David Marsh

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.

Hey now... The Beavers get the chance to play on the B1G network next weekend!

I couldn't tell too much based on watching on TV but the TV experience is not the in person one. But there should be rules about piping in noise. I know other fan bases have accused Autzen of pumping in noise but being there in person you can FEEL the human volume. It is certainly different and disruptive. But it comes at the cost of 50k+ crazy fans. Not the push of a button. I know the Pac-12 banned noise makers and I believe most conferences have a similar ban. Autzen still has the noise maker ban. If noise makers are banned so should pumping in sound to disrupt the opposing team.

Sleepy start ... Moore took a while to warm up. Even his pitch to Limar on the touchdown was a bit off target Limar caught it around his head. Ducks got rolling in the middle. Lanning and company took their foot off the gas too early. The 79 yard touchdown was a gut punch to an otherwise solid game. Pulling Moore after his interception instead of putting him back in to rack up another touchdown for the team felt too early. The Ducks should have had their foot on the gas for one more series before pulling the starters. I also get that Lanning doesn't care so much about the final score as he is preserving his players for a LONG playoff schedule but with so many new faces I couldn't help but feel Dante Moore could have just used another series on the road.

Still haven't allowed a sack at least. Run game is struggling to get rolling. Those inside runs aren't going anywhere.

Our offensive line needs to wake up a bit more here. Getting beat..

Considering how quick backup was coming. Staying with his man would have been the right choice. At least until the QB ran past the los