Was announced today that former Duck Luke Moga has left the portal for a landing spot at New Mexico.

29 Ducks, scholarship or walk-on, entered the portal. All 29 have found landing spots with 23 ending up at Power4 programs.

New Mexico has starter Jack Layne expected to return at quarterback. The 2025 season saw New Mexico open with a close loss at Michigan, beat UCLA at the Rose Bowl, and finished their 9-4 season with a close overtime loss to Minnesota in a bowl game.

Duck QB Austin Novosad entered the portal and ended up at Bowling Green.

Jason Eck, formerly at Idaho, was in his first season at New Mexico. Assisted by O-coordinator Luke Schleusner a long time assistant.

As an aside, former Duck staffer David Yost is the O-coordinator at New Mexico State.

Novasad to Bowling Green..Did he get lost on the way to U of Kentucky to see Will Stein?

Guess he wasn't that great based on Stein's assessment.

It's pretty impressive to see the depth we HAD leave in the portal. I sure hope our 2026 class of portal and HS kids can backfill them.

11 minutes ago, Solar said:

Novasad to Bowling Green..Did he get lost on the way to U of Kentucky to see Will Stein?

Guess he wasn't that great based on Stein's assessment.

It's pretty impressive to see the depth we HAD leave in the portal. I sure hope our 2026 class of portal and HS kids can backfill them.

That’s football in 2026. Neither of these QBs are guaranteed to even start at Bowling Green or New Mexico, or even backup at a good P4.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by JabbaNoBargain

He's playing for a terrific coach in Jason Eck. Eck turned around UNM last season, including giving Michigan a battle in Ann Arbor. He was the coach at Idaho in 2023, when Idaho gave Oregon all it could handle.

Eck played on the O-line for Barry Alvarez at Wisconsin. He was mentioned as a candidate for the Badgers' job before Fickell was given another season.

Beginning in the FCS ranks, this is Eck's 28th season of coaching. Cignetti has opened the door for older guys stepping up to the Power 4.

If Fickell doesn't improve Wisconsin this season, OBD could see Eck and Moga on the Wisconsin or other Big Ten sidelines.

(Note: Fickell signed QB Colton Joseph from Old Dominion, so ... 😍

Joseph played his high school ball in Newport Beach, CA.)

4 hours ago, Solar said:

Novasad to Bowling Green..Did he get lost on the way to U of Kentucky to see Will Stein?

Guess he wasn't that great based on Stein's assessment.

It's pretty impressive to see the depth we HAD leave in the portal. I sure hope our 2026 class of portal and HS kids can backfill them.

Hey, he could have went to 'Action U', I mean the university of Akron Ohio. I grew up in the area. It was the place for high school players to keep playing if they weren't big enough to play at a real college.

Novosad and Luke Moga could play at the smallest of venues and light up the conference - then go play on a real team their senior year. In today's world - actually not a bad strategy. It seems that the bad strategy these days is to sign with a big program that almost always gets its QBs from the portal.