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Iffy is primed to have a great season. The jump from year 1 to 2 and the experience he gained last year will help. Oregon Ducks On SIOne Returning Player Ready to Become a Star for Oregon DucksThe Oregon Ducks enter the season with rising expectations, as they will be looking to land themselves back in a national championship game for the first time s

The family pressured him to go to Notre Dame. Close to where he lives. Easy for family to go to home games. Can understand that. Oregon and Notre Dame were both chasing elite 4-star DL Brayden Parks. He chose the Irish and the Ducks still have one major target on the board for 2027. On today's episode of Locked On Ducks, Spencer McLaughlin discusses how productive the Oregon offense should be this year. Dante Moore and the Ducks' receiving corps should be fully unleashed. Oregon's offensive line has a couple key returners and a few questions as well. Will that group prove to be a major hurdle to winning a national title? 00:00 Oregon Ducks football recruiting analysis 03:48 Oregon's interior defensive line recruits 13:14 Oregon passing game potential 16:27 Projecting Jamari Johnson's Season 19:47 Comparing Oregon's 2026 offensive line 21:43 Discussing Oregon's left guard lineup 24:25 Discussing Oregon vs. Ohio State football

The old SEC motto--WE were great when we brought the $$$$ in from the back door.😃

These media days are just a circus. From Pat Narduzzi trying to get Manny Diaz to do a wrestling promo on transfer tampering, and LSU of all people saying no conference mate should ever take from a fellow conference mate.... Yeah that happened. Didn't Kiffin try to pilfer Ole Miss during their playoff run?!!!! You had Kirby Smart calling Kiffin Adonis, which led podcaster RJ Young into grading how beautiful head coaches are..... Not in my bingo card🤣. Pete Golding said he would have no issues in moral ambiguity when it comes to player acquisition, because everyone is doing it. An obvious shout out to old Lane. That brought the silliloquoy of brilliance, that Kiffin responded with today.... Eli Drinkowitz complained about the nine game schedule. Will Stein said Kentucky was going to win, and win big because of himself. That's right, Will Stein pulled the old Ric Flair promo out. "To be the man...Woooooo!!!" Jon Sumrall spoke on how his situation was nothing like Lane Kiffins. Despite Kiffin insisting it was during the season. Sumrall plainly told Lane the leaving Tulane for an SEC school was not the same as leaving an SEC school for another SEC school. Imagine a B1G coach leaving for another B1G job and telling the Chesney, who left James Madison for UCLA, that it was the same situation. What do I gather from all this? A bunch of bluster, and press clippings. The SEC isn't going to breakaway from the NCAA, it's all for show. All the other sports would be dead if that happened, including men's basketball, which also makes a pretty nickel ( pennies are discontinued). Nick Saban is an Alabama spokesman, so of course he'll always be a spokesman for what they want to hear. In Chicago, we'll get to hear some more promos. Except this time it will be from the B1G side. If you enjoy this stuff, that's cool. I just wouldn't expect to learn much.

I don't believe author RJ Young and Lane are Kiffin cousins. 🤬 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/lane-kiffin-lsu-ole-miss-contract-salary

You lose me.

"Facts are inconvenient things." John Adams. If the SEC is the top football conference, how did Bama defeat all of those ranked SEC teams in a row, make the PO with three losses, win a 1st-round PO game at SEC behemoth Oklahoma, and lose 38-3 to Indiana? At SEC media days, Kirby Smart reminded everyone that Georgia's 2nd-round loss in the Sugar Bowl last season was to SEC opponent Mississippi. Apparently, Kirby doesn't recall losing the 2024-25 Sugar Bowl to Notre Dame? Understandable. I don't like to recall the 2024-25 Rose Bowl or the 2025-26 Peach Bowl; however, OBD lost to Big Ten teams, Big Ten teams that won championships. In 2025, PO home game 1st-round loser Texas A&M played six of the SEC's seven bottom teams. A&M did not defeat an SEC team that won more than six games. Overranked throughout the season, Missouri did not defeat a P4 opponent that won more than six games. As was the case in the ACC, B12, and Big Ten in 2026, six SEC teams did not win more than five games. That's 33.33% of the Big Ten and 37.50% of the SEC. In a year where the B1G played nine conference games and the SEC played eight. When you obfuscate, even in Tampa, Florida, you are skating on thin ice.

Notre Dame edges out Oregon in Brayden Parks sweepstakes https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/recruiting/2026/07/23/oregon-football-recruiting-brayden-parks-commitment-notre-dame/91028018007/

If we're talking plurality in which the conference has the most competition from top to bottom the Old Pac-12 was the best conference as anyone could win in any given week. Now it would be the Big 12 as they have the most competition from a game-to-game and week-to-week basis. But we don't count those conferences because they didn't or can't win a national championship because they don't have a team that could win it all.

Obstructed view for the faint of heart?

Per St. Nick: “First of all, whoever wins the national championship doesn’t define who has the best conference. I think the best conference gets defined by how many good teams you have from top to bottom." Facts to ignore: But to suggest that the Big Ten is solely winning national championships and getting lucky with one team the last few years conveniently ignores that the depth argument about the SEC also doesn’t hold up, at least at the top of the league. The Big Ten was 11-5 in bowl games last year, the SEC was 4-10. In fact, the Big Ten has a combined 8-2 record against the SEC in bowl games over the last two seasons and a 3-0 record in the College Football Playoff.

Florida, the beneficiary of the SEC-bump, is in many of the preseason top 25 rankings. Florida has not bowled since 2024, and Coach Sumrall has never coached in the P4. QB Aaron Philo and his OC Buster Faulkner are coming to Florida from Georgia Tech, but ... In 2025, Philo was the backup QB at GT. Georgia Tech, behind guts ball QB Haynes King, did finish 17th in 2025 Total Offense. But this was against ACC defenses, not what Philo and Faulkner will see in the SEC. CFB guru Phil Steele ranks Florida's 2026 schedule the 10th most difficult in the nation. Sumrall was hired after Florida failed to win the Lane Kiffin sweepstakes. The 7.5 2026 win total for Florida is a good number; I think the Gators will win 7 or 8 games. For Forum friend Gat's sake, I hope the Gators win at least nine games.

Can Dan get this young man's commitment when he lives 'next door' to a Notre Dame team with deep NIL pockets? Choosing Oregon will be an upset.

One of the last remaining uncommitted blue chips, 6-3 and 305 DT Brayden Parks out of Chicago, is set to announce today at 2pm Pacific between Oregon and Notre Dame. ND listed as the favorite (close to home plus family ties) but Ducks still with a punchers chance. https://247sports.com/article/top247-dl-brayden-parks-commitment-thursday-cbs-288417604/ Go to CBS Sports College Football YouTube Channel link in story and click, and then find the Live button on the channel site.

1st round 2025 16-team field games: 1. Indiana vs. 16 Tulane 8. Oklahoma vs. 9. Alabama 4. Texas Tech vs. 13. Texas 5. Oregon vs. 12. BYU 2. Ohio State vs. 15. Utah 7. Texas A+M vs. 10. Miami 3. Georgia vs. 14. Vanderbilt 6. Mississippi vs. 11. Notre Dame Georgia had a bye and lost to Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl; Oklahoma and Texas A+M lost home games. Texas did defeat a dysfunctional Michigan team in its bowl game; Vanderbilt lost its bowl game to 4-loss Iowa. And as a side note, 3-loss Illinois defeated 3-loss Tennessee in Nashville. Five SEC teams in the 12-team field; none played for a championship. The PO committee thinks the SEC is the top football conference; Tony Petitti, speaking softly and carrying a B1G stick, disagrees. Bill Parcells: "Your record says what you are".

Thank you, Charles, for these great posts. There is humidity where the SEC is meeting in Tampa, but no humility. Perhaps when it doesn't Just Mean More on the field, you might want to zip it? When Big Ten media days open on Tuesday, July 28th, in Chicago, I expect Tony Petitti to reiterate the facts about the conference's athletic success in 2025 and 2026 to date, and then rest his case. I expect to hear nothing about the difficulty of schedules versus 'The Other Guys' or anything about breaking away and going intramural except in response to questions from the media. It will be interesting if we hear from Tony and the coaches about the preference for a 24-team playoff field. The PO committee's final ranking on 12/7/25 would have given us a 16-team PO field with 7 SEC, 3 Big Ten, 3 B12, 1 ACC, 1 G5 team that would have knocked out 16 USC and Notre Dame. Four of the eight first-round games would have been hosted by SEC teams. A 2025 24-team field: 7 SEC, 6 Big Ten, 5 B12, 3 ACC, 2 G5, and Notre Dame. Tony is a businessman well aware that the PO committee's process is opaque and the results are SEC-centric. Tony will not agree to a 16-team PO without automatic qualifiers, which are not included in Tony's 24-team proposal. From having the bully playoff pulpit a few seasons back, Greg Sankey is now on a playoff island of his own. BTW, what do you think ESPN would pay to broadcast intramural SEC sports with the playoffs only involving SEC teams?

If you don't like the SEC and think they are full of hot air... Oh do I have a fun article on Monday. Stay tuned everyone! Yes... Shameless self promotion.

Sumrall and Florida should be interesting to watch and see what happens over the next year or two. I don't follow Florida or their fanbase really at all so I don't know if he'll be under immense pressure to win right away or if there's patience for him as he rebuilds the program.

Never grows Old....

So true...so fun to watch and recall!

Aesthetics-wise, T. Boone Pickens Stadium ranks No. 4 in this B12 stadium ranking, but it is the loudest stadium in the conference and No. 1 in open amateur fans' voting. Perhaps a Week 2 11 AM local kickoff time is a blessing in disguise? At least a few of the Paddle people could be sober? https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2026/07/23/big-12-college-football-stadium-rankings/90950547007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=Conten