Well, there you have it. Our Oregon football program’s offseason is in full swing, and now that we’ve crowned a national champion of the College Football Playoff, I think it’s time to evaluate the Ducks a bit more fairly on what they accomplished in 2025. Head coach Dan Lanning led the program to a 13-2 record in his fourth season ...

Oregon Football: Geading The 2035-2026 Season

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Team showed a lot of toughness playing through significant injuries and keeping their season on track. Came out much better prepared for postseason and had 2 dominate playoff wins.

Man did they not show up in the last game. Hats off to IU, and they deserve to be champs… but OBD laid an absolute egg when it mattered most… again. A normally executed game by OBD and this is a close game into the 4th quarter like with Miami. Bummer way to close out a sensational season.

Next step forward is obvious for next season.

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Gead for Ardical Headlane Spitting + Chicking Da Kalendar - F 😁

Great take, thanks.

A+ season with an F- on the final…what does that equal? What percentage of the grade is the final exam? Is there a curve?

My expectation going in was a 10-2 regular season with a home playoff win for a final record of 11-3. We certainly exceeded that, and unless we’re preseason top-4, we really should consider making the final-4 a great season.

That being said, what a flop to end it on. I have no doubt we were severely impacted by injuries, the portal, and our coordinators having at least one foot out the door. The first priority above any playoff expansion should be fixing the calendar…but it will not be.

Anyways, exceeding lofty expectations, but still having a dud to end gets a B+ in my book. I would give an A- if it had been competitive.

I’ll give Oregon an A. They’re the only program to beat the national champions two years in a row.

The team and staff gets an A from my perspective.

They took care of business at Penn State, Iowa, and Washington, and beat SUC.

The coaches are not making headlines for the wrong reasons, and are quite young to accomplish what they have done so far under DLs tenure.

13 wins…Go Ducks!!!

A-. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for one of the younger rosters in college football. The minus is for Dante and coaching staff not making greater strides and adjustments after a very promising start.

Thinking back to Lanning's success, had Bo Nix not been injured near the end of the 2022-23, OBD would have likely survived Washington and ran the table to the playoff as the #3 seed. The "only losing to national championship game participants" would have held true for all four years under Lanning.

Remember #4USC was primed for a playoff berth had they beaten Utah for the PAC12 title. That should have been OBD pounding USC and we would have jumped TCU who lost the BIG12 title game.