Thomallister1291 No. 1 Share Posted January 6 Could Oregon football schedule a Week 0 game in 2025? AUTZENZOO.COM Oregon football had what I would consider a successful first season in the Big Ten. The Ducks finished with a 13-1 record in a College... Even if this idea to improve our SOS doesn't happen this season, I'm hopeful it can be proposed to the athletic department and that we schedule a game in Las Vegas or another western stadium against a highly successful opponent like Alabama or Miami. Albeit a home-and-home series would be best! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomallister1291 Author No. 2 Share Posted January 9 I'm hopeful we get more scheduling news someday regardless if the idea proposed above happens or not, hopeful that we can schedule some SEC foe once the scheduling model for that conference is chosen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonDucks No. 3 Share Posted January 9 No, thank you. We are breaking in a new starting QB and so many starters on both sides of the ball, I’d rather give them the room to gel and work out the kinks. Oregon would have lost any game 0 this past season the way they played and that was with an experienced QB. If we can go through the B1G with 2 or fewer loses, Oregon should have a great chance at making the playoffs. Strength of schedule no longer matters. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanLduck No. 4 Share Posted January 10 Um, a definite pass. Until SOS is recognized by those who make the rankings, we need wins. As a fan, playing a team like 'Bama would be nice. But the B1G schedule of 9 games is enough. Until all conferences play the same number of conference games, I'll take 3 soft OOC games every year. Alternate with Ptld St and the Beavs every other year. Toss in Cal & Stanford once in awhile. UNLV for your Vegas game. Keep it simple. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar No. 5 Share Posted January 10 On 1/6/2025 at 12:40 PM, Thomallister1291 said: Could Oregon football schedule a Week 0 game in 2025? AUTZENZOO.COM Oregon football had what I would consider a successful first season in the Big Ten. The Ducks finished with a 13-1 record in a College... Even if this idea to improve our SOS doesn't happen this season, I'm hopeful it can be proposed to the athletic department and that we schedule a game in Las Vegas or another western stadium against a highly successful opponent like Alabama or Miami. Albeit a home-and-home series would be best! Hawaii is the only week 0 team we should consider scheduling, and we just dumped them for little bro, so not really interested. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 6 Share Posted January 10 On 1/9/2025 at 4:00 PM, DanLduck said: Until SOS is recognized by those who make the rankings, we need wins. Sadly, exactly right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandaian No. 7 Share Posted January 10 Since, when did teams get allowed to play 13 regular season games when it didn't involve Hawaii? The author of the article, Justin Phillips, didn't mention dropping another game. Week 0 only includes teams that play Hawaii or play out of the country. The author also mentioned SOS was used in making up the CFP teams. Apparently, he didn't watch any college football games. If that were true Indiana and SMU most certainly wouldn't have been in the CFP. It is really too bad no research was done for this article. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 8 Share Posted January 10 On 1/10/2025 at 7:53 AM, Tandaian said: The author also mentioned SOS was used in making up the CFP teams. Apparently, he didn't watch any college football games. If that were true Indiana and SMU most certainly wouldn't have been in the CFP. Great catch. A few months ago, Colin Cowherd's sidekick insisted that "SOS was unnecessary" don't even use it when considering how teams measure up. I've never heard anything more absurd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Ducky No. 9 Share Posted January 10 These young men are playing enough games. They don’t need more. Wins are the only things that matter. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noDucknewby No. 10 Share Posted January 10 (edited) On 1/9/2025 at 2:22 PM, OregonDucks said: No, thank you. We are breaking in a new starting QB and so many starters on both sides of the ball, I’d rather give them the room to gel and work out the kinks. Oregon would have lost any game 0 this past season the way they played and that was with an experienced QB. If we can go through the B1G with 2 or fewer loses, Oregon should have a great chance at making the playoffs. Strength of schedule no longer matters. I'm with you on this, regardless of all the smoke about SOS the teams with the fewest losses got in this year. How was BSU's strength of schedule? The only good team they played (apologies to UNLV) was Oregon. And how did Alabama's SOS serve them with three losses? At some point a 3-loss team will get in (probably via a conference championship) but other than that hanging an extra potential loss only makes it that much harder to make the playoff. Edited January 10 by noDucknewby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 11 Share Posted January 10 Why would OBD add an extra game? Texas advances to Atlanta and it will be the Horns 17th game of the season. It will be Ohio State's 16th game. Finish at the top of the B1G and there is no problem with the SOS. None. The first two conference games in 2025 are on the road. The team travels to the Central time zone to play Northwestern, plays a Home game against Beavis (OR ST Paid $1,5M of 'our $' to sign QB Murphy), and then travels to the Eastern time zone to play Penn State. OBD will also travel to Iowa and Rutgers in 2025 and play a 5th conference road game in Seattle. OBD team needs no more wear and tear than already scheduled. Certainly do not need a game to goose SOS that it could lose. In the Playoff era, big-time OOC games are not worth the candle; especially, for a member of the Power 2. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Ducky No. 12 Share Posted January 10 Dump Beavus for a home and home with Hawaii . It would help in recruiting and what young prospect wouldn’t want to spend a weekend in Hawaii every other year. Oregon state is a waist of time, a trip to the coast that time of year is way more appealing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDuck No. 13 Share Posted January 10 Somewhat related, an interesting column on Army and Navy seeking approval for a 13th regular season game. Their argument is that the annual Army/Navy game comes too late in December to be considered a potential W for playoff eligibility, and that December timeline is unlikely to change. Thus, they feel at a disadvantage (11 games) when compared to Boise State (12+conf championship game) and other potential Group of 5 teams. Though, this season Army did qualify for the conference championship which was played before Army-Navy. Army was 11-1 before playing Navy, while BSU was 12-1 after winning the Mt. West. The 13th game would likely have to fill a bye slot because the cadets & midshipmen are in military training during the summer spilling into early August. Proposal could let Army, Navy play 13th regular season game to fortify future College Football Playoff hopes - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The NCAA would need to change its rules that hold teams to 12 regular-season games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDuck No. 14 Share Posted January 10 "Oregon state is a waist of time..." Well, some of those OSU o-linemen do reflect a waist of time.... but in terms of waste in playing Beavis I still would prefer to see a rotation of old Pac12 members in that week's slot: WSU, Cal, Stanford, OSU on a rotation rather than OSU every season. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
