Some good insights from Devon Jackson after practice today.

A quick look at the UCLA offense and defense for the War Room today

Does not care about late start. His gratitude for being healthy this year really shows.

Paid content in the O, but he was seen at practice with a noticeable limp. This really sucks as we enter conference play, and we thought he was ready to go.
From Crepea


"The senior offensive lineman, who Oregon coach Dan Lanning said was hurt during a practice last week, had a pronounced limp and did not take part in an early contact drill Tuesday morning at the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex."

Great stuff from Jayden Limar after practice today:

Terrance Ferguson reflects on bye week and facing some old friends Saturday. Really good stuff from T Ferg today

Addressing the idea that younger players get "more" or better development during a bye week.

Full interview wrote up

Here is our midterm report for the defense through three games

Not sure if this has been brought up, but I am wondering how long it is before a player challenge the college football rule regarding four years of eligibility. For years they pushed the notion of amateurism as a means of not letting players make money. This was clearly an arbitrary notion that the courts rejected. My question is why 4 years of eligibility? Is that any less arbitrary than amateurism? One might point to it often taking 4 years to graduate but how relevant is that? Some take less some take more. And the NCAA regularly grants more years—Cam McCormick has gotten nine years! Couldn’t someone like Dillion Gabriel, who likely won’t be an NFL QB but is a good college one who can make good NIL, challenge the eligibility rule in court and claim it unfairly prevents him from making a living? Curious what people think about this.

It sounds like their hot shot 2d year QB didn't pan out. They rarely do. We go a good one. Ward at Miami has been on fire thus far, but there's a lot of FB to be played.

His family will be able to watch both sons live this weekend with the trek from USC to Pasadena made possible by the late start

Oregon #GoDucks QB @_dillongabriel_ reflected on his transition and the team growth he has seen in Eugene:

Oregon dropped to 109 from 98. Oregon has the second lowest academic ranking in the Big 10… above only Nebraska.

To put this even more in prospective, the school that Oregon is playing on Saturday
is ranked 15 and is the top ranked public university in the country. The lowest ranked University of California school, UC Santa Cruz, is still ranked 25 places above Oregon. Oregon tied with California public universities in their lower tier CSU system , Long Beach State and San Diego State.

Oregon did way out rank Oregon State and Washington State. However, I find it disappointing that with all the optimistic news about our university’s scholastic gains, Oregon’s ranking actually went down. At this point, our university is not typical of a Big 10 or ACC university. Our university looks more typical of the academic stature of the Big 12 or the SEC.

The University has received some huge donations and we can hope that it is just a matter of time before Oregon can move up to a more impressive ranking, but for this past year Oregon is dropping.

Oregon ranks higher than football powers Alabama, Oklahoma, and LSU…. just not nearly as high as public universities like UC Davis, Virginia , North Carolina or UC Santa Barbara etc.

Interestingly, the top CSU football school, Fresno State, had one of the poorest rankings among the CSUs. Don’t confuse the CSUs with the UCs. The UCs are much stronger academically… and regrettably currently still out of Oregon’s league

The weekly (FREE) Take Two is up. Talking about the harsh reality of the mess in which the remaining two members of the Pac-12 find themselves, plus some thoughts on late starts:

With the bye week we put together ab overall grade for the first three games of the season.

Previous weekly honors also listed below (a couple 🦆’s)⬇️

Dan Lanning met with the media this evening to preview the matchup with UCLA - here are our notes and takeaways from that session:

https://oregon.rivals.com/news/dan-lanning-previews-ucla-matchup

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Getting 24.5 with o/u of 55.5.

Not sure I am ready to bet the cover, but will likely take the over