30Duck

Okay, I don't even know if Manning is the best QB this season, and Tebow? There have been a lot of great QB's since 2006. Andrew Luck. Joe Burrow, RG Smith. Marcus Mariota, Jaden Daniels, Tebow is better than all of them, and Arch is better than he is? Paul Finebaum Claims Arch Manning Is Best College QB Since Tim Tebow

This is up to the coach, the signs are there for the Ducks -Beavers clash. If Lanning doesn't point all of them out to the players. it's self-induced.

I think a game can't be called a "Trap Game" after it's been played. At this time last year, a lot of us were calling the game at Wisconsin a TG. Oregon avoided it

I don't think those Alabama games were "Trap" games, all upsets aren't. Wisconsin was supposed to be a "trap" game for Oregon last season. I am much more concerned about the Ducks losing the game to PSU at Beaver Stadium, than I am of the Beavers beating the Ducks at Autzen.

Call me a " looking through green and yellow tinted glasses, total Homer", Beavis isn't beating OBD in this one. How many times does a team fall into a trap anyway?

Thanks for noticing, fixed now.

I agree with Urban, and I never thought I'd ever say that, but I have Lanning at No.2 right now, behind Smart. I wouldn't trade Lanning for any other coach out there. The "white noise" I'll associate with Lanning now is what comes up whenever a high profile coaching job appears. Lanning has made it as clear as he can, he isn't going anywhere, but that won't stop it.

I do too, and by the end of the season, Thieneman will be the No.1 safety in the country! I appreciate the comment that Penn State is a team Oregon, "knows it can beat", but that was last season. 11-1 is a nice floor.

The title is great. Mudslide! The article is also right on point. We remember Frost all but describing Oregon as a "bad" job because "you can't recruit there". He may not have been able to recruit at Oregon, nor it seems, at Nebraska. But UCF is where it will work?

Ohio State's fatal flaw all but confirmed by preseason All-Big Ten teams

This I can't go with, no elite OL or WR's? If that can put up 35 than OBD will be fighting for their lives against Northwestern, The Rose Bowl showed how important a Coordinator is. Yes. The decisions against UW was Lanning playing his game, the way he wanted to. Decisions aren't bad because they didn't work. I guess there was fear, but with Chip it was more just total bewilderment. 2019 LSU created fear, and I don't know if any passing attack is coming close to that one, but close will win games.

Exactly. You brought up some solid reasons for going Texas, and a $100.00, PAWL's just earning his salary.

Ya know, a game between 2019 LSU and 2021 Georgia would be fascinating. I don't see any of the contenders in 2025 being as good on either side as those two. Having to outscore is not sustainable, so hopefully both sides will get better as the season goes on, that good ol measuring stick will show up at Penn State.

With a new coordinator and PSU's games before OBD won't test them.

Day at No.2? He's lost to Michigan 4 times in a row, got past Oregon thanks to Kelly's work at OC, and got the Natty with a lot of help from the format. I'd have Dabo at No.2 Lanning No.3, I'll give Day No.4 over Freeman. Cignetti? Probably somewhere around 50.

"He's gonna have to win this year," Klatt said of Riley. "You can't go 7-5 again. You just can't." But... "You look at last year . . . they showed they're capable." Klatt said. "Those close losses could turn into close wins this year. And if they do, they could be a team making their very first playoff appearance." They actually can go 7-5 this season. A lot of "could's" there.

I think Oregon State is overrated every year.

I wager that by kickoff the spread will come down to -3, the HFA only, A home game between two equals always puts more pressure on the home team and the Nitts are the one with a returning QB...and a returning coach who should be right there with Mario for COY consideration

"Say what?" Understand that the criteria the Committee uses for filling the CFP, but using the available data and awarding Mario a COY award would strain credulity to the level of a charley horse at 2:00 in the morning.

No surprise that a qualitative over quantitative analysis would show Oregon > USC. Talk is that USC's "success " in recruiting so far may just keep Riley employed. I sure hope so!

It is. The last time Oregon touched a "great environment" MKA replaced "The Pit". Nothing predicts the future as well as the past.

I can appreciate a pie eating contest, the contestants get messy, but that's fine. The hot dog eating contest, with the water...yuck, disgusting, gross! Put me in a ribs eating contest!

Out there on the internet I'm seeing that PAWL!!! is picking Texas to beat Osu2, "The force is strong with this one" PAWL doesn't really resemble Luke Skywalker, but ESPN is every bit the Death Star and PAWL is following orders. It's fine to predict Texas will win, but when that prediction is just part of the ESPN/SEC cacophony it loses its significance.

Absolutely. Those other champs, Gat listed, as I went through them, I was thinking, "I wish I could have done that" With Chestnut? YUCK!