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Wow, coaching staff should be embarrassed by this game, we look completely confused on basically every play, our offense is so obvious, we have to throw the ball down the field, but we refused to even attempt other than one pass. We deserve to get blown out. Probably the worst display of football by supposedly the #1 team in a bowl game ever.

You can tell Altman thinks this team could be pretty special, we just beat a decent 9-2 Stanford team on the road while shooting only 6-22 from 3. Going to be a really telling stretch when at the start of the new year, Illinois, Maryland, and an Ohio St. team that just demolished Kentucky. Hopefully the football team wins and the fans come back fired up for the two games at home.

So say we all!

It really is too early for Oregon to have gained a reputation, but I think it's dangerous to start to become the team that is known to never develop QB talent. It'll become difficult over time if high school QBs know you won't have an actual opportunity to win the job due to the team always bringing other QBs in on big NIL deals. I'm not saying you don't bring in portal QBs, but you have to give these other guys a chance. Personally I don't think there is a QB out there right now that I would say we should give a bunch of money to instead of allowing Moore or Novastad the chance to stake their claim. Just depends on the market and the QBs you have in the program. Sometimes it will make sense, other times it won't. Pretty much exactly like the NFL, you adjust to the market and what you already have on the roster.

I think the B1G will go 1-2, Penn St. will get the W. Have a feeling Tennessee might take a lead early and the crowd will turn on the team, Day will falter in the face of adversity, and finally I don't know if Howard has it in him to come back against a really good Tennessee front line. Indiana will be more competitive than the first time they played a team with a heartbeat, but they won't have enough against I hate to admit it...a pretty good ND team. I actually think Notre Dame is pretty dang good and could make it to the final. SMU will be competitive, but I have a feeling Penn St. will take a lot of positive vibes from the title game. I'm sure it was disappointment for those players, but the offense really came through, and that has been the thing holding them back. Too much talent and at home. I'm also calling my shot saying Clemson will beat Texas. They have nothing to lose, and I see them playing really loose. I think Sark will stick with Ewers and it will end in tears for them.

I'm a bit different, I want Clemson to win, but I don't think I want to face tOSU, part of it is simply not wanting to engage with their fans once again, we've met enough in the post season, yes it would be nice to get revenge, but I want something new. Georgia I hope loses (sorry to our dawg fans here, still love you guys!), it would be nice to see the SEC get told that they aren't the best conference, that they were overrated, and it's a new day. I also don't want to see college football become a two league sport, I don't think it's good for the sport if the ACC and B12 become irrelevant, only way for this to happen is for them to prove it on the field with some upsets. In general I want great games, I want SMU, Clemson, Boise St, and Indiana to show that they deserved to be in the playoff, it will only help college football if these teams show that you have to respect teams such as them. If they get blown out then it will prove that teams like Bama should get in even if they are undeserving because of the brand and the conference they play in. I'm sure this might help Oregon at some point, but that doesn't mean it will be healthy for the sport.

It's too early to say, seems like players if they are good enough can find opportunities, you look at Matayo and Tuioti the last two years as examples of players who played early and have been extremely important, some other players are maybe on schedule but not quite ready. Receiver is the position where I wonder if we might begin to see some drop off in recruiting if those incoming players don't see a lot of success. All our best guys this year are transfers in that position. Dickey does not seem to be getting to where he needs to get to, and we've had numerous recent receivers transfer out after getting beaten out by incoming transfers. So we'll have to see how Moore and Wilson do.

The only thing that really makes me a bit concerned about this team is the rebounding, I think they have enough offense and defense to do a ton of damage this year, but the defensive rebounding is what might cause them some problems. If we could get consistent with this aspect then we'll be a top 3 team in league and I think a top 4 seed in the tourney with upside of a possible 2 seed. Looking at the next 5 games I could see Oregon pulling into it's matchup with Purdue at 15-2. They certainly have a good shot at 16-1 if they can get some of the guys out their shooting slumps. You do have to say that Barthelemy is probably not going to continue shooting 83% from three in away games. In general though the return to the mean for shooting averages would suggest that Oregon is due to start getting better shooting overall as a team from 3. Once this happens, I hope they'll remain committed to pounding it inside with Bittle, Angel, and Cook. Our bread and butter should be getting to the basket, that's what our strength is I think.

I'll be honest, I actually have appreciated this break so far, I like being able to begin to take in other sports, I always feel bad for these other teams that get so little attention since the fanbase seems to be only about football a lot of the time, just look at basketball and volleyball attendance compared to some of the universities back east. I'm also a sports nut who follows multiple teams in different sports...so I have Liverpool FC to watch right now on weekends, I've got movies to get caught up on, I really enjoy watching the basketball team this year. The wait time is a pretty normal amount, it's no different than most bowl games, so it doesn't seem strange in any way.

I get what you mean, but Okie St. just went 0-9 in a very mediocre conference, this is not the cowboys of past years. Overall it's a very very easy schedule, a bit like Texas this year. Penn St. in a whiteout will be quite the tough trip, but we should be favored in every other matchup.

Sounds like a good fit, we'll also have two redshirt freshman who might be ready to contribute, along with another frosh in Ploog. 5 TEs should be enough for next year I would think, I'm sure they wouldn't turn down one more though.

Like... I don't really have a problem predicting that game, I mean, yeah, I could see that happening, Texas is a good team, Georgia is a good team, but in no way would that be the "best" matchup. What does that even mean? Is it the most intriguing matchup? No because one team has already won twice. Is it the most exciting matchup? No, because neither side has shown much in the way of offense, and the last game was dud when it comes to actual play. Does it bring some sort of history to the matchup? No, because there isn't really any connection to the two programs other than they played twice this season. The best matchup is probably Oregon-Georgia. It has the Lanning-Smart connection, Oregon is an exciting offense against a very good defense, SEC vs. B1G, most dominant program of the last few years vs. the team that has looked the best for most of the season.

Nah, college students will do what college students want to do, we stormed the field against tOSU like we were some unranked team. I doubt we will not storm the court if something similar happens.

UCLA's a good team, that won't be a bad loss last in the season, Cronin is one of the better coaches out there, he'll get his guys to 20 wins I think.

We got the call on the goaltending against Bama so I'll just see this as karma, we probably deserved to lose one of these games where we got down and then had to fight our way back. We continue to play incredibly well in crunch time. Not really bothered at all by this loss, UCLA basically played their best game of the season, shot better than have the entire season, and won on a banked in 3, it happens. Still think we're poised for a top 4 seed type season. Bamba who has been one of our better players basically did nothing in this game, and we still should have won if it wasn't for a fluky shot. Bittle and Shelstad shot better, Barthelemey might be the best backup guard in the nation, Angel is incredibly productive, just an incredibly balanced team who will be trouble for everyone this season. We do need to rebound better, that's probably the one thing that I really think we might be lacking, other than Bittle we don't have great rebounders, Angel has been pretty weak as a rebounder in his career for being 6'9.

He's been awful forever, it's not just that he always seems to have a rooting interest, it's that he's just plain wrong a lot, he adds nothing in terms of analysis, Nessler is awful as well. If I'm the SEC I'm delighted that they traded Nessler/ Danielson for Fowler/Herbstreit.

I do have to say, I think we got a bit lucky with the refs, it's probably one of the first games this season where I feel that, also got a little lucky with the fumble from Gabriel, but we just edged it out in terms of who I think deserved the W. Obviously the defense will need to play better, but it is so good to see the offense get back on track and continue the good play from the Washington game.

They should get in, but they'll talk about how Bama has better wins and ignore the fact they got boat raced by a bad Oklahoma team while also losing to Vandy.

Never under estimate the power of the brand, I think SMU will be left out.

Great game by Gabriel, delivered throw after throw. Stayed so calm in the pocket, moved to the spots where he could get the ball out, just an awesome job where we needed every pass we got form him. Offense obviously stepped up in the last two games.

Can we at least at some point fake the WR screen, because it makes no sense to continue to give up 2-4 yards on 1st down when it's so obvious their game plan is to stop that play.

Whole defense just looks inept defending the run, we'll lose in the playoffs if that's how it is, D-line getting bullies, LBs and safeties just making horrible decisions, no ability to get off blocks, embarassing.

Terrible time management there by Lanning, what are you doing just allowing that much time to go off the clock. What are you doing!!!!

Weak, that's what are defense looks like, very very weak upfront, getting beaten up front, Harmon and Caldwell are losing a lot of money out there right now.

Defense has to start bowing up, this is not good, getting bullied out there, DTs have to start doing better.