37 minutes ago, WTD25 said:

No thanks.

I don’t want to give USC the dignity.

They won't get to hold it.... It'll just make them angry.

I saw this coming... And it's fine.

Making the playoff is clear and easy. Just win.

1 hour ago, OregonDucks said:

Another solid episode.

Dante Moore’s name may be next to the 90% completion percentage in Oregon’s record book but watching the video shows some of the incredible catches (diving, in traffic, adjusting to the ball in the air, dragging a toe to stay in bounds) by our receivers/tight ends that made it possible, along with the incredible pass protection. Well done all around. It was fun to watch.

Two receptions stick out to me right away. Sadiq's incredible lay it all out to get the ball reception that set up the first TD run. Easily an incomplete pass.

Then the McClellan TD catch could have easily been an incomplete. That TD was entirely about the ruling on the field as a touchdown because if it was ruled incomplete I don't see evidence to overturn it to make it a TD in that situation, just like how there really wasn't any definitive evidence that the catch was made in-bounds.

Make either of those an incomplete pass and Moore ends the game (probably) around 86% which is lower than Mariota's 87% (I believe that was the previous record). Credit to all those receivers and the pass protection for sure!

Oregon and USC are in the B1G now and this rivalry needs a trophy to fight over every year.

May I suggest... a Pac-12 Championship Trophy?

Bonus of this trophy would be... it angers the Beavers, and Cougs as the last remaining Pac-12 members. It would extra anger the Beavers as the last 1.5 Pac-12 Champs.

It would anger Washington for not being included.

UCLA would probably not care so much.

Other thought... if the west coast schools were to "come back" they wouldn't come back to the Pac-12.

Pacific Coast Conference anyone?

That would be Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford ... and maybe we snag Utah and the Arizona schools to put most of the band back together but leave OSU and WSU out to dry.

Not going to happen... but it is by far the more likely scenario for the two.

1 hour ago, Steven A said:

That is why I refer to them as "ewe dub". Use your imagination on the ewe portion

I also like uw2.

Because Wisconsin is UW.

I could see Cal and Stanford sneaking into the B1G with certain strings attached.

If they both opt to take a much lower payout than even Oregon and Washington for a good while, so maybe something like 20 mil instead of the Oregon and Washington 30mil. They would need to come in at a major pay cut while also saying they would take football more seriously. Right now is their opportunity to invest as much as they can into football and in the next season or two show some meaningful improvements.

In terms of academics they fit in just fine so that could give them a significant boost. I'm also sure that UCLA would help get Cal in because they wouldn't have to pay Cal anymore if that were to happen. I could see Oregon, Washington and USC wanting them in for more west coast games.

Strangely enough the B1G might have to turn back to a division system and get more creative towards the end of the season with open scheduling to pin these smaller division against each other... kinda like a mini tournament for the B1G Championship. But this would be asking for far more creativity from a conference than they are probably interested in.

I think the whole thing is a long shot at this point but I can see it happening if the right set of circumstances come up.

And Kiffin and his family have been at UF and LSU in the last week.

The carousel is ramping up!

1 hour ago, Charles Fischer said:

Q: Former Pac-12 teams become doormats of the Big Ten, what do they do? Take the Big Ten cash and reboot over and over again? Or leave?

Do they mean UCLA?

Because Oregon and USC are doing fine this year and Washington is above average.

and UCLA is getting a new coach to try and revamp their program.

Gotta play your schedule.

A brief look at the Ducks out of conference schedule, the only part of the schedule we have control over.

Montana State - A pretty good FCS team, but an FCS team. But most FBS teams play an FCS team and the result is that the FCS team is going to lose.

Oklahoma State - A Power 4 program and usually a pretty good program. They were not good this year and there is nothing the Ducks could have done about that but scheduling them wasn't inherently scheduling a cupcake.

Oregon State - Well... a G6 team and most teams schedule a FCS team, a G6 team, and a P4 team. Oregon State became exceptionally bad this season.

As for our conference schedule, as which we don't have any control over... we miss two of the worst teams in the conference in UCLA and Purdue which Indiana and Ohio State both got UCLA this season and Indiana gets Purdue yearly. Rutgers and Northwestern are both ok teams and Iowa is better than their record... they after all have three of their four losses to teams ranked ahead of them.

1 hour ago, Desert Duck said:

Although we rushed for 179 yards last weekend, which is nothing to shake a stick at, the running game was still very productive.

In part because we only needed to run for that many yards. The run game did what it was supposed to do... get chunk yardage and set up the pass.

But Moore's passing game was so efficient that it did kinda skew the numbers. He was 27/30!!!! So with 30 pass attempts, a reasonable number, he completed 27 of them and many of those were vertical passes that ate up massive yardage. Think of that Sadiq pass(s) that put the Ducks on the goal line.

I think this offense is built around around a 70% completion rate. That would translate to Moore going 21/30 which might need more production out o the run game in some more potential 3rd and short situations, which we had very few.

6 or 7 seed would be good. Get a good tune up game in December. The only team I have any real fear of right now is Ohio State they just haven't struggled but in turn they haven't really been tested either. I would just like to not play them in the second round.

If this bracket holds true then Georgia in the second round would be tough but I think we have a team that could beat them.

A possible rematch with Indiana would be interesting and I don't think it plays out the same it did in the previous game. Overall... I like the No.6 or 7 seed and that side of the bracket.

2 minutes ago, Annie said:

I have a question about that almost fumble. He'd already had several steps into the end zone with (to my eyes) control of the ball. Why isn't that enough? I mean, sometimes players intentionally spike or casually drop the ball in the end zone after they enter the end zone and there's no question about it being a touchdown. What am I missing?

The ball was babbled as he crossed the line. He regained control of the ball with both hands and then dropped it out the end zone.

So the only question was did he regain control of the ball... and the answer to that was yes. So there wasn't actually a fumble as the ball didn't hit the ground until after the touchdown.

Whittington was in the midst of pulling a Byron Marshall and dropped the ball before he cross the line but he never actually fumbled it.

26 minutes ago, HDuck said:

I read this morning that Iowa lost 3 of its 5 o-line starters by very early second half. That probably made some difference in how they weren't able to move the line of scrimmage in the second half. The replacements were pretty inexperienced.

Iowa's coach called Lemon the best receiver he's seen in 20 years.

So... Even though USC beat an inferior Iowa team they will get the same amount of credit for beating them as we do.

But our win gets the Penn State treatment... Diminished for what happened after our game.

I think there is an interesting discussion to be had about how do ranked wins count. Do they count in the moment, the end of the season, or something in between? Hard to say. It's probably an off season article for sure. I'll save that for later.

But our win against Iowa regardless just lost its shine. Now time to beat the Trojans for them to get injured in the process and lose to UCLA and that win to become worthless.

3 hours ago, Smith72 said:

. The last time was a 36-27 Oregon win in 2023

And you know they're upset they aren't playing at their place when it would have normally rotated back to USC home but the conference change messed with that.

And they dodged us in 2024.

Bring on the Trojan Tears!

8 minutes ago, Grandpa Duck said:

difficult time with our bigger receivers

You mean when we put three tight ends on the field and move them into a run blocking formation and then into a passing offense? Yeah... that's a headache I'm sure they'll have next week.

The refs did call penalties on Iowa this week. I guess USC is more B1G than we are...

1 minute ago, OregonDucks said:

That actually may hurt the Ducks, if we drop another game. I’m rooting against all of the teams with 2-loses.

If we drop another game all bets are off on a playoff berth. You just can't lose this late in the year outside of a conference champ game and expect a berth.

The formula hasn't changed with Bama's loss..Ducks just need to win . Our path to a better bid is open is the only thing opening up with the Bama loss.

1 minute ago, GODUCKS15 said:

OU 23

AL 21

Final

And Oregon moved up to at least 7 in the next rankings. 6 or 7 is kinda that sweet spot for us if we can get it.

Kinda crazy how much easier Iowa is if the refs actually call them for fouls.

Not to say they are easy but if last week's refs were calling this game USC would be down by double digits.

Oof... Beavers getting destroyed by a 2-7 Tulsa team.

Jon Joseph put a stat up the other day that TAMU has played noby with something like opponents combined record is like 13-30. Getting exposed can happen at that point.

10 hours ago, Solar said:

Minnesota also is really good at tackles for a loss. I don't know if they got any until our starting OL was pulled, then they got a bunch.

I can think of one TFL where Davison got completely drilled right after the handoff. It was an RPO and Moore made the right read to hand it off but sadly it was the right read because the play was already blown up and letting Davison take the hit was better than him taking the hit.

26 minutes ago, TerryM9 said:

It was called a touchdown, hard to overturn with an iffy angle, of course my wife had a different opinion

If the call was incomplete that wasn't going to be called a TD.

So the call on the field being a touchdown cemented it. Even with that zoomed in picture I doubt it'd be a touchdown if the original call was incomplete..

But hey... I'll take it! Incredible catch..

Well Whittington didn't fumble so I don't have to yell at him and question his ability.

So I guess that's good so far.