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I still say the SEC produces the national champion this year. They’ll find a way.

He transferred to a conference with better defenses, but worse QB’s (especially his).

It struck me that I have not heard much about Dont’e Thornton since he transferred to Tennessee. I remember being disappointed that we lost him and because I thought he would start opposite Troy Franklin and really make his mark this season. However, I also understood that he would be closer to his home in MD. Well, I looked up his stats and matched them with his two replacements (Holden and Bryant) and here are the results. (Note: I didn’t add Tez because he replaced Hutson, but he’s 15 for 203 yards, 3 TD’s). I think DL found some pretty good talent in the portal. Thornton - 7 for 89 yards, 0 TD’s Holden - 11 for 154 yards, 2 TD’s Bryant - 13 for 169 yards, 2 TD’s

It’s simple, but at least they’re wearing green helmets instead of the white ones they wore in 2021. Also, Beavis dropped their uni combo for the Utah game on Friday night. It looks like they’re going with the Halloween peanut butter saltwater taffy look again

Cool. I want to make a shirt that just says “Oregon” on the front and “Knowledge is Good……Emil Faber” on the back.

I was telling somebody earlier this week that this year’s fuskie team reminds me of the 2010 Ducks team because of how they seem to score at will. However, the 2010 Ducks offense was foiled by none other than…..Tosh Lupoi.

Washington hasn’t been tested yet this season and likely won’t be until the Ducks come to town. Their preseason schedule looked good on paper, but we’re finding out how underwhelming the BSU and MSU programs are. We both have what should be tune-up games this week. However, weird things can happen in Tucson and Palo Alto. At least they do when we show up. While uw has the advantage of their home field and the hype of College Gameday, Oregon has already been tested on the road in a hostile environment as well as having a huge hyped up week leading up to Colorado. My guess is uw opens up as a 2.5 point favorite.

I wish Casey would have struck a more animated Heisman pose. He did kind of run like the Galloping Ghost last Saturday.

I could see Oregon losing to Washington and then meeting them again in the PAC 12 CG if they only have one loss. If they beat them in Vegas then I could see 2 PAC 12 teams in the playoff. They could also put a one loss PAC 12 team in the playoff who doesn’t make it to Vegas. The loser of the CG would have to have 2 losses though. Bama has won the NC twice without being in the SECCG, so anything is possible.

Great article. An alternative title could’ve read “Buffs Brought Receipts, But Ducks Weren’t Accepting Returns”. Anyway, it was a good performance. I wish Hunter could’ve played, but truth be told, it wouldn’t have mattered. Their players were outplayed and their entire coaching staff was out-coached. This has nothing to do with any individual coach. If you watch the game and analyze the situational play calls on both sides of the ball you will see that Oregon completely out-schemed them. They were chasing the entire game. My only critique would be the penalties. They would have killed a couple of scoring drives against better competition. I also hope DL doesn’t get too used to fake punts inside our own 20.

Dan Lanning is taking a lot of heat for his pre-game and halftime comments. This video provides some context as to why he was so fired up as we all know that warm-ups happen before the pre-game speech. The national media got a hold of this video and wrote a piece on it. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

Oregon hasn’t decisively put away a ranked opponent since Mariota was QB. BYU and UCLA were looking promising last year but they both scored enough in the 2nd half to make things uncomfortable. Then, they blew a 21 point second half lead against the Beavers. During the Mario era they choked away potential huge blowouts against Stanford and Auburn and snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. 2016-17 should just be erased from memory. Finally, 2015 ended in the worst choke job in the history of bowl games. TBH, if I was a betting man, I wouldn’t count on the Ducks pounding a ranked team any time soon.

Keep in mind that Utah is at home and playing against a true Freshman QB. He’s really good, but he’s untested. Rice-Eccles isn’t a great place to make your PAC-12 debut as a visitor.

There are many factors that could lead to a close game or Ducks loss. The big one is a major injury and the others are caused by a a lack of focus and discipline(dropped passes, penalties, etc.). Both are mitigated by good coaching, depth at each position and a little luck.

You didn’t need to be a blue blood to do NIL back in the day.

Unfortunately, as long as they have Penix and their 3 stud WR’s they can beat anybody.

I don’t expect a blowout at all. I’ve seen what a team with an OK defense and great QB with a pedestrian OL can do to higher ranked teams. There were quite a few games Oregon had no business winning if not for Vernon Adams. In fact, the Buffs remind me a lot of that 2015 Ducks team. Lots of dynamic players but not great in the trenches.

I know it’s easy to pile on the guys that left Oregon, but Joe Moorehead didn’t do anything to develop our QB’s while he was here. One only needs to see the vast improvement in Tyler Shough at Tech and AB during the Ravens pre-season to figure that out. Dilly was great, but his focus was on Nix because they had rapport from a few years earlier. The bottom line is TT13 has had 3 OC/QBC’s in 3 years. He seems more comfortable under Stein. Hopefully he sticks around for a minute or two.

He’s a great story and all, but if DL and his staff could sign a couple of LB’s like Roquan Smith and Nakobe Dean that would be pretty nice.

They both have a few things in common. They’re both fairly new to D1 head coaching and both accomplished fishermen. DL likes to fly fish and if you skip to the 7:10 mark on his 60 Minutes interview you hear Deion say “I fish…and I’m fly while I fish”. Deion has actually won a celebrity bass tournament, so he can back up what he says.

And the PAC 2 wonders why everybody left for other conferences.

It’s a 10:00 MT kickoff in Boulder. That’s rough for both teams, but especially for USC. Sleeping in hotel beds, kickoff temps in the 50’s and a 9:00 PT start doesn’t make for optimal conditions. I can hear Trojan fans already…”Why does Oregon get the cushy time slot?!”

He’s apparently out for a few weeks due to a dirty hit against CSU. I would’ve like to see how Oregon did against him. Colorado's Travis Hunter exits after halftime, taken to hospital - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Colorado's Travis Hunter will likely miss "a few weeks" after leaving Saturday night's win over...

Lane might finally get a win against his “daddy” this year.

If he rolls into Oregon week with the “it’s personal” schtick then we’ll know for sure that he’s reaching. In my opinion, he won’t do that. He’s too smart. He knows people will see right through it and he doesn’t want to give the Autzen crowd a reason to be louder than they’re going to be. My guess is he will be very complimentary and call it a “business trip”.