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Thank You, NJ! I note that OBD is not leading the recruiting rankings for the 2026 class. This ranking matters on signing day in December, period. Today, OBD is No.4 in the average ranking of 2026 recruits 'committed' to Dan and the program. With the transfer portal available for plugging holes on a contender's roster, a cumulative ranking, like this one from ESPN, matters today, not just in December.

Good to see Oregon State at No. 7 to further justify Oregon's No. 5 position with D1Baseball, while UCLA is No. 14, and we are the only B1G teams in the top-25 in the D1Baseball rankings. At Baseball America...Oregon is No. 9, while Oregon State is No. 11, and UCLA No. 20. Why such a difference...I do not know. Oregon's RPI has climbed to No. 19 with both RPI ranking services, and we got a boost from Oregon State at No. 6. This is the highest our RPI has been all season, and we could get another boost if the Ducks were to sweep Iowa this weekend. I am feeling good about an NCAA Baseball Regional, but not so much for a Super-Regional at this point. Still waiting on the other polls... Anson Aroz

While annual College Football Playoff contenders like Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State are ace recruiters, elite recruiting isn't the only path to becoming a top program. The transfer portal has changed how programs build rosters. Some schools go all-in every offseason to overhaul their rosters through the portal, while others use the portal to add depth to a position or target major transfers who could take a team from great to national champion. And now that spring football and the spring transfer portal period are over, we can look at the best groups of newcomers. When looking at modern roster development, it's important to consider the combination of recruiting class and success in the portal. This ranking is the top 25 groups of newcomers -- recruits and transfers combined -- based on who could see the most impactful immediate returns for 2025. 1. Oregon Ducks In 2024, freshman receivers Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State) and Ryan Williams (Alabama) made immediate impacts. Moore, a five-star prospect, looks like the next breakout star at the position. Moore has elite big-play speed, runs excellent routes and has a high football IQ and fierce competitive demeanor. All of those tools can make him a featured target right away for a playoff contender that lost three of its top four pass-catchers from 2024. Defensively, Offord and McNutt are players to watch. They were both versatile two-way players in high school and bring strong playmaking skills to Oregon's secondary. With the Ducks needing to reload on the back end, both have a strong chance to contribute in Year 1. Top transfers: RB Makhi Hughes, OL Isaiah World, OL Emmanuel Pregnon, S Dillon Thieneman, CB Theran Johnson, DT Bear Alexander, OL Alex Harkey, TE Jamari Johnson. Fresh off a Big Ten title, Oregon signed a top-five recruiting class and an elite group of transfers as it prepares for another national title run. Signing Offord was helpful for the Ducks when his half-brother, running back Makhi Hughes, entered the portal. Hughes was one of the top transfers available after running for nearly 3,000 yards at Tulane. He should help replace 1,000-yard rusher Jordan James in Oregon's backfield. To help open running lanes, the Ducks pulled several offensive line starters out of the portal. Both World and Pregnon are poised to anchor the left side of the offensive line. Thieneman was a top-25 portal prospect who brings Big Ten experience from Purdue and looks like a plug-and-play addition. Oregon also pulled out several other transfers who, at a minimum, should provide quality depth and play contributing roles. College football's top 2025 newcomer classes - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Building a roster isn't just about recruiting. Combining prep talent with great transfers is key in college football and these teams did it best.

This was a pivotal week across the country in college baseball. The stakes were obviously high, and there are a ton of changes in D1Baseball’s latest top 25 rankings as we shift into the final week of the regular season. 5. Oregon Previous Ranking: No. 5 Weekly Record: 5-0 Overall Record: 38-13 (19-8 in Big Ten) Oregon’s week got underway with a pair of midweek victories against Saint Mary’s, 6-3 on Tuesday and 8-1 on Wednesday. They then hosted a Washington team fighting to get into the postseason over the weekend, and might have crushed their hopes. The Ducks won 5-0 on Friday and 6-4 on Saturday to clinch the series, and 5-3 to finish the sweep on Sunday. College Baseball Rankings: New No. 1 headlines changes to D1Baseball Top 25 - On3 WWW.ON3.COM The final week of college baseball's regular season is upon us, and D1Baseball has made some big changes to their latest top 25 rankings.

This is the way it should have been all season, but they got it right for Oregon's clutch series. BTW...Iowa lost two games to Oregon State this last weekend, and they finished in a mutual tie (6-6) in the third. Thursday Game: 4:00 PM PST, FS1 (Fox Sports One) Friday Game: 4:00 PM PST, BTN (Big-10 Network) Saturday Game: 10:00 AM PST, BTN (Big-10 Network) Oregon trails Iowa by two games, and only if we sweep can we overtake them. We need Northwestern to take a game off UCLA this weekend as well, so let the excitement begin! Ryan Cooney stops a steal!

I don't think teams decide to win or lose games. What if both teams decide to win, or lose the same game? Nothing about this year's team showed complacency or arrogance. In the series that ended the regular season, after a year as good as any pitcher in the country, Grein struggled. Sokolsky came in and cleaned it up. Sokolsky got the start against Michigan in the Playoff. Michigan won the tournament last year. Oregon's pitchers struggled again. It happens. Michigan would go on to win the championship. Beating UCLA, who Oregon beat 2 out of 3, this season. Michigan made play after play in the field against Oregon. They deserved the win. But I don't think that Oregon, with as many wins as No.1 Texas A & M, deserved to be No.16. I believe if the decision is theirs, the Lady Ducks will definitely win the Regional.

5-star OT Immanuel Iheanacho makes major recruiting change; Oregon Football stands to gain 5-star OT Immanuel Iheanacho makes major recruiting change; Oregon Football stands to gain DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM 5-star OT Immanuel Iheanacho changed his recruiting schedule and made a big announcement that likely benefits the Oregon Ducks.

Oregon Ducks Surge In Recruiting Rankings After 5-Star Richard Wesley Commitment The Oregon Ducks have been missing out on key recruits, but Ducks coach Dan Lanning landed a commitment from five-star EDGE Richard Wesley. His commitment pushed Oregon back towards the top of the recruiting rankings and could help turn the momentum back in their favor. Oregon Ducks Surge In Recruiting Rankings After 5-Star Richard Wesley Commitment WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks have missed out on some big recruits from the class of 2026, but their luck turned around with a commitment from five-star defensive lineman Ri

Oregon coach Dan Lanning performs cannonball after 5-star DE decides college football future Oregon coach Dan Lanning performs cannonball after 5-star DE decides college football future WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM Anything to get recruits to say yes is what Oregon football coach Dan Lanning will do.

Hey, we are now in the lower-level (minor league) pro football days where 75% of the rosters are majoring in Football and everything else is a nuisance that is tolerated to stay eligible. I don't think the performance of paid athletes has any real implications for the quality of educations that universities provide for their general student bodies anymore.

I grow weary.

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I feel your pain. I haven't gotten involved in any of the Sanders discussions because, quite frankly, they don't interest me. I do think it is possible, when these articles come out, to only discuss how DG is doing. The QB competition will all come out in the wash, and at least one of the two will make the 53 man roster.

According to the seedings the committee felt Oregon would have been the 10th best team in the SEC and the 4th best team in the ACC. Personally, I think that is BS. Oregon went 5-1 against #5 FSU (2-0), #7 Tennessee (1-0) and #9 UCLA (2-1). FSU and Tennessee couldn't even score a run against the Ducks. Oregon deserved a much higher seed.

Punishing a team for losing one game and going from around 7-5 or so in the rankings to 16 seems excessive to me. If Oregon was in the SEC they would have dropped like 2 spots or so. Of course you want to win every game, but it's one game against a team that eventually won the tournament, they got hot apparently at the right time, it just seems ridiculous to me when you have the 8 seed with 15 losses to Oregon's 7.

Spartan2785, If a team and its' coaching staff want to be ranked highly, then win when expected and when unexpected, regardless of conference. Just because our Lady Ducks team beat Michigan softball three times when we played them, that is no guarantee of a win in the conference tournament. I believe UM beat UCLA in the conference finals. UM recognized the way into the NCAA Tourney (for them) was to win the BIG tourney, and they did! That same freeway was wide open for our Lady Ducks; they chose through their Prep and play the off-ramp. That was a terrible decision! But, they chose it! Now, let's see whether they can get out of their own regional tourney and win a super regional. Then, forget about the world series, and just making it there. Prepare to play to win it! If they play as a team, this team could win it. Thanks and VR, KCDuck1

System designed for a different era, up there with bowl games imo.

Senior Day Ends with Sweep of Huskies EUGENE, Ore. — By surviving some tense moments in the late innings on Senior Day, the Oregon baseball team kept alive its winning streak entering the final weekend of the regular season. The No. 5 Ducks (38-13, 19-8 Big Ten) took a five-run lead Sunday at PK Park and then held off Washington’s comeback attempt to win for the seventh time in a row, 5-3, before 3,858 fans. Win or lose Sunday, Oregon still would have needed to sweep Iowa next week to have a chance at a conference title, but a win kept the Ducks one game behind second-place UCLA, rather than two. “Us winning three games against Iowa would put us in front of them,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “I don't know how the rest of it shakes out, but that's an awesome place, for us to try to challenge for the league championship in our last weekend of the year.” UO starter Jason Reitz (4-0) gave the Ducks six shutout innings Sunday, and Jaxon Jordan got the final two outs of the eighth with the bases loaded after UW had rallied within 5-3. Mason Neville and Anson Aroz both padded their double-digit home run totals, and catcher Chase Meggers hit his first of the year before throwing out a runner trying to steal second to end the game. “It felt really good,” Meggers said of his homer. “I think the biggest thing was, my mom's here and it's Mother's Day, and I wouldn't be here without her. So it's kind of special to hit that in front of her.” How It Happened: After Reitz pitched around a two-out single in the first, national player of the year candidate Mason Neville extended his UO single-season record by leading off the bottom of the first with his 26th home run of the season. Jason Reitz was superb.... Reitz had to work in the second inning, pitching around two walks. He settled in after that, allowing just two singles over four innings the rest of the way for a scoreless effort with his team in the thick of a conference title race. “The energy is definitely up, but you just got to look at it like a normal game,” said Reitz, who struck out five while walking two and allowing three hits. “Go out and do your thing.” Oregon’s offense backed Reitz in the bottom of the second with three runs. Aroz led off with a solo homer, Maddox Molony followed with a double and then Meggers hit his first home run of the season for a 4-0 lead. With Reitz cruising, the Ducks gave him an insurance run in the fifth. Dominic Hellman led off with a single, Jacob Walsh followed with a base hit and Drew Smith walked to load the bases. Two batters later, Molony lofted a fly ball that scored Hellman on a sacrifice fly. Washington got two back in the seventh after Reitz wrapped up his day, on a double and a one-out home run that made it 5-2. Ryan Featherston came on to retire the next two hitters and end the threat. The Huskies scored again in the eighth, loading the bases with one out and then getting within 5-3 on a wild pitch. A walk loaded the bases again with one out, but Jordan came on to end the inning, striking out the final hitter on a nasty breaking ball with the count full. Jaxon Jordan celebrates a big out... “The most important thing, especially in a situation like that, is just trust your stuff and don't be cautious — just let it go,” Jordan said. “So that's what I tried to do.” Seth Mattox earned his sixth save by getting the final out of the ninth, with some help. He entered with one on and two out, then surrendered a single that put runners at the corners. But the runner from first looked to steal second, and Meggers gunned him down to end the game. “Seth's really good, and it was a right-on-right matchup so I kind of figured that they might gamble a little bit, because it's not an easy matchup for their guy,” Meggers said. “(UO assistant coach Jack) Marder looked at me and said, ‘Throw it through when he goes.’ And he went and so I threw it.” Notable: Neville’s walk in the second inning was his 51st of the season, a new UO single-season record. … Neville came into the day tied for the record with Aaron Zavala (2021). … Neville’s run scored on his leadoff homer was his 64th of the year, tied for second in UO single-season history behind Rikuu Nishida (67, 2023). Up Next: The Ducks play at Iowa on Thursday (4 p.m., FS1). HEY...it is on TV!

Get the feeling it will be nearly impossible to get a top 8 bid in the B1G, just a horrible conference for baseball and softball. The opening round loss hurts of course, but geez, they're 47-7, they were ranked 4th going into the conference tourney and they end up 16th!? That's horrible!

The perfect Mother's Day tribute.....a Doog Sweep!

Breaking: Ducks to host softball regionals May 16-18 - Daily Emerald DAILYEMERALD.COM The bracket for the 2025 NCAA Division I Softball Championship was revealed on Sunday. The No. 16-seeded Oregon Ducks...