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Not too sad at all... Dante had a Jeff Lockie bowl game kind of day. It doesn't mean the program is down the toilet. Just a missed opportunity. Like soooooo many others: (if my memory is correct down below) 2001 (?) Ducks not chosen for championship game 2007 Dennis Dixon gets hurt 2010 Dyer was down! 2012 DeAnthony Thomas misses block that would have let Mariota score vs Stanford (and made playoffs) 2014 year Couldn't bring down T. Prior and stop him from running for first downs 2019 Mario lost that game to Az St which kept them out of playoffs (they had a very good team that year) 2023 Losing to Washington in pac12 championship game kept them out of playoffs 2024 Lost in playoffs to Ohio St - Oregon did not play well in any aspect of the game, well below talent level 2025 year All those mistakes vs Indiana in playoffs By my count, that is 9 missed chances for a national championship in a quarter century. And it is probably going to take a few more before they finally kick the door down and get one. As long as Dan Lanning sticks around and Phil Knight stays alive, they are going to have more chances. But lets be real for a moment. Were any of those Oregon teams I listed above the very best team in college football that year? I don't think so. They were close. Yes, very close. But not the best. When they do have the best team for a given year, it will happen. It takes players. A whole starting 22 of them plus backups. Next year, a new QB, new O line, help at DT, new edge players and linebackers. A lot of those are on the team right now or are going to be come this fall.

Lanning seems fine going out and getting the best possible players in the portal but when it comes to getting the best possible OC and DC he apparently uses different logic. These dudes better be great because what a roll of the dice when Lanning clearly needs coaching upgrades.

Dr J you’re relying on a game played in 2003, before most of the players in the coming NC game were born, and another game played in 2020, when they were still in high school? Really?

As bad as they are, there are a BOATLOAD of Beavis players in the portal. While that memory you referred to is only three years ago…it is a generation ago in today’s CFB, and Beavis fans know it. They beat Lanning in his first year before he had time to build Oregon into a perennial top 10 team, and they know that window of opportunity for them has sadly closed. Boo-Hoo!

Stats are extremely misleading. We made more yards from scrimmage because we played a far longer field. They had three drives starting from inside our red zone, two of them with first and goal. Pretty difficult to accumulate yardage on that short of a field.

Many, many OBD Fans woke with Mourning Sickness this Mourning... We'survive, but I'm more in shock at the beat down, than depressed to have fallen to the likely National Champions. I believe it would have taken a team of that nature to stay on the field with OBD

Here is what I was thinking about all day long on this Saturday... You take the exact same game, exact same roster, except you trade quarterbacks - who wins? Dante made some very good plays and some very bad ones too. Mendoza was close to perfect since his fumbles did not hurt his team. One thing that has been consistent all year is the Ducks not stopping teams in the red zone. If the Ducks were a championship level team, they would have made Indiana settle for field goals on some of those mistakes. The pick 6 to start the game was not the reason they lost. Oregon tied the game on their next drive. Its like Zero Zero after that with 3 and 1/2 qtrs left to play. Stats pretty close to even except for turnovers. 2 lost fumbles, 1 pick 6, 2 turnovers on downs, 1 blocked punt, and a missed field goal (which kind of counts as a turnover in a way). That adds up to 7. Can anybody win with that many mistakes and not getting any turnovers from the other team? Sacks was another uneven stat. Mendoza could have been sacked more and Dante could have avoided one or two of those. And that is why Oregon got blown out so badly despite, yards, first downs, penalties and time of possession being fairly even.

Oregon last 5 defeats are a combined record against 3 teams that have appeared in the national championship game. 2023: UDub x 2 2024: Ohio St 2025: Indiana x 2 That's 5 of Lanning's 8 total losses. The last loss to a non-title-seeking team? Beavers. November 2022 in Corvallis.

High quality QB coach who can also be the passing coordinator.

Yes, those ticket prices are high. And, trips to Pasadena and Atlanta weren't cheap for Hoosier fans. But, any long-term Hoosier fan understands the net cost per season of amortizing the cost of this 3-game run over 100 years of futility.

A B1G summary of portal activity to date. A Cyclone hit Ames, Iowa. 19 Iowa State players are transferring to Penn State. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2026/01/02/big-ten-football-transfer-portal-tracker-live-updates-players-on-move-big-10-roster-changes/87394505007/

Doctor, no matter which team wins it all, it's going to cost a lot of money to rock hard in Miami. 🤑 https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/national-championship-game-ticket-prices-are-historically-high-ahead-of-indianas-matchup-against-miami-160159214.html

Just wanted to say a big thank you to you Charles, and to the moderator team and volunteer editors. You enhance my experience as a Duck obsessed fan and make me smarter with the commentary. Have a great off-season!

Honestly I think he needs 2 more years.

Still too stunned to be in mourning. I was angry yesterday and cant really bargain, cause there is nothing to bargain with. I am getting past denial, and almost to acceptance. Then I will mourn. Unless crying in my beer is mourning, then I mourned yesterday to drown my anger ! But I still love my Ducks!

I think the last time I won the Ducks lost too. Good thing I dont win very often.

2022: 10-3 Holiday Bowl champs (not bad considering first game against UGA). 2023: 12-2 Fiesta Bowl champs (lost to the NCG runner-up by a total of six points). 2024: 13-1 B1G champs (lost in quarterfinal to eventual national champion). 2025: 14-1 Orange Bowl champs (won 1st round and quarterfinal, but lost semifinal). If I’m a CEO and Dan Lanning is my sales team lead he and his team are getting bonuses every year for constant improvement. The trophies he brought home may not be the right color right now, but he has added something to the trophy case every year he’s been in Eugene. Keep in mind this year’s team returned one starter on offense (Pancho) and three starters on defense (Boettcher, Uiagalelei, Tuioti). Could Oregon regress next season? Sure, but I think the reason for that would be because of a change at QB and uncertainty with the new one.

I'm more in shock than mourning. I felt going in that if we brought our A game we may have a 40-45% chance of winning and was looking forward to a 4th quarter battle that could go our way with a history defining play. Instead we got a bad pick six on thirst play of the game. Then a few minutes later, we had yet another self induced backfield fumble and the game was over just like that. As pointed out on another post. Indy only had to go 30 yards to collect 28 gift wrapped points. It was a complete and utter collapse. It's like stepping in to the ring against Tyson, tripping on the ropes, falling flat on your face and knocking yourself out. It wasn't that we lost it was in the unbelievable and continuous way that it happened.

Hard to over come his built-in advantage. His team culture is built on developed, no name portal players who see an atmosphere that fits hand in glove - a comfort zone for “the misfits” who can then bond together to show the world what it really takes to play football. And, it ain’t stars.

Thanks Charles, for putting up with all us misfits. I won in each of the 2 prior years. This year I tied twice for second place. 3 points off and only got second. I did accurately predict the Yards Moore would pass for. I had a quiet day, dejected, disappointed, depressed but not totally despondent. I let the air out of my blow-up Duck and packed him away till next season. I'm a proud season ticket holder for 32 years and making payments on next season. I'll see you at the Spring Game.

Wow, only 5 didn't drink the Kool-Aid. Good on them. Good on them 2.0 missed by 28. Without TOs, would have been bang on.

Absolutely true. The problem is, we’re all getting a bit tired of saying that.

Yep. Actually, went to a celebration of life today and it wasn't for OBD. Reminded me "it was only a game" and the sun did come up today.

Three of the Canes titles have come in their home stadium. Of course those being at the old Orange Bowl. That place actually had an atmosphere, the stadium they play at now has no aura to it at all. It's just a huge NFL stadium. Hurricane fans have never filled that place, there are plans for an on campus stadium. It sticks in their crawl that USF is going to have an on campus stadium, before them.

In 2019 (2020 NCG) I thought the Clemson Tigers had the talent to take down LSU. However, they tried to score with them and it didn’t work out so well. When teams have similar styles of offense the more talented offense wins. When they have opposite styles it can lead to upsets although the examples are few. The 1986 Nittany Lions, 2002 Buckeyes, and a couple of Stanford/Oregon games come to mind (2012 for them and 2015 for us). Miami and Indiana have one common opponent in OSU. Both played them tight and held them to two scores.