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I get it. But think of it as a 16-team PO with 8 on-campus play-in games contested on what would have been conference championship game weekend. And the top 8 seeds playing on-campus games instead of sitting around for close to a month with their fans required to travel to a 2nd-round bowl game site. Eight meaningful play-in games instead of the teams meeting in nothing-burger bowl games with many players sitting out. Millions more CFB fans would be invested in the postseason, and millions more dollars would be distributed to the ACC and B12 programs, which might hold off further conference consolidation and NFL-Lite.

How our new offensive and defensive coordinators call, and adjust, to the game. Go Ducks!

Penny, calling Sky. (To get this, you also have to remember Roy Rogers and a Jeep called Nelly Bell. 😁) Compared to Notre Dame traveling to LA to play SC back in Knute Rockne's day, it's a piece of cake. BSU should have taken the BUS.

Call me old-fashioned (or just old works) but I still think the 24-team format is basically a money grab that will produce some really lousy first- and maybe second-round games. There ain't 16 teams capable of hoisting the natty in any given year, let alone 24.

THIS is how Sankey saves face and gets behind Petitti's 23-team PO. He has to be able to claim a measure of victory in the PO wars. Three years ago, Sankey was the CFB commissioner on top, and Petitti's PO format would destroy CFB. Today? Sankey is on his own except for his friends in Bristol, CT. In successful businesses, the best strategy and tactics and not the loudest mouths, win the day. Speak softly, Tony, and carry a B1G stick.

Ducks go 12-0 in regular season Winn the Natty 31-18 For season average 38.5 points on offense For season average 16.7 points on defense Number one in the country in sacks

Team buses arrived at Eugene hotel at 8:56 p.m.

Ok... So I had to look it up. Driving from Boise to Eugene is 7 hours and 40 minutes ... About. The plane trip is 1:40 minutes... Then Eugene to Portland is 30-50 minutes but with all the other delays let's just rack that up to an hour. So plane time wise let's say 2 hours for Eugene and 1 hour to diver to Portland, including getting from campus to the Boise airport. So we are at 3 hours. Normally Eugene to Oregon is 2 hours... So 4 hours round trip. But but but... It's a Friday night with some rain and these are busses we're talking about and not cars. So the waiting and travel from PDX to Eugene is probably closer to 5 hours. Whole travel total is probably around 8 hours for them today. They might as have driven from BSU to Eugene.

No Guts, No Airmail. 🙃

Mensah (Miami through portal) went 26/29 386 yds with 5 TDs. against Stanford tonight in three and one-half quarters. Whew! Watch out for Mensah and Mario. Miami is favored to win the ACC Title with a relatively easy schedule this season. Our Ducks may encounter The U in a hurricane late in the season.

Offensive tackles and inside linebackers are where my focus will be. Hoping to see smooth sideline operations with new Coordinators. Dante's growth in reading and reacting to defensive shifts. I am comfortably calm despite losing Lupoi and Stein.

It's a League game, Smokey.

The Oregonian: The flight was diverted to Portland due to heavy rains around the Eugene Airport, which is undergoing construction on its larger (wider?), West runway.

Buses departed PDX around 6:45 pm. So, 9:00 pm still the estimate...but it if Friday traffic.

Oof... That's painful. Glad it's not me and not my Ducks!

I want to see us get to the qb. Playing a containment strategy is very risky with a 5th year qb.

Home field advantage begins at the airport 🛩️

DUCKS 42-17 2 4 269

I'm hoping Gaitlin is on a mission after a mission and that opposing DBs will have to assume the position. 😁

I think 48-8, with a trend of only losing to Champs is pretty elite in its own right. Just a matter of time now. I think Hampton will have some control, its got to align with Lannings vision, for sure. Hampton is a big reason Oregon has the juice to win the whole thing this year. Been with Lanning from the start. 7 returning starters, 8 if you include Koi. 2 deep playing above the line winning football. We will see, but that has been the narrative.

Apparently, the flight left Boise about 2:23 MT and was scheduled to arrive in Eugene approx 2:30 PT. The flight did not land. There was rain in Eugene at that time and the Sun Country charter flight pilots circled Eugene waiting for a weather break. After a period of time, they decided to divert to Portland. The flight landed in Portland, but rather than attempt to fly back to Eugene a decision was made to bus to Eugene on Friday evening. But, the contracted buses were in Eugene. So, the team waited in Portland for the buses to arrive. Last estimate I read would put the team in Eugene sometime around 9:00 pm or a bit thereafter. All my notes are based on a BSU beat writer's Twitter/X account.

I do not understand the reasoning that caused LSU (Kiffen) to decide to face the scorn of the entire football community for a few players that really do not seem as if they move the needle all that much.

Quick passes if O Line is not there yet. Killed us against Indiana...2x D scheme that creates more pressure and sacks. Georgia D in 2021 that bent not broke scheme had 700 1st round picks on it...we may have our share now, but bringing that scheme with him can DL be elite again (Kirby's scheme?) or can he let Hampton adjust a bit?

Before predicting, I waited to see if Kellon Moore and Ashton Jeanty were back for a 5th season and if Chris Petterson was still doing TV and not on the Boise State sideline. 34-17 - One-score game heading into the 4th quarter. 1 TO caused 1 sack (7 hurries) 250 passing yards Boise State is an Oregon nemesis, a top G6 program, and the Broncos come into this nationally televised game geeked beyond belief.

11-1 (We only lose to tOSU) B1G Champs (We BEAT tOSU) We LOSE to tOSU in the Natty 36-35 34 ppg offense 18 ppg defense