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

In the modern world of college athletics, college football is undergoing a transformation driven by the same analytical thinking that once defined Moneyball.

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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.

Good morning #GoDucks fans. Next up is our first look back at the dominant win over Washington with our Fifth Quarter analysis:

Should college football shed a few regular season games?

Never mind. It didn't post. You tube, "Locked on PSU, The Ducks are Elite"
They say PSU has the best DE in the Country, lol. I'll take Burch as the no 1 in the B1G, which eliminates Carter.

I STAND CORRECED Due to my reading ability regarding my own writin' I missed another correct spread prediction by Duckville, who jumps into first place for the week

Pretty good and even performance except for Cocktail Billy who took a bit of a fall and Brandon who was the only one to pick a score or spread correctly for the game.

Duckville 117
Brandon 103
Twell 91
Fish 87
CKC 87
Trent 86
Quack 85
Tar 85
10Duck 84
Johnnie 84
Grave 83
64Oregon 83
Me 82
Corey 82
Ski 82
Scott 82
Rockin 81
Gray 78
Adam 75
Ellsmeyer 74
Shark 74
Drunken Billy 50

Thanks again for playing and I hope to see even more of you for the PeeU game score guessing contest.