in BYU territory, basically near or in the red zone. Even with all that fortune and field position, TTU scored the following: 1TD, 2FG, 1 missed FG. Promise I'm not trying to make it seem like Oregon will win easy against TTU, but I also happen to think BYU was better than most give them credit for; worthy of consideration to be in the playoff (they certainly would have performed better than Tulane/JMU). As such, I consider TTU to be formidable, but beatable. If you think BYU (and the B12) is not that good, then I hope this gives you peace, comfort, and joy in time for the holidays :)

Two things I want to be rectified before next year's playoff. Put the best 12, 16, or whatever number in. Seed them correctly, and don't give the higher seeded team a road game against a lower seeded opponent. Like Ohio State would've gotten, if Texas A&M would've won. Don't give any guaranteed spots to P6/ or Notre Dame. If they don't merit a ranking, based off their wins, and loss record. Don't put them in because of arbitrary language. That means Notre Dame has to play at least ten teams from a P4 league. They have to have good wins, and have them ranked in the top twelve range. (I don't like a three loss team from the SEC or B1G either, but tbh those teams are still going to be more deserving than a two loss AAC, or one loss Sun Belt program, with zero P4 wins.) If the P6 doesn't have an undefeated program, with at least two P4 wins, they don't qualify. You have to do what Cincy did in 2021, or UCF did in 2017. You have to do what Boise State did in 2000's-2010's. Notre Dame doesn't have to join a league, but they have to pay a competitive tag for not being in one. They get all the playoff shares to themselves, and all the television revenue from their NBC deal. That's great, but USC, Michigan, Ohio State, and every other 'Blueblood' that you want to play, won't play you on your terms anymore. You have to budge, you have to move. Those programs don't control nine out of twelve games. Those programs have big in conference rivalries in November, while you've been feasting on turkey legs. USC isn't going to play Oregon, and Notre Dame in back to back weeks.

Well Heck! Is even throw in the extra cash to upgrade his SEC mouthpiece to First Class! Later Fawnbaum! Now let's make it so Quackers! Two more games and Ohio St ... Awaits.

Some sour grapes from Autzen Zoo. However, not necessarily misplaced. The Joe Moore Award couldn't mean less after illogical decision

I liked the demeanour in the locker room of both Coach and Team. Happy to win, but not happy in the way they won. I do not believe you will see anymore "letdowns", "letups" the remainder of the games Oregon has left to play. GO DUCKS 🦆! Rob The RedRaiders!

I was not even thinking along those lines, but that is an excellent point! I think perhaps you hit the nail on the head with this post.

After watching atching a few TT games I'm more concerned with our offense. TTs D is fast and aggressive with lots of gang tackling and a great pass rush. TTs Offence while effective doesn't look as dominant. From what I saw the O line allows a bit of QB pressure especially on blitz's. A lot of sloppy tackling in the championship game by BYU led to lots of yards and first downs. JMU scoring on our D in the second half doesn't concern me. While there were some starters in, there were quite a few numbers I didn't recognize on the line and secondary.

He's going to Barbados for a weekend. He'll be back..... Always look at the wording, and......

Not that I like agreeing with USC but yeah, Notre Dame's absolute refusal to join a conference, even out their schedules home and away, take advantage of its notoriety and tradition to artificially place itself in an advantaged position for post season play, that no other teams get the same consideration for (well maybe a few SEC teams). It is a shame to see another college football tradition fall by the wayside because of the amounts of money involved in letting those traditions die. Notre Dame will continue to "position" itself until they finally agree to joining a conference to ensure they remain the highest earner in whatever conference they eventually, grace their presence with. Until that happens (2035?), ND will be the "thorn in the side" of NFL-lite and will remain so until ND can be assured of preferential treatment to artificially boost their image so as to stay relevant in this new age of NIL, transfer portal, and high stakes program positioning. I don't have to like it but it is what it is. Go Ducks.