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My response is "Who the he-l cares what McAfee thinks?" As for his prediction, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then". But he did make a gutsy guess before that audience in Eugene, Oregon.

JJ has the right perspective on this loss IMHO. I told my great Duck buddy immediately after the game that the Ducks now have a wonderful opportunity to grow from this and I am glad that this opportunity came in the middle of the season. Here is the basis for my opinion. Last season every thing was roses for the Ducks ...that is, until the Rose Bowl. I saw complacency happening in the Oregon team as everything seemed easy. I feared it and it reared its ugly head in Madison Wisconsin against a team the Ducks should have (in my judgment) beaten easily. Things steamrolled along until the Rose Bowl against a team that the complacent Ducks had already beaten, came in boat raced them, surprising many on this board. I remember telling myself that I almost wish in retrospect, that the Ducks had lost the OSU game in Autzen. Nick Saban used to talk about rat poison, or the complacency that can result when players are repeatedly told how great they are. Today should fix that, losing AT HOME to a conference foe that people underestimated. How great is it that this lesson was learned relatively early and that players will maybe more closely listen when told that they have to scratch and claw for everything they earn? By the time the Ducks learned this last year, their season had just come to an end. Clearly nobody likes to lose. But some losses are better than others, and this one, in my humble opinion, is potentially a good one that could pay real dividends come playoff time.

Nope...Matayo, to me, has gained too much weight. Explosion is gone

I am starting to hear talk about Florida trying to lure Cig to Gainesville after they fire Billy Napier. If I am Cig, I'd stay right where I am. And as a Dawg fan, the prospect of such a move induces nightmares.

Observations The O line is not championship caliber. Coach Cig had his team better prepared than Lanning did and I’d say coached better during the game as well. Didn’t see a plan B from Will Stein when the passing game got bottled up. Receivers not getting separation. That paragraph...repeated from above...and I fully concur. Dante Moore "fault" for not making adjustments? Hell, Indiana was running so much stuff from different spots into his face...and Oregon sacked 6 times....he didn't have in-play time to make adjustments. No single blocker "adjustment" was going to slow down what Indiana was able to do on defense. Indiana had almost all their guys in a box within 7 yards of the line of scrimmage. The Oregon RB's couldn't gain more than 3-4 yds. Moore didn't have time. I'm not sure what kind of adjustments Stein could make to what was going on. Whatever, if he did, it didn't work in the second half either. Disappointed the RB's weren't able to gash into the secondary to make IU's box defense loosen up. And, let's stop the nonsense about Oregon's O-line and the Joe Moore Award.

Lanning has sent more O-Linemen to the NFL than Belotti, Chip and Mario. Mario may have recruited some guys, but DL and his staff developed them.

Forgot to wear my lucky necklace. Cost us the game. :'(

Only two Oregon OL were selected in the NFL draft and I believe only one came to Oregon as a high school recruit (Conerly Jr.), who was primarily recruited by Mario but Lanning closed the deal. How many of our current starting offensive lineman came to Oregon from high school (2?) vs. the transfer portal (3?)? I would prefer that Oregon recruit and developed most of its offensive lineman with the occasional transfer to plug a gap. We have done the opposite for whatever reason.

Don’t look now, but 4-1 USC is thumping 4-1 Michigan 31 to 13. And, they are big, fast and highly skilled.

In some points in life you have to just understand it wasn't your day. Indiana has really used the portal to infuse much needed talent and winning experience. This was their first ever road win vs a top ten opponent. They are now 1-40 in their history, Cignetti is a great coach. Props to them. Losing happens to the best, what makes you the best is how you respond. You can go the way of a proven entity like Alabama or Ohio State and win the whole thing, or you can go the way of the PSU and FSU who let one loss turn into three. I know which side I'm putting my potato chips into. The Mighty Ducks will bounce back like they did in all those Disney hockey movies. No Hawk, Iceland, or Hoosier is going to land a knockout blow. Ducks fly together, Ducks have a mission, and Ducks will never give up. The Hoosiers don't even have a mascot that knows what it is. The Bowling Green honorary cat Chubs makes more sense than that monstrosity we saw wondering the sidelines today. "Who's There?", apparently some hideous big foot looking creature found in the Disney reject bin.

Recruiting for the offensive line is simple. You just need to find fleet-of-foot 300+ pound guys who are among the highest IQ on the team.

We’re just not very good, relatively speaking. We have yet to beat a team with a pulse as PSU has lost 3 straight now. How good we are remains to be seen I suppose, but I’m guessing 9-3 at best.

I think a turning point in the game is when we ran Jay Harris on 4th & 1 like on thr 5th play of the game. Jay Harris? Really? He has hardly plsyed. Hill got only 2 carries? I don't understand. Let Indiana and Ohio Stste battle in conference championship game. We have 3 big games Iowa USC & Washington. But first beat Rutgers. We can only lose 1 more game. Hopefully none!

Hmmm. It's a football GAME. Today, the better team, the team that played better, won. The bad O-line recruits? I believe Danno sent three O-line guys to the NFL last season. All five of the O-line guys who started today have a legit shot at the NFL. As does the starting TE who could be a 1st round pick. The QB who couldn't spot wide-open receivers? I saw one guy wide, wide open, and Dante hit him for a TD. How many other guys were wide open when Dante had the time to throw the ball and were missed? Today's game was a referendum on this game. The first loss to a B1G opponent that happened to be a top-10-ranked team, not UCLA and not Northwestern. Please, OBD fans, do not turn into TOSU fans. The worst coach in the history of the game last November happened to be some guy named Day, right? The coach Dan lost to today has far more wins as a head coach than Dan. This was game SIX in what could be a 16 or 17-game season. Perhaps this season's champ will go unblemished this season, but I very much doubt it. Iniana won this game far more than OBD lost this game. Next case. BEAT RUTGERS!

What did i learn from this? Oregon will lose at least 2 more games. Way too much hype. Time to stop playing way weaker opponents at the beginning of the season.

I recommend that you start drinking heavily!😁

Well in fairness, everyone said the same thing about Franklin and Penn State and that turned out okay. Cig is not Franklin though, as is now blatantly obvious.

The QB. Too much love for Ws. Too much bame for Ls. The young man was under siege.

Miami's OL is littered with OL recruited we "missed out on". Still, our portal O-Line is good enough for us to win a national championship.

Please, pass the sauerkraut and strudel.😁You said 'So Long' to Prubila? Not a good move, ah? That's Clemson and PSU PO over and out. Texas, still OK.

I just finished watching the game. Our defense was nails. Offense scored 13 points! I think IOWA scored more. I see a lot of complaints about the O Line. It's not on them. They weren't losing their 1 on 1s enough to be the problem. The problem is 90% Dante Moore, 10% not adjusting the blocking scheme with an extra blocker to pick up the pressure. It's hard to say that a loss falls on one person but this was really bad. If Dante Moore can't figure out how to pick apart a zone defense he will never be great and we will not win a natty with him, maybe not even a playoff game. He has worked so hard since leaving UCLA to be the guy that doesn't take chances and takes what the defense gives him, but this was extreme. If the defenses is giving you a sack throw it away instead of going into the fetal position. 24 seconds left in the game down by two and he checked it down 4 straight times. How could IU be rushing so many players, be consistently using 3 LINBACKERS, and we've got everyone out running routes, and nobody is open? People were open, Dante Moore was too scared to throw it to them, or more specifically he wasn't capable of reading the defense well enough to know people were truly open. Maybe if he was a gunslinger he would have thrown 3 more picks, but he has to learn how to handle zone coverage with confidence. Will Stein is amazing, but he's not a miracle worker, he can't consistently design plays to get players in a space with nobody around for 5 yards. Dante Moore lost Oregon this game.

Mario Cristobal is coaching better right now. I've looked at all their games. He is adjusting, despite having had a physical advantage in every game this year. He kept Florida bottled in a close game till they wore them down. He jumped on FSU early, and coasted properly to the win. We are not as physical as Miami, and at least 4 SEC teams. But we're as good. COACHING is going to be the difference. We haven't learned enough from the Rose Bowl. The Force is strong with us, but are not Jedis yet.

Yeah, the O-line recruiting has been sub-par for several years now, we also have developed the talent we do have, it's hard for lines to come together when you have 3 guys who are completely new to the program. We're just not that good in the trenches, D-line is good but not elite, and the linebackers are again good but not outstanding. A lot of the warning signs were there, even if we do go undefeated I would say we should be left out, we won't have a single good win on the season. Really disappointing to see.