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If you're not competing for titles, you don't get dumped on. You can always count on Paul to come with a reasoned take, right? Day's two terrible losses last season came against the 2025-26 champion and the runner-up. Ryan Day, and not Sark, is a choke artist? Hmmmm. CFB-HQ On SIPaul Finebaum Names Major College Football Head Coach Who...Paul Finebaum delivers a blunt assessment of a major college football head coach.

Boise was seeded 3rd in the 2024-25 PO. I think Boise State will finish in the Top-25, but not in the Top 10. As Charles noted, until OBD wins a Natty, the Ducks are low-flying targets. Oregon defeated a team ranked 28th in the preseason AP Poll that lost to Oregon and moved up to 26th in the latest spot, while OBD dropped four spots. Logical, right? Matt Hayes needs to write something negative; that's his forte. He could write about Rutgers ' faceplant, but who gives a whip about Rutgers? Texas destroyed an inept UTEP and moved up one spot in the AP. USC is 2-0 with wins over two teams better than UTEP and remains ranked 14th behind four 1-0 SEC teams that consumed cupcakes in Week 1. As I noted in another post, the AP Poll will not matter when the final PO committee ranking is revealed on 12/6/26, but the PO committee rankings are as subjective as are the Coaches and AP Polls. Another thing that led to the critique of Oregon's performance was the ridiculous -24.5 spread. I'm true to my school, but I knew my wallet would be hurt by not taking Boise and the points. Yes, OK State and its new 91 players lost at Tulane on Saturday, but a line of Oregon -22.5 playing in Boone Pickens Stadium also sets up Dan and the team for ridicule. But positive or negative, teams aren't dumped on or praised if they're not a team, like OBD, that is followed coast-to-coast. Lasso the Cowboys! Paste the Paddle People!

SELL MOTIMER, SELL!!

For the life of me, I don't know why they don't mix in more fake screen passes where one of the blockers ends up running a slant or go route behind the charging defense. This at least keeps them honest.

Polls are meaningless except for talking points for talking heads or conference "pimps", to justify their positions regarding said conferences. True, at the end of the season "one particular poll" DOES in fact have meaning and as we have seen in the playoff era, they don't really care or adhere to the other "ole timey" polls rankings. (The super secret, star chamberish processes that they do adhere to is still one of the universes greatest unsolved mysteries....but that's a topic for another thread!) If Boise St. Runs the table in the "new' PAC, then this win will only be viewed as a positive for OBD's SOS. But, don't be surprised when Boise St. Once again visits Autzen in November as the G-6 representative. (Those star chamber mofo's love to "setup" conflicts in the playoffs as this.) Anyway. Rather have a contested win like this one was, than a contested (controversial) win against vastly inferior opponent ala Michigan/W. Michigan. Which gave the talking heads more "meat" to talk about than OR/B.ST. BRING ON THE POKES!!! GO DUCKS!

Just like ANY poll before week 6-8 in the season....this "opinion" means exactly jack shite nuthin! Just ones opinion. GO DUCKS!

Wall Street Journal on the game. This article is unlocked. this is funny. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/western-michigan-michigan-mac-appeal-f014cd92?st=CXoQvA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Oklahoma State coach takes opposite approach than his predecessor did last year. Doesn't way to provide Coach Lanning with pregame fuel. Oregon Ducks On SIOklahoma State Coach Eric Morris Drops Honest Take on Dan...Oklahoma State Cowboys coach Eric Morris certainly wasn’t going to poke the bear. Prior to a Week 2 matchup between the Cowboys and the Oregon Ducks in 2025, th

Everything Eric Morris said about Oregon ahead of Saturday’s matchupOklahoma State coach Eric Morris previewed Saturday’s matchup with Oregon, praising Dante Moore, the Ducks’ defense and the challenge facing the Cowboys. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/everything-eric-morris-said-about-oregon-ahead-of-saturdays-matchup-289699656/

The Oregon Audit: The eye test was right — but not always for the reason we thoughtOregon’s explosiveness was real, its defense was better than 27 points suggests and the deeper numbers explain how Boise State stayed alive.There is a danger in trying to understand a football game while it is still happening. You are reacting to the last play while trying to keep up with the next one, and the scoreboard inevitably begins coloring everything around it. A 4-yard run looks different when a team is trailing by 10. A third-down incompletion carries more weight when it follows another stalled possession. A defensive series that would otherwise look perfectly acceptable can begin to tell a different story when the opponent keeps hanging around. That was one of the things that stood out Saturday. The Oregon Audit: The eye test was right — but not always...Oregon’s explosiveness was real, its defense was better than 27 points suggests and the deeper numbers explain how Boise State stayed alive.

Take Two: What we think we saw — and what Week 1 can’t tell us yetOregon’s uneven opener created plenty of conclusions after one Saturday. Some may prove right. Others might tell us more about how we consume college football than about what the Ducks actually are.One of the things that happens after a game turns out a little differently than expected - win or lose - is that we tend to become reactionary. We saw it almost immediately after Oregon’s 34-27 win over Boise State. There were national conversations moving the Ducks from one of the best teams in the country to something closer to a playoff question mark, as though four quarters in early September had suddenly revealed everything we needed to know about the next three months. Perhaps some of those concerns will prove to be correct. Oregon certainly gave us enough Saturday to make the questions legitimate. The offensive line did not consistently look like the finished product the Ducks will eventually need, the defense did not create the early havoc we expected, and 10 penalties made a game Oregon controlled statistically much more difficult than it needed to be. But Week 1 has a funny way of convincing us that whatever happened first is what will keep happening forever. We have been here before. (THANK YOU SCOTT! Yes we have been here before. Let's not forget about how 2024 started out.) Take Two: What we think we saw — and what Week 1 can’t te...Oregon’s uneven opener created plenty of conclusions after one Saturday. Some may prove right. Others might tell us more about how we consume college football than about what the Ducks actually are.

I predict Ducks beat Boise State by 7.

The MAC Strikes Back! "The Empire Can't Rob Us!" EssentiallySportsMAC Demands To Strip Michigan Off Controversial Win After...MAC seeks harsh penalty on Michigan after AP voters drop team from Top 25, denouncing Kyle Whittingham & staff over controversy.

Exactly! For all of the griping that Notre Dame did last season for being left out of the playoffs, they didn’t have a single win against a team that finished the season ranked in the top 25. Teams need all the ranked wins they can get.

No. 6 Oregon is not overrated; No. 26 Boise State is underrated. I agree that Miami and LSU, with wins over P4 opponents, are underrated. No. 9 Ole Miss, with a win over a Top-25 Louisville team, is underrated. No. 14 USC is 2-0 with wins against teams equal to or better than 10 A&M, 11 Oklahoma, and 12 Alabama. SITwo Overrated Teams, Three Underrated Teams From Week 2 A...The Week 2 AP Top 25 college football poll has dropped. Here’s where we think the voters got it wrong.

Thank you. Great post. 2-0 Memphis, with a win on the road at UNLV, plays at Boise State on Saturday. Boise is favored by -7.5. 3 PM Pacific, USA Network. On 9/26, Boise is at W. Michigan, the team favored to win the MAC. The MAC is suing the Big Ten for committing larceny in the B1G play-review studio. A crime witnessed by millions. "This is an outrage! Turn those machines back on!"😁

Interesting in trying to track this "efficiency" approach, ATQ found some interesting offensive numbers in its regular season review (only non-garbage time snaps excluding all FCS games). • Oregon rarely takes shots on 2nd and short. In 29 counting plays, it rushed 15 times and threw 14 times. It completed only 3 passes of 10 or more yards on 2nd and short, yielding just 5.85 adjusted ypp. • Oregon was much more likely to throw for big plays on 3rd and short (probably already deciding to go on 4th if necessary). In 38 counting plays, it ran 24 times and threw 14 times. It completed 6 of those 14 passes for 10 or more yards, yielding 14.4 adjusted ypp. • While overall successful on 58% of offensive plays, screen passes were only successful 42% of the time with only a 2% explosive rate and only 4.88 adjusted ypp, compared to overall a 17.5% explosive rate and 7.3 adjusted ypp. Good news maybe is its overall use of all types of screens was down in 2025 from 2024 to 9.5% of offensive snaps (which was about average in FBS football). Bad news was screens in 2025 were even worse in success rate than 2024. This does seem to lead to some credence to the fan idea that while efficiency offense might call for these type plays in certain downs and distances, opponents seem to be sniffing them out and being prepared. Also, if you are watching the offense and you see them in 3rd and medium (3rd and 4 to 7 yards), its probably bad news. By far the offense's worse down and distance at only 28.6% success and only 5.18 adjusted ypp and 9.5% explosives. Makes the stakes of both throwing vertical on 2nd and 6th with an incompletion or running a stuffed bubble screen both very bad for sustaining drives from that down and distance.

The problem with Boise State is that they pretty consistently have a very good football team. We've played them 5 times in the last 18 years with an average point differential of 7: 2008 - UO loss. BSU ends season ranked #11 2009 - UO loss. BSU ends season ranked #4 2017 - UO loss (because it was the Taggert year). BSU ends season ranked #22 2024 - UO wins. BSU ends season ranked #8 2026 - UO wins. My prediction is that BSU ends the season ranked Top-10. Those Broncos were tackling machines this past Saturday. I expect BSU to run the table through their regular season schedule and end up being ranked in the Top-10 again by the end of the season. Our 7-point win will only look better and better as the season progresses.

WE dont have to worry about playing Boise St for some time. We have some beginning of the season cupcakes over the next few years.

Spot On. Oregon defeated a team ranked 28th in the preseason AP Poll. Dropped four spots. Fine, but why did UGA, after defeating a nothing-burger team, move up to 2nd instead of LSU that blew out No. 26 Clemson? Why isn't Ole Miss in the Top 5 with a neutral-site win against a Top-25 opponent? Why is 2-0 USC ranked 14th, behind 10 A&M, 11 Oklahoma, and 12 Alabama, all 1-0 with a win against similar or lesser competition? Texas Tech struggled against an FCS opponent and is ranked 13th? Miami traveled across the country and blew out a Power 4 opponent. Miami remains ranked 7th? If OBD crushed Portland State on Saturday, it would have stayed ranked 2nd. It's the AP Poll, so no big deal. However, the PO Committee does the same stuff. It should not have taken until the final ranking to rank 2-loss Miami ahead of a 2-loss Notre Dame team it defeated, especially since ND played four games against G6 competition. There is too much difference between the strength of schedules and too few game data points to objectively determine the best teams. Why the PO should go to a 24-team field.

This win against Boise State will likely count as a win against a ranked opponent by season’s end. Looking at Oregon’s schedule, they have only three ranked opponents left on the schedule. Of course, that may change by season’s end. They will want those ranked wins at the end of the season when they’re being measured against other teams for playoff spots.

Dan Lanning Alters Oregon Ducks’ Travel Plan for Oklahoma State GameThe Oregon Ducks are adjusting their travel plans ahead of an early kickoff against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. No. 6 Oregon (dropped from No. 2 in the AP Poll) will leave for Stillwater on Thursday, one day earlier than its typical road-game departure so that his players to have additional time to adjust after traveling across multiple time zones. “We are going to travel on Thursday, and that's strictly because we're playing in a 9 a.m. game,” Lanning said. “So, when you're traveling multiple time zones and you're going to play early, I think there's an advantage to getting there a little bit earlier.” Oregon’s new itinerary doesn't change the Ducks' practice schedule. They normally practice Thursday mornings, allowing the team to complete its normal work before beginning the trip east. Oregon Ducks On SIDan Lanning Alters Oregon Ducks’ Travel Plan for Oklahoma...EUGENE - Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning is altering his team’s travel plans for Saturday’s unusually early kickoff against the unranked Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Oregon preparing for heat, 9 a.m. kickoff at Oklahoma StateFor the second time under coach Dan Lanning, Oregon will make a trip down south and battle the elements. In Stillwater, Oklahoma, the conditions for Saturday's game are far different than the damp and lush landscape the Ducks enjoy in Eugene. Stillwater is expecting the temperature to rise over 90 degrees Fahrenheit during the game, with humidity over 60%. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/09/08/oregon-football-oklahoma-state-week-2-extreme-heat-kickoff/91653402007/

Oregon lands new prediction for 2028 QB that could raise the urgency for a commitmentOregon lands prediction for elite QB Tristin GainesThis weekend, among the recruits in attendance for the Oregon Ducks was elite quarterback recruit Tristin Gaines. The Ducks hosted Gaines earlier this Summer, and getting him back on campus can only help the chances of landing a commitment. Leaving the weekend, it appears that Oregon did a great job of pitching Gaines. On Monday morning, Rivals analyst Sam Spiegelman placed a prediction for the Oregon Ducks to land Tristin Gaines. Tristin Gaines now becomes the second quarterback predicted to land in Eugene, as California native Josiah Boyd has been a popular pick for the Ducks. Rivals' Steve Wiltfong, Justin Hopkins, Brandon Huffman, and Greg Biggins have all logged predictions throughout the offseason for Boyd to land in Eugene. Autzen ZooOregon lands new prediction for 2028 QB that could raise...Oregon football season returned this weekend, and with the return of the college football season comes the return of the recruiting season. The first home game

As ridiculous as it is, the polls still count. Sure if we finish 12-0 or 11-1 this doesn't hurt us in the slightest. Hypothetically though, if we wind up a bubble team @ 10-2 with losses to tOSU and USC, then that narrow win can and will be used against us, especially if BSU winds up with 2 or 3 losses. I'm not saying it doesn't have value as a teachable moment for DL, but externally it's more of a liability.