Desert Duck

Gang Green gave up an average of 19 ppg. And they were awesome.

One thing that I statistically like about playing UW & CU is that for both teams, about 80% of their offense comes from passing... making them much more one dimensional. Whereas Oregon is extremely well balanced at about a 60/40 passing to rushing attack... and yet, even with that kind of balance, Bo is still putting up exceptional numbers. If our defense can continue to get pressure on the QB and disrupt his rhythm like we did against CU & Stanford, I really like our chances.

I had to take a look at our @ Fuskyland record since 2013. You are correct. @ Fuskyland has been quite good to Oregon as of late. Ducks have gone 4-1 up there since 2013.

"Against CU, starters didn't play the final quarter and a half. Against stanford, the starters didn't play the first quarter and a half." Okay... that's just flat out damn funny.

10-1 these will come out for the Civil War, as we dispose of, and say goodbye to, the River-Rats.

On paper right now, I think Oregon is the better team. For me, the wild card is Husky Stadium and the loud & wild crowd that will be there. Husky Stadium, when rocking like it will be, could be the "it" factor. But if Oregon can handle the noise, block out the hype leading up to the game, and play focused for a full 60 minutes (meaning, not spot the Huskies the first 20 minutes of the game like we did with Stanford), Oregon wins this game.

Hopefully, yesterday was a harbinger of things to comes as we were signicantly better with only 2 penalties for 20 yards.

"College Football Week 5 Highlights: Top Plays, Games, Takeaways" Absolutely less than zero respect or props provided to Oregon in this ESPN piece. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/gamedayfinal093023/college-football-week-5-highlights-top-plays-games-takeaways-2023 Fortunately, in 13 days, Oregon has the perfect opportunity to change this.

Brief, succinct, and right on.

For the record, I can't stand Williams as much as the next guy, but I can still state the truth and data driven facts -- which is that he is wayyy beyond just "good." This does not in any remote way detract from the fact that Bo is also arguably one of the Top-3 QBs in all of NCAA football this season. And this season we just happen to be talking about one of the best classes of QBs in college football history. Not to mention that Bo is an exceptional person as evidenced by the life he leads. And I don't know anyone who would put the Heisman over team wins... including Riley. With that being said, this Duck team is very-very special and may just have the ability to do something none of us have ever seen an Oregon team do. GO DUCKS!

After seeing what Colorado just did to USC, I'm absolutely beginning to believe. It took Colorado 58 minutes before they put up any points against the Ducks, and that was obviously against our 2nd, 3rd, and other team guys (immediately followed by our special teams saying, "screw that," and blocked the PAT). Yesterday, apparently just to make things a bit more fair or something, we kindly gave Stanford a 20 minute head start, and our defense nevertheless allowed no TDs. All while the Oregon Lumber went on to drop 42 unanswered points on the Palm Trees. So yeah... I'm seriously buying in at this point.

While it was rather nice of the Ducks to spot Stanford the first 1/3 of the game (basically, the first 20 minutes), I really hope we don't try that again this year with anyone else.

They were on Cardinal receives like stink on poo all night. It they bring that kind of play to Seattle, it should be a fun day in the Puget Sound. Ps. I think you won the prediction contest.

With 4:15 to go, time of possession seems amazing to me: Oregon - 20:09 Tree - 35:36

After seemingly sleepwalking through the 1st quarter, it's basically been all Ducks. But let's hope we don't show up like that next week in Seattle, because that would not at all be rewarded.

Let's be honest here... Williams may likely be one of those rare, unicorn like, generational guys. And they didn't feed him to bump his stats today. He was in there until the end of the game because CU just would not "go away gentle into that good night." SC, unlike Oregon last week, needed Williams in there until the very end... which speaks very well for Oregon. And I'd suggest that our own coach, who put on a "Bo-Dacious" tee-shirt for a post game interview, is promoting Bo as much Riley is promoting Williams. And IMHO, there's not a thing wrong with that.

Great stuff here from Canzano.

It's time to lay down some Oregon Lumber on the Trees.

For me, the Buffs may have just stepped off the hype train. Hype doesn't put up 41 points, even on an overrated USC squad.

I'm just downright impressed with the Buffs response today, especially given the merciless abuse we joyfully laid down on them last week. That appears to be one resilient Colorado team. And USC is gonna lose some games this season. In 2 weeks they're @ Notre Dame, then they've got Utah, and wrap the season up with UW, @ Oregon, & UCLA.

Or, if Colorado coaches hadn't screwed their team over on that last offensive series by blowing at least 2+ minutes off the clock.

How Cows! I don't care what the actual outcome ends up being, hands down, this is a Colorado win.

Exactly. And even with our 2nd and 3rd D in, Colorado didn't score until there was less than 3 minutes to go in the game.

Fox Announcer: "That USC defense is just rock solid." I believe that he's referring to the same defense that with 10 minutes to go in the game, has given up nearly 500 yards to Colorado. And Colorado currently has more total yards than USC.

LOL. I hope you don't mind, but I'm flat out stealing this line 😉