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Second time for Sabrina. She joins many other "multi-pickers." Charles Barkley leads the list with 6 guest picker roles. 11 people have appeared 3 times or more. An additional 19 (including Sabrina) have appeared twice.

Joe Walker is going to score.

Sorry to say that I think we are a basketball school since that is where our blue bloodline is located ever since that fateful day in 1939 when we owned ALL of the NCAA Basketball Championships.

I love Sabrina, but wasn't she the guest picker last time? Maybe she'll bring Hronis to the table with her!

I'll be honest I feel horrible for the Beavs, I know plenty of great Beaver fans I feel really bad for them and the school. Great campus (better than Oregon in my opinion), Corvallis is a good small college town. I totally understood the anger from them and WSU, I understand the money grabs they made, and most of it was justified in my opinion, they were simply trying to survive as an athletic program. I'm not going to say that Oregon should have done anything to save them or other elements of the old Pac-12 or its members, but I find what is happening to the Beavs to be really really sad. It's absolute free for all in athletics now, nobody is doing anything for others, it's always about what is best for ourselves. It is what it is now, there is no loyalty, it is mostly if not purely about money, college sports is simply not what it once was. Oregon State is probably one of the best examples out there of the casualties of this new world. I know a lot of people on here make fun of OSU, and maybe it comes from people that you know, but to me it's just sad, Oregon is above making fun of that program from what my point of view, it's just rubbing it in at this point. I think of it like Michigan making fun of Central Michigan.

Looks like ESPN is bringing Sabrina back to be guest picker. Gotta love that! https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/10/09/oregon-ducks-espn-college-gameday-guest-picker-selection/86585383007/

ESPN has some tongue-in-cheek humor pointed at the worst of the worst college football teams. This week the OSU Beavers are ranked # 2. They're getting close to the top spot. Here is their comment. Oregon 'trail' State. You have died of dysentery. The Beavers are the nation's only six-loss team after traveling 4,477 miles round trip to lose a heart breaker in Boon, North Carolina, to Appalachian State. Now they host Wake Forest, which will make a 4,624 mile round trip from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Corvallis and back. For what it's worth, Wake and App St. are separated by 86 miles. The Beavs should have just stayed in North Carolina and spent the week in the foothills eating barbecue, drinking moonshine and watching the fall foliage turn orange and black, both colors of Oregon State and the colors that your liver turns after drinking real Carolina moonshine!

Very "meh", whatever, the thing that annoys me about being asked to wear yellow is that it's later in the season and I don't have any yellow sweatshirts or jackets, so with the weather I'm most likely not going to buy an overpriced piece of clothing at the Duck Store just to fit into the crowd.

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Oregon will never be a blue blood to those programs, just like the richest people in the world are considered “new money.” Who cares? Oregon is widely acknowledged as a top 5 college football program nationally by those in the know. Everyone knows Oregon football, we have one of the best head coaches in the game, we can and do recruit with anyone in the country (backed by an organized and strong NIL program), have world class facilities and are constantly competing for national championships. There are no guarantees but most people believe it’s just a matter of time before Oregon wins a national championship. What other college football programs would you trade places with right now?

IMHO, nothing will change until we win 1 maybe 2 Nattys and put the trophy on the mantle over the fireplace! The moniker of a blue bood is subjective and somewhat fluid. Time and distance from glory play a role. One upon a time Nebraska was a powerhouse blue blood. Now? PSU won titles to earn blueblood status. How about now? Fun topic for sure but I dont have a problem with OBD's not being considered a blueblood. Scoreboard talks and we came up short twice. Go Ducks!

We wore the yellow top in another game last year I want to say. I want to say we went full bumble bee one game.

I mean this is from 10 years ago but it makes me smile every time.

Since that was last year's cancer uni, I don't know if it's "officially" part of this set or not, but that's definitely something I've been wondering. I'd love a dark green version of the modern set to change things up a bit. We're just so (somehow) limited with the number of options at our disposal.

Dropping a sure touchdown before goal line certainly makes the highlight reels for the wrong reasons. The beauty of it is that there will always be fans that love the mistake.

Great thoughts! I think we’re a bit like a frog in the slowly boiling pot, our environment is substantially different than it was in say, 1995…but it’s been a slow burn that we might not fully appreciate. Hard to compare eras, but we definitely get the benefit of the doubt way more than 95% of the teams out there. One example, we lost our QB and we’re starting a guy that flamed out at UCLA going into the year, but we were still ranked in the preseason top-10. Will we ever get as much benefit of the doubt as USC or Alabama? Hard to say. Another thing to think about is how do teams “lose” blue-blood status? Is Army still blue-blood? Harvard? Minnesota? Or somewhat more recently, how about Nebraska? Oklahoma? TA&M? IMO this is a slippery slope, but I’m not sure it matters anymore aside from getting ribbed about zero titles.

B1G HQ is supposedly reviewing the schedules for every sport to determine whether east-west travel and vice versa can be lessened. But with four in the Pacific time zone and 14 in the Central and Eastern time zones, how much can be done to alleviate travel? The first conference loss? Before 2029, take a look at 2027. 🤬 Get through this gauntlet without a loss, and OBD best be the PO No. 1 seed. Road games vs. Baylor, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, UCLA, and UW. Home vs. E. WA., Iowa, Purdue, Penn State, and Ohio State, and a team to replace Utah State, which had best be played at home to give OBD 7 home games and not in Corvallis. With this schedule, an AQ PO with PO play-in games makes sense. Especially, if 3-loss teams with more difficult schedules are left out in 2026 for 2-loss teams with easier schedule strength. Ditto for seeding. Will SOS matter this season? We'd better not see a G5 team ranked and seeded 9th because of a terrific RB and a close road loss vs. a P4 team. Boise's SOS in 2025 was in the mid-80s. If 3-loss SEC teams are uniformly left out of the PO this season, and with nine conference games coming to the SEC next season, and to the ACC with less PO voting power than the SEC and B1G, we could see an AQ PO format as early as 2027. Even with 9 conference games, in today's mega-conferences, you will never have balanced schedules.

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The Oregon Ducks may have been off for a week following their monumental win against the Penn State Nittany Lions in double overtime. Still, they were doing anything but relaxing during the bye week. With a pivotal game against the No. 7 Indiana Hoosiers on the horizon in Eugene this weekend, Oregon has been preparing for what could be one of the best games of the year. This will be the first time Oregon and Indiana square off as conference foes, and could ultimately be a major factor in the race for a spot in the Big Ten Championship and the College Football Playoff. Tale of the Tape for No. 2 Oregon Ducks vs. No. 7 Indiana Hoosiers

I like them but I guess only 20% of the fans will wear yellow.

I don't know how many on here follow the NFL whatsoever, but this past weekend we saw the Arizona Cardinals coach get hit with a 100,000 dollar fine for physically shaking one of his players. Why would he do that you may ask. Well the player had a game sealing score against the dreadful Tennessee Titans except he dropped the ball before he crossed the goal line. The Titans got the ball back and scored the game winning field goal as time expired. I believe there was an Oregon player who did this against Boise last year. Luckily it didn't cost the Ducks the game, but this idiotic showcase has happened multiple times a year now for over a decade. What in the world is going on, and how did this become a thing? I'd rather see the guy get a flag for spiking it than doing this nonsense. Coaches need to start stressing this, just hand the ball to the referee and do your celebration for goodness sake. Can anybody think of a worse lapse of judgement in today's game?

As my son would say, RIP being able to see the game with all the towels in way. No thanks.

We may be able to go to to toe and win against USC, OSU, and Michigan, but national media and the public still don't quite see us as a true blue blood quite yet based on the chatter of the last week. I base this on a simple principle, the benefit of the doubt, or presumption of excellence. For example, when OSU beats another team, it's taken as a reminder of how good they are, and if the other team didn't get run off the field it's because they were really good, just not good enough to beat the amazing OSU (e.g. Texas). The flip side is how new bloods are treated. When Indiana absolutely destroyed a highly ranked Illinois team, they immediate thought is Illinois is actually absolute trash, and Indiana is just competitive, not top tier. They don't get their stripes for winning. We've definitely lived this over the years. The asymmetry of it all is irritating .The assumption that if we beat someone it means the other team really isn't as good as we thought, but if the other team beats us it still means they're really good to beat us. You can't win the perception battle even by winning. We are now somewhere in the middle, we get a little benefit of the doubt with high preseason rankings and with pomp and circumstance leading up to games. But there is still a large contingent with their doubts as evidenced this week. A lot of people are definitely saying Oregon beat PSU because PSU sucks, not that we played a big role in their downfall to UCLA. Even worse is the talk that if we lose to Indiana it will mean we aren't that good, but still Indiana might actually be really good (emphasis on "might" for being the new blood they are too) So we're still in new blood purgatory, peering up at the final level to be a true blue blood. Until then, it's going to be "No flowers for you! Win a Natty, then we'll talk...but no promises."

Annie said: "Early in the year when the weather is warm/dry enough we can all wear the color of the week easily. But when it gets cold and/or rainy, that's different. I don't have jackets in all the possible colors, so I do my best, wearing yellow under whatever outwear I need for the game." On Saturday the best "outerwear" may well be a yellow rain slicker. I'll be wearing my Duck sweats while doing my recliner exercises.

I have yellow, black and a green cheap ponchos for rain games. I'm "covered". 😉