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I agree with Charles for the most part. Keep in mind, this is a generational talent level on the OSU roster this year. We'll see if Georgia can pull off one of these "keep all the juniors for one more year" dream teams like Michigan and OSU put together. We were not imposters in the top shelf 6 teams in the country this year. I do have a continuing concern that the extra effort our coaches put into recruiting between games late in the season is likely a detrimental disadvantage to historical blue bloods with records that recruit themselves, when play them. We got out coached by DeBoer and Grubb who didn't recruit last year, and we got smoked by Kelly who we know doesn't recruit either this year. It's a small sample size but the cause and affect is as good of an explanation as anything else for explaining our crappy game plans and player preparedness.

This is a mess. I agree their should have been a clean break, but as I've said before, the NCAA seems clueless they hired lawyers who only interest is to generate more in the future. With such a mess I don't think we get to a new model anytime soon. 2032 may be too soon. Until then capitalism will have free reign on an increasingly uneven playing field, with the haves decimating the have nots.

It's nice to be getting a Mulligan on the Rose Bowl disaster from the Media. Even if it's bogus to be ranked #2, I'll take it.

I'm okay with any Ohio State fan that believes it's possible to lose without beating themselves.

He wasn't yet elite before and may not be the same after such a severe injury, but I'm hoping for the best. We really need him to be great.

A bit too forgiving with some of those D grades, if you ask yourself what would it take to get an F? I think the O-Line gets an F. And they forgot to grade the coaches. Lanning gets an F for his team getting embarrassed 34-0 in 20 minutes of game time on the biggest stage, Tosh gets an F and Stein gets a C.

This. I said it before, if you need 4.4 speed and elite eye discipline and feel for the game by everyone without a hand in the ground, do you really have a viable scheme? Dillingham and to a lesser extent Stein were willing to design a scheme for the players they had, not the players they wish they had. DL and Tosh have not done that at Oregon yet for the D. Is it Cristobal level stubbornness, loyalty and wanting someone he can bully? Don't know, if it is, it's not as obvious, or as impactful. Honestly Dillingham is a better coach, and coach of coaches (Look at Arroyo now at ASU) than Lanning, but Lanning is a better CEO. Bottom line is it's not wrong to question Lupoi as the DC. Remember Hampton is co-DC, so if Hampton has been more impressive it would be easy to pull a Saban and demote Lupoi again.

Before the final seeding I did predict this as a district possibly. The teams that bothered to show up in the wild card games only had to show up again one week later. Obviously seeding weak conference championships played a role, but I'd prefer 8 teams coming off one bye week over this crapola 12 team format and seeding we have.

If you showed people this stat line before the game nobody would believe you. There were no penalty issues, no big special teams plays and zero turnovers. Time of possession and 3rd down conversion percentages were the same. We had 19 possessions on offense and came away with 21 points. Roughly one point per possession. We just were straight up destroyed regarding explosive plays on offense vs. defense and vice versa. Losing Jordan James, Evan Stewart and having a hobbled Tez Johnson was too much to overcome on offense, even if our offensive line didn't allow so many negative plays, which they did. I mentioned yesterday during the game, the air was the same warm super low humidity air that Oregon always seems to lay an egg with in Arizona in November. It's almost like it's disorienting being so different. Ohio State came from super cold, but still super dry weather in their last game. I'm not going to keep saying this over and over, so I'll say this once: my biggest coaching disappointment was that Ohio State played the exact same game plan as against Tennessee, which every OSU fan, analyst and talking head was covering as being a reason OSU would beat us, yet it seemed that it caught our coaches off-guard. How is that possible? Does FEBU include not scouting the opposing teams last game? Ugh.

This game, and our secondary vs. their WRs, shows why you need to recruit HS, versus relying only on 3 stars that blossomed into solid contributors from the portal. The physical differences set a lower ceiling. Donate Manning was a five star which is the counter argument, why you still need portal players, some don't pan out as the best. You recruit the best out of high school, and develop them, then you plug gaps with the portal. We are still in the transition to DL's HS recruits, and won't see the full benefit of this 2025 crew for 3-4 more seasons.

At this point 24-0 it is just too deep of a hole. I'm disappointed with our showing. It's just not representative of our best. It's been a fantastic year, it's just tough to finish this way. There will be lots of second guessing about our team that will be tough to deal with for an off-season. 31-0 now with 8 minutes left in the 2nd quarter. It's almost like they went from not showing up to giving up without bothering to compete in between. I'm not venting, but at the same time I think there is no point me commenting further at this point. Talk to you all in the off-season. Take care.

Really can't afford to go down 21-0 here. Need a stop big time.

Everyone is acting rusty. Something to note here is the weather. I'm in San Diego and this is the warm dry southwest air that historically makes the Ducks play in a funk in November against the Arizona schools.

Really rough start. We'll get going, but at some point you've dug too deep of a hole against too good of a team. Like the PAC12 champ game last year. A couple 1st downs now. Deep shot. I noticed Tez ankle is wrapped and he limped off with little contact. Not good he is already hurt

This is starting out like Texas ASU. It could take a little for our team to wake up from the time off. Oh to have lost to PSU. We'd be in such a better spot.

Left tackle decides to double team the DL and let the DE run free into the backfield. Is that really the way it's drawn up? Doubt it. Arroyo is struggling here. Can't go through them, can't go around them. Can't get any time for levitt to pass. They need more roll out multi level pass plays, they need to check down to scatteboo on the few times Texas doesn't bring the house.

The Offensive blockers are completely incompetent. I think moreso than the defenders strength, they haven't played against this kind of speed before. Texas defenders are juking and running past ASU blockers

Plot Twist: DL got a grad assistant to do a false flag attack to further his players' sense of being disrespected, to maximize them playing angry and focused.

Ducks 37-35 2 4 301

Saw this on the wall in the lobby of the Homewood Suites we stayed in last night. I thought it was a good and appropriate sign for our Ducks through the playoffs..

Honestly this is mild concern for the longer term. The longer he be coaching the less of the "I knew that guy" guys will be available. This goes for players and coaches. At some point there won't be any more diamonds in the rough he discovered himself, he'll just have to find diamonds and convince them to come play for him.

37-35 I think OSU will end up with more yards on offense and more touchdowns than us, but... Our FG kicker is better than theirs, so they will end up with wasted drives, turnover on downs because day doesn't trust his FG kicker. Dan will take points on 4th down in the red zone, trusting his Defense to get stops.

This is the worst possible thing Ward could have done for his football future. I mean I guess he leaves a legacy with that statline that may never be broken due to the extra year of eligibility he got. But he's shown his true colors, in it for me, not for thee. You talk about making it hard to be a leader in the locker room, OMG, every time he opens his mouth there will be distrust of his intentions.

The winners of Ducks-OSU and Georgia - ND are going to separate themselves from the winners of the other two games.

I'm coming to the conclusion it is going to be a different game this time we play. If you imagine us playing offense the way we did against Penn State, and OSU playing O the way they did against Tenn. The question will be if we can set edges and prevent the passes out wide, often enough to get off the field, and if OSU can stop the quick passes from Dillon often enough to get us off the field. It's always a possibility somebody doesn't show up at the start of the game, but I struggle to see 2 digit win by either team. Both teams are too skilled and too competitive to let the other team run away from them.