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Mario Cristobal is building something special at Oregon. He is taking a school that sits at the physical and metaphorical fringes of the College Football world and elevating it into a football power. Now, none of this would be possible without the prominent coaches who came before him: Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti, Chip Kelly, and Mark Helfrich. All these coaches ... Read the full article here...

The long wait is over. We are now barely a week away from Super Bowl 55, and we finally, know who will be playing for the Lombardi Trophy. The Conference Championships has concluded and left the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the last teams standing in their respective conference. After the Super Bowl contending teams have ... Read the full article here...

It was an impressive streak, to be sure. But as they say, all good things must come to an end. And so, no matter how many points the two NFL teams end up scoring in Super Bowl 55, one thing’s for certain: there won’t be any Oregon Duck alumni in either lineup alongside those two premier quarterbacks. For the first ... Read the full article here...

The short answer? No. Not yet… There is no doubt the Ducks are coming off a disappointing loss to the in-state rival Beavers and now have lost two of their last three games.. But at a closer look, both losses could have been easily predicted. First, the loss at Colorado, where the Ducks haven’t won in the Dana Altman era. ... Read the full article here...

Now that we have a surface-level understanding of what Coach Tim DeRuyter’s defense will look like from my last article, lets’ take a deeper look at his base alignment. From the writings of the man himself, Coach DeRuyter prefers the 3-4 defense, and for good reason. Some of his personal reasons for using the alignment are that it gets better, ... Read the full article here...

It’s time to (finally) close the book on 2020 and see what the future holds for the Oregon Ducks, and that starts with recruiting. It’s no secret that Mario Cristobal is an ace recruiter, and he’s up to his usual tricks once again, putting a bow on what is shaping up to be Oregon’s best-ever class. Right now, the Ducks ... Read the full article here...

The Oregon Ducks have hired Coach Tim DeRuyter to fill their vacant defensive coordinator position. Coach DeRuyter has spent the last four seasons as DC for the California Golden Bears, where his defensive units have given the rest of the Pac-12 headaches. He took over what was the 127th nationally ranked scoring defense the year before he arrived in Berkeley, ... Read the full article here...