David Marsh

The Lanning v Day in terms of coaching and motivation is just night and day (ha ha pun!). During the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry game how do you think Day spent half time? I seriously doubt it was spent taking a sledge hammer to a Michigan helmet. Meanwhile... Lanning absolutely took a sledge hammer to a Washington helmet while Boettcher was walking around with a bat. If you haven't seen this week's Ducks vs Them you should. Lanning motivates and keeps his players focused on the execution. Ohio State looked listless out there.

Shockingly people don't actually use spell check. As a high school teacher I have sadly needed to make it an explicit requirement for students to resolve all the red squiggles and use the spell check. Sure they still might pick the wrong word... But it's still better than the alternative.

I wouldn't say phoning it in. But taking care of business and winning in a year full of extreme drama and chaos is kinda boring. Hey look everyone... Oregon won again. They did it the same way they did last week with a solid performance from DG and James ran from around 100 yards. The defense kept the opponent's score low. It's called consistency. It's not exciting but it wins games.

These numbers show that the Oregon collective is just bringing in 10 mil and that comes in at No. 20. It fits as it sounds Oregon is often not the highest bidder but they know how to be competitive with their offers. The Reality of NIL in CFB Recruiting Today | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Dan Lanning and Oregon have been on an absolute tear these last few weeks. It has delightfully resulted in... Oh and hey... I wrote something back last summer talking how a competitive NIL offer only allows coaches to START recruiting. For many athletes want to know their worth is being taken seriously. For some they want the biggest paycheck possible and don't care where they end up but that is a minority by the looks of it.

There were a much healthier team that early in the season and were coming off a fairly recent bye. End of the season is when things get messy. I'm feeling even more thankful for our late bye than ever before.

I'd bet on Riggs for sure.

My issue is less about the Comittee, at least at this time, and more with the way the bracket is set up. The 5th seed is going to be a top 3 or 4 ranked team and they'll play the No. 12+ ranked team out the gate, as it will probably be the Big 12 Champion and then probably the No. 10 team in Boise State. It feels like Oregon should play the winner of No. 12+ and No. 10 and not a team ranked below us. This has been hashed out to death at this point. But it's a formatting problem and not a ranking problem.

I think Oregon achieves more of a Penn State beat down than their prediction. Oregon is built to beat B1G teams and I think they'll beat another one this Saturday. Can't wait! Also, Oregon is looking the healthiest they have almost all season. The offensive line looked really solid against Washington and Iuli is still starting which means the change to the offensive line is working. Hopefully we get Harper back soon.

"That Game Out West" Feels B1G appropriate "Cascade Clash" Brings in the Mountain range and makes it feel something PNW. But... does it need a trophy?

At the same time... they might let a 3 loss team in to the playoff only because they played in the SEC and managed to lose to bad or mediocre SEC teams. Alabama failed to score a touchdown at Oklahoma! So in some regards... counting Ws and Ls is the baseline but I'm not entirely sure they can do that.

Predictions already rolling in for Penn State to win this one. Feels normal for the year. Oregon looked far more put together this last game after the bye week. Let's see how that added rest continues to pay off.

Salt meet wound.

Oregon hasn't looked this healthy in some time. I love it.

Not going to lie... Family gatherings with the in laws will be better this year. I won't mention the win unless it comes up naturally. And it will come up naturally.

We'll have to see how the rankings shuffle out for the CFP and then see what comes of the final rankings as well. Right now it feels like there is a north v south bracket. And if they wanted to build a bracket that way that would be one thing. Kinda sucks that it's turning out that way by default.

If the Oregon defense plays like they have... Oh boy. Penn State is in for a bad day. Their offense is built on the B1G meta. Run the ball and control the line of scrimmage. Running the ball effectively will set up the passing game for some shots. But running the ball is the central point of the offense. Just need to keep doing what we've been doing.

The AP poll out today still puts Ohio State and now Penn State on the same side of the bracket as Oregon. Still not loving that idea. It feels like the No. 1 seed is by far the worst.

I'm feeling pretty good about our chances against Penn State. They follow the B1G meta and we're built to beat that meta game right now.

I remember Lanning shutting it down in year one. I think it's something the team has had to earn. I think there is some other surrounding culture built into it now too. Use it as part of an emotional energy boost to go into the 4th quarter but they need to use it as such. We saw Oregon su very Jump Around at UW (different than Uw) to use it to boost them into the 4th. It's not a party it's about coming together as a team.

If the loser of the ACC doesn't get in, I doubt Miami has a shot. The ACC and Big 12 conference championship losers will not be treated like those from the B1G or SEC. However, I think if SMU loses to Clemson they stand a remote chance of getting an invite regardless, though I suspect they might be the 12 seed at that point. One of two three loss teams, probably from the SEC, are going to sneak into this thing. I don't like it personally because they have 4 OOC wins that are pretty uninspired. Georgia and South Carolina, however, do have wins over Clemson which are at least decent. The bottom chunk of these rankings are going to be bonkers.

The Big 12 is such a weird conference. You put any of the Big 13 teams in the B1G or SEC and they'd be shredded. Though they'd probably beat up on the vast majority of the ACC for sure. Dilly has done an incredible job getting that program turned around on a dime. They are fun to watch and you can see why Lanning and Dilly got along so well... They both have a touch of the madness. Though Mad Man Kenny or Dilly doesn't have the same thing to it as Mad Man Dan. If he plays it right Dilly could own the Big 12 for years to come.

Since his days at FIU he has a winning record. I'd say he's a good coach. But there is a large gap between good and great. Cristobal will never learn to get out of his own way. However, this season it felt like he was doing so by letting his OC and Cam Ward do their thing. That offense was one of the best statistically in the country, against inferior competition granted. In the off season he will give his fans hope that they can put it all together. But come the season he will make some bone headed decisions and get burned for them and lose to teams his grossesly more talented roster has no business losing to. Like you I'm glad he's not at Oregon anymore. He certainly saved us a lot of time, money and agony. Miami can keep him. Cristobal reached his peak in 2019 with a Rose Bowl win and Pac-12 championship. He hasn't learned anything since then. He'll keep Miami in the playoff hunt for sure... But that will probably be it. At best reaching the playoff but not sniffing the Natty. His teams will have too much talent to be denied the hunt.

Andy and Ari on3 night show had a great mention of Oregon. Something a long the line of... "We should mention them because they keep dominating but yeah Oregon is a lock for the playoff." They moved on to the rest of the chaos.

Nope... They fired Mani Diez because they knew Cristobal was taking the job. There weren't any other candidates it wasn't a coaching search. It was major donars saying they'll get rid of Diez and pay Cristobal. Cristobal was hiring their own and a splash hire all in one go. He's not a bad coach... He just isn't a coach who will take them to the promised land.

Goes where? Pretty sure Lanning is only going to the B1G championship game at this point.