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With as crazy and frustrating as this season has gone, if the Ducks don't lose again this year, they still may end up National Champions. I'm letting this thing play out.

Michigan has given up 20 to Iowa, 20 to Minnesota and 21 to Rutgers so 28 seems about right for the Ducks to me. With UM's offensive problems, that's about 25 more than they should need.

16 is higher than a three loss team deserves. Chaos will happen as it always does. Ducks win out and finishing 11th is a real possibility.

Moving up five places in just three weeks....especially with our unremarkable schedule left, (in terms of rankings) and considering the teams ahead of us...I think it is a very low probability of Oregon making the conference championship game, and/or making the Playoff. But let's go for it!

We need to step up running the ball. At least 3 to 4 yards consistent so we don't get in holes. This will not be easy this week!

I like your numbers, and a new part of our entertainment is seeing what the ceiling is on the revised Oregon offense. Most would say that matching the Ohio State performance would be more than adequate, as the step up from the Northwestern game was vast, but can we make another step from the tOSU game? The upside is there, but we only have three weeks; can they do it? Fun to watch for...

Now that OBD's have positioned themselves for a slim shot at a "at large invite", can they still play loose and have fun? Each week the pressure to win and win convincingly will build. There is no squeaking by or limping into a CFP invite. The only factor in the Ducks control is to beat the 3 teams left on the schedule. And win big! Some of the teams ahead of them will lose games. Opportunities to move up will happen. If the Ducks are an 11 point favorite, then win by 21. Be dominant and leave no doubt. This Duck team has the talent. Do they have the resolve when the pressure is on. Go Ducks! Open another can of whoop arse on the Wolverines. Impress the committee. Go Usuck beat IU.

Oregon has a game this week against a very nasty Mich defense. Top 15 nationally allowing 16 points per game. Top 5 in pass D and holds opposition to about 100 yards on the ground. Oregon has spent the season trying to fix a very talented but broken offense. The last couple games have shown a ton of improvement. Going into the shoe and smashing Ohio State. Ducks have gained a huge amount of confidence. My question... what does the Oregon offense have to do to flip your thoughts on the ceiling? Oregon on paper has as much talent as anyone. Some injury along the way has dampened that some but still super talented. My number is 27pts and 350 yards of offense. 125 on the ground. Oregon does that against this Mich D and I think the championship window is back open as long as they can get to the PO. What do you think?

Agree. They got treated like an SEC team this week with a 7 point jump. My thought before the rankings came out was that if Oregon could get to 15 or 16, then they have a shot at an at-large if they win out. Hopefully, they make the championship game and give UCLA a beatdown.

I don't know what happens from here. I am rooting like heck for my Ducks. Pumping sunshine and going full on rabid, bleed green and yellow fanatic. Ducks are on the move and getting above the line play from both sides of the ball and from coaching. No matter what happens, the coaching job Lanning has pulled out of his backside has been epic. Dude grew up as a coach and has solidified who he is as a coach. All the micro analysis is great and fun to read. But right now, Oregon is just playing ball and playing it well. Nothing to lose hair on fire controlled chaos. And I love it. Players are bought in when many could have threw in the towel. And they are dangerous. The committee knows it and jumped them up 7. Just keep winning Ducks. Imo, the conner is turned and some haven't recognized it yet. But man, you can sure feel it.

You got to hand oregold one thing, he trolled OBD to the tune of 30+ responses to his post. Probably the biggest response he'll ever get in his life, aside from the look of love he gets from his pigs after filling the slop trough

I think the committee is trying to get Oregon in the PO. Just keep winning and Oregon is in. Pretty obvious they think Oregon is one of the best teams in the country.

It is one thing to say I hope my team meets my expectations. It is another thing entirely to judge based on metrics like we have superior talent, we pay the players 50M, and pay our coaches another 20M, we are owed better. NFL teams pay 150 to 200M to their coaches and players. About 4 of them are truly excellent. Do we not pay attention to reality? If you don't like the tone of my post, consider I am matching the tone of our fan base. It is toxic. A lot of entitlement mentality is being expressed. Worse, we aren't demonstrating the excellence we expect. What Dan Lanning has done this year is no surprise if you've been paying attention. The drama, disappointment, and shattered dreams never changed that. He showed you just over three years ago in Seattle who he was. He told you why 3 days later. He proved it year after year. He even told you two weeks ago the process will fix itself. He didn't say when. You didn't want to hear it. You wanted Kool-Aid and Candy Canes. We are not children. We all know life throws us obstacles and challenges we're built to overcome, especially when we make mistakes. Nobody in Oregon's program can guarantee a National Championship. Not one person. If you don't like that, you are going to be disappointed a very long time. Dan Lanning is your coach. It's up to you how you want to handle it.

No editing needed. Nuff Sed!

That's gonna leave a mark!

tOSU had their starters in at the end, while several Oregon defenders were already sitting, while the scheme was prevent D, when the 2 late TDs occurred. It was also plain that Oregon was playing to burn clock at that point, rather than pushing to put up more points.

Lanning made a mistake in hiring Mehringer ... I have also gone on record multiple times at this point saying that he has made a lot of internal promotions that has weakened the overall team and this season it has come to fruition. Need a new QB coach, and I wouldn't be surprised if Johnson has quietly taken over a lot more of that role too now. Might need a new TE coach ... Linebackers has been a problem over the past few years but it kinda feels like this year's group has worked it out and maybe the LB coach finally has a good understanding of what he needs to do in year 3 or 4? Again... Lanning went young with that internal hire too. Looking at Lanning's track record though in the last two years. 2024 won the Big Ten Championship and beat Ohio State in the regular season... yeah got blown out in the playoff which sucked but 13-1 season. 2025 a loss to Indiana during the regular season in a game where Moore fell apart as a young starter... and then went on a tear the rest of the season with a multitude of injuries and made it to the semi final... and got blown out by Indiana in a game that the OC and DC were both distracted with their new jobs and the runningback room was down to it's No.3 and No.6 runners. In a way I can understand why Lanning went with Mehringer. He was a guy who was loyal in the program and seemed to want to stick around. He knew the offense and I am sure he is great with the Xs and Os on paper. He is an absolutely awful play-caller with no feel for it. But I kinda think it was a knee jerk reaction to the loss of two coordinators. I think Hampton was always the plan to promote when Lupoi left. Hampton has taken some time to get his feet under him but the defense feels pretty good and I am sure Lanning himself had a big role to play in getting them on track. But what we can all say is... holy crap... this Oregon team is still ranked!? This team was dead and the 2026 season's grave was dug and we were about to bury the season and call it a day when the Ducks get a jolt of life back in them and they take down two top 25 teams in two weeks including a blue blood in a blow out. It sucks that it has taken this long into the season to get this team rolling but they are now... this team honest to goodness would beat Oklahoma State, UCLA and Illinois if they had those games today. Lanning has the coaching chops... but yeah he made some BAD hires and they took awhile to reveal just how bad they were. I expect coaching changes this off season and if there aren't any I'd be really concerned moving forward. As for mid season fixes... I can't think of anyone who has done it better. Remember Penn State last year just fell apart before our eyes and James Franklin couldn't get the team back on track. That was a highly paid NIL roster with all the resources in the world that should have made a National Championship run. Instead the team fell apart, the HC fired all by mid season. That is not what is happening at Oregon and if we are seeing this kind of growth this season... what happens when Lanning has built the correct staff with the correct roster? Year 6 of Lanning can be special. The end of year 5 is frankly still a mystery.

The way I am reading the rankings is this: 1 would beat 2, 2 would beat 3, and so on. I like the way they are not going by record. For the most part. I like the way they are going by who is good now. Again, for the most part. Oregon needs to dominate the end of season and give them something to think about. Oregon has elite players, just not quite a whole team of them. Some of these Big12 and ACC teams are just good for who they are and who they play. Who would smack down Oregon? Georgia and bama. Maybe LSU. Texas IF they have a perfect game. ND and Miami look pretty tough. I think Oregon vs Tennessee would be a classic. Right now, I like Oregon vs. EVERYBODY in the Big10. (Although Iowa scares me somewhat) What would Oregon do vs the Big12 and ACC playoff teams? That is what the "committee" is going to have to think about. And if Oregon wins out and looks really good doing it, (like I think they will!), the "committee" is going to have to answer that question.

I come at this with a little different perspective. As a first time head coach of a major program, Dan Lanning was bound to have a hic cup and this year he had one. So far, he has responded A+, although I feel it took too long to make the change at OC. I think he can learn and get over his past coaching mistakes. So that part does not concern me... much. The part that is lacking is not getting the cream of the crop players. Yes, he is getting 5 stars and high 4 stars, but he is not getting the best of the best - those at the very top. Especially OT and edge. The elite programs get those guys. And increasingly in modern college football, safety is important. Minnesota blew an upset of UCLA due to poor safety play and Oregon got burned when Perich was not playing well. A Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Ohio St and even USC can get those guys a little easier than Oregon. Could ANY head coach get those guys at Oregon? It remains to be seen. Cristobal got Kayvon Thib and Chip got DAT. Those two players beat teams all by themselves. The blue bloods get players like that every year. We had some busts at 5 star, but so does everybody else who can get them. If you want a championship, you need those kinds of players. Right now, we have some of those at WR and DB. We can also include TE and the linebackers are mostly playing very well too. DT can make the cut, but we need more athleticism at edge. Safety does not make the cut. Neither does O line. RB is a little short, but I like Brandon and T. Ball. Dante would have been that player. Raiola is a prayer that sometimes gets answered. Dan Lanning is a very good coach and maybe the best fit Oregon could ever hope for. But if you want that championship, you need to build the roster just a little bit better. Oregon under Dan Lanning, is not that far away.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. OK, it still sucks. But there is only one certain way into the PO for OBD. Win the last B1G championship game. SC paving the way for a Ducks PO spot while the Trojans play their way to San Antonio would be double the pleasure, and double the 2026 fun. 😍

Indiana, without playing a game, drops from No. 4 to No. 9. Nine SEC teams are ranked. Does a close loss at 2-loss Texas overcome Ole Miss being destroyed at unranked Florida and at home by Georgia? 2-loss Bama in the top 10, fine. But ahead of a Tennessee team that beat Bama. Because Bama just defeated an overrated LSU team and lost a close game against Georgia in Tuscaloosa. What does Mizzou have to do not to be ranked? SSecDD. However, Georgia deserves to be ranked No. 1. A 24-team PO will eliminate some of the bias, but not all, before the CFB committee uses disclosed metrics to support their rankings, like the CBB committee.

If only we lived in a parallel universe where the playoff committee didn't consider losses. At least we are the highest ranked 3 loss team for now.

I have a suggestion...wait until we lose before you unload on him? Doing it after a great victory detracts from your legitimate criticisms; it makes me wonder, quite a bit, about the timing of your concerns. Very few coaches have done what Lanning has done in his first five years, and after all your berating....who do you replace him with? The coaches on par are either comfortably in their current jobs in college or the NFL, or you take a chance on someone unproven. Of all the candidates out there--Dan is the best of them.

Miami is 129th and BYU 136th. How are they ranked so high?

They're just screwing with us now. Dangling an at large bid...I don't see it without major carnage ahead of us, like 3 Big 12 teams losing multiple games to get knocked out in addition to SEC cannibalization. The worst part is the only alternative is rooting for Riley to beat Cignetti outside of the Coliseum. Something neither want to root for, nor expect in a million years to happen.