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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.

I would just settle for wins from here on out. This season is filled with good teams suffering bad losses that follow big wins. OBD, UGA, Ole Miss, BYU, Ohio State, and Texas have all been “upset” after a huge win.

"Pac12 is G6. How would OSU and WSU count as P4?" Washington had earlier received a Big Ten "waiver" for scheduling WSU as the B1G now requires 10 Power4 games. This happened before today's CFP announcement. So, the WSU matchup will now also satisfy the CFP for 2027. Oregon has 3 non-Power4 non-conference games in 2027. OSU is not on their schedule. So, they will have to drop a non-con opponent, and find another Power4 opponent. OSU has 2027 games against BYU and Ole Miss, so those two opponents will not have to drop OSU due to today's announcement. Though, BYU also has Notre Dame in 2027 and would have been ok. I suppose that is an additional option for Oregon? Get BYU to drop OSU (August 28) and help them find a replacement, which would make OSU available to Oregon. On another note, UW is considering extending their WSU matchups to 2030. After 2027 WSU would not qualify as their 10th Power4. Many schools such as Cal, Stanford, ASU, Utah, Arizona already have their 10th opponent. Though in Arizona's case it is WSU. It appears the Ducks will have to look East to find the 10th.

I thought us fans are supposed to be stupid? Pretty much everyone was saying: Mehringer was a bad hire Our strength would be pushing the ball down the field, not dink and dunk Crader, Tofi Lailu, Luli, Addison for the OL. And after all the crap this season what is actually working? Whittingham straight up said Beck wasn't going anywhere until after the season was over. Next day Beck is gone, like his boss and boosters read him the riot act saying your going to change OC and go north and south with the ball to match the skills on our roster, like every nincompoop on TV is saying. Hubristic echo chambers are not coaching staff's friends.

"A handful of teams are currently saved by a unique carve out for Oregon State and Washington State under the new rules. For 2027, Oregon State and Washington State still count as P4 teams after the old Pac-12 abandoned them, the CFP confirmed to CBS Sports' Richard Johnson." I guess this is their participation trophy.🤣

Pac12 is G6. How would OSU and WSU count as P4?

Or go 3-0 and hope SC also goes 3-0 and then defeat UCLA in the final Big Ten conference championship game and score the B1G automatic bid. It won't hurt, but I'm not sure blowout wins over unranked opponents will move the needle.