David Marsh

Ok... It's probably just the British side of me but every time I see "Mummy Duck" I'm thinking of a mother duck. Not a mummified Duck thing. But a full glow in the dark white uniform for the Penn State whiteout could be absolutely insane. But... If we do that we better win.

Against Oregon State he did a fantastic job in one play (that I remember) that he came down into the line of scrimmage when the run bounced outside. He beat his blocker and maintained the edge and turned the runner back right into a lineman. No credit on the stat sheet but he was absolutely a major reason that that particular play went for effectively 0 yards. I haven't sat down to review all the film but I'm sure he is everywhere.

I think moving a safety down closer to the LOS might help keeping the explosive runs at bay. The Ducks have been doing that and it might be just what they need. Adding a body but not committing a body.

On mobile I just have a picture of a defeated Beaver.

The one drive OSU scored it looked quite bad. I will say the Ducks turned around and made a point to take the run away. Right now we are all pursuing end of season perfection. Though we are not yet at the end of the season... Or even halfway.

I think we were all saying the same thing last year before Ohio State. The Ducks stepped up and took out a team that was better than us. Dan might be a master motivator but outside of ok State we haven't seen our Ducks play with their peak intensity yet. Yes, ok State is a very bad team but the Ducks came out ready to dominate them and they did. Haven't quite seen that fire out of them yet. I will say this.... The Oregon offense has looked much better than last year's.

That and Washington State looks pretty bad. The missed tackles are ridiculous. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see WSU's coach jump ship by year's end. He's done pretty good for the Cougs but there isn't much of a future there.

Wisconsin looks BAD. Their offensive line is getting wrecked last I saw. Flipped over to Utah v Texas Tech.

I could see everyone around the program being done with Gundy. But if Gundy feels like he wants to stay it might be difficult to get rid of him. I don't know what his buyout is but if it's too high and he doesn't want to leave himself OK State might not be able to get rid of him at this time. With the Beavers in know they couldn't get rid of Mike Riley as every time he went 6-6 he got an automatic contract extension and his buyout effectively grew. Riley was a good enough coach to reach a bowl game almost every year so he seemed to do the Beavers a favor by opting to leave and go to Nebraska... Who paid them! Come to think of it Riley did the Beavers a big favor and it might have been intentional. He leaves and gets the Beavs out of his contract with a pay day from Nebraska. As for Gundy, it might take a few weeks if Ok State doesn't have the funds on hand right now to buy him out. They'll have to figure out where to get the money as many contracts require a substantial payout upon being fired.

I'll be honest... I was for changing the name away from Civil War. It's actually my second article on FishDuck. However, I did have the expectation that the game would be renamed and thus rebranded into something new. That was back in 2020 and there has been NO effort to rebrand this game. The teams are now in different conferences and the fans have moved on. There was a moment where this game could have been renamed and the fans would have gone a long with it in a year or so. Come on... Platypus Bowl with a trophy and throw in a bunch of new marketing around it. Fans would have disliked it at first but after a year or so would have been fine with it. Also... putting a trophy front and center in the rivalry would have made it very B1G (despite little brother not being a member). But nothing happened. So I went back to calling it the Civil War years ago. Calling it "Rivalry Game" or whatever has no character and it's frankly too clunky for any fan to adopt. One of those instances where basically anything would have been better than "Rivalry Game."

Bye... At least the Ducks get to play a real game and go through the real motions and hit people. Hard to reach tackling when you don't tackle to the ground. Only way to reasonably get those reps is in a game.

I could see Oregon wearing these in this game. White but with black pants, cleats, and Hemet.

I lost track of where I saw it.. but the three linebackers all have very similar snap counts against Northwestern. Jackson had the most, then Mixon, and then Boettcher. I think Oregon's linebackers are fantastic this year as a group.

I feel linebacker has improved this year. They have to do SO much that they can get kinda lost in the course of the defense. At times it feels like they're a DB and if they're not getting their name called that's a good thing because the ball isn't being thrown their way.

Do I need to sit down and do my Old Pac-12 rankings again this year? I did it last year for what I thought was the last time but maybe I revisit it once a year.

They may be great environmental engineers. But don't let them build / rebuild an athletic conference.

I don't think he wants it. He's been on these lists for quite a while now. Probably 10 years. If he wanted a head coaching job by now he would be as the opportunity would be there.

Didn't you get the memo.. Black is one of our alternate colors now. We took that from the Beavers as well. They got 300 mil but we took everything else they love from them. It's a fair trade when you put it that way.

Not my favorite. I kinda want some green and yellow because he is an Oregon alum. I do like the Nike wing on the helmet.

I could see Baylor wanting to move on from Aranda soon. If you're not in the top tier of college football programs the resource rat race certainly makes things difficult. I'm not sure if Aranda is a god of coach or bad one but at Baylor he certainly doesn't have eh as t he needs at Baylor.

Certainly a mixture. Some was forced into them...everyone else leaving the Pac-12 was out of their control. Their lack of branding that they could leverage into joining a new conference... That was on them. Along with a lot of other decisions.

Big Ten

Florida's defense looked pretty decent. With 5 picks from the offense that's a LOT to put on them. Well... 4 picks one was a pick6. LSU's defense was bailed out by Florida's penalties. One took an 80yard td off the board.

Probably Jedd Fisch Connections to Florida and a pretty decent track record.

A clear sign they made all the WRONG decisions. They get to be basement dwellers in the new conference of their own making.