Our Oregon football program is closing out the regular season with a pair of tough, familiar matchups: the Huskies and the Trojans. Fortunately, winning this weekend would almost guarantee a College Football Playoff run for the Ducks, and if Oregon finds a way to get to 11-1, they could squeeze into the B1G Championship for the second season in a ...

Oregon Football: Will USC Keep It Close?

USC's defense, except in the 2nd half of the Iowa game has not showed that they can fully stop the run throughout the 2025 season.

And the Ducks have a very good rushing attack. One that should dominate the Trojans this Saturday. If the Trojans stack the box then DM should shred them apart with all the talent at TE and WR on the field. Even with all the injuries

As long as the team plays clean, mistake free football and the refs swallow the whistle and let them play. This is the biggest game of the CF weekend and the refs need to bring their A+ effort.

The Duck defense snd overall team balance will be the reason the game is not close. Should be a 17 to 21 point victory for OBD's. Fragile my butt!

I feel that tOSU will handle the Wolverines in their last game. Undefeated IU against undefeated tOSU in the BIG title game. Both teams will take care of their business.

Texas needs to handle their business and show the CF world that A&M is just a little overrated.

OBD's needs to take care of their business, too! Move up to #6 with the CFP biased committee......

Go Ducks.....

Agreed. I say Oregon by about 18, with a final score of something like 42-24.

This reminds me of the Indiana game. Gameday coming to Eugene. Double digit favorite at home.

Hopefully Oregon’s coaches and players learned from that game and handle it better this time around.

USC certainly has the offense and athletes to beat anyone on any given Saturday. Oregon needs to play a clean game and execute.

I'd say OBD's biggest problem has been playing with their food and not converting dominance into points. The Ducks lead Penn St 3 to 1 in yardage but the score was only 3-3 into the fourth quarter. The Ducks lead Iowa 2 to 1 in yardage but were still in a rock fight to the bitter end.

The Ducks spotted Indiana ten points then took control of the game, tide it up and were heading towards a halftime lead. Then the drive stalled, a field goal was missed and Indiana got barely into field goal range in a minute and took momentum back just before half.

The D has been pretty consistent all year. When the Ducks finish drives, they route teams. When they don't, they're nail biters. It's basically that simple.

I feel a Colorado 2022 2.0 coming on.

1 hour ago, OregonDucks said:

This reminds me of the Indiana game. Gameday coming to Eugene. Double digit favorite at home.

Hopefully Oregon’s coaches and players learned from that game and handle it better this time around.

USC certainly has the offense and athletes to beat anyone on any given Saturday. Oregon needs to play a clean game and execute.

This game feels different than that Indiana game. Oregon's offensive identity has sharpened in part because of the WR injuries forcing WS to modify the game plan, the talent advantage at the TE position and the O-line improvement after moving Pregnon to RG.

Samples utilizing Davison, Whittington and Hill Jr as the RB by committee sledgehammer is the difference. Unlike what happened in the Autzen loss, the path to victory against U$C is clearer:

Run. The. Damn. Ball

USuC's offense is better than Indiana's by about 10 yards per game. However, their defense is worse by about 95 yards per game. When Oregon faced off against the two teams with top 10 defenses they averaged 19 PPG. When USuC played against two top 15 defenses they averaged about 23.5 points. The averages say that USuC will probably get 21-24 points in Autzen Stadium on Saturday. Oregon just has to score more than that against their 47th ranked defense.

One more statistic. The best offense USuC has face all season in Notre Dame (18th). The next best is Michigan (40th). They also gave up 34 points to Illinois (69th ranked offense) on the road.

I believe this will be a very close game as they have one of the most underrated qb's in the nation. Couple that with a decent run game and two elite receivers that go get the ball, should be close. I realize we have the top pass d, but a few of those guys are young and they will be going against a qb that can really extend plays and looks down field really well. Along with running ability. I think we struggle with that kind of offense so, it going to be who 's d hold up the best.