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Brutal. Really was hoping to hear a good report about Teitum all day. I think the 2010 Ducks squad that made the National Championship game against Auburn missed only 3 games by starters the whole 13 game season (on both offense and defense). Right now, depending on how things shake out, it looks like this year, through game 12, the Ducks will have lost ~52 games by starters.

At the very least, better than Oklahoma's defense. 😁

I actually believe the Buckeyes have lost their swagger. Losing Julian Sayin was huge. I believe the coaches, and eventually the players realized they don't have a QB that can handle very good teams. It looked like Ohio State was expecting more Zone Read. They sure lined up as if that is what they were expecting. The real test of this offense-and whether Johnson has the chops to handle elite defenses-is this week. Michigan is more physical than everyone OBD faced. Including UCLA (though the Bruins are improving and look better than Indiana at this point). Yes, this is the week we get to see how OBD handle a team that has a playoff caliber defense. Or at least one of the best defenses in the country (yes, better than most SEC defenses).

I'd like to see what Nasir Wyatt can do in a full time starting role. He's certainly done well in the spot duty that he's been given so far.

Could be a possibility. The authorities try to place teams based on how good they are right now. Alabama moved up based on beating LSU in fashion.

OSU dropping INTs could be called luck. The rest of it was Oregon having a great plan and executing it. And OSU failing to execute.

I agree with you. I believe the fans want more regional and traditional matchups. But I suspect the SEC is hiding in their region and would face some serious shock when they face teams they aren't used to. Ole Miss comes to mind. They can't hide behind the SEC shield because Louisville dropped 38 on them. Four points less than Georgia. I prefer 12 teams. But I am not backing that until the SEC proves they are worthy of this bias they've been getting for two decades. Of course, ESPN does the nation no favors. I respect Georgia, Bama and Tennessee. Love Stein's Wildcats, but they are only slightly better than the other five ranked teams in the group, and they all are way overrated.

One person's "luck," is another's "domination."

I'm not biting. I'll just say it's never as good or as bad as it looks. Certainly Ohio State missed two easy game changing picks on Dylan, and their QB made some inopportune mistakes, but 4 turnover on downs is no fluke. Our starting defense owned them for most of the game once we settled in. Their defense is who we thought they were, no pass rush, but very stout up the middle against the run. The lack of pass rush let Dylan get very comfortable, which allowed us to survive getting behind the count on no gain runs up the middle. Is what it all is. Happy trolling to you.

I get nervous about losing him for his productivity and his inspiration to the team. One could argue after Bryce left he was the last hardcore baller left on the team. Not the highest level athlete, but just had a drive stuck on 100 percent every snap. We are really going to miss him. Rushing and Jones will have to fill his shoes sooner than we thought. I don't think Wyatt is big enough for an every down string side DE, but I could be wrong.

I'm into it. The more years Oregon makes the playoffs, the more seasons won't be "lost". The more chances to finally get a natty. Double the spots and the placeholder for the group of whatever team doesn't seem so bad. They might even win a playoff game. I believe this deal got made when the SEC made the commitment to play 9 conf games.

Time for the backups to take it over. They recruit well, so they should have it covered. He has been a very good player over the seasons.

Well, crap. Sad for him. He seems to find so much joy in the game.

Seriously? What kind of troll are you? Ohio State scored two garbage-time TDs after the game was basically over. Both teams were playing backup QBs. How does luck play into Ohio State playing bad defense two games in a row, whiffing on tackles against SC and Oregon? COME ON, MAN!

I would be more inclined to appreciate the new format if the conferences weren't 16-18 teams deep. I'd give anything to see this format with 8 regional conferences 8-10 teams deep with automatic bids given to each champion with fixed seeding and fewer at-large teams. Think back to the Big 10, Pac 10, SEC, SWC, ACC, Big East, Big 8, and WAC. It's a shame that we finally got here, but we're stuck with wildly unbalanced (Power 2), Frankenstein conferences. Where I could get on board psychologically, is if I squint hard enough and just pretend that the first two rounds of the playoffs are just an extension of the regular season and a play-in tournament to the actual 8 team playoff - which may have been the perfect number the entire time.

They were Power 5 members when scheduled. Thus, the one-year grace period.

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2026/11/oregon-star-edge-rusher-teitum-tuioti-out-for-the-season.html

oregold, I will refrain from writing what I was thinking in response to you, since I have to follow my own rules. Watch some of the analysis videos at the top to understand what Oregon did right, or....are you just trying to troll us?

Don't get excited. Oregon rushing game sucked. Ohio state had only 14 points at yhe half. Oregon allowed them to make 14 more in thelast 4 miniuts of the game. This was not a great preformance. Just a win

I dunno about that. I predicted Oregon would beat both USC and tOSU due to the Oregon players getting up for the games. On the other hand the front runnery nature of this current team might mean they will struggle against far less talent and infuriate us. Then we have the Raiola coaster to make us pucker up.

No, the calls he makes on rushing sucks. His play calling is not up to our expectations.

The win at Ohio State, was just luck. Think about it. The rushing game sucked. The QB passing was just so, so.Ohio State had 14 points at the half. Then Oregon allowed them 14 points in the last 4 miniuts of thr game. The win was a combination of their poor quarterback, and luck on our part..

Wrong objective IMHO. Goal isn't a win. Goal is to roll the dice on a quality win and if you lose, you learn so much more about your team in preparation for conference play. Now that you can lose 3-4 games per year, what's the downside? If you can't make a 24 team playoff, you have no business competing for a championship that year.

If you look at ScDucks analysis, it's easy to see why the offense has improved. The plays being run are more conducive to Raiola's skill set. For example, the one bulb screen didn't work, but we didn't keep going to it. At least once we set like we were going to run it, but used it as a ruse and passed downfield to a player they thought would be a blocker. When they thought we were in a passing situation, we ran a traditional delayed screen over the middle to Smith, who easily scored. If our re-tread OC could pull this off (and maybe his other gigs involved inadequate talent rather than poor play calling), surely there were other OCs who could do the same. Even we here knew that the repetition of bubble screens to no good effect was an error.

One topic that didn't receive many remarks was Oregon's travel schedule. Typically teams arrive at their destination 22-24 hours in advance of kickoff. I believe that provision used to be in game contracts....to allow for travel snafu's. There have been cases around the country where teams were delayed while a replacement plane was brought in. The Ducks traveled and arrived in Columbus late Friday. It will be interesting to see if Lanning adopts that procedure for other games between now and the next couple seasons.