As much as I despise Beavis, one thing I admire about so many of their fans is that they are loyal-no-matter-how-much losing they do. Our Beloved Ducks do a ton of winning in football, and while this is not a great day....we will have many more winning games ahead of us.

Our turn will come...

Real Fan here.

Hey... We'll get 'em next year.

Real fan here, but wow, outcoached, out played, out prepared it the two biggest games. Love the guy, but DL needs to take a hard look. And yes, always be a Duck.

If the Ducks played Indiana 10 times they’d lose 9. Outside Autzen (even on a neutral field) the 12th man effect is gone.

I saw us lose to Pacific at home, so I qualify I think.

That being said, seeing Indiana waltz in and achieve in 2 years what we’ve failed at for so long is testing me.

I love OBD through thick and thin.

I attended the U of O during the lean years when a 6-5 regular season record and winning some obscure bowl game was considered a fantastic season lol.

However, I think OBD really need to sit down and assess what is keeping us from getting over the hump.

I do appreciate though how far OBD have come as the program has the players, the backing and the facilities for the most part to be consistent CFP contenders. Winning a Natty sadly has been very elusive.

Sadly, I might be done.

I haven’t liked the direction of college football for awhile now and this might be the final straw for me. I need a long break and then we’ll see but, as of right now, I’m not sure Oregon football is worth the time and constant disappointment any longer.

Ive been a fan since high school but my fav time as a Duck fan was the Belotti years. Its fantastic that we are pumping big$$ money into the program but I am a more with less guy --Congrats Indiana! We all learned something today----Experience over ratings means more.

Nope.

Still proud of this team. DeBoer said it. There is a fine line between mistakes and excellence.

This team ( the players ) was better than their experience. The coaches had lots to do with that

Now the coaches need to punch above their experience. They're good. I expect they'll be excellent.

If you can't hire them, develop them. That's the theme this off-season. Develop greatness

Lanning got one step further. With less experience. He's on the path.

And yes. I'm over the analysis of this game, but also the season. There is so much food on the plate about that.

Love my team

And this forum

This is my first post here after lurking for years. I am a loyal fan. I have been a fan of Oregon football since before Bill Musgrave was QB. I went to UO in the late 80s. I love OBD. I love what we are today, on the cusp of being a legit contender. Of course I am disappointed, but we have been here before. We are as close as we have ever been.

I believe in DL and I believe it was too much pressure for a 20 year-old—no matter what amount of 'poise' he has demonstrated thus far—to take solely on his shoulders. I am perplexed about the CFP in general, and the transfer portal window. The transfer portal did a lot of damage to us since the Orange Bowl and I don't understand how the powers that be can allow it to damage teams that 'earn' their way into the post-season.

I believe DL will learn from this as he learned from last year's disappointment and the disappointment the year(s) before that. As someone said, I look forward to us folding in the finals next year!

Hey look at this!

Indiana beat Alabama by 35 points....Indiana beat Oregon by 34 points.

Missing some top players did not help tonight.

When Lanning came, he said you have to water the bamboo for 5 years before it shoots up rapidly.

I love my Ducks.

15 minutes ago, JabbaNoBargain said:

I saw us lose to Pacific at home, so I qualify I think.

That being said, seeing Indiana waltz in and achieve in 2 years what we’ve failed at for so long is testing me.

What Cignetti did has never been done, and while it is amazing...I don't think we should compare our progress to the biggest outlier to the norm ever.

We will have our turn...

15 minutes ago, OregonDucks said:

Sadly, I might be done.

I haven’t liked the direction of college football for awhile now and this might be the final straw for me. I need a long break and then we’ll see but, as of right now, I’m not sure Oregon football is worth the time and constant disappointment any longer.

Wow. Thirteen wins for each of the last two seasons is constant disappointment?

I think the strain of the day is tough on us right now...

Went from amber ale to scotch whiskey before the end of the third quarter. This game reminded me of the 80's.

But here they are in the semis. That is a huge improvement. I was impressed with the effort from Jay Harris.

Indiana looks like a juggernaut, and here's hoping the steamroll Miami like they did Oregon. You can't feel too bad about losing to the #1 team in the country, just wish we could have been a little more competitive. It was a great season for a pretty young team. Congrats, and on to next season.

Ducks retain the biggest semi-final margin ever - 39 pts - 59-20 vs Florida St

Always. I watched the whole beatdown. It was tough but theres always next year.

It just seems like when they get this close theres always a bunch of woulda coulda shoulda's. Sucks.

Most points scored vs Indiana this season:

24 - Penn St

22 - Oregon

20 - Oregon

15 - Iowa

Yup... No nails in my coffin!

Total Yards Offense

378 - Oregon

362 - Indiana

Passing by QB

24 of 39 - 285 yds - 2 TD - Moore

17 of 20 - 177 yds - 5 TD - Mendoza

Turnovers

3 plus a blocked punt for Oregon led to 28 points by Indiana

Cig and his team are FREAKS!! Maybe from another planet?

10 minutes ago, Charles Fischer said:

Wow. Thirteen wins for each of the last two seasons is constant disappointment?

I think the strain of the day is tough on us right now...

It’s not the number of wins. It’s how the seasons end and how Oregon performs on the biggest stages time and time again.

Been going to games at Autzen since 1976. Not on a bandwagon. We did much better tonight then back in the late seventies.

I say the glass is more than half-full. And, it's a good-looking glass, too.

Season ticket holder and absolute fan! Sometimes it is just painful to watch bad football though, knowing what this team could do!!

I'm disappointed... tonight. But, honestly this years team exceeded my expectations.

I feel this game cemented the need for Dante to return. As long g as he does so... I'm very excited for next year.

Thanks to Tosh and Will for sticking around. Now move, let us grow, and watch us soar in 2026!

8 minutes ago, Drake said:

Been going to games at Autzen since 1976. Not on a bandwagon. We did much better tonight then back in the late seventies.

Ain't that the truth!

While today did not turn out like I had hoped, I am still proud of OBD! Out of 130 plus college football teams, the Ducks were one of the last 3 standing!

In spite of the anguish, keening and wailing from the first pass - er, pick six, I witnessed a very good team win a lot of games this year.

13-2 is not a bad season. I can remember when it took more than 3 years to win 13 games!

Think about it, in the last 2 years OBD are 27-3, with all 3 losses coming to the eventual National Champion. ( l am assuming Cig is gonna smoke Mari a week from Monday).

I trust Dan and his new Coordinators will reload over the off season and provide us with another great year next year. Go Ducks!

Too much for Ducks to overcome. Injuries, youth, transfer portal losses, coordinators juggling other duties, long distance travel, 90 percent Indiana crowd, sloppy offense/turnovers but mostly Indiana just a damn good team. A great year over all. I think the Hurricanes are doomed.

I’m even more of an after this game. I love the direction this program is in. Remember Lanning could coach for another decade before he wins a title and he’d still be younger than Saban was before he won his first title at LSU. I don’t think it’ll take Dan that long though. Coach Cignetti is the real deal. He has paid his dues and his team is on a historic run. We haven’t seen the last of Indiana and the battles between us vs them will be legendary! Oh how I love to talk about my beloved DUCKS!!!

Lots of bad breaks. We were too injured at RB, and our players were not allowed to or didn't want to play through injury. Lots of "what-ifs" as well. Maybe if there wasn't a pick 6 on the first play we could have won- despite the injuries and despite Mendoza. You never know!

I expect the Ducks to be ranked in the Top-5 pre-season if Dante Moore comes back, and about #10 if we wind up with Leavitt. Hopefully Moore stays. That's about as good as it gets. It would make up for this loss (for me). This game was no big deal. I'm over it. I have no idea why any fan would not be pumped for next year. Have you seen our recruiting rankings? We're set up to be in every year. Can't win em' all.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by 2002duck

Too many injuries, too many distractions..

I was worried when I saw the look on Dans face coming out of the tunnel.... looked very stressed compared to the usual Dan. I think he knew.

It was a great season and Im so happy to not lose to Miami!!!

Hit the transfer portal.... develop our freshmen.

So many changes. So big a mess out there now in college football....

We were the 3rd or 4rth best team this season!!!!

Go Ducks. Go Indiana and kick you know who physical butt.

50 minutes ago, Wood Duck said:

You can't feel too bad about losing to the #1 team in the country

Last three losses.

Yeah, our big game record as of late makes it look like we’re living in Tornado Alley. OBD builds this thing over 3+ months only to watch it get shredded. But, that’s football, a little like riding a hot number in Roulette. You put it all on the line every week, and what happened the previous week no longer matters - win or lose - until it’s all over.

Well, for this year it’s all over, and it’s dark right now, and it’s hard to recognize who you felt you were just 4 hours earlier. So, you take a deep breath, pick up the pieces and start again. No quit. That’s life in Tornado Alley - until it isn’t.

The performances of some of the freshmen in this game give me hope for the future.

I just hope the incoming coordinators can exceed the ones they're replacing.

"Our big game record as of late" includes beating the Big12's No. 1 team in the Orange Bowl.

I remember someone above posting some stats that favored the Ducks over IU. Not to be nasty and so be it if it made you feel a little better, but this is why such posts often get the comment "Statistics are for losers."

I also saw the comment something to the effect We'll be fine check our recruiting rankings. While there is often a solid relationship (statistically) between recruiting ratings and on-field performance, it is so far from perfection (as are the recruiting ratings themselves) as to be laughable. So don't simply "star gaze" to inform any betting decisions you may choose to make.

Perhaps the most amazing factoid I have seen (cited by different sources) is that not one starter on Indiana's defense rose to the level of being a 4-star recruit. They seem to be a bunch of 3-star and lower FCS and smaller school FBS guys who came to Bloomington with chips on their shoulders and desperately hoping to prove themselves. I don't know about all y'all, but that is an amazing tale if true, illustrating that it is not the number of stars a recruit has that matters most. Remember that only 15-20% of 5-stars ever achieve the goal of being drafted in the first- round of the NFL draft.

As many have said, it’s not the loss - it’s the way we lose that’s so dispiriting. It’s hard to bounce back as fans and it has to affect the players and coaches as well.

Any member of an outstanding fan forum like this invests a lot of emotional and analytical energy into the team each year and to be honest, I’m not sure I fully bounced back from last year’s Rose Bowl loss.

I’ll save my thoughts and analysis for another day but that’s what we do here. It’s therapy.

You have to feel for the players and coaches and fans who traveled so far to participate in this game. Why can Oregon fans not travel? Does our brand still not resonate?

Imagine the players looking in the stands and 90% or more are rooting against you at a neutral site. We’re always outnumbered, but it’s usually closer to 60/40, maybe 70/30. Tonight was much, much worse. That has to take a toll and it will always be a disadvantage for OBD in this terrible post season format.

1 hour ago, Nevada Dawg said:

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Perhaps the most amazing factoid I have seen (cited by different sources) is that not one starter on Indiana's defense rose to the level of being a 4-star recruit. They seem to be a bunch of 3-star and lower FCS and smaller school FBS guys who came to Bloomington with chips on their shoulders and desperately hoping to prove themselves. I don't know about all y'all, but that is an amazing tale if true, illustrating that it is not the number of stars a recruit has that matters most. Remember that only 15-20% of 5-stars ever achieve the goal of being drafted in the first- round of the NFL draft.

While true they have no high school 5 stars, this isn’t homegrown, farm boy talent they magically developed. They’re loaded with highly desired transfers that were developed by other schools, with a lot of experience…and a QB that wildly exceeded expectations. Hats off to them for putting the pieces together, but these are not scrubs or anything.

Check out their 2025 list, a lot of .85+ rated dudes from big programs.

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/season/2025-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24040

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by JabbaNoBargain

Cignetti and his staff definitely have an eye for talent. But, so do Dan Lanning and his staff. The NC is not a destination. It’s a journey. It will be a journey next year for Ohio State, Georgia, Oregon, Indiana and 130 other teams,

I'm not demoralized. In the past, I knew that Oregon was at its ceiling and could not get better enough to beat the real contenders.

But now, I see a machine that just needs to tweak what kind of players it wants to bring in.

And also what kind of coordinators they need as well. It will take time.

This year, they went out to the portal to find a new O line. It mostly did not work out vs the best defenses. And the D line is not getting QB pressure like it should. Upgrade those positions and then they can compete much better.

A bandwagon fan looks for new gear to buy while trading teams. A real fan rides it out.

What is most sad is that this year could have been it. Without the mistakes, the Ducks could have kept it fairly close and maybe got lucky in the end.

It literally took me until the Oklahoma St game to put the Ohio St game behind me. I got back on board only for us to get humiliated even worse again... I have absolutely no faith in the upcoming season with the promotion within coaches. Oregon needs an overhaul with assistants and scheme

Real Fan. Though I must admit that when we fumbled the ball five times against the doormat Indiana team of yesteryear, I was apoplectic while leaving Autzen, and was calling for MB's job(LOL)!

Having sat in Autzen in the late sixties and seventies there is no way I would complain about this. Go Ducks.

Mostly I feel bad for the Duck players. Losing is part of competition just as winning is. But, even while shorthanded at several key positions, the team just didn't make it as competitive a game as it could have. I hope the players who return use that loss, that miserable feeling in the pit of their stomach, that silence in the locker room after the game, as a motivator. That can be powerful driver for them in their next game, their next season, and in their future lives.

Really tough loss. I moved to Oregon in 1975. Was mildly interested in the Ducks in the dreadful Don Read era. Became more of a fan when Rich Brooks became coach. I went to school with Mike Bellotti at UC Davis. Though I know live in Colorado, I avidly follow the Ducks. I would give Will Stein and A’lique Terry ‘Fs’ for their preparation. Terry saw how Indiana attacked the line in Eugene, yet the line couldn’t deal with it. I think Will Stein’s scheme has become too predictable. Still a fan.