Charles Fischer

Imagine if Poncho went down and we had to go back to the walk-on? Sucks for them...

Damn. Gee...I wonder why there isn't good officiating?

The Press Release just sent out! (Mr. FishDuck) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Oregon football team has officially clinched its spot in the 2024 Discover Big Ten Championship Game, set for Saturday, Dec. 7, at 5 p.m. PT at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Following a comprehensive evaluation of all possible scenarios over the final two weeks of regular season play across all 18 teams, the Big Ten Conference determined there are no conditions whereby the Ducks do not finish No. 1 or No. 2. A full rundown of tiebreaker scenarios from the Big Ten Conference is available here. Tickets are available now for the 2024 Big Ten Championship Game. Oregon’s bench location for the game will not be known until Sunday, Dec. 1. Until that time, fans will be able to secure their quantities within each of the assigned seating areas. Once Oregon’s bench is known, seats will be allocated in DAF priority point order, then by date of purchase order. The priority ordering deadline is Dec. 1. The No. 1 ranked Ducks (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) are one of three undefeated teams remaining in the country, and their win at Wisconsin last week completed a stretch of eight consecutive Big Ten Conference games in eight weeks. Oregon is on a bye this weekend before closing the regular season against Washington on Saturday, Nov. 30, in Autzen Stadium. The Ducks have clinched a spot in the title game in their first year in the Big Ten, and will play in a conference championship game for the seventh time in program history.

Strength of Schedule? Really? Thank you for posting this, as the real discussion begins at the end of the season. They can have a process, but do they follow it?

Their qualifications are not in question; their method of arriving at their results is. The objections are valid, and a good topic for us to discuss and alternate viewpoints are welcome as we all learn from each other.

Actually, the little birdie is a Duck...an Oregon site where this was posted yesterday, but I always delay because those folks over there pay for the rapid inside information. Since our game is not for a week and a half, and I wish to be honorable in the transmission of this--it makes sense to delay it one day, and I am sorry to all of you for that. Tez Johnson is "iffy" for Washington at this moment, but available for the B1G Championship, for certain. He may have an Oregon uniform on for the 30th, and I'd love to see him against the Huskies to knock the rust off before taking on (probably) the Buckeyes again. A game-time decision... Marcus Harper will be back for the Huskies. Whether he starts or not is unknown, but he will be playing and that is good news. ( BTW, I thought luli played decent as a starter, a little better than Rogers.) Jordan James is fine, (obviously) but really needs the healing time this bye will give him. Ja'maree Caldwell will be ready for Washington, but the guy in the middle of all the double-team blocks, hitting and piles really needs this rest time as well. Jordan Burch is going to be back on the field at Autzen to play the Bastard-Huskies! A TON of GOOD NEWS there! Burch is a superb force defender on the perimeter...

Jake Dickert "They would have left us as fast as we would have left them.” So there is....

Poor Oregon State fans, let me wipe my tears... ...it is SO SAD!

I saw that described in an article, and it would certainly get us to a 16 team Playoff faster!

They have one win over a ranked opponent in Penn State.

I am OK with another B1G team in our bracket, unless it is a team we have to play for the third time. Remember....if Oregon loses the B1G Championship...we quite likely will be the No. 5 Seed in their demented bracket, and again...we would play Ohio State for the third time when meeting in the Playoff. This is SO...

In the end...."The B1G got Oregon, and three Fresno States."

Precisely my point; we should NOT be in the same bracket, because even if Ohio State loses to Oregon in the B1G Championship...they will probably get the No. 5 Seed and are in our Playoff Bracket. Oregon playing who everyone recognizes as the No. 2 team in the nation, three fricken times?

Yep!

How about THIS!

These are parts of an article on The Athletic by Scott Dochterman that makes you ponder and bask on what is occurring that much further... ----------------------- Welcome to the Big Ten? No. 1 Oregon is on the Verge of a Rare Feat: Acing Its Initiation Over the last quarter-century, no team has waltzed into one of college football’s power conferences as a new member, beaten the league’s heavyweights and walked out undefeated in its debut season. That is, until the Ducks this year. Top-ranked Oregon (11-0, 8-0) is one victory shy of completing a spotless regular season in its first Big Ten campaign. No realignment newcomer has even approached that mark in the last three decades, especially not in the current era of super-sized conferences. Oregon’s 16-13 win at Wisconsin on Saturday night symbolized a season’s worth of resolve that often has gone unnoticed, due to the program’s high expectations and the decentralized intrigue of the expanded College Football Playoff. Oregon has handled its Big Ten initiation better than any other program. As one of four former Pac-12 teams joining the league this year, Oregon has brought a program in no way defined by finesse or fragility, common put-downs directed at West Coast contenders by fans within the traditional Big Ten footprint. It outrushed Ohio State and its pair of NFL running backs. It pounded defending national champion Michigan 38-17, holding the Wolverines to 270 total yards. It faced a ranked squad in Illinois (now 7-3 and back in the Top 25) and built a 35-3 halftime lead into a 38-9 win. And Saturday, Oregon proved its mettle in one of the Big Ten’s most intimidating environments. Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has a different energy at night, especially compared to those sleepy 11 a.m. kickoffs. The Badgers may not be considered Big Ten contenders, but they were fired up. They forced a red-zone turnover early and led 13-6 in the third quarter, setting the stage for a monumental upset and a signature win for second-year Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell. There are countless examples of championship-caliber Big Ten teams fading in those situations. But not Oregon, not this time. So, how unprecedented would it be if Oregon’s ran the table in its Big Ten debut? Not since Florida State in 1992 has a power-conference newcomer finished its inaugural campaign unbeaten. So, what Oregon has done is both unprecedented and underrated. As Big Ten eyes fixate on Indiana’s incredible rise and the unbeaten Hoosiers’ showdown with Ohio State, the Ducks keep winning. While the rest of the nation discusses which SEC team could get left out of the Playoff, the Ducks quietly dismantle their opponents. Hypothetical Big Ten championship game tiebreakers are worthwhile mid-November banter, but none of them apply to Oregon because it hasn’t lost. ----------------------------------------------------

My Duck-Buddies, this moderating is harder than it looks. I have become sensitive to what people write in order to preserve our GREEN REFUGE, and it has been brought to my attention by an OBD member, and by JabbaNoBargain in an email that I misread his post, No. 30 in this thread. I thought he was throwing shade on OBD members who disagreed with him, (Post No. 31) but he was actually throwing shade on the Playoff committee of which is not a violation because it is his opinion on a topic is all. So I made that mistake, and made another mistake of pointing it out in public. Usually I do it in private via email, and then people correct me if I misread it. I did an ill-advised knee-jerk reaction to his post, and did it publicly, which is not my usual protocol. So I wish to publicly apologize to JabbaNoBargain, as he did nothing wrong, and should not have been placed in an embarrassing position due to my evening mental feebleness. I am sorry to him for this episode, as geez...I really messed up. What he wrote was a normal opinion given by all of us on topics, and he did not deserve that. I also wish to apologize to all of you for having to see those posts, read this post, and cringe to them all. Once in a while I forget my own rules, and blow it. Just as I give violation offenders second chances, I hope JabbaNoBargain and all of you will do the same. When I mess-up, I will own it and apologize. (I just wish I did not have to do it every year!) My thanks for your patience and JabbaNoBargain's patience with this, and now let's move forward following a magical Oregon football season. Charles Fischer ------------------------------------------------------------------- So let me see if I got this right....both the AP and Coaches poll rank Oregon the No. 1 team in the nation, and rank Ohio State as the No. 2 team in CFB...right? Normally, when you set up a bracket, you have the No. 1 seed on one side and the No. 2 seed on the other side....unless you have this new system that they are bound to no matter what? Right now the projections show that Ohio State and Oregon meet in the Semi-Finals for probably the third time this season because Oregon is the conference champion. The Buckeyes are the best team who not a conference champion, thus an automatic No. 5 Seed and in our bracket? That sets up the SEC....again.

MicroBurst61,,,,since you made a plea against the process used by media in politics...your post remains, and I thank you for your careful wording of it. Whether people agree or disagree with your contention--it is a valid opinion to offer, just as a contrary one would be. But rather than debate the "model" ESPN uses to shamelessly promote the SEC, we can just acknowledge the obvious bias and move on. Let's stay on sports, even if topic is in a very oblique fashion referring to the "the topic that shall not be named." (Because it creates more work for me)

The FishDuck Photographer hired for the game told me that the game atmosphere was electric, as both the crowd and the Badgers were primed for an upset. Tough place to play, and if they had a good QB... And as Canzano noted, "Oregon was fatigued, while Wisconsin was fresh."

If you like to watch Softball, WBBall and other sports...I think many will be on the B1G+ site, and thus the $8.50 per month might be worth it.