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Fair enough sir. Very good points. The way Oregon held down that 2010 Auburn offense speaks to your point. I stand by my week in and week out wear and tear opinion though. Oregon and Utah both have an old school physicality to them. USC, Washington, and UCLA have had to make some adjustments. Lincoln Riley in particular went to USC thinking he was escaping the SEC gauntlet , only to find he was going to the B1G.

The blocking this year on the whole so far has been insane! Dakorian Moore's block in week one just pancaked a guy in the end zone. Granted that wasn't the guy he was supposed to be blocking... but if you're going to block the wrong guy might as well pancake him. I know it's only been two games and we haven't played a real contender yet... but this team is giving me a lot of hope. Penn State isn't looking quite so scary at the moment. Especially seeing their offense stalled out a bit against Florida Atlantic for a drive or two.

Being as these games get drafted before the season starts by all the networks that carry B1G games what probably happened was this... Fox (who has the most picks) either took this game because Oregon-Northwestern is the most interesting B1G conference game. USC-Purdue is the only other conference game. I suppose it's a toss up as to which would be more interesting but CBS has USC-Purdue. the only other interesting games are on ESPN/ABC which means Fox wasn't able to carry them probably based on the home team. Minn at Cal could be interesting but that's on ESPN. Ohio State gets a late afternoon game but they are playing Ohio and that game shouldn't be all that interesting. Michigan plays Central Michigan at the same time... So that leaves Oregon-Northwestern as the only B1G conference game or only Power 4 match-up worth watching in that time slot.

If you look at the Big Ten slate this week it's a nothing burger. Bama-Wiscy is on ABC since the game is at Bama. The only other game that you might choose is Purdue-USC and at least Northwestern had a pulse last year. There just aren't any good game this week other than if you think Wisconsin has a chance on the road, but they can't even pick that game, so the battle on the shores of Lake Michigan it is!

Weak slate of B1G games and ABC had the “big one”. OBD are top-5 with a conference game, probably the best choice.

Are they curious of the novelty of witnessing the spectacle of a slaughter in person? Are they dying to see the massive crowd of 15 thousand in the wind and rain? I just can't conceive this is one of the two best games next week.

Or kicking field goals.

"I think Austin can go, but his lat (latissimus dorsi) has been bothering him a little bit. He's been able to practice, but we're just trying to limit it, limit him, and get him in a position where he'd be able to go again." Sounds like it could be a few weeks or maybe less, maybe more?? https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-dan-lanning-quarterback-injury-update/86051641007/

I'm glad the early returns are promising!

To quote the cheater, "who's got it better than us? Nobody!"

Wow. That let it rip mentally is dangerous. I think he’s telling his team he believes they’ve arrived and just go out there and get it done. The blocking in this game was insane. They were driving guys back thirty, forty yards on the long plays. This team looks motivated. Lanning looks possessed. What a lucky fan base we are.

Dan Lanning discussed Novosad's injury today.....it is a precautionary issue with his lat muscle. Could go if he had to....paraphrased.

“The Bull Don’t Care”, and today we are the F….ing Bull. Lanning is a master at motivating these guys…

I wouldn't cross Mad Man Dan... He'll set lose a bunch of rabid Ducks.

I don't think we saw this level of complexity out of it last year because it's a two year install for many players and especially the quarterback. Last year's offense felt a bit vanilla compared to the 2023 offense with 2nd year Nix. Yes Stein was in year one but by the sound of it Lanning had an offense that he wants to run and made Stein adapt to the terminology of the Ducks and not the other way around. Lanning knows what he wants in the offense for sure. And this offense is going to continue to develop and be freaking scary. Last year's was acceptable but I think we may look back at that team and seem that a down year.

Let’s see…our vanilla offense will run, or throw out of the Shotgun, pistol, or under center. Depending on the down we will go empty backfield, multiple RB’s, trips, or quad receiver overloads, and multiple TE sets. I have to wonder what Stein considers a complicated offense.

Now if we could get them to say Eugene correctly? It is not YEW-gene, it is yew-GENE with the emphasis on the second syllable. No sweat, they'll get it down....in about five years!

Remember what KSmart told Lanning after the game? Now we can tell teams like OKSt that we have better players! BTW, for those of us who have been around since the good old days, have you noticed that everyone can pronounce "Oregon" now? No more Orygun or Oregone. I think that's 100% because of OBD's success in Football.

No prob. We won't be punting anyway....

Herbie is not Ducking about what he sees, wake up to the Ducks! Kirk Herbstreit Reveals National Championship Contender 'Nobody Is Talking About'

Gainesville is so confusing. All of those Waffle Houses to choose from. 😁

Agree with Charles 100%. Of course being 2 years older and wiser helps a lot too! It's important for a high-end QB to be humble. Speaking of the dumpster fire, UCLA program is really hot now, LOL UCLA Unlocked: Someone must take accountability for this dreadful football product - Los Angeles Times

I say we will cover easily again, if we played anything like the first 2 games. Go Ducks!

Oh, my orange-and-blue friend...this is one time that I politely disagree. We had physical football in the old Pac-12, but nobody watched us to see it, as the time-zone thing is real. (I think also Utah fans would take umbrage to being implied as soft, as an example) We did not toughen up; we were already physical, and simply blended in easily to win the conference. I see the scoring in the Big-10 is up already this year, and I would posit that the conference is adjusting to OREGON, and not the other way around.