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Saturday Down South Projects Illinois to Make the 2025-26 Playoff. Predicting the Playoff: No. 9 Illinois - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Illinois finished 2024 with a bang to get to 10 wins, and with a team loaded with experience, it could earn its first Playoff berth in 2025.

Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning beams with gratitude when he talks about Nike co-founder and Ducks donor Phil Knight. Yes, in part to the financial impact that the billionaire Knight has had on the Ducks program amid the booming Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) era - but also because Lanning appreciates Knight’s thirst for victory and commitment to end cancer. Oregon Ducks Dan Lanning: Phil Knight A ‘Winner And Giver In Every Way’ WWW.SI.COM Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning beams with gratitude when he talks about Nike co-founder and Ducks donor Phil Knight. Yes, in part because of the financial impac

Elite Point Guard Tay Kinney Schedules Oregon Official Visit Elite Point Guard Tay Kinney Schedules Oregon Official Visit - On3 WWW.ON3.COM An elite point guard in the 2026 class has set an official visit to Oregon in September.

Phil Knight won't buy the Portland Trail Blazers; What does that mean for Oregon football? Phil Knight won't buy the Portland Trail Blazers; What does that mean for Oregon football? DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Oregon Ducks legend and Nike co-founder Phil Knight has opened up about his potential involvement in purchasing the Portland Trail Blazers.

4-Star Quarterback Recruit Matt Ponatoski On 'Cool' Oregon Ducks: Baseball Dual Athlete After 5-star quarterback recruit Jared Curtis committed to the Georgia Bulldogs, the Oregon Ducks have to look elsewhere in the 2026 recruiting class. Coach Dan Lanning has offered four-star recruit Matt Ponatoski, who also will play baseball in college. 4-Star Quarterback Recruit Matt Ponatoski Talks Oregon Ducks: Baseball Dual-Athlete WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks' football program recently offered the dual-athlete recruit Matt Ponatoski, who hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. The four-star quarterback also is

I didn't see this mentioned elsewhere. Rob Nelson, former Portland Maverick and inventor of Big League Chew was on Canzano's podcast and suggested the following 24 team playoff. 1) The top 8 teams get a bye. 2) Those top 8 get a home game in the 2nd round. 3) 9 thru 16 get home games vs 17 thru 24. 4) The losers of the 9 thru 24 games are eligible for bowl games. 5) The winners of the top 8 home games move on to the quarter finals. I like it.

College football's 10 greatest stadium atmospheres include several SEC, Big Ten heavyweights These programs take college football pageantry and passion to the next level. Every college football stadium has its legendary moments, and fanbases associated with top-25 teams will be the first to make the case that their school boasts one of the sport's most elite venues. Huge seating capacities do not always translate to raucous environments, though, and some fanbases are more reliable than others at packing the house and raining down ear-ringing noise on opponents on a weekly basis. For example, while Oregon's Autzen Stadium has approximately 50% the capacity of Michigan's Big House, Ducks coach Dan Lanning said his program's home venue is louder than the largest stadium in college football. Stacking the best stadium atmospheres up against each other is, in many cases, an apples-to-oranges situation. The common denominators for the most legendary environments make the exercise a touch more straightforward, though. Passionate fanbases that regularly sell out their stadiums even when team success is down, tremendous reported decibel levels and in-game traditions all factor into the equation as prerequisites for consideration in the elite tier. Here are the 10 greatest college football stadium atmospheres: https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/college-footballs-10-greatest-stadium-atmospheres-include-several-sec-big-ten-heavyweights-249930709/

Oregon Football heavily involved with multiple five-stars and other names in latest updated Top247 Rankings The Oregon football program is heavily involved with multiple five-star and four-star prospects that are included in the updated Top 247 Football Recruiting Rankings by 247Sports. Here are the names to know. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/oregon-football-heavily-involved-with-multiple-five-stars-and-other-names-in-latest-updated-top247-rankings-249891473/

Early Enrollee Spring Rewind: Dakorien Moore Here is a breakdown of what Oregon true freshman Dakorien Moore showed during his first spring football camp. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-football-dakorien-moore-ducks-football-spring-football-249936454/

Ranking the top 10 Oregon football players for the 2025 season Here is a rundown of Oregon's 10 best football players for the 2025 season. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/oregon-ducks-football-2025-football-matayo-uiagalelei-kenyon-sadiq-evan-stewart--249931184/

On3's J.D. PicKell breaks down why he believes the Oregon Ducks offense will not skip a beat ahead of the 2025 college football season.

I don't know whether I'd go that far. Most Dawg fans thought the 2021 season was over when J.T. Daniels got hurt and Stetson Bennett became the starter. Three more games downstream and a loss to Bama in Tuscaloosa made that sentiment a prophesy. Yet, by the time J.T. was fully healthy, about week 9, Stetson was cooking with gas and gave the Dawgs something that J.T. could not: superior mobility. His arm strength and accuracy was also noticeably better than adequate (indeed, he won the Manning award for best QB when he season was over). I tell this story to note that Dante has some learning to do on the job and it can be done. Stetson succeeded because he had a chippy attitude, believed that he was the best QB in the room, and made his teammates believe that as well. It took until the second half of the 2021 Natty to win me over, but Kirby got there far earlier. That's one reason why I am just a fan and Kirby Smart gets paid 13 million a year. What I'll be looking to see from Dante is the kind of leadership and confidence that Stetson Bennett displayed--in short, the IT factor. If I can see that "fire" early on, I figure we will be all right at QB, and perhaps good enough to get back to the playoffs. If not, who knows at this point.

A cold weather baseball team can become a national champion if the financial support is there, and the coaching is there. Oregon has both, and we are going to be a growing power to reckon with!

FWIW - Saturday Tradition Post Spring B1G QB Rankings. Drew Allar, Elite? Big Ten QB Power Rankings: Post-spring tiers for every B1G QB room SATURDAYTRADITION.COM It's time to power rank the Big Ten quarterback rooms into tiers as we hit the summer and move toward the 2025 preseason.

Fun to discuss, but as Waggy as a WAG can get. I hope the O can come close to the predicted output. Montana State - I Remember the Idaho! OK State - Is there a QB on the ranch? Northwestern - Please, no mistake by the lake. Oregon State - A win over the Beavs with ease, but 49 points? PSU - Still OBD at -3.5. Drew Allar will turn the ball over at least once, and then, consider Little Game James? Hoosiers - Both teams have a week off to prepare. But would a month off prepare Indiana for the Autzen experience? Rutgers - Unlike the trip to Chicago to play NW, this is a B1G trip. Rutgers will be flying back home from Seattle the week before. Wisconsin - Win? Yes. 48-13? Iowa - Danno with a week to prepare. Iowa comes off home games against Penn State and Minnesota. USC - Will a one-loss or three-or-more-loss SC fly into Eugene? Troy was 1-5 in one-score regular season games in 2024. UW - Jedd Fisch comes into 2025 undefeated in Husky Stadium. My guessing-gut sees a floor of 10-2 and a return to what will likely be the last 12-team playoff. Subscription Cancellation Prompt -The author of this WAG, Zach Neel's Mothership, USA Today, has OBD finishing 9-3 and out of the 2025-26 PO.

It's just never going to be a baseball conference. The weather makes it so, you don't have the recruiting base, the weather, the backing, basically everything you need to be a power. It can get better, I think it will get better with the additions of the west coast schools, but when you are going to a recruit's home it's difficult to convince them to come up to Ohio to practice in freezing conditions in January as you get ready of for the season, no amount of indoor facilities is going to make up for all year weather that is conducive to baseball. The northwest is able to get by since we only have rain, but snow basically means the field will be not be usable. Oregon can still be successful, you only have to look at teams like Coastal Carolina, UC Irvine, East Carolina to see teams that do well coming from lesser conferences, but they'll need to maximize their non-conference schedule, and they might have to win on the road in the tourney since the SEC is going to always have about 6 of the top 8 seeds.

I think the article would be better titled: 'Why Did Big Ten Baseball Fall Behind?' In the 1960s, the 'traditional' B1G teams were championship regulars: Ohio State 1966; Minnesota 1960 and 1964; Michigan 1962. UCLA was the last 'current' B1G team to win the title in 1998. USC has 12 championships and ruled the baseball roost for decades, including five consecutive titles from 1970 through 1974. As Charles so noted, 'bad-weather teams' can win baseball titles, but Oregon State is the exception and not the rule. Would more baseball on BTN matter? (I do not know whether more baseball is shown on the ACC and SEC networks than on BTN?) But a young man with MLB potential, if offered by a warm-weather team down south, is probably going to leave the north to play ball. And money matters. I don't know the money situation, but Mason Neville, who played high school baseball in Las Vegas, signed with Arkansas before transferring to OBD. I note that BTN has covered Neville in depth, as well as catcher Burke Lee Mabeus, who also played high school baseball in Las Vegas. Buke signed with OBD out of Bishop Gorman High School. Neville is one of 14 baseball players on Oregon's 2025 roster who transferred in. So, I think some NIL money has to be involved. According to Google's AI, SEC baseball teams annually average $820K to $920K in NIL deals. It is estimated that the top SEC teams have rosters with $1 to $4 million in NIL deals; see, Texas. AI does not have an NIL average for Big Ten baseball programs. The pending House settlement does not curtail NIL (in theory, it does so, with every NIL deal $600 and over being reviewed, but this will not withstand a court challenge). It is estimated that direct payments allowed by the settlement to college athletes will see 75% to football, 15% to men's basketball, 5% to women's basketball, and 5% to all other sports. Do B1G programs across the board, and their NIL collectives, have the desire to pay for championships in baseball when the conference hasn't won a men's basketball title since 2000? And no B1G program in the Midwest and the Northeast can pay its way out of bad weather. From the cratered Pac-12 prospective, what happened to USC and UCLA. It's not like the Conference of Champions beyond the Beavers was winning baseball championships. The B1G as a whole will likely negatively effect NCAA tournament seeding, but it will not hold back an excellent group of OBD baseball players making a run at the title. And, what BTN lacks in coverage is made up for at least in part by Charles,' aided by 30 Duck's, excellent coverage of the sport.

30Duck, That was a seemingly accurate prediction (for this time of the year). Montana State and Indiana may be tougher than you predict, and I believe every team will be focused on defeating the Ducks; we will get all their best games. I believe our pass defense will be improved and so will the linebackers, and our depth and ability in each position. The D-Line may be young, but hungry. Thanks again. Would love to knock off Penn State at State College; believe this is an early (time-wise in the late morning or noon) game. Don't wish to second-guess the Head Coach, but it seemed like the team coasted into the playoffs last year, but it may just be that we gained everyone's best game. We'll see. That effect won't change. Every team wants to beat OBD. VR, KCDuck1

I've been reading a few sites talking about the latest batch of rookies are doing so far. As far as the Ducks, I've heard good things about Tez Johnson in Tampa and Dillon Gabriel in Cleveland. I saw Gabriel a bit when he was at UCF and knew the guy had arm talent and decent mobility. He's just short and the knock is he hasn't had to play an NFL offense, he claps instead of using audible cadences. These are knocks on many college QBs. Urban had that issue for years. The analysts are so picky on such little issues that I find it hilarious. There's a video showing Gabriel making two reads and processing the info. Will Oregon have 3 starting NFL QBs this year? Are rookie training camps useful or do you think we won't really find out the mettle of guys like Tez or Dillon when the veterans show up?

Thank you for bringing this article, as it is an important discussion. He acknowledges that the only B1G teams ranked are the "teams in their first year" in the conference. (Those pesky west coast teams!) He brings up a couple of good points; the B1G Network prioritizes football reruns over current baseball games. Baseball being streamed by B1G+ is only being seen by a very few people, as even most Oregon fans who are even remotely interested in Oregon baseball will not purchase the streaming. I thought that considering how many baseball games there are each month--it was a good value for the eight bucks per month. But most will not watch unless it is on TV, and that is a massive factor. His other points about cold weather is legit, and while Oregon State has shown that a cold weather team can still win, the truth is...our cold weather in Oregon--as frigid as a game at PK Park is in February and early March...it is not as bad as the cold weather at other schools in the B1G. He made a passing reference to non-conference performance, and Coach Waz stated yesterday that Oregon's NON-CONFERENCE ranking in RPI was in the top-10, thus we are dragged down by the weak conference. Adding the four west coast schools was the best thing that could happen to B1G Baseball, IMHO. In that recent interview....Waz also flat-out stated that the long-term goal at Oregon Baseball....was to win a 'Natty! So maybe Oregon can help rescue the conference? That ties into the young writer's conclusion that I agree with... "In short, Big Ten baseball can be saved. There just needs to be a bigger effort from athletic departments, fans and national broadcast networks." Great catch by Anson Aroz!

Made some good points in the article. I don't know, maybe there's a huge lacrosse fan base? I know we all want to watch football, but... First, Big Ten Network and Fox Sports 1 could showcase more baseball games instead of constantly pushing old football game reruns.

In my world (and I cut the cord years ago), this only has meaning if/when it becomes the only way to get ESPN.

I don't see the Wisconsin game from last season that just looks like an L. Is it smart to predict back to back undefeated regular seasons for OBD? Probably not. But... Game-by-game score predictions for Oregon Football in 2025 season DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Game-by-game score predictions for the Oregon Ducks football team in the 2025 college football season.

Do you agree with the article? Opinion: Why is the Big Ten falling behind in College Baseball? - Penn State Student Media BELLISARIOSTUDENTMEDIA.PSU.EDU When it comes to college baseball, which conferences do you think of the most? Normally, fans would say the ACC, the Big 12 and, of course, the kings of the NC

Let's see, I believe it is May 14, 2025. Thus, the following projections are as Waggy as a WAG can get. Do Not Take These Predictions and You're $ to a Betting Parlor. For Entertainment Purposes Only! Game-by-game score predictions for Oregon Football in 2025 season DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Game-by-game score predictions for the Oregon Ducks football team in the 2025 college football season.