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I think the Ducks cover or at least come close. Buffs are not sneaking up on anyone now for one. The last two weeks their competition has not been great and they have not exactly smoked teams they should have. While they have some dynamic play makers, Oregon is a step up on a talent level that I'm not sure Colorado is ready for. That will lead to mistakes and they already made plenty against CSU. If Oregon takes advantage of those mistakes it could get ugly, early. I also don't think they have faced an offense with the combination of ability to pound you with the run and explosive passing game that Oregon has. But honestly every offense they have played against so far has looked explosive, maybe a comment on the Colorado defense.

Yeah, if an alien arrived here and watched college football knowing nothing else but how the teams were playing, would they believe that the PAC is the conference that is in its last season? It's not much of a stretch now to say the PAC is the best football conference in the country this year. How ironic.

Am I being too critical, I know we scored 24 in the first quarter, but it seems a lot of the offense is dink and dunk, nickel and dime. It's like we're trying to take 3 or 4 downs to get a first down. Of course then we pull off a 40 yard pass or 20 yard run. Never mind.

Bulletin board material, sure. Making a big difference in how the game plays out, no. This statement was about the CO past. A lot of those players aren't around anymore. Lots of new guys, who are looking pretty good so far. Sanders and these players realize that what Lanning said was true. I count (not very hard) one winning season since 2011. This is a feast for the fans though! If Colorado were to pull off the upset? Oh my! Lanning, but even more so Duck fans, would never hear the end of it. Well at least not until next year when the two teams probably don't play each other for a while.

Oregon 65 Hawaii 13 3 TOs 6 sacks 312 passing (340 rushing)

yeah, most of the responses to this tweet are laughing faces and he hasn't responded. I can certainly understand the MSU guys being impressed with DL, but he is totally out of his mind with the idea that MSU has greater resources to work with that would 10X DL's effectiveness. 🤣 Guy's a crackpot.

Ducks 45-24 3 TOs 1 Sack Many more pressures 272 passing yards (255 rushing as ducks continue a balanced attack)

Yes, obvious MVP of the game, the Duck! What a performance!

Yeah, I missed a few things I wanted to see because of that, but on the good side, I'm watching the Ducks now on the PAC channel when it isn't part of my package. Shhh....

So far Ty is looking like he belongs. Give him some run with top weapons before going 2nd and 3rd string guys with him.

Yeah, you don't need to run Bo in this one, so don't risk it. We don't need to run him much later either, just enough that the defense has to be aware of it.

Poor Duck, the mascot trainer (I guess) asked (at least reading her lips), "Are you okay?" And it's just the first half. After the touch down drive by PSU early I was a little concerned with the defense, not that the Ducks would win, but that kind of defense is going to give up a lot of points against most PAC teams. But they settled down. I know the competition is not great, but laying 50 on someone in a half is impressive anyway. Now get a lot of play for those down on the depth chart, get them some experience.

How about BOciferous? More toward the general idea of the thread. How ironic would it be if a PAC Team (hopefully the Ducks) won the NC in the last year of the conference? Maybe in football and basketball.

yeah, I know you can't judge a conference by one half of football, but the first half of Minnesota and Nebraska is horrible. If this is B1G football, the B now stands for BORING. I know this is not the top of the conference, but even the mediocre teams in the PAC are much more exciting to watch than this.

Riley's track record says he seldom has a really good defense even when he has the players. His teams score a ton of points, if their opponent only scores 3/4 of a ton of points they win and they're happy! They're O line is also questionable as flintstone said, but Williams can make an awful offensive line irrelevant, he's most effect when you flush him out of the pocket and he's running for his life. The trick is to keep him there while getting enough pressure to bother him. Bottom line for me is if you can keep their offense from going totally crazy and your offense is at least competent you have a chance to win. Warning, Riley has won a lot of games with a not so good defense.

I'm not sure about now, but SFA had a huge infusion of money that allowed to recruit a lot of good players, but I'm not sure how good their coaching is. I've been to their basketball games, excellent coaching there, but I'm not sure about football. So, I'm not sure if MVB is getting good coaching. On another subject, someone mentioned SFA playing Mater Dei. Mater Dei got trounced Friday night by Carlsbad and most of the game wasn't as close as the 48-14 final score. Hasn't Oregon been recruiting some players from Mater Dei (or is that another Mater Dei). No one on that team looked like someone I would want.

There is no playing Georgia in Atlanta the first game of a new coach this year. The two losses after that were by a total of 7 points. The offense may be better than last year, if the line is anywhere near as good as last year (the talent is there, maybe not the chemistry). So, if the defense is a little better, 7 points better, this team could be undefeated. Burch (and Matayo) improve the line. I believe the linebackers will be better (playing Lanning's system) than last year. The DB probably will be better. Not saying this team will be undefeated, and there are no question marks, but it's not far fetched to say they can be very, very good.

Yeah, I was excited about the players MC was bringing in at first. On paper these were great classes. Then the results just didn't match the level of talent coming. I've come to realize he was recruiting great players for someone else's system or maybe he just didn't know what to do with great players. Lanning's tendency to recruit to the system, maybe even leading him here and there to recruit a lesser rated player who fits better, I believe will serve Oregon football well. It is what Oregon has always done well. Now we get both the players that fit and the highly rated players (often in the same person). That will make for exciting football.

With all the questions around the PAC, and any (if there actually was) questions about Lanning, I would have understood if some players had decommitted. That there wasn't mass exodus, or even a small one is a credit to the staff. Joining the B1G will help, but maybe not right away. I think the future holds consistent top 5 recruiting years. Now that things are more settled, there may be a flip or two.

Yeah, had a friend from Levelland, TX (just west of Lubbock) many years ago. She said there is a reason they call it "level" land.

Thanks Charles, working great!

My fear, and almost my hope, is that they are destroying the very product they are messing up for the rest of us. FOX and ESPN will sing another tune if most (or at least a significant number) of us just stop watching. Then their media markets won't mean anything.

Hope we see a few more like that in years to come!

The PAC teams will definitely be a breath of fresh air in the stuffy ol' B1G. I'm very sad for what is happening to the PAC, but hopeful the Ducks will continue to be the innovative creators of exciting football they have been for decades now (well maybe minus the Mario years). Go Ducks!

If Oregon goes to the B1G, along with UW, I would also like to see the B1G make a play for Utah and Stanford. This would be 6 solid west coast programs in a 20 team conference. It may even make the western division of the B1G it's best division, at least in football. From a media point of view this also adds Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Man it is hard to start looking for things that would make the B1G a better conference! I have never liked the Big Slow and Ugly Conference, even though I live in Ohio now. Bringing in the West Coast will help this conference greatly.