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Another "Man Of Oregon". Good to see in the current social climate we live under. Kudos young Man. 🏆

must listen to sound.....

I feel like they are our new Stanford, where every season we are capable of ruining each other season. Honestly coming into the B1G I thought our best comparison was PSU, not Michigan or Ohio State, but Dan Lanning's performance has me questioning that.

After Dante Moore, my favorite player on the offense is Harkey. And re: his penalty, that was the poorest excuse for a call. The PSU player hits him in the face, and in retaliation Harkey uses the trip kick from our days in elementary school, hahahaha.

It's kinda cool though. I like Lanning's perspective. "This is a white out because we are here." There are going to be fireworks when the ducks come to town.

What a great fall weekend to have been out there. That is an incredible area.

Last week of February... now that's what I call 'proper planning.'

Awesome article David. Even Josh Pate echoes your thoughts about Penn State's title chances. I must say, James Franklin is an elite coach. He doesn't have a talent advantage, but he's been able to give his team, with warts and talent holes at key positions, and a chance to tie or win games against more talented teams. His fan base , quite frankly, is spoiled like Ohio State's. Without any evidence backing their claim he can't coach. They claim he falls behind because he's soft and too conservative. Hogwash. His teams get out muscled, and his staff finds ways to climb back into contention. And he got lucky. Lupoi switched his 3-4 front to a 4-2 in the fourth quarter. But Lupoi was plain awesome Saturday. The best he's been. Franklin still dialed up Max Protect to get his team a shot. Then exploited that flaw I keep pointing out in the Mint defense (sliding the backside DE to the middle of the box). It came down to one mistake at the end, and an unfortunate reversal on the fumble in the third quarter. Franklin had some bad luck against a team that was slowly taking control of the game, and brought them back despite a talent mismatch. Penn.State fans should get in their knees and pray for forgiveness. For their arrogance. As for OBD. GUT check, answer. Coach Lanning is getting better every month. I had that one complaint. But that is mostly because I really don't like the Mint Defense. It only works with real NFL players in my humble/not so humble opinion. Stein is a beast. Lupoi can actually coach using the right scheme (again my opinion here). I feel for James Franklin. He has some physical guys that aren't physical enough, and he's going to need to add more schemes to the personality of that team. They don't have the kind of WRa to kill shot elite defenses, so he's going to need to study Stein and some NFL greats to compliment his physical style of play. David, you called the new fabric of the B1G. And if USUC, the Fuskies, Indiana, Illinois, or one of the other name brand schools decides to step up like Franklin has, the B1G could be dominant for years to come. But PSU definitely has another rivalry for elite pole position in the conference. How bout OBDs!!!!!

Addison was a four-star recruit. More importantly, he appears to be a five-star person. This young lineman epitomizes the Team culture! Duck Freshman Ziyare Addison Spends His Sunday Morning Reaching Out

I guess I didn't get my wish...I want OBD to fly under the radar and just stay at #6 or drop another couple of spots--old Pac-12 rank syndrome. I want everyone to believe that OBD suck and can't win games, take them lightly, and write them off until they blow the doors out of the "ranking" systems!

I guess I was in the minority. I "knew" Dante was going to be the man. After enduring the Bruin beatings, then choosing to sit behind Gabriel to learn, and having back-ups that looked "better" than him in the Spring game. I told my friends, that I grew up with from grade school, that Danté was going to be the man and they were going to be shocked! The Moore to Moore combination was going to be electric. I have not been wrong, in that regards, but I will eat crow in believing the Tosh is OBD Achilles heal.

In one of my preseason articles I discussed candidates for Oregon’s new B1G Rivials, and on my list of five potential rivals, Penn State came in at No. 2. After Oregon’s 30-24 win in their house during their most celebrated tradition, it’s clear that the Oregon-Penn State rivalry is taking form. For the second time in less than a year, ... The Oregon-Penn State Rivalry is Here

I found this Youtube clip of the final play of the game taken from the Duck section of the stadium. Enjoy!

It's time for Duck Duck Goose Egg to be retired...

I wonder when the Ducks will reach the level of physicality that they need to compete in the B1G.

Fully agree with all the Harkey praise. Sure some will point out the retaliation that killed a drive, but when I rewatched the game this morning he stood out time and time again. Multiple pancakes throughout the game and dude plays with a swagger. Love the confidence.

I know that Ohio State fans travel well but the amount of red in Husky Stadium on Saturday was embarrassing. This is not the visitor section… https://www.dailyuw.com/article/in-an-afternoon-full-of-disappointments-the-husky-stadium-crowd-was-one-of-the-biggest-20250928

Which is why I think there needs to be a third party that looks players over because we do focus on the player receiving the blow but the player delivering the blow is also in danger.

Thank you! Glad I finally got one 😁 Sorry for the late reply. I was up hiking near Mt. Jefferson. Great guess @FanGirlDuck !! So close, but I'll gladly share the glory with you. 😊 It was a smokey, but beautiful day! Go Ducks!!

While the targeting call is somewhat new, they began changing this rule when I was in junior high school. Our coach announced it was no longer legal to lower our head and lead with the top of our helmet when hitting someone. We were then taught a form tackle, putting the facemask into our opponents chest while wrapping up with our arms. That was 1968. The reason was that some players were getting neck injuries when leading with the crown of the helmet. Aside: I broke my friend's ribs with a form tackle when I was in 7th grade. I'll never forget his screams of pain. I never could really hit someone hard after that. Later the son of a well known player broke his neck "spearing" an opponent, which pretty much proved the point. Now the rule is also to protect the ones being hit. This practice is dangerous and it has been for a long time! It has been very hard to get players to stop it, even with the threat of ejection from the game.

In Olympic boxing the hitting surface is a different color. Maybe the "crown" of all helmets should be a different color so it's no longer up to interpretation? It seems that the reason this was not called is because as the PSU player was lowering his head to target, he made contact before his head was all the way down to make it contact with the "crown" of the helmet. Some have said it was the "hairline". I think that's probably right but this guy shaves his head, so the hair line is the crown of his helmet.

I was more disappointed that Riley chose to keep a balanced attack, instead of attacking Illinois' weaker secondary. And this isn't because Indiana scorched them. USC walked themselves into too many third and medium situations that in my opinion, Illinois could handle. My philosophy is avoid third down frequently, meaning convert as many seconds downs into a fresh set of new downs as your strategy. USC did that early, then when Illinois started taking control, USC slowed the game down. USC put their very good QB in too many clutch clad situations. Those third downs should be second down situations instead. From what I'm seeing, if you don't put up 45 points, you stand a good chance of losing. That means trying to score TDs on every drive in the first half. You want your opponent chasing you "out of their game plan" because only Georgia and Ohio State seem capable of handling that kind of pressure ( yes that includes Indiana because they use RPO, which sets up their vaunted passing attack they run to set up their passing).

I agree. I'm old school. I want to see football uniforms, not baseball or basketball ones. I know each era has its own style, and the kids are ok after all. I just like the era I grew up in and the few following decades. It's like everyone having all black uniforms...I hate it (and we started the trend).

I've watched this like 10 times and it never gets old..

Absolutely.... It needs to be broadened to forceful helmet to helmet contact. And everything else I said above.