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DC Jim Knowles did an excellent job at Ohio State, and this season he has the Tennessee defense playing great football. Under Franklin, Knowles flunked. The Penn State team that underachieved in Franklin's final half-season had a lot of experienced talent that did not perform as expected. A few weeks back, Kirby Smart noted that today's players are not as hungry or as motivated compared to players even a few years ago. Why should they be as motivated? They're being paid before going to the NFL. In the Big Ten this season, Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, Penn State, and UW have not played up to expectations. USC has a game in Bloomington on Saturday and finishes against UCLA in the Rose Bowl; 8-4 is in view. UCLA has a motivated coach who came up from the G6 and a core of players who were playing at JMU last season. The coach and the players are hungry. In the SEC, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Florida, despite being ranked this season, have underperformed. Auburn will not cover the preseason win total. South Carolina, Ole Miss, LSU, and Missouri could all finish with four or more losses. Saturday, Texas is +4 at LSU and Tennessee is down to -1.5 at Oklahoma. No. 6 Texas and No. 8 Tennessee could suffer a third loss. A 24-team PO is coming along at the right time. The word of the day in CFB, like the NFL, is 'Parity.' Motivating players is harder than it was even half a decade ago. How many experienced coaches will adapt to this world of college football? How many coaches can handle today's roster turnover? Even 'recession-proof' Ohio State is feeling the pain. I watch games coast to coast, and see that Lopa, Grey, Green, Kasper, and even Makhi Hughes are balling out. Talent that not so long ago would have bolstered Oregon's roster, pushed starters for playing time, and would have been available to back up injured players. CFB fans are watching a new paradigm and expecting the same results. No team, especially a team in the Big Ten and the SEC, is talented enough and, sadly, motivated enough to simply show up and go 10-2. Unlike Notre Dame, Oregon cannot schedule for success. Firing a coach who goes 9-3 in a given season, especially in a season with injury to key starters, is not realistic in today's college football. Fire Ryan Day, Dan Lanning, Matt Campbell, Jedd Fisch, Mike Elko, and/or Brent Venables, and none of these coaches will be out of a job for an extended period of time. I haven't seen one of the CFB geniuses who want Dan Lanning gone suggest a viable replacement, a replacement who will go 54-11 (.831) in his first four and three-quarters seasons.

I've passed that stadium every single day driving to work for the last 20 months......and I can assure you that I give that stadium the one finger salute everytime I drive by!!!!

I think it was Columbia Bank. They removed the Husky Stadium name, because the Husky's don't win there very often.

It took the post as sarcasm, what a Washington or USC fan might post.

UW to change name of stadium for a $70,000,000 cash infusion from a bank. I’m on my phone and I forget what the name of the bank was but I thought they were rich and they didn’t need the money?

I hope I don’t get banned for saying this, but I’m rooting for SUsC. 😬

The other games that matter: Illinois v UCLA = Go Bruins, wins us the tie breaker with Ill; Wisc v Maryland, need Maryland (not going to happen), so look at tiebreaker below; SC v IU, Go Trojans !!!, then we have tiebreaker over IU; Purdue v Iowa, see Maryland above. Interesting the depth of tiebreakers: With Wisc, it would come down to the cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents, something that won't be certain until the end of the regular season. With Iowa, we need Ohio St to win out so our win v them breaks the tie with Iowa. Oregon football: Four games that could impact Ducks' CFP chances

OMG, classic 😂💯👏

Being as we would be in the expanded playoff this year I would be absolutely shocked if we don't make it next year. To miss the expanded playoff would require a more disastrous season next season than this season which would take some absolutely catastrophic injuries. I say injuries because I think this is the worst year of assistant coaches Lanning is going to have for some time, he'll make another bad hire at some point because that just happens, but I think he learned the lesson on hiring.

A couple coaching decisions (not going for 2 points) could have put Oregon in position to win that game with what.. like 7 turnovers! I'd love a rematch with UCLA with what we are currently doing.

Flock Talk: Stay HungryOregon rediscovered its confidence when the expectations disappeared. Now, with the Ducks back in the playoff conversation, Saturday will reveal whether they've also learned how to sustain the hungerFlock Talk: Stay HungryOregon rediscovered its confidence when the expectations disappeared. Now, with the Ducks back in the playoff conversation, Saturday will reveal whether they've also learned how to sustain the hunger

“…until proven otherwise.” Right. If “otherwise” appears, then we will cross that bridge when we get to it…

Oregon Ducks Football: Duck Tape Film Analysis of Michigan Football 2026A preview of Oregon’s week 11 opponent in Autzen Addicted To QuackOregon Ducks Football: Duck Tape Film Analysis of Michiga...A preview of Oregon’s week 11 opponent in Autzen

Devil’s advocate. It has been demonstrated that in the world of CFB in 2026 you can take a historically bad program (Indiana neck and neck with Northwestern for program with most football losses in history) and win a national championship inside of 2 years…and we still don’t have one to date. Now we also have the current UCLA and Oklahoma State examples of programs in the toilet doing amazing things in less than a year. Continuing as devil’s advocate, at what number of years does it become a question when a program that has one of the largest budgets in all of football and the HC makes an 8-figure annual salary? What happens if we don’t make the playoff this year, decline the Pop Tarts Bowl, and then don’t make the expanded field next year? I agree Dan is the man until proven otherwise, but everyone has some kind of limit. Apparently for some it is 5 years.

Jeremiah was the primary reason I originally had this game as being OBD's only loss during conference play. Our Young FRESHMAN was on him all day and closed incredibly fast when Jeremiah did get some separation. I am becoming more impressed as the season goes on with Coach Hamptons growth and his D adapting to different situations, in game and otherwise. Not to the elite level DL and our fan base demands...but certainly making strides in the right direction. Don't think he is going anywhere after the season. These next three games are primed for the defense to solidify their consistency and carry the Ducks (as they have most of the season) into the CFP and whatever awaits OBD once there. 🦆🏈🪨's

This video gives me a tremendous amount of confidence in what our Defensive Coordinator, (Chris Hampton) is doing. The greatest offensive weapon in America is shut-down until Garbage Time? It was a major factor in our victory, and mostly overlooked. A second factor was the defensive play on a fourth down for the Buckeyes...because of the score and timing within the game. It was huge, a major factor and also overlooked. Excellent video, and THANKS!

3 keys to victory for Oregon vs. Michigan https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/11/13/oregon-football-3-keys-to-victory-for-ducks-vs-michigan-wolverines/92749199007/

Ducks Wire staff predicts Oregon Ducks vs. Michigan Wolverines https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/11/13/oregon-football-michigan-predictions-score-picks/92750165007/

35-17 Ducks 2 Sacks 2 TO 289 Passing Yards

Safety Devin Jackson performing well for the defense! Oregon Ducks On SIDan Lanning Admits Why Oregon Safety Devin Jackson Has Hi...The 2026 season has featured a slower build-up for the No. 16 Oregon Ducks’ true freshmen than in 2025. While the previous recruiting class saw names like runni

Thanks Kirklandduck for putting the scoducks podcast on the Forum thread. The network broadcast team did very little or nothing to explain to their viewers how OBD's Defense held Smith to 56 receing yards until garbage time. The scoduck team really breaks it down. If this game had been played in September the Duck D may have struggled to contain Smith. Hats off to the defensive game plan by DL and Hampton. And for the execution by the players. This defense is starting to dominate their opponents for long stretches of the game. Love to see the defense dominate a 4 quarter game. Go Ducks

I used to wear those hideous green and red bowling rental shoes back in the 70s. I was in high school at the time. All my friends thought they were really cool. The "adults" thought it was stupid - which made it even better!

Here is my answer to that question: Do you trade Michael Jordan because he missed some shots? Dan Lanning pulled his team up and throttled Ohio St. Think about that for a second. Oregon is now the billy bad @$$ of the Big 10. Indiana played OSU basically even. Traditional powers Michigan and Penn St are reeling. Iowa is still being Iowa - watch out for them. UCLA has not really been tested yet since Oregon was weak when they played. If you want to talk about momentum, Georgia, Alabama and Oregon, in that order. That is who is hot right now. You can throw in Utah if you want to, but until they beat a team with 4 and 5 stars, they are just a good team. This season, Oregon could have gone the route of Clemson, Fla St, Michigan, Penn St, Texas A&M, Florida, Oklahoma. Oregon came back. But you can hold Dan Lanning "accountable" by scoring the bad OC hire/lack of O line readiness on a spreadsheet. If too many bad things add up over so many more games or seasons, then you have a case. But not for some bad off season decisions by a first time head coach. Everybody knew he would make a mistake at some point. On top of all that, Dan Lanning still has team fired up and he is not losing recruits or players. That Ohio St game is as big as a "come back" as has ever been seen. Certainly even bigger than Tennessee beating Alabama. What else did they do with that momentum? Did they win the SEC that year? No. But they did throw some goal posts in the lake. That is classic Beavis Move: beat your rival and act like you won the super bowl. Oregon is hot right now. They can rip a new one into the rest of the schedule and be THE hottest team heading into the post season. The Ducks are not celebrating, they are salivating. Like a pit bull that wants to tear into some flesh. This team is angry. They are mad about the way they under performed. They knew at pre season, they had a shot at a championship. They have a few injuries, but they are still dangerous. The O line is as "fixed" as it can be and Dillon Raiola is as good a backup they could hope for (at this point in time, that could change). They still have a mission.

There won't be a fully effective run game with this current OL line up. They'll get incrementally better by the end of the season but not dominating in any way, shape or form. DL will need to hit the portal hard for more experienced help and as I have said on other threads, I think he needs to bring in a more experienced OL coach.

In addition to those four, put T Ball or Brandon in the backfield and make them cover them too. All Raiola needs to do is be a distributor.