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Ole Miss defeating The Citadel in Oxford just means more to AP voters than OBD's win in Iowa City? The pushback against Petitti's perfectly logical AQ PO format, as warranted by on-field results this season, has made the Big Ten CFB's whipping boy. The ACC and the B12 deserve more than two teams in the PO field? Texas's loss at Florida, OT escapes against Kentucky, and Mississippi State, a 3-point home win over Vandy? A great loss and three great wins, right? 🤬 To state the obvious, losses to SEC teams just mean less, and wins over any and every SEC team just mean more. The 4th-place Big Ten finisher should not be in the PO field? The SEC should put six teams in the PO? This horse manure cements my backing of Petitti's PO format, including conference sixth place at third place and fifth place at four play-in games. Here's a ranking that isn't Southern fried. https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings Eight Big Ten teams in an objective top 25. Plenty of SEC teams are in the top 25. So, four each automatically in the field, with a chance for additional at-large representatives, simply mirrors what we've seen on the field to date. This Tuesday, I hope we do not see the committee mirroring the AP.

Big Ten schedulers don't seem to want Oregon to repeat, or even succeedAfter a gritty win against Iowa the Ducks have to play 6-3 Minnesota on Friday night with the Gophers coming off a bye. Oregon beat Iowa 18-16, marching 54 yards in the last two minutes, Atticus Sappington drilling a 36-yard field goal in swirling winds and driving rain with :07 to play. They beat the No. 20 Hawkeyes in Kinnick Stadium but the Big Ten schedulers don't seem to think that's enough. Now 8-1, the Ducks play in six days. Minnesota enjoys a full 14 days to prepare, having last played at home November 1st against Michigan State, a game they won 23-20 in overtime. That's absurd scheduling that handicaps the defending conference champions. You couldn't hand P.J. Fleck's team a bigger scheduling advantage, unless the game was moved to Bloomington. Autzen ZooBig Ten schedulers don't seem to want Oregon to repeat, o...After a gritty win against Iowa the Ducks have to play 6-3 Minnesota on Friday night with the Gophers coming off a bye.

It was probably influenced by the #9 last Tuesday in the one that counts. This Tuesday they will probably move up one.

They have to keep enough room for those SEC teams ya know.

First odds posted for Minnesota at Oregon, TV time, weatherAutzen ZooFirst odds posted for Minnesota at OregonOregon has to turn the page quickly. After a gutsy, emotional 18-16 win over Iowa in Kinnick Stadium Saturday afternoon they host Minnesota Friday night.

It’s year 3 for Stein, and I share your indifference to Stein as OC. Continuity is usually a plus, but I’ve not been enamored with the offense recently. Ducks haven’t scored more than 20 points against a good team this year. And, no, I’m not counting the 30 against PSU since 13 points came in overtime; 17 points in regulation.

On3's J.D. PicKell reacts to Oregon Ducks football win over Iowa Hawkeyes football and what it means for both sides moving forward in the 2025 college football playoffs

Oregon Quarterback Dante Moore’s On-Field Gesture After Beating Iowa Speaks VolumesOregon quarterback Dante Moore led the Ducks to a gritty 18-16 comeback win over the Iowa Hawkeyes in a rainy Big Ten conference showdown. After the victory, Moore made an on-field gesture with one of his teammates that speaks volumes about his leadership Oregon Ducks On SIOregon Quarterback Dante Moore’s On-Field Gesture After B...Oregon quarterback Dante Moore led the Ducks to a gritty 18–16 comeback win over the Iowa Hawkeyes in a rainy Big Ten showdown that tested the team’s resilience

Apparently shutting out Citadel at home is more impressive than winning a rock fight in a near frozen car wash at Iowa.

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Yet in the Coaches Poll....we remain at No. 6?

We go from sixth to seventh? Ohio State and Indiana are No. 1 and No. 2, with USC at No. 17 and Michigan at No. 18... AP NewsNCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football PollThe official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.

Don't forget to ring your HAMMER!

As someone who collects pictures of Oregon helmets over the years for forum avatars...this green helmet at Iowa is pretty cool. Like it better than with the "O?"

I just don’t think you can win in Westwood with their lack of support and would image that that would be important to Fisch. He will have other opportunities. Smith is a more logical hire, IMHO.

Nevermind. (Not worth it.)

I’m with you on this. Scoring by the offense has been underwhelming. With nearly 300 yards rushing against Iowa, the Ducks should have scored more than 18 points. Some blame the weather in recent games, but Oregon has always played in rainy, cold weather so I don’t find that to be a compelling reason for averaging in the teens on offense. In fact, I checked the weather in Eugene around game time. It was 44 degrees. Had it been raining in Eugene, it would have been the same conditions as in Iowa City.

Not at All! We Need to be More PHYSICAL!

It wouldn’t be a permanent shift but playing to the 2025-26 team’s strengths to win football games and give Oregon its best chance to win a National Championship (albeit I don’t feel this year is our year). If a player is more concerned about their stats than winning, then I’m sure Coach Lanning will not shed a tear if that player decides to transfer, as that is not the culture he has built at Oregon.

I disagree that Whittington is Oregon’s best all around back but he had a heck of a game against Iowa. We can agree to disagree.

Still need to outscore teams to win. When you are trying to out physical a team, with a pro set running game, it will produce less points. Inferior teams will keep games closer, and things can go sideways. Sound familiar? Oregon has speed and size, and not many teams match up with us very well. Hence, our record in the BIG 10. The spread offense has led to much of that success. We have lost one regular season game in the last two seasons. Should we fire someone, and install some of you guys as a coach…lol

I really hope our early game play calling/ decision making vastly improves. An early midfield 4th and go for it stop spotted Indy an early 3 points and momentum out of nowhere. Another early 4th and go for it midfield stop helped Wisky stay in the game longer than they should have. A three passing attempts and out started a game in a near frozen car wash before we even found out the run game was near unstoppable against Iowa. All three bad starts were due to a riverboat gambling mentality against tough defensive minded teams where chess like strategy was required. The Ducks have the horses to compete in these smash mouth battles and I wish they would act like it early on.

This monumental oac loss really deserves its own thread. Nothing makes me smile more than seeing that dump take another loss to a school they would hold their nose to. I want to see WSU win their leftover conference next year while oac goes winless. BETTER IDEA: oac goes FCS and goes .500 with a loss to Portland State.

At least the Committee, unlike AP voters, had Iowa ranked. The B1G is being dumped as a result of the 'Back-to-Back' champion Big Ten conference is better than the SEC!' recency bias. Try and find an article that doesn't trumpet the SEC as being deeper and better than the B1G. That notes how weak the SEC is at the bottom of the conference. I never bought into the Big Ten recency bias, and I expected this kind of pushback would be coming. But add in the vitriol in response to Tony Petitti's AQ PO format, and the criticism has become Hive Mind propaganda. The Texas loss to Florida was a good loss, right? The OT escapes by Texas from Kentucky and Mississippi State show how hard it is to win on the road in the SEC! Hmmmm. Yesterday - Kentucky 38, Florida 7. Georgia 41, Mississippi State 21. Yet, the two Texas escapes in OT will continue to be touted as terrific wins. In Nashville yesterday, a mediocre at best Auburn team took the great Diego and Vandy into OT. 2-loss Vanderbilt at No. 16 was ranked ahead of every B1G 2-loss team. I don't believe the sea-going Commodores would have won in rainy Kinnick last night. Texas at home gave up 31 points to this Vandy squad while escaping with a 34 to 31 win. What a great win! Is it any surprise that Sark is lobbying for 3-loss SEC teams to make the PO? I support Petitti's PO plan. In a 16-team PO model, four B1G teams with play-in games to determine teams three and four deserve to be in the field. I saw nothing out of the ACC and the B12 yesterday that convinces me that these two conferences should have more than two teams in a 16-team PO field. A one-loss BYU should not be ranked above 1-loss Oregon. Tuesday night. Will a one-loss Texas Tech, with the loss to unranked ASU, remain ahead of one-loss OBD, with the loss coming against the committee's 2nd-ranked team? A PO field sponsored by SEC broadcast partner ESPN that is a Bowl Extrazaganza and not a true PO that has the better teams playing on their home field, makes more sense than Petitti's plan? I don't think so. Make the Gophers Grovel! Beat the Fleck out of Minnesota.

We need to exploit the receivers we’ve brought in by spreading the offense. If we want ti identify mostly as a running team with occasional passing attack, guys will jump into the portal. There are a number of sexy teams out there using the spread effectively as recruiting tool.