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Thank you Charles, it's nice to have a place of respite from the "real" world. Go Ducks!

But doesn’t the job of picking apart a loss involve both negative AND constructive views? If it doesn’t, it seems to me there is no interest in finding solutions, but only blaming. It’s true that winning only teaches you two things: that you’re doing something right and you like it. Losing teaches you everything else, but you have to want to learn from it, not just vent.

The PO committee's top 12 includes a team from the Power 4. G6 No. 25, Boise State, would take Ohio State's place in the PO field. Below is an SP+ ranking of the Top 12 and Boise, and a list of SP+ Top 40 teams remaining to be played. SP+ No. 1 - Georgia - at Ole Miss, Missouri, and at South Carolina. No. 2 - Ohio State - Oregon, Northwestern, at Nebraska, and Michigan. The SEC has 10 teams ranked by the committee, but only Ohio State has four Top-40 SP+ on the schedule. No. 3 - Notre Dame - Miami and SMU. If No. 11 PO committee-ranked Notre Dame loses at home this Saturday, it could be out of the playoff. Notre Dame's best win came in the opening game against 5-3 Wisconsin. Perhaps ND should have opened against USC instead of playing BYU in Provo. No. 4 - LSU - Alabama, Texas, at Tennessee. Three tough games before the final game of the season at Arkansas. No. 5 - Miami - at Notre Dame, Duke. Miami's best win was at No. 16 Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons are also ranked No. 16 by SP+. Miami's defense was lit up by FSU's Ashton Daniels and UNC's Billy Edwards. Miami is the PO committee's No. 1 team based mostly on the Eye Test. No. 6 - Indiana - USC, at UW. No team deserves a week off more than Indiana. Nine games played before the chance to rest and heal in Week 10. No. 7 - Texas - at Missouri, at LSU, at Texas A&M. No. 8 - Alabama - at LSU. Win in Baton Rouge on Saturday, and PO committee No. 5 Alabama should finish in the committee's top 4 with a 1st -round bye. With a loss at LSU and remaining games at Vanderbilt, vs. Chattanooga (Choo-Choo!), and Auburn, a 9-3 Bama, except for the fact that the committee has a love affair with the Tide, could miss the 2026 PO. Bama's out-of-conference win over 3-5 FSU should not move the PO committee's rankings needle. But again, it's Alabama. No. 9 - Utah - BYU, at Arizona. Should be one heck of a Holy War this Saturday. The game kicks off at 10 AM local. FYI, PO committee ranked No. 3 Utah has played the 83rd most 'difficult' schedule in CFB; there are 68 Power 4 teams. No. 10 - Texas Tech - at Oklahoma State, at Baylor. Texas Tech has played college football's 68th strength-of-schedule. Why are the Red Raiders ranked 13th by the PO committee? Because of a two-point win over No. 17 Houston in Lubbock? No. 11 - Tennessee - Kentucky, at Texas A&M, LSU. I expect Lane Kiffin will receive a warm welcome. No. 12 - Oregon - at Ohio State, Michigan, UW. I'm keepin' the faith! No. 31 - Boise State - None.

After football season....I will start a thread about portal players joining us. We LOST a ton of great players to MLB, graduation, and the portal, but we added a ton as I believe Coach Waz is throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks...especially with pitching. I will say that as bad as our Baseball NIL money available is, apparently USC's is worse. We got a decent transfer pitcher from them, and a .300 hitter from them! A whole bunch of other transfers, especially pitchers to watch and follow later. Our new pitching coach has quite the reputation, so Oregon got quite a few pitchers join us! Ducks have a big tournament in February with Arkansas, Oklahoma State, and Baylor--should be fun. Will Sanford is BACK!

Davison has looked like he was fighting an injury all year and never quite had the crisp pop of acceleration and change of direction he had last year. It maybe best for him to fully heal and get ready for next year or if by some chance the Ducks make the playoffs he'd be ready to go then.

Apparently it wasn't enough to lose yards every time we run a player into the flat to catch a ball with his back to the defense, we can knock them out for the season too. I called these plays the "sitting duck" play for reason. I feel bad for Jordan.

Rumors are flying that since he is out a couple of weeks, that he might decide to be done for this year.

Doctor, enjoy No. 21 South Carolina vs. A&M. Except for Georgia, ranked 2nd by the AP Poll voters and the committee, the other nine SEC teams are collectively ranked 19 places higher by the committee than by the AP voters. The five ranked Big Ten teams are collectively ranked 5 places higher, led by Oregon moving up from AP No. 27 to committee-ranked No. 23. Oregon has three SP+ top-40 teams remaining on the schedule: Ohio State, Michigan, and Washington.

I self-censor. Meaning, if we lose or I disagree with a playing philosophy, I don't post for a few days while I meltdown. If we win, I figure I don't want to jinx the team, so I don't post to celebrate, or boast. But...I am always lurking and reading.

I’ve certainly had my pessimism given how the season has progressed, but I actually avoid all media for a few days after a loss. Media and social media overall go heavily negative after a loss, and I find disengaging to be healthier for me than wallowing in it. It’s easier to wait out the wave of catastrophizing if I never engage with it.

Normal behavior around here is pretty much unique to this site... We agree to to avoid the rancor of the world around us.

It was great to see the Ducks come back after a 14 point deficit. To me that is the mark of a good team. Win or lose Ill be a fan until they burry me.

I love the interaction of the positive and negative. It makes for great discussions in the threads. It is the very part of the fabric woven into a true forum. The foundation for a great forum. One simple rule drives this Forum. Respect for others! There are plenty of sites that allow posters to denigrade, criticize and crush other people's posts. The more negative the better. The team losing, playing poorly or not bringing the A+ game makes it easier to criticize. That criticism is fueled by passion and sheer disappointment. I cannot stress my absolute and heartfelt disappointment over the course of the season. To make it worse were the fans jumping off the bandwagon and the vile criticism toward the players and the coaches. Many posters expressed those feelings on the Forum. And did it within the rules. Including Duck homers, honks and those that live and breath all things Ducks. And I love that and look forward to all those posts. This is where the rubber meets the road. IMHO some of those, who criticize the Ducks, absolutely want no criticism sent back in their direction. If you can't take it, don't dish it out comes to mind. Perhaps there are those that only want to post when the Ducks fail or lose. This Duck fan loses no sleep if they don't post. My concern is over those who don't post because they might have gotten their feelings hurt thru well presented, differing view points. Those differing view points are so welcome, as long as they are respectful of others. Support your view points and refute the view points that disagree. No reason to stop posting. There have been some viscious, hateful posters on the Forum over the years that Charles and the moderators had to block from the site. They didn't like the rules. I hope those who only like to criticize and complain keep posting. Play nice, take your medicine and strengthen the conversation. I wonder would it hurt you to find and post something nice and positive about the Ducks. There was a great deal of positive from the Noryhwestern game. The duck coaches and players improved in alot of areas that many of you NegaDucks were complaining about. Just saying!

Wednesday War Room: Ohio State’s stars remain dangerous, but a quarterback change creates a different challenge for OregonOregon must contain Jeremiah Smith, force freshman QB Luke Fahey into difficult situations, and find offensive consistency against an elite Ohio State defense to keep its postseason hopes alive.Wednesday War Room: Ohio State’s stars remain dangerous,...Oregon must contain Jeremiah Smith, force freshman QB Luke Fahey into difficult situations, and find offensive consistency against an elite Ohio State defense to keep its postseason hopes alive.

While I agree that Oregon still has a shot at the playoffs, I think they will have to win games in a more consistent/dominant fashion to impress the playoff committee. That means #8 will have to play the rest of the season like he did against USC, The run game and the O-Line will have to perform the way they have the past two games (5.6 and 4.9 YPC), and the defense will have to hold their opponents to 14-21 PPG.

I'll just say, yay, no more political commercials day and night on TV (at least for a while).

CBSSN - Top-25 Rankings Winners and Losers. The Big Ten is a B1G Loser. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/cfp-rankings-winners-losers-notre-dame-alabama/

Pause for flaws. Someone, please tell Heather Dinich that Halloween is over. 😁 https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50359655/cfp-rankings-fatal-flaws

1st PO ranking winners and whiners. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/11/03/cfp-rankings-first-winners-losers-college-football-playoff-2026-analysis/92592037007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=Content%20List%20-%20Stacking%20-%20optimized&utm_co

See the post above, (No. 5) as you are new here and have not been through what the rest of us have with venting. And we have a rule against it because it has been such a problem in the past. What we see is normal behavior....it is human nature, and it is interesting to watch it play out, hence my observation.

Even discussing the negative on that is fine. This is a very astute group of people, but I have a hard time conveying the difference between discussing negative, versus going over-the-top negative and venting. We have a rule against venting No. 31, and suggest people read No. 31a, also, 31b especially, and 31d. My concern is that those who have great observations that are negative will not post, as they don't understand that I want the negative posts, but not the innovative insults and the venting. We've been through this before with the final year of Cristobal, and the year of losing to the Huskies twice....was quite a meltdown for some. Again negative is fine, as that is what we do in a forum. And I have certainly not only participated in posting negative, but made jokes in the process. You are a great example of posting both ways, and I appreciate that. It gives you much more credibility with your negative posts when you post positive along with them. And I understand that some years, like this one, we are going to have a ton more negative posts. It is the way it is, and I've tolerated a TON more than I prefer, but since they did not break the rules....I let them all stay. It was observation on my part about human nature, as being a moderator for thousands of posts--I've learned a ton about our tendencies over the years.

Many are questioning Bama at No. 5. SISI:AM | The Very Weird CFP RankingsAlabama got some extra love from the committee, of course, but that wasn’t the only thing worth grumbling about.