David Marsh

Same thing went in the Pac-12. Lanning has a couple losses that should have been wins in year one that proved you don't underestimate an opponent. I think the Beaver win in 2022 will go down as their last significant win in program history.

I have confidence that that won't happen and here's why. Lanning has done a fantastic job focusing his teams. Last year after losing to Washington the Ducks went out there and disposed of opponents for the rest of the season. Sure that was a loss and not a major win but it was a close game with a ton of emotion. Lanning got his team focused and set on the next game. I feel he will do the same against Purdue next week. Sure it's Purdue but we have to travel a couple time zones to meet them though I do think it's easier for West Coast teams to go east than vice versa. Game starts at 5pm PST and we've had plenty of late starts this year. No biggie. Ohio State started a game at what 7:30 their body time last night and they rarely start anything that late even at home. Now for my second big thought ... Jalen DeBoer I think is one of the best big game planners in the country. He's fantastic at it and the only thing that stopped him last year was getting smacked by a Michigan wall and defense that wouldn't let me do what he wanted. DeBoer put on a master class of a first half against Georgia. He hung on for deer life at the end of that one but won it. His game plan was disrupted by Georgia's second half adjustments and he couldn't do what he wanted and it almost completely fell apart. With that aside... DeBoer failed last year to motivate his team after a big win just like this year. Last year Washington played a bottom of the conference ASU team the week after a huge Oregon win. They should have lost that game if it wasn't for some incredibly generous rules interpretation from the refs. Seriously that was one of the worst officiated games I've ever seen. This year... The hangover was real again against what was supposed to be Vanderbilt and not an intimidating team. They were beaten. DeBoer doesn't really change his name plan for lesser opponents and he lets them sneak up and bite him. Last year they Huskies survived by one score games more often than not. But when it was time to get ready to play Oregon... DeBoer had a solid game plan against the Ducks. I felt Lanning learned more from last year than DeBoer did and I feel Lanning is going to get this team ready to tear Purdue apart in a show of dominance that we own the B1G now.

This is going to be big each year that passes. If Bama drops another game this year I'm not going to say their recruiting class will crumble but the 2026 class might be a whole lot more difficult to put together.

I think the QB contact was due to the whistle blowing and Ohio State players stopping what they were doing.

Oregon STILL has yet to play a complete game!

I think Fisch is doing better than expected... Not by Husky standards but their expectation is 12-0 every year. Washington has a completely depleted roster and are a full rebuild. Fisch also arrived very late in the recruiting cycle so his first actual recruiting year is this year. So we'll have to wait and see on them. But Oregon should destroy them this year.

And it's because of these two losses that we're in the B1G. Neither would be at the bottom of this year's Pac-12. Granted if the Pac-12 was around this year it'd be garbage. Well two of them are around this year and their pretty bad.

We also have a WIN streak against Ohio State! We've won the last two games! Though to be honest... I think I rather play Penn State for the B1G championship game but I think we'll see Ohio State again real soon.

I don't think this type of play is a dead ball foul. I think it's like off sides that let's the play go and let's the offense choose which result they want. The fact that Lanning called a time out before puttinng 12 players on the field is what kinda indicates this may have been intentional. At this point in the game with field position where it was the trade off for time for yards was certainly a good one.

I mean... We play an LA school and it's all about how great USC or UCLA is is and how the Ducks should just be thankful for being invited. New conference and a new set of bias in opposition to the Ducks. Watching the B1G final drive show... It still feels like the narrative is that Oregon was lucky. Sure we had some luck but we also played our butts off.

Fun Stat... Ryan Day is 0-2 against Oregon. Only HC at Ohio State to lose to Oregon... Let alone twice. Chip Kelly is 0-5 against Oregon since he left. 0-4 as a HC and 0-1 as an OC. Love ya Chip but take this L and get out of here!

Did Lanning intentionally take a time out to then put too many players on the field? It's 5 yards but it stops Ohio State from getting an easier chunk of yardage. It looks potentially intentional... And if it was that is next level. 6 seconds left on the clock was only enough time to throw a quick pass and a time out to then kick it for a long field goal. Instead OSU killed the clock and gave us the win.

At least 3 false starts for Ohio State were caused by the noise.

I dared to hope... But I didn't believe until the very end. And then my toddler and I turned on Shout and had a good living room dance.

Ohio State isn't giving much underneath... But we can go over it!

Gotta review that Oregon play...

B1G officials aren't big on calling penalties for PI or holding. We're former Pac-12 fans. We are used to the refs throwing a flag of the defender breathes funny on a receiver. There should be a happy middle ground between the two... But there isn't..

And Ohio State fans were saying all week that Autzen is too small to be truly loud.

I guess if we keep taking the ball away from them the refs will eventually have to take a look.

Remember folks... This is NOT an elimination game. We just all want to see better effort out of the Ducks right now..

Even with the guards were available I doubt we'd see them. They'll need a good amount of practice time before they'll be ready.

Penn State's offense looks bad.

Another side eluded that it was not the news we want. This might throw the Ohio State game plan off too. We just need some other guys to step up.

Don't worry folks... When Oregon wins a close one we go down the rankings. When Bama wins a close one they'll probably go up!

Pretty sure that one's over.