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I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! A special thank you to Charles.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Merry Christmas to all my Ducks friends and an especially fine New Years Day, from this old hippie who had the pleasure of leaving So Cal and USC, so many years ago for Autzen Stadium and the U of O!! Merry Christmas Charles, and thank you so much for your effort to maintain this site for all of our pleasures and knowledge!

A Merry Christmas to all

Yes indeed. Through Duck highs and lows, some things are constants regardless of where you find your anchor. Faith, love, hope and family. Merry Christmas to all.

A blessed and Merry Christmas to all Forum Friends and your families. And to the Spirit of Abbie, and to all whom we have held dear in Christmas's past.

Merry Christmas to all my Duck friends, may this holiday season and the New Year bring glad tidings to you all!

I still miss my beloved Abbie! She endured all shots I asked of her....for cheese!

Merry Christmas to all my Duck friends!

I hope all of you have a Very Merry Christmas and that OBD bring in a FANTASTIC New Year with 3 more Victories to close it out!

I'm very pleasantly surprised at this. He's the leader of the OL this year and makes me optimistic of the OL group next year despite there being multiple new starters again.

Ask yourself what would TT record be if they played OBD's scjedule? 10-2 maybe 9-3. They do not have any, and i mean any teams in the BIG 12 that could make TT one dimensional on offense. None......not even Utah IU, PSU in the white out game, Iowa and the huskies on the road would have altered TT on offense.Please name any games that the Red Raiders played that match those games? Schedules and opponents make a difference. Oregon is the better team who faced some good teams and faced one powerhouse team in IU. OBD's, with TT's schedule would be 13-0. Dilly's team does not have the horses ro beat the Ducks. Make no mistake, TT can beat the Ducks if they don't play clean and execute for 60 minutes. I expect a 38-24 Duck victory in January 1st, 2026. Go Ducks......

Anticipated viewership is the reason ESPN farmed out the G5 games to TNT. A real playoff game, in a PO managed by the NCAA and not Mickey Mouse, gave us a terrific PO game where the tickets to get in cost more than any ticket for an FBS 1st round game, a Brawl of the Wild rematch, Montana State 48 - Montana 23, in a game closer than the final score. All of Dan's beefs concerning this Bowl Extravaganza are spot on. Perhaps OBD will 'win' both the FBS and FCS POs? GO Montana State!

Thank you, Darren, for another article that most certainly peaks OBD fans' interest. Good take, Duckhart. Texas Tech is ranked 1st in QB hurries. OBD is ranked 116th. This is the biggest disparity in the 2025 rankings between the two teams. Other stats - In 2024 and 2025, OBD is 25-0 when rushing for 100 yards or more. 0-2 when rushing for fewer than 100. Rush D - Texas Tech No. 1 - OBD No. 24 Rush O - OBD No. 13 - 217.1 avg. per game - 5.9 yds per carry. (FYI, JMU's rush game is ranked No. 6.) Texas Tech No. 26 - 190.9 avg. per game - 4.8 yds per carry Pass D - OBD No. 6 - Texas Tech No. 21 Pass O - Texas Tech No. 11 - 289.4 Yds - OBD No. 44 - 251.8 yards Oregon's passing attack will be the best TT has faced this season. Total D - Texas Tech No. 2 - OBD No. 8 Scoring D - Texas Tech No. 3 - OBD No. 9 Defense Stop Rate - Texas Tech No. 1 - OBD No. 6 The Red Raiders appear to have a decided statistical advantage. But Waiiiiiittttt A Minute!😁😁😁 Even in the NFL with 32 teams all having Purple Chip Rosters, Strength of Schedule (SOS) remains a crucial factor. For the 1st time, ATB (After Tom Brady) under a new coach, Ohio State All-American, Mike Vrabel, the Patriots are playoff-bound. Great improvement in attitude and player performance under Vrabel, but the turnaround was helped by the Pats' opponents having a .374-win percentage. As fortuitous a scheduling break for the Pats as Texas A&M had in 2025, going 7-0 against SEC teams without winning records and 0-1 vs. 9-3 Texas. And O-1 against 11-2 Miami. FPI Strength of Schedule Rankings through 12/20/25 - OREGON - No. 14 - Texas Tech - No. 54. Will we see this SOS advantage show up in the Orange Bowl? Will OBD use its roster advantage and peak at the right time and wipe out the memory of last New Year's (Ryan 🤬) Day? This (knock wood) is the first of OBD's three remaining games. To win it all, three peaks have to be conquered. Get the first one done on 1/1, and hopefully the third on a return to Miami on 1/19. 😍 If OBD can conquer Texas Tech, we'll see an Orange in OBD's New Year's stocking, instead of a lump of fossilized oil. WRECK TECH!

To me, this just highlights why the TV networks will want to push the G5 schools out the playoffs or limit them to one spot max sooner rather than later.

Oregon gets massive news with surprise return announcementIn a surprise announcement yesterday Iapani "Poncho" Laloulu, the Ducks' two-year starter at center, declared he's coming back for his senior season with the team. That makes two key leaders on the 2025 squad who have announced they're passing up the NFL draft for another season of college football. Defensive tackle Bear Alexander announced just last week. Via Instagram, the Rimington Award finalist and third team AP All-American said, "First and foremost I want to thank my Heavenly Father in my lord and savior Gosh crap ... Thank you to my family and friends for your support, love and encouragement, but after a lot of prayer and talks with my family I would like to say that I will be returning back to EUGENE for my last season!" It could be the start of a groundswell for the 2026 squad. Laloulu is close with quarterback Dante Moore, who faces a similar decision before the January 15th deadline. Teitum Tuioti, Kenyon Sadiq, Matayo Uiagalelei, Dillon Thieneman, A'Mauri Washington and tight end Jamari Johnson are also draft eligible with pending announcements. Getting back a handful of these team leaders would be massive, and so far the Ducks are 2-2. Autzen ZooOregon gets massive news with surprise return announcementIn a surprise announcement yesterday Iapani "Poncho" Laloulu, the Ducks' two-year starter at center, declared he's coming back for his senior season.

Yeah. Agree. It hurts Notre Dame a lot more than USC.

Notre Lame should be dumped by every power 4 team! They believe "touchdown Gosh" getting an automatic playoff birth, if they are ranked in the top 12/13 over other teams that deserve to be in??! WTFE!!! I personally have hated seeing their garbage in a bowl game, even with a losing season, because they are "Notre Dame" just to be trounced by every team?! If I never see the Lame Os on TV I will celebrate that year!! What a bunch of overhyped, self-promoting piles. Worse than SUC and and the SEC combined!! Please, please, please B1G, ACC, and SEC take the Lame Os off every schedule! I would say the Big12 too but they already jumped at the chance to give the Lame Os a game!! If the Lame Os only play the "state" schools (PAC-Barfs), they will never be ranked in the top 50!!

NFL viewership during Ole Miss and Oregon games: In the opening contest, 15.46 million people watched the Eagles take hold of the NFC East crown against divisional rival Washington, a game that was close until it wasn’t. At night, it was more of the same: a whopping 21.34 million watched the Bears take down the Packers in one of the more entertaining regular-season games of the year. Caleb Williams and company came back in the final minutes, aided by an onside kick, to push the game into overtime before throwing a deep shot into the endzone for a dramatic walk-off victory. Both NFL games aired on Fox during the college broadcasts on TNT.

It could happen. The stage will be huge, and the players should be ready to roll, as opposed to the possible shoulder shrugging and feigned intensity that might have occurred last weekend. But, we'll see!!!

Good points, and things that will have the coaching staff getting on the team and motivating them for the next game.

And some of that would be how the opposing teams dials up the offense given the way the game is going, but you're not wrong.

Giving us all flashbacks to the Indiana game. Nooooo!. But, you're right, and the O-line and offensive game planning have to be on to keep the QB from getting rattled. Good ole coaching.