David Marsh

We have already seen players who were rotational players but with a lot of upside opt to stop playing and preserve their redshirt so they can transfer and get a better pay day elsewhere or just keep their college career going. Kris Hudson didn't play last year other than a handful of snaps because he lost his starting spot at Oregon and wanted to transfer in order to try and help his NFL stock. He is now a valuable piece to the Washington State offense. Not sure it will help his NFL stock though playing for the Cougs.

I think that was the intention but it didn't pan out for a couple reasons. 1. Everything dissolved so quickly. Once Colorado said they're leaving the media deal was released and it was sub-optimal to say the least. The Big 12 continued to push for the Arizona Schools and once Fox's B1G then swooped in to grab Oregon and Washington at half price for a few years and the Big 12 grabbed the Arizona Schools and Utah. 2. Agree with it or not... the legal case about control of the Pac-12 residing with the remaining members was based on the precedent that once members announced their leaving the conference (at first USC and UCLA) they lost voting rights in the conference. Colorado lost their voting rights on policy once they announced their leaving. So in keeping with consistency once everyone but OSU and WSU announced they're leaving those two got control of the conference. There was a desire by all the schools leaving to dissolve the conference and distribute resources but a judge ruled that because of the precedent set that members leaving lost their voting power the resources were forfeited. A lot of Duck fans are upset by this and I am not taking a side on whether this is right or not... but that is an explanation and logic used behind what happened.

Like many parents with young children, I right now love night games. I get the kids to bed and I get sit down with a nice cup of tea (I have UK citizenship along with US citizenship so... tea while watching American football feels like a perfect mesh) and then get to mutter to myself about every single play whether it is good or bad. Sounds like a wonderful evening!

Well the two left over conferences will be the Big 12 (already a left over conference) and the ACC (once the break up starts).

Black helmets with the white jerseys that haven't been officially revealed yet. Probably black helmet , white jersey, and black pants. It will probably look excellent. The black helmet doesn't quite work with the whites we wore last week.

Not at all surprised. We're prime late night material. I kinda knew this was coming. If we're not playing a top tier team then we'll get the late game. Just maybe on a better network. In truth we only got stuck on the pac-12 network once or twice a year because we're the Ducks. We were usually on ESPN or Fox for the late night. And we still are (but not ESPN because contracts). Getting put on Peacock is basically like being put in the Pac-13 network. That happened once already for a night game for us.

I think we have a starting five on the OL that will work out just fine. If we get Bedford back he will return as a depth player this season and not a starter. Part of me wants to say if he's not ready to play next week then it might be worth getting a medical redshirt for him and bring him back next year.

What FCS schools want to join the FBS? I don't think North Dakota wants it. One of the Montana schools maybe? Eastern Washington? Portland State can't afford it. But if Eastern Washington and Boise State are in the same conference then it becomes the conference of awfully colored fields and I guess oregon.state should make their field orange and just join the dumb colors.

I know I've said it elsewhere.... But also waiting for the ACC to break apart is worth their while. Also the scrap-6 will probably get a media deal around 10-15 mil per school and be relagated to late night programming. I figure the schools they got so far are probably worth 10mil (slightly higher than current MW pay out and a LOT lower than what the pac-12 was getting before the break up) for the late night programming. So for those AAC schools they'll have to travel more and play late at night on the east Coast. Wait for the ACC to break up and get into a tier 2 conference and not a tier 3.

How the Beavers will never win the Civil War again.

I mean Justin Herbert made Oregon a playoff caliber team. They just couldn't get there because of some poor plays in some key games... vs Auburn and vs ASU. If it was a 12 team playoff the Ducks would have made it into the playoff that year.

We also have a lot of teams that still have to play each other and injuries always throw a wrench projections.

They will have to determine who the highest ranked is because the format says automatic bid for the 5 highest ranked conference champions. As there are only 4 P4 conferences and 5 other conferences they'll have to determine who the best is for that spot. Which would mean doing a ranking outside the top 25. I have a feeling the committee would determine this behind closed doors and just slip in a 5th conference champion into the top 25 to make it easy on themselves. Doesn't mean it's fair or right ... Just the way it'll be.

And what's counter intuitive is that it matters more where you're opponents end the season than their ranking at the time of the game. Even though all the attention is on top 10 or top 25 match ups the week of it doesn't hold the same weight as where teams end the season.

They haven't met any real competition yet and they really don't this season. Their best win is against a Florida team in shambles. Or against USF who aren't power 4.

Yes.... They can but this is probably what needs to happen. 1. Win out .. duh this is a given. 2. Win convincingly ... Don't look like Mountain West teams are your equals. They can probably have a couple close wins but can't make a habit of it. 3. Pray the Ducks win the B1G... Yeah this one is going to be the hardest for Beaver fans. But if Oregon wins the B1G then they am an say their only loss is to probably the No. 2 team in the country. And then they'll have to hope and pray that the committee doesn't have anyone else deemed more worthy or they pity them enough. Then and only then does OSU get like the 12th spot and the honor of getting demolished by a B1G or SEC team in the first round of the playoff.

Overall... Not too bad. So far Oregon has played winning programs. Even FCS Idaho holds a win over Wyoming a G5 school. Oregon State has a win over Purdue a P4 or P2 school. Granted not a good one but it was a one sided win. These were some good training games to get the season rolling. This week we face our first team with a losing record in UCLA!

I'll be honest... I just stay at home. Though I've seen games atamy pubs, but never made a mission to go there and watch a game. It's been non Oregon games I've seen part of while out. Fire on the Mountain has some decent table seating for it and Breakside Brewpub has decent TV placement. Both have good food. Both are also in NE Portland.

And to anyone to said because we're in the B1G now we'll never have late night games. Yeah... We're getting late night games when we aren't playing on the east coast and we aren't playing against too teams. Boise State didn't start until 7:30 two weeks ago. This isn't going to change but it will be a bit less frequent. We'll have another late start the following week because it's a Friday game against Michigan State on the West Coast.

In this regard I think we're better suited for the B1G. The problem with Pac-12 refs (among many problems) is that they tended to not let players play through a play and we're flag happy. This got us into trouble when he had refs from other conferences because our guys weren't physical enough and it had less to do about physicallity and more to do with how refs called penalties. If you get flagged for any contact as pass interference you're less likely to engage and battle it out with a receiver. Oregon had a lot of these overly aggressive flags the past few seasons that we frankly haven't seen this year.

I'd say that if they were playing an old pac-12 slate but against mountain West teams... I can see 7-8 wins.

I do believe this Oregon State team and Trent Bray will win a good amount of games. But I never said they'd be fun or interesting.

Stanford won last night against Syracuse. I still find myself backing the old-pac. But of course minus USC and Washington. I wouldn't mind if those two went 0-12 every year.

By November... I think so. Oregon should have a full set of offensive linemen and a fully cooking offense by then. Which should allow Oregon to establish a run game of their own anf put up more points than USC. USC has some good linemen but no depth. Oregon's defense is deeper and more talented than USC's and by November should be functioning at a high level. Stopping the run and taking away the pass. I think Oregon matches up fairly well. Granted last year i thought we would have matched up well against Michigan but we were poor against Washington so didn't get our shot.

I'd agree with that now. They probably won't officially rename it at this point. If they renamed it when they said they would we'd probably use both names.