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"Light years ahead" is a bit much, all things considered they did pretty well last season. When their freshman QB was upright, he looked pretty god against the Ducks. Next year could be another of those Measuring Stick games when Washington and Oregon meet in Seattle.

I'm thinking of other jobs and if anybody's performance of their duties matched Oregon's defense at the Rose Bowl, under Lupoi, a pink slip would have been coming. Now, it wasn't just the defense, the offense went splat too, but my impression was the defense was the worse of the two. All season the offense did enough, the thought was that more could have been done, but was held back, playbook, long season. It looked like Oregon could have reached 40 in a lot of its games. Defense, unless you're Georgia 3 years ago, won't be as dynamic as an offense, and the defense did rise up and saved the Wisconsin game. But is the defense, under Lupoi, going to reach another level?

Oregon is light years ahead of Washington just one year after Huskies were in the Natty AUTZENZOO.COM Washington once again lacks depth at the wide receiver position after former Texas wideout Johntay Cook parts ways with the...

Very possible. In an article I saw, the writer was using ends justify the means to say how perfect the Final Four turned out in the CFP, taking hits at Oregon and the other higher seeded losing teams. Telling us now what a shame it would have been if osu2 and Notre Dame wouldn't be playing in the Final; would not have been in a 4 team Playoff at all.

Great for the Broncos, Jeanty will have the same uniforms he had at Boise State, but who gets Skattebo?

I used to always scoff when a B1G team would get a nice seed in "March Madness" despite a losing conference record. It makes sense now. One good thing about the B1G Conference Tournament is that none of the games will be played at MKA. Oregon & Michigan State are the only B1G teams to have not lost a neutral site or road game this season.

Johntay Cook, Washington part ways after transfer portal commitment WWW.ON3.COM . Cook signed with UW on Jan. 7, which was 10 days after he announced his commitment out of the portal. He was on campus for approx. 48 hours before the decision was made to part ways

That story made me think back to when Chicago Cubs fans turned on one of their own. Game 6, 2003, NL Championship series between the Florida Marlins and the Cubs. Cubs led 3-0 in the 8th, a Marlin batter hits a foul ball, Moise Alou is ready to catch it, but Cubs fan, Steve Bartman wants a souvenir and deflects the ball. The Cubs fell apart after that, lost that game and game 7, and Bartman was harassed by Cubs fan for months, to the point he needed police protection.

Absolutely Sankey comes off the worst. Finebaum's looparound logic in the article is the same stuff he's been spouting for months. The only credible SEC personality this season was Saban, who knew it was time to get out.

A big Yahoo for Skattebo! After the RB I was convinced that osu2 simply had better, bigger, faster players than did OBD. But then those bigger, faster osu2 players played Texas, and they didn't look bigger and faster. There's no way that the format did not have a huge part in the disparity between osu2 and the No.1 Oregon Ducks. For that game to used as a comparison, Oregon would not only be that far behind osu2, but Texas as well, and ASU almost beat, should have beat Texas, are they now to be thought of as better than Oregon? As FUBAR the format is going to be the same next year, and if one thing can be taken from it, it is that no B1G team should even want to play in the CCG, 3rd place is where you want to be.

Prime & Colorado, if he's still there next season have a schedule, the likes of which I've not seen before. They open with 7 games at home, then it's 5 in a row on the road, 2025 Colorado Football Schedule | FBSchedules.com FBSCHEDULES.COM View the 2025 Colorado Football Schedule at FBSchedules.com. The Buffaloes football schedule includes opponents, date, time...

It is, but Calipari is now the coach at Arkansas, and Sylla is definitely the kind of player he was used to getting at Kentucky. Go, Altman!

I have always thought that Jay Bilas was as good an analyst as there is in sports. Big Ten coach Mick Cronin gets blasted for comments following loss to Michigan WWW.SI.COM It's safe to say that UCLA head basketball coach Mick Cronin's postgame comments after losing to Michigan didn't go over well...

It's a battle between, Oregon, Arkansas & Georgia Tech. Mouhamed Sylla is set to annonce his decision on January 16, that's Thursday. Mouhamed Sylla set to pick between Oregon and two other programs for his future AUTZENZOO.COM Mouhamed Sylla, a top-15 prospect in the class of 2025, is reportedly set to make his commitment on Thursday, January 16.

Bo Nix reportedly played through fractured back during stretch of Broncos' season AUTZENZOO.COM Former Oregon quarterback Bo Nix was a star during his rookie season for the Denver Broncos. Now, it has been reported that he...

This makes Oregon fans feel better & worse simultaneously. We're left with the worse part and next season, the B1G Championship will be something none of the teams will want.

I'll say he is a great recruiter, and that's based on his great NFL career, and one of his best recruits was his son. We saw his coaching acumen two seasons ago against Lanning, and this season against Nebraska and BYU in the Alamo Bowl. He'll fit perfectly in Dallas.

Looking past the source, the info told us what we knew all season. Another team with a relatively easy schedule was Indiana. They only played one top-25 team (Ohio State). In fact, they only played two teams in the top-50 (the other was Michigan). Plus, they played 5 teams that were ranked below #100 (Florida International, Western Illinois, Charlotte, Northwestern, and Purdue). Again we see that Indiana and Iowa each only played one team ranked above them (both lost those games). The difference is that Indiana won all of their games against teams ranked below them while Iowa lost 3 of those games. Bad for Iowa, but those were the only W's for Indiana. Also, with this, for most of the season, every team Oregon played was ranked below them, every team Indiana played was pretty much ranked below every other team.

Great article, Darren. Of course, that year, Virginia lost to a 16 seed UMMBC by 20 points, OBD lost to 8 seed osu2 by 20.

If it plays out the way Altman's teams usually do; get better & better and peak in Feb and March, starting at 15-2, Final 4 is very possible. The exhilarating and at the same time, frustrating is how much better this team can be. Shelstad is bringing it every game now, Bittle is consistent. But, Angel, Bamba, are at around 40% of what we've seen them capable of doing. Key is a spark, don't want to lose that from him. The defense is good, but could get even better, which is what usually happens with Altman's teams improving. The Ducks are very good in close games, only the UCLA game got away from them. But the Penn State game should not have come down to the wire.

Prime wants Shedeur to go with him, which would be easier in Las Vegas, but they could trade Prescott, who might not mind going somewhere else. The Cowboys are the epitome of "Playing for clicks".

What's the line on Mendoza?

The NET ranking makes no sense! Oregon is 7-1 in Quad 1 wins, 15-2 overall, and 21 in NET. Michigan is 2-2 in Quad 1, 13-3 overall, and is 11 in NET. NET apparently is weighed heavily in seeding for "March Madness".

Ennis is one of my all time favorite Ducks, definite glue and I don't remember a clutch missed FT or shot, he hardly ever turned the ball over, made a silly foul...