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I could see Georgia losing two more... No way they get in with 3 losses? Georgia Tech should have beat them last year aside from multiple awful calls that let them back into that game. GT is better this year, is playing at home, is playing for a CFP bid and has a chip on their shoulder from last year... Then if Georgia gets Bama in the SEC championship they could lose again...

Oregon 38-10 2 2 296

Ducks 31-10 1 TO 1 Sack 186 Air Yards

Oregon Ducks On SIThree Coaches Fired Weeks After Facing Oregon Ducks This...The No. 8 Oregon Ducks' 2025 regular season is more than halfway over, as Oregon prepares to travel out East for their first ever game against the Rutgers Scarl

I think this post by a Penn State fan on the ON3 Penn State board summed it up well. To be honest, I think we are all a bit surprised by the emergence of young talent... I think the PSU coaches were just like me -- astounded by how good Oregon was. They lost most of their team from last year. They had true freshmen starting all over the place. Their QB had only started 5 games (Allar had started 43 games). By the third quarter it was obvious to me that Oregon's offensive line was better than ours, their defensive line was better than ours, their wide receivers and tight ends were better than ours, their DBs and linebackers were about as good as ours, and their QB was much better than our QB. Since Oregon is so young they will be even better when the play Ohio State for the Big10 championship. Luckily we don't play Oregon next year. I think the coaches were married to the idea that we ran the ball at will against them last year, so this year we should be able to easily run the ball. When that didn't happen the coaches were perplexed for 3 quarters and didn't adjust the game plan. However, I don't see any mention of them seeing us as rivals, if anything James Franklin is their "rival" right now...

I think we also can clearly see why Makhi Hughes isn't getting reps. He didn't suit up either, which means he's likely going to transfer again. Four games is the limit to maintain eligibility correct?

Got to love ESPN. 6 of 12 from the SEC… Texas - not top 15 even… LSU - beat two power 4 teams with losing records Tennessee actually went up because of a close loss… wow ESPN.comProjecting the CFP top 12 after Week 3We assess how the committee could stack the top teams in the country after Week 3.

Ok. Apologies on the mischaracterization, Northwestern and Okie State are still part of a Power 4 conference and as crappy as they are, they are still in a conference at a different level than CUSA, CAA and the MWC. It just seems like Penn State will have had lesser competition and fewer games to get right against.

I would argue it's almost all tied to Penn State prep. By Sep 27, Oregon will have played 4 games, 3 against Power 5 opponents (counting the Beavers). Penn State will have only played 3 games and none against Power 5 programs. Penn State also has a bye before Oregon, so twice as much time to prep. Thus it makes sense for Stein to give them way too much to digest, open up the playbook, provide multiple looks and cause them to prep for the "wrong" things. I honestly don't think a bye this early in the season is an advantage, after this week's game against Villanova, they don't have another game to work out the kinks with their new DC and coaches and players (and Drew Allar), I think that hurts PSU. Penn State will have only played Nevada, FIU and Villanova. What are your thoughts? Is a bye an advantage after only playing 3 lower tier teams?

Even more surprising is Washington is #4 on the list of 101, and Sadiq is #11. I think Washington is higher than Burch was last year. His stats are stupid... 6'3" and 338lbs; To be that massive and clock 20.89 mph and vertical jump 36 inches is mind-blowing. Washington squatted 755 pounds, bench pressed 475 and power cleaned 385. He’s coming off a season in which he had 10 tackles and 1.5 TFLs.' Wow, I'm excited to watch him...

Here we go again... Not a single site has him as a four star. Hilarious how you lose a star when you're leaning towards Oregon. EssentiallySportsDan Lanning Receives Huge Update on 4-star Tyler Atkinson...Dan Lanning would be eagerly waiting for Tyler Atkinson's commitment to know where the 4-star recruit is going.

So true. So many worthless articles right now, (I still click them) but wow are some bad. I won't post the link so you don't waste your time, but this was an article from a few days ago that never presented any data or the two things that were bringing stormy skies... This was the clickbait title; Dan Lanning faces stormy skies as Oregon’s CFP dreams falter amid double blow reality check

Welp. Dang. No reason they shouldn’t be a top end program and honestly no reason they shouldn’t beat Oregon and tOSU.

For Penn State to be top 5 and stay top 5, they have to have better receivers. Who replaces Warren? their WRs last year were abysmal, Harrison Wallace was salvageable, but that's all they have returning (aside from Evans who had 3 catches their last 4 games) unless they brought in new talent from the portal? That seems like a glaring weakness to me especially when Drew Allar is only an OK to good QB...

I agree, Freeman, Sarkisian and Lanning all were signed as HCs the same year. Now Sarkisian did have his failed years at USC and Washington, but I don't get the "longevity" excuse. My assumption is its more recency bias since ND and Texas made in farther in the CFP than Oregon... Oh well, not that this really matters.