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Eugene OL offered preferred walkon status. Hope he turns out like Mr. Thomas. Oregon opportunity ‘unreal’ for Willamette OL Aiden Lewey

5 huskies to know (or not) Know the Foe: Five Washington Husky players to know Our last 10 games vs ewe dub Recounting the last 10 football games between the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies

It would be interesting to see the AD’s realistic list of candidates vs. the candidates that rodent fans think they can attract. If I were the agent of whom they hire, I would make it a habit of verifying that paychecks cleared each payday…lol

I wouldn't. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Ha! When that back link order came in, I had no idea what it was, and in many respects, I still don’t, and it may be of dubious ingredients. But it helps to pay the bills…

Funny, in Beavis fan sites they don’t want to include him in their search cuz they’re being super selective 😂 Loved Chip’s time here, but we can go ahead and cross him off the list for any potential openings imo…oh, and cross off Brooks and Bellotti while we’re at it.

My last memory of Chip is his Rose Bowl offense this year.

If Lanning wins the next two games against the Bastard-Huskies, and the first Playoff game....He will have the same record!

Yeah, that was a dumb question. I don't blame him for being salty. Having a good year and now out of the playoffs with the loss. I agree with Josh Pate's take on the USC / Riley situation: "I totally understand if USC fans are frustrated and want him gone. He's made wholesale changes this year that are right for the program, but are changes that should have happened 3 years ago. That said, those changes will finally have payoff next year and the year after. If you don't want to wait 2-3 more years, I get it, but if you do, you might finally see USC where they ought to be." ** quotations above don't mean word for word, but basically what Pate said. With USC's #1 2026 recruiting class--I know it's ranked that high because of sheer volume--but that's where you have to start to build depth, and that could set USC on track. My preference is not to poke the USC bear. All they need is a Mari Cristbal or Lanning-type recruiter to make recruiting life difficult for the Ducks. That said, my sign would have said, "Extend Lincoln Riley, or re-hire Clay Helton!"

Not sure exactly how accurate it is, but I've read Boise State and Auburn fans suggest by comparison Harsin makes Bryan Kelly look charming. I think Oregon kicked the tires on Harsin in both 2017 and 2021. It certainly could be argued that had potential disaster written all over it.

🤣🤣🤣- Now, now, Lincoln. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/usc-football-lincoln-riley-temper-oregon-loss-cfp/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=492450&ET_RID=52482716

The B1G schedulers have the four West Coast teams playing one another to finish the last two weeks of the season. Last week: USC at Oregon Washington at UCLA Next week: Oregon at Washington UCLA at USC I would personally rather play our former PAC-10 opponents than travel to the Midwest or Northeast in mid to late November.

UW is being given too much credit for playing well at home and for "blowing out" UCLA. The UCLA message boards are pretty unanimous that UCLA played a really poor game regardless of opponent. If you can still get 6.5 it's the deal of the weekend if not the season. I've said before that we can easily play the style of the teams that gave UW the most trouble, and do it way better than those teams. And we have the longest road winning streak in the country by a mile, playing better on the road than we have at home this season. -6.5 is a gift.

Thanks, David, for another terrific Monday morning article. The only downside, I'm craving a kava! 🙃

Drake, I liked the comment. However, with all of the BS thrown OBD's way regarding the schedule, I like the finish. OBD was the 2025 Hive Mind scheduling whipping boy. I think the schedule worked out to OBD's advantage with a home win over an SC team that I believe will remain in the committee's top 25 on Tuesday and a finish at UW with the chance to put up more points than Ohio State in Seattle.

If Dante does skip to the NFL next year, it could put JKS in the driver's seat to start and might change that equation. Either way, my guess is he stays at Cal.

2026 - OBD is at USC and Ohio State. 2028 - USC in Autzen.

Jon, if all of your suggestions come about the committee members will resign "en mass".

Indiana has signed Cig to a very lucrative long-term contract. He isn't leaving Bloomington.

The Greek God Chaos was the first of the Greek gods to appear at the dawn of creation. Chaos is the primordial void out of which the Earth god, Geta, and the other elements arose. With a playoff where 'best' and 'most deserving' somehow do not correlate, may Chaos visit CFB in Week 14? At least, selective Chaos. Does Head-to-Head Matter? MIAMI - 6.5, wins at Pitt to finish 10-2. Notre Dame -32.5 (!) defeats Stanford to finish 10-2. I'm sorry, PO (or is it BO 😖) Committee, but when multi-millions of dollars are at stake, 'We haven't directly compared Miami and Notre Dame because they are not in the same group of three teams', is not going to bounce. I think if the game were played today, Notre Dame would win. But who in Hades, another Greek god, cares what I think? The two teams played one another this season; Miami won the game. Any other comparison between the two teams with the same records is subjective chicanery. And one of Notre Dame's two top 25 wins was Ducked in Eugene in Week 13. 😎 Pitt? If Miami -7.5 defeats the Panthers on Saturday, Notre Dame will finish with one top 25 win at best. Unlike OBD, the less-than-golden Notre Dame schedule? Nothing to see here, move right along. If 10-2 Notre Dame is ranked higher than 10-2 Miami, every ACC AD and coach should threaten to boycott Notre Dame and fill the opening with a conference game if the Domers do not join the conference as a full-time football member. And SC should say, 'So long, South Bend, and good riddance.' The SEC Seriously Tests the New Metrics - LSU -10.5 wins in Norman and hands Oklahoma its third loss. While Auburn -5.5 defeats Bama on The Plains, the Tide finishes 9-3. Vandy and Don Diego +2.5, knuckle under in Knoxville to finish 9-3. Texas +2.5 defeats A&M in Austin to finish 9-3. The Eyes of Texas, Longhorn eyes at least, will be at the PO committee meeting in Grapevine, Texas, on 12/6, with thousands of burnt orange-clad fans in the Gaylord hotel parking lot shouting: We could have played Ohio and not Ohio State! And if LSU comes through: 'How much longer will it take you morons to figure out that we beat the Sooners! And we also beat Vandy!' On Black Friday, behind Cow Bell Cacophony, Mississippi State +7.5, puts down the Ole Miss Rebellion. Post-game, Lane Kiffin is escorted from the scene by a platoon of former Green Berets, while Lane's agent, Jimmy Sexton, from off-site, announces that Lane has decided to take the Arkansas, or some other SEC job. A B1G Mess? Michigan defeats That Team Down South to finish 10-2 (I just can't pull the trigger on Purdue putting out the Cigs. 😁) 3-loss Oklahoma fans, led by uber fan Norman, and separated from Horns fans at the Gaylord Hotel parking lot's 50-car line, scream in unison: We beat Michigan! The B1G 12? The committee metrics minder sobers up long enough to inform the committee that Oregon has a Top 25 win, a solid win over That Other Team Up North, and that Penn State is bowl eligible. By the way, our metrics (like the Massey metrics 😍) have the Ducks with the 15th most difficult schedule and Texas Tech the 54th most difficult schedule. Ticked off Texas Tech fans join ... No, too far from Lubbock and ski season has started. Having received an extension from Disney/ESPN, on the evening of December 7th, a Day of Infamy for the PO committee, Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti collectively announce, on both the Big Ten and SEC Networks, that beginning next season, the playoff will expand to 16 teams with a 4-4-2-2-1-3 format. No objection from the ACC, B12 peanut gallery. And Texas and Oklahoma fans group hug. ❤️❤️❤️ Tony graciously allows Greg, SEC coaches, ADs, Paul Finebaum, and the Governor of Louisiana to take credit for coming up with the new PO format. 🤪 WAX, WASTE, and PASTE That Other School Up North!

I doubt it... He didn't like that idea after a couple of practices with Oregon. Now... he may change his mind but I think Dante Moore's decision to come to Oregon and sit a year is by far the outlier and not the rule. I would be shocked if Lanning pulls off that recruitment a second time this decade.

Frankly, those NFL analyst guys don't know much about QBs. Dante absolutely 100% needs one more season at Oregon, and then he will be 100% ready for the NFL. I'm just looking out for the kids best interest here 😉

Absolutely! Pac-12 football was a completely different beast than the B1G. You always knew the other team had the ability to put up points with fantastic quarterback play and skill positions. I was under no illusions that we were going to keep the Trojans under 20 points going into the game, I didn't make a formal prediction but I thought they would get 21 which is still less than what they actually scored. Oregon's defense is good but good offenses always find a way.

It's the injuries right now and an away game that have set that line. Unless / until we know who is out and who will play that line will stay lower. Even though our offensive line was mostly back-ups and we ran the ball well we still ran it less efficiently than if we had our starters in. It's little things like that which takes points off the betting line. If we get word that Poncho and World are back at full strength I would imagine that that line ticks up. If we get word that Dakorian Moore is going to play, I imagine that again the line goes up in our favor.

@David Marsh I liked your thought about how this was a classic P12 matchup with high powered offenses that the defenses won't be able to fully shut down. Had a similar thought during the game, that it felt like the Chip Kelly era matchups where I would root really hard for a 2 TD lead before relaxing a little bit. You knew the opponent would score some, but with a 2 TD lead, that put pressure on the other team to change their approach, and you knew the Ducks would keep scoring.