Linkon Cure will sign tomorrow at 10:30am, not a lock by any means, but stay tuned.

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The 3-star linebacker from California has the Ducks in his Top 3 alongside BYU and UCLA. He was on campus Saturday to soak in the atmosphere and watch Oregon dominate rival Washington, 49-21. This is what he said to Duck Sports Authority about his experience in Eugene:

"It was great. I brought my Dad, and my brother, for his first Oregon experience. We got in around 1 p.m. and headed to the football facility for a pregame meal and talked with some guys I met at the SNL Camp. I never get tired of being on the field during pregame because it's the closest I can to imagine myself playing in front of thousands. The game experience is immersive, and the traditions are always fun. After the game, we headed back to the facility to have some dinner and meet with the coaches. It's pretty cool just having casual conversation with the minds behind the best team in college football."

The four-star quarterback told me Monday night that "sometime" Tuesday he should announce his final decision.

A big thanks to our photog Scott Kelley for grabbing this series of photos. Enjoy.

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Cure and Nix, come on down

Not a good look for SC. I wonder if that's whey they replaced him a couple of games ago? Wants to play for a contender, lol.

Today on the Inside Read we start looking ahead to the Big Ten Championship Game against Penn State.

I'm ok I guess with UO's ranking, but Bama ahead of us? At least flip there spots. Heck, ATM is still at 22, and SDSU was pretty solid too. SEC bias?

We've all seen plenty of discussion around the setup of this year's seeding and the more info I see, that #5 is looking more and more attractive.

Playing the weak B12 champ at home should be a win then the weakest of the 4 'bye' teams in the 2nd round. Add to this the time off. I didn't realize until yesterday that those 'bye' teams are off for two weeks before their playoff game.

All of this in my head makes me feel like the 5 is the path.

Oregon and OSU are locked into those 2 spots regardless. It'll either be us at 1 and OSU at 5 or the other way around.

Go Ducks!

Coming down to the wire

I guess driving home on Sunday morning instead of Saturday night does have at least one drawback - I am on the road during multiple commitment announcements! Here is a quick Impact and Scouting Report story on Oregon's newest commit Bott Mulitalo II

Shows a few of the more memorable plays of the season. I just hope it posts.

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Up 5 with 31 seconds! We got us a team. Gonna be a long 25 seconds. What a night Duck fans. Top 10? Bittle is great, but I'd rather see others taking more of the 3's. After last year you gotta be happy for him.

On Friday I got a message from Auburn folks asking if he was on our visit list. Word had percolated that he might visit again this weekend. At the end of the day Friday it sounded as if that was just a rumor and seemed unlikely. John Garcia said he was not scheduled for any visits this weekend. I checked through all of our photos and also did not see him. Possible that 'secret' visitors did not come out of the tunnel? Absolutely. But for now the only visitor not on my iniital list that I spotted was Mulitalo and 2025 DL commit Matt Johnson.

Will update with more when I can.