21 minutes ago, Charles Fischer said:

When the ACC dissolves....Florida State and Clemson will go to the SEC, while North Carolina and Miami to the B1G?

Set up two Big-10 divisions with ten teams each; play the other nine in conference, and three OOC games for the schedule with a conference championship game.

Notre Dame is making too much money with their own TV contract to take a pay cut going into a conference IMHO. Although they would be a great fit for us...

I honestly doubt North Carolina and Virginia go the Big Ten, since there's been countless reports the Tar Heels and the SEC have mutual interest.

Who do y'all think will be the last two additions before the B1G expansion door closes?

1 hour ago, Jon Joseph said:

OMG! The SEC will Talk the Talk beginning in 2026.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-adopts-nine-game-conference-slate-commissioner-greg-sankey-explains-how-new-cfp-metrics-spurred-move/

This could result in the B1G signing off on the 5-11 model and an annual SEC/B1G football challenge.

The CFB changes keep right on coming!

Gosh, I wanted the SEC challenge to get finalized and to force teams like the two Alabama schools to finally come to the West Coast, ESPECIALLY Eugene.

If this does end up happening I'm gonna wonder how will the SEC handle future non-conference scheduling, but if our conference manages to get an alliance with the SEC I'm excited to see what teams could we force to come to Autzen during the first 3 weeks of the upcoming seasons.

I found this article, sadly it's not a rumor, just a CFP prediction...

Oregon Ducks On SI

Oregon Ducks vs. Alabama Crimson Tide Matchup On The Hori...

With the first college football games of the 2025 season looming, national analysts continue to roll out their final predictions on how things will unfold. On3

I wonder if we're gonna do more changes to our future schedules beyond this and the eventual addition of more Civil War games.

I legit knew this was gonna happen, I'm certain that Oregon will schedule the disgusting Beavers from Oregon State to replace these matchups.

FBSchedules.com

Oregon, Utah State mutually cancel two future football games

The Oregon Ducks and Utah State Aggies have mutually agreed to cancel two future football games, FBSchedules.com has learned.

Apparently the Duck is in New Zealand right now and we don't even know when will his upside down tweets stop, I thought they would end on August 1st due to the announcement video mentioning "July 2025".

A lot of people theorized the posts were meant to tease a football game hosted in Australia but it's looking far less likely right now...

I just want the CFP model that would let us still schedule a good team like Alabama in non-conference play...

I'm hoping I'm not the only one who thinks this is teasing something like one of the University's athletic teams playing in Australia, also, what does the punter joke mean?

Historic House v. NCAA settlement gets final approval, allowing schools to pay college athletes

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Universities can begin directly sharing revenue with college athletes starting July 1.

What does it mean for OBD?

 

Listen, I know that I'm probably not gonna get good looks for it, but I genuinely think this series shouldn't be played, even tho it was scheduled in a time where it seemed like a decent matchup.

 

Today's news regarding the fact the Big Ten and SEC have more control than the Big 12 and ACC (especially in the future) really proves how bad this matchup is, imo, we won't gain anything from playing Baylor aside from a win on our 2027 and 2028 records and crossing an opponent from our "unplayed opponents" list, imo, the game should actually get replaced by a matchup against a much stronger team like Alabama or Notre Dame.

 

There's also something I found out...

 

A few days ago, Scott Barnes, Oregon State's AD, says the Civil War game will most likely take a two year hiatus in 2026 and 2027 but could return in 2028, there's a catch tho, our OOC schedule is completely full that year, with NDSU, Baylor and Utah State in the schedule, so it means at least one game from the schedule will get the boot if the rumors are true.

 

Thoughts?

I was in the r/CFB reddit and someone posted this tweet with some huge news! I don't know how many people will like them tho.

 

The article mentioned an hypothetical Oregon vs. LSU matchup as an example of what Big Ten vs. SEC matchups would bring a ton of eyeballs.

 

 

On 2/8/2025 at 8:03 PM, JabbaNoBargain said:

Only if it’s always at Autzen. 

Fair, travelling to Corvallis isn't desirable anymore.

On 2/7/2025 at 8:04 PM, HDuck said:

My polite no is based on evaluating alternatives.  I would prefer an FCS game, and a cross-regional Power 4 game such as a Big12 foe, ACC foe, or SEC foe to complete 2 of the 3 slots.   The B1G and SEC have already had discussions about an annual game for each conference member.

 

For the third slot I would prefer a rotation of old Pac12 opponents in areas that provide some recruiting boost:  Arizona, ASU, Utah, Cal, and perhaps, BYU or WSU in lieu of Oregon State.   Aside from nostalgia, I'm not sure what Oregon "receives" by scheduling OSU every season?   Not saying, never, but annually just seems too much to me based on what alternatives might bring.  Even Fresno St, San Diego St, UNLV occasionally?

I just hope we end up drawing a highly uncommon opponent like Alabama in the Big Ten x SEC alliance (if it goes beyond the planning part)

TBH I don't like the cupcakes only ideology, those matchups are extremely boring and predictable, imo, what we should do is keep Oregon State permanently similar to the Colorado vs. Colorado State rivalry, an SEC opponent in case the scheduling agreement gets agreed to, and a regional opponent like Utah or Colorado.

I'm hopeful we get more scheduling news someday regardless if the idea proposed above happens or not, hopeful that we can schedule some SEC foe once the scheduling model for that conference is chosen.

Could Oregon football schedule a Week 0 game in 2025?

AUTZENZOO.COM

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Oregon football had what I would consider a successful first season in the Big Ten. The Ducks finished with a 13-1 record in a College...

 

Even if this idea to improve our SOS doesn't happen this season, I'm hopeful it can be proposed to the athletic department and that we schedule a game in Las Vegas or another western stadium against a highly successful opponent like Alabama or Miami.

 

Albeit a home-and-home series would be best!

I'm sorry for having made this kinda negative post, but I thought that we also need to think about the possibilities if Penn State somehow beats us.

 

Doing all my possible calcs, I found out that there's only two possible seeds for us, the Number 1 seed or the Number 5 one, this is due to us having the best record in the nation so far, if we win, we'll be the undisputed number 1 team and we'll play in the Rose Bowl with a bye (I smell roses...)

 

But if we lose to Penn State. I have a strong feeling we'll end up with the highest first round seed, which would be #5, some people would think we could be in a battle against Notre Dame for that spot should we actually lose the CCG, but I believe we'll come out on top, since we would have an extra win (12-1 compared to 11-1), most projections have the #12 seed being either Alabama or the Big 12 champion (reconciliation against Arizona State or revenge against Iowa State?).

 

Ofc I'm hoping that we do win the CCG, but if not, I would hope we get a really weak Alabama to play in Autzen...

 

Go Ducks!

A nittany lion is supposedly just a cougar.

 

Anyways, game-wise, I hope we do have a chance to stop Penn State's offense and destroy their defensive line, btw I know that opponent comparison is kinda dumb but we literally beat Ohio State, a team which exposed PSU at Beaver Stadium.

 

So I'm certain we will win.

 

I'm so happy that we are going to another conference championship! Hoping we do win this time around

As you all know, there was a meeting on October 10th regarding our new home and their southeastern counterparts, which went pretty smoothly in terms of scheduling, now, a few days later, it seems the possibility of an scheduling alliance is inevitable, with a lot of possible matchups bringing eyeballs to CBS, NBC, Fox and Disney.

 

There's still some issues that need to be resolved regarding our schedules, would Oregon drop the upcoming games against Baylor and Oklahoma State in favor of Texas or Alabama? Could we continue the Civil War against Oregon State? (albeit they're no longer a Power team)

 

Getting teams like the Longhorns or Tide to Autzen Stadium and viceversa is obviously going to be positive gains for the networks and fan interest, honestly I can't wait to see what sorts of wacky matchups this alliance brings.

 

GO DUCKS!!!

 

SEC, Big Ten discussing series of ‘challenge’ football games, reports say

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Talks considered ‘very preliminary’ at this point

 

After our great win against Ohio State, bowl projectors are expecting great things from our team, with two writers in particular choosing us to play in the national championship.

 

These are the projections so far:

 

CBS Sports: CFP first round against Boise State

 

247Sports: CFP first round against Boise State and quarterfinals against BYU

 

ESPN Bonagura: CFP quarterfinals against Georgia, semifinals against Penn State and national championship against Texas

 

ESPN Schlabach: CFP quarterfinals against Penn State, semifinals against Georgia and national championship against Texas

 

 

Ofc we still need to focus on winning all of our games left, but that win against Ohio State gave me massive hope.

Giving more thought about the Big Ten x SEC alliance that will probably happen two days before our game against Ohio State, on Thursday, October 10th, I was thinking how our future schedules, which are pretty much full between next year and 2028.

 

Ofc this is an hypothetical as we don't know if the scheduling agreement will go through, much less how it will operate, but let's give some thoughts, obviously the agreement will require our Ducks and other teams like Ohio State to play one random opponent from the Southeastern Conference, but there's a catch, we already have some opponents scheduled (none from the SEC tho) like Oklahoma State and Baylor, which I'm sure will get canned in case the agreement does happen in favor of other teams like Alabama or Georgia.

 

If we exclusively schedule SEC teams as our required Power opponent, then what will happen to the other two spots reserved for cupcakes? Will we keep them or will they be changed as well? For example, there's a lot of people saying our 2-for-1 home and home series with Utah State might get cancelled as well, maybe to get the Oregon State Beavers in our schedule again, since it's likely the Pac-12 won't be considered a Power league anymore, then I hope we can play both the SEC teams and Oregon State in a single season, regardless of people's thoughts on the river rat program, if everything goes as planned and as I predicted, here could be a potential future OOC schedule:

 

Week 1: A Big Sky team like Portland State 

Week 2: The required SEC team

Week 3: Oregon State

 

I've been thinking that the scheduling agreement will happen starting in 2026, which is when the new CFP deal will take place, it will also be a key part of the discussions between our league and the SEC that start next week.

 

Regardless of what y'all think of this, I'm definitely glad that Oregon will not be left behind and is part of the Big Ten, giving us Rose Bowl-esque games each season.

 

Go Ducks!!!