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I looked at BYU's schedule, and if they beat #10 Utah. I don't see them losing this year. What would their record be if they were in the B1G or SEC? If Miami beats Notre Dame, the same could be said for them. The ACC and Big Twelve are miles behind. Will BYU be the number one seed should they win out, and Miami loses to the only threat on their schedule? Will Notre Dame get a home playoff game if they lose to the only two threats on theirs? There was an ESPN article debating if Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State will leave the B1G because of the 24 team playoff. Essentially saying those three would just prefer to schedule like Notre Dame, instead of having nine conference games. I would take this article more seriously if he put some SEC programs in that hypothetical situation as well. After all, the SEC slate is just a meat grinder. That one extra conference game is just too much. ESPN has been spouting that off for weeks now.

Thanks Jon. The Ducks defense looked like what we were expecting, against what has been a pretty explosive Husker offense. Hopefully Raiola can play like he did vs his old team, in the upcoming weeks. You beat Ohio State, and you are back in playoff contention. Florida might be able to play spoiler against Georgia, and yes Kentucky. That would help clear the way.

I don't understand football at this point. Two top ten wins, sandwiching two absolute two abysmal blowout losses to teams that won't be ranked by the end of the season. I don't want to hear about this nine game conference thing as an excuse. ESPN is trying was trying to push that crap before both Alabama and Georgia lost. If you can't get up for every game, that's on you.

Oregon is down to their third string QB. I don't know what Nebraska's excuse is for this OFFENSIVE offense, other than Oregon has guys playing up to their potential on the defensive line. This has been a good old fashioned SLOBBERKNOCKER as Jim Ross would say. Just as I say this, Nebraska puts together their best drive. Come on Ducks, I need to have a team to cheer for in the playoffs.

I didn't get a chance to watch much football on Saturday. But, I just saw the replay of your QB getting knocked out, and the clown who did it celebrated like he was in a UFC fight. The fact that he didn't get suspended indefinitely by USC , tells me what they're not teaching. Even South Carolina suspended their star Dylan Stewart for his nonsense, and he didn't send a guy to the hospital. I really hope Moore is going to be okay, concussions can be tricky.

Too early for that my friend. But it's nice to be relevant. Baugh needs to be in the Heisman conversation.

Come on Ducks!!!! It's been a good day so far. We can't be having USC, Texas, and Miami all be thinking they're back,.

The 24 team playoff is now preferred by most SEC coaches. Of course that is mostly due to it saving jobs with the new "unbearable" 9 game slate that is going to cost jobs. Because we know that just making the playoff is going to be seen as a success for most programs. It saved Venables and DeBoer. Despite neither having a real shot to win the whole thing. Tennessee is in the same boat. Bobby Hill is seen as a upper tier coach, while Phillip Fulmer was seen as losing it with that same result imo. The new shifting narrative is that the SEC getting more teams in, means it's a deeper conference. What have we become?

What in the heck are we doing? This looks like some kind of futuristic secret society building. I expect to see Superman crashing some sort of Brainiac inspired super Olympics event from this structure. It's like Walt Disney really is alive, and he teamed up with Rod Serling to create a Twilight Zone "World of Tomorrow". What I'm really saying is "Wow"! I don't know what I'm looking at, or why Oregon needs this along with all your other amazing facilities, but I'd sign up to play for the Ducks just to see what was in that structure, if I was a five star athlete. Florida is doing a 1.7 billion dollar renovation on "The Swamp" and the early renderings show some extra press boxes added. That's the "creativity" you get for almost two billion in Gainesville.

Fans in general, and especially on message boards (excluding this one and few others) are general knuckleheads. There's no accountability, and you generally get little kids, or grown ups with Beavis and Butthead brain activity on there. It's why I always recommend to anybody going to a big road game, that they hold judgement of said fanbase till you go to a tailgating, or local sports bar. You'll meet real people, and most of the time they are awesome. Don't do what I said if you ever go to Europe for a "futbol" match. Opposing fans have separate get togethers, and stadium entrances/exits for a reason.

In this day and age, Oregon is going to be a recruiting juggernaut regardless. I think Riley is a great offensive coordinator, but an okay CEO. If USC ever got a great CEO, that's when you should worry. I'd want Lincoln in LA for as long as possible as a Duck fan.

Besides being unapologetically blunt about his success, and conference pride. The man just said Indiana would help out little brother Notre Dame, by scheduling them in a two for one. Just like any B1G opponent would for any other G6 program. Well he got the last part wrong. No MAC, WAC, or Pac-12 school outside of Oregon State or Washington State, is getting any home games vs a B1G opponent. But I love the sentiment. We all love USC vs Notre Dame as a spectacle. But USC was right to take a hiatus. That game could knock USC out of a playoff spot, while Notre Dame will still be safely in with their new top 12 guarantee, and that's almost a given with them assured of ten wins a year against their soft schedule. Meanwhile USC could be facing Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Notre Dame in the same year.

I think the Ohio State loss was based off a misconception of thinking the first game game plan was good enough to repeat. Most forget all the bounces and decisions needed to go the Ducks way in a very close one point home win. Will Howard missed a lot of open reads as he was only a few games in his Ohio State tenure. Dan Lanning should've watched the Tennessee coverages against Ohio State the week before. Why didn't they clean up those holes in the zone, or not have a safety playing roamer on man? The Indiana loss was actually quite the opposite imo. The first game was actually quite closer than the playoff..I think the coaches could've taken more from the first game, instead they switched up the defense too much. The disguised coverages actually confused Oregon more than Indiana. Indiana didn't have the freak athletes Ohio State did. You should've played them more aggressive like Iowa, Ohio State, and Miami did. On offense, you actually ran the ball pretty well in the first game. It seems like you put too much on Moore after you fell behind in the second matchup. Indiana was a very disciplined opponent that knew their gap control, and coverages. But you could've tired that smaller defensive line down if you had ran the ball more, and maintained longer earlier drives. Obviously there's way more reasons. There are way smarter people, with way more knowledge than a fan or television analyst, that are working under Lanning right now. They will still have mess ups because every other top program also has really intelligent people. So yeah those results will happen, and we'll question the coaching staff. But the true answer is because Indiana and Ohio State were really freaking good, as they ended up winning it all. There are about eight programs that have a legitimate chance to win a title every year. Oregon is one of those programs. I would take Lanning in a heartbeat as my head coach over anyone not named Cignetti, Day, or Smart.

I look at Oregon-Washington as natural rivals. You both are the only P4 members is the great Northwest. You both have a strong history in football, they have one claimed National Title, and a recent National Championship game appearance. Oregon has two National Title game appearances, a B1G Title, and won two playoff games last year. It remains to be seen what Fisch will do at Washington , but I think they deserved a top 25 ranking this preseason, after posting 8 wins last year. Williams is going to be a problem this year imo. Oregon vs Washington needs to be played on the same weekend as Michigan-Ohio State, Iowa-Nebraska, and UCLA-USC. There should be a tripleheader on Fox that weekend.

People have argued for years about "new blood" powers like Oregon being a true rival to "bluebloods" like USC or Ohio State. I'd argue that Oregon is one of the top two or three opponents on those programs schedule any year. Some also say that you can have only one real rival. But that's nonsense. Florida has four rivals that they used to have to play every year. Those being Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, and FSU. Miami is also a rival, but that game has never been played yearly. Miami also hates Florida way more than Florida hates Miami imo. We can't call them little brother like Oregon can to Oregon State though. It's just fun to get under their skin and remind them that they have us on their mind constantly. I cheer for anybody playing them,outside our other rivals of course,so yeah it's a rivalry. I'd ask my friends here if you think it's possible to have more than one rival, and if so, who are they? I'd guess it would be Washington, Oregon State, USC, and probably Ohio State as a new one, now that you are conference mates. Is Indiana a possible one, or will it take more years of them being a B1G heavyweight? USC has Notre Dame, UCLA, and Oregon imo. They might say Michigan and Ohio State as well. Just because they view themselves in the same class system, and all those past Rose Bowl matchups.