The season opens at the matt tomorrow at 7:30 for you, 10:30 for me. Wish I was saying any time and Mac Court but those days are head down the river, long ago passed under the bridge along so much flotsam from my past. I'll have tp pick up the broadcast from KUGN, unless I figure out how to use B1G+ (which I'll try out) . Otherwise, I'll be following with the help of Alexa. Most of you can probably pick it up directly, not hoping you'll have no WIFI interruptions.

Not that polls mean all that much this early in the season but there are only four team ranked as of now, and none of them in the top 10. Purdue comes the closest at 14 followed by Indiana (17), UCLA (22) and Rutgers (25).




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Didn't find a preseason conference ranking to see where Oregon fits into the rest behind those four but I'll look some more later.

I was at the game this past weekend and the players kept on going thumbs down after big plays and at the end of the game. Anyone know what it meant?

First couple of papers I look at seem pretty fixated on the not a TD that became a TD as first articles.

of course they never got to 18 points and it wouldn't have mattered if the had.





There is other stuff if you care enough to subscribe to see them. I don't

Watching a replay to f the game this AM and noticed Dave Iuli suited up. Did not see him in the game though

This is great. Man, the dude is always in the right place, and is he physical?

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Third quarter struggles continue to be an issue, but the Ducks still rolled to a comfortable 21 point win.

Here is our Fifth Quarter for the Michigan game. We will have grades later in the week, but this is our first take on the game:

Some Sunday Morning thoughts following the win over Michigan.

Excellent week for many this week Guest picker joined 10Duck in missing the final score by only a point, but saving me the task of going back and figuring out how many points a perfect guess would be. Since no one has done so I'll further save the pain by announcing a perfetco worth a total of 200 points. Seems fair unless there are objections. All of those who nailed either a team score or the spread are the guys who scores this week are above 100, and there are a lot of you. By the way, all those scores above 90 are pretty rare for not getting a direct hit on something. Nice job, guys.

10Duck 124
Drew 124
Ski 118
Rockin 118
Grave 118
Tar 118
Scott 118
CKC 117
Fish 117
Brandon 111
Corky 96
Billy 94
Tewll 93
Corey 93
Quack 89
64 Oregon 89
Gray 89
Duckfan 89
Me 86
Trent 85
Duckville 83
Adam 83
Shark 82

Anybody who thinks I messed up a score, let me know because I probably did if you see an error.

Thanks for sowing up. Hope to you all come back to take a shot at the Mary-had-a-little-land game score guessing game.

In a battle of the beatens, the superiorly academical University of Washington outlasted the Conference Destroying USC Trojans by managing to kick themselves in the nuts just a little bit less.

A highly anticipated rushing of the field by UW students never truly materialized.

Trojan fans wondering why they left the chance to be #2 to Oregon every year in the P12 just to land at 15th in the Big 10.

Let's get this started:

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so far

Brandon 693
Me 683
Rockin 680
Shark 675
Fish 649
10Duck 630
Scott 606
Gray 596
Quack 585
Ski 580
Duckfan 569
Adam 559
64 Oregon 554
Trent 546
Corey 530
Duckville 476
CKC 446
Corey 437
Grave 403
Billy 236
Twell 204
ORDux 178
BXR 155
Wings 121
Accross the pond MSU 115
Thester 114
Stormn 112
Akilli 111
Accross the pond ??? 110
Accross the pond ILL 85
AJ 82
Star 82
Johnnie 81
Papa 78
Davis 76
Bart 58
Youtube ILL Sim -26

Don't you hate it when one of the "experts" climbs to the top of the hill? Somebody knock him off !!! by the way, congrats Brandon and thanks for knocking me down a notch. Another highlight is the Youtube sim predicting a 17-14 Illinois must have had an anchor in its purse as it did the Atlas thing and holds the rest of the guessing world on its squashed shoulders. I hope they take another shot at calling an Oregon loss if I can find it this week. Must have been a lot of movement this week with all the correct picks of the Oregon score though yet again nobody picked the Illinois score nor the spread. I find the almost amazing especially the spread.

Hoping all of the guys listed above are back again and we find a new face who will like join the fun.

I guess I'll take another wild shot with a 45-10 score for Oregon's second straight win in the big house.

Lanning spoke at length with media following the game. Here is our recap:

Dillon Gabriel, Bryce Boettcher, and Kobe Savage were the only three players made available following Oregon's 38-17 win, here is our recap of their comments:

Check out all the latest right here:

No indication if he will start or 'pitch count' but he is not on the injury report at all thsi morning:

Out:

WR Gary Bryant Jr.
CB Jahlil Florence
DB Khamari Terrell
WR Kyler Kasper
OL Matthew Bedford
DL My’Keil Gardner

Questionable:

None

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Today in our written version of Flock Talk talking about all the buzz on Jahkeem Stewart and Oregon:

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Good morning #GoDucks fans, our own @jacobhamre_1 put together a few thoughts from some gameday reading ahead of the Michigan game.

We split the RoundTable in two with Keys, players of the game first and predictions soon. Here is part one:

After a couple of close calls the Ducks are starting to gel. IS this the best shot at a Natty we have had since playing in the finals vs tOSU? I'd say so.

I can almost hear leather hitting wood and whatever the nets are made of now.

The season for men starts next week with a Monday game vs UC riverside and then hosting Montana on Friday. For a change Dana starts with an almost heathy team but only one center in that shape so it will be interesting to see what kind of ball Oregon plays this season.

The women with 9 new players who have not yet experienced Gray's "coaching" open up also on Monday hosting Cal Baptist and follow with Nevada on Wednesday. Hoping this will be his last season as I'm not expecting much in his first stumble into the new conference.

Here is a link to the injury report followed by a nice little article about freshman running back Riggs.

In anoher exclusive, @RivalsWardlaw caught up with 2026 DE @ColmanBrusa2026 for a great conversation about his visit to Eugene. Check it out here:

Don't read this.

As a sports fan to the level that I seldom participated in physically (well I did play semi-pro fastpitch softball and ran on a cross country team that would have been the 1966 NJ state champs had 80%of the team not gone on drunken spree one Saturday evening/night/morning and gotten kicked off of the team) I pursued what I could and did well with officiating and writing. I go where other dare not go because they are too busy scoffing at it.

From that deep backwoods country I'm here to remind you that Oregon is not the only unbeaten team, no surprise there, but neither are the other seven (I think) D1 teams who have not yet tasted defeat. There are twenty other all-victorious squads. Sure, they are from "lesser" divisions but I am reminded of something that made me a good sports official . Every day of the week when football games (or any other sports contest from pee wee to professional) kick off, to every team with their fan bases, no matter how small or seeming insignificant, it the biggest event of the day or night, maybe the week. They give it their all the same as the players in every other game. They deserve but don't get the best officials or at least the best efforts from them they have. They bathe in the best reporting, even a box or line score on page three or four of the local sports page.

To report all of that is impossible for any sports writer, even as talented as I am. But ... I can a take few moments to list the top winners even if I don't have the time nor the will to dig more deeply into what should be said. I make a promise which I probably won't keep after the liquor wears off (OK .. so what if I don't drink anymore) to keep you updated on the list. This is a Ducks forum but, dammit, you should care about all of these folks you have been remiss in honoring with a minute or two of your time if you really love football.

Montana State Bobcats 8-0
Dartmouth Big Green 6-0
John C Smith Golden Bulls 8-0
Valdosta State Blazers 7-0
University of Charleston Golden Bulls 8-0
Kutztown Golden Bears 8-0
Western Colorado Mountaineers 8-0
Hardin Simmons Cowboys 7-0
North Central Cardinals 7-0
Cortland Red Dragons 7-0
U-Mass Dartmouth ?? 7-0
Hope Flying Dutchmen 7-0
Lake Forest Forest 7-0
St John's (Minn) Johnnies 7-0
Springfield Pride 7-0
Salisbury Seagulls 7-0
DePau Tigers 7-0
Whitworth Pirates 7-0
Marietta Pioneers 7-0
Mount Union Raiders 7-0

Imagine, if you will, yourself bundling up to sit in perhaps glorified high school bleachers to watch your team. Imagine the thrill of another win, even if not many others care about it. Sitting and sharing with you are friends and families of the players, perhaps a reporter or two and maybe a pair of play by play radio announcers for the local or school station. There are some old people in town visiting who may be alums or just town folk supporting the local college or university. Its a big deal for somebody everywhere every contest. Memories are embedded every time. It's the joy of sports.
I love it.

OK, now you can go back to not reading.

Let the hype begin. The Duck's media blitz is baaaack. As if it ever left, lol. I hope the link posts!

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