Just in case Duck fans had any questions about the current day and age we’re living in, the final score from Berkeley Saturday night confirmed it: 2020 is the pits. After being handed their first loss in over a calendar year to Oregon State on Black Friday, the Ducks have now lost back-to-back games for […]
De-commitments, particularly at this time of the year, are rather commonplace across college football’s recruiting landscape. For the Oregon football program, this natural order of recruiting is perhaps feeling a little more unnatural than usual given the fact they suffered their second de-commitment from their 2021 recruiting class in six days when three-star JUCO prospect […]
As difficult as it might be to turn the page from last Friday’s stunning loss at the hands of Oregon State in Corvallis, the time for self-reflection and rumination is over for Ducks head coach Mario Cristobal and the Oregon football program. With a road date in Berkeley vs. winless Cal slated for Saturday evening, […]
As Oregonians know so well, sometimes when it rains, it pours. That’s the general feeling in Eugene these days, as the Ducks – still licking their wounds from a crushing loss at Oregon State this past Friday – were dealt another dose of souring news Monday when Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei four-star wide receiver […]
Make no bones about it, some serious chickens came home to roost for the 2020 Oregon Ducks on a foggy Black Friday night in Corvallis. A sieve-like defense and some critical errors from Tyler Shough on offense served as the prevailing reasons for why the Ducks were handed only their second loss to Oregon State […]
It’s the dawn of a new era in the rivalry game between Oregon and Oregon State. Dating back to 1894, there have been 123 meetings between the Ducks and Beavers in the game formerly known as the “Civil War.” That name, however, will no longer be used moving forward in association with the annual renewal […]
Spin it or slice it any way you want – through three weeks of play, the Oregon defense in 2020 has performed as if it’s a sheep in wolves clothing compared to the stout and stingy group the Ducks employed a season ago. Perhaps more than most of us realized or attributed proper credit to, […]
No matter the season, victories in the game of football are to be savored and not taken for granted. Particularly amidst a pandemic, when the potential to have your season derailed is ever-present and every green-lit Saturday feels like a gift. For Mario Cristobal and the 11th-ranked Oregon Ducks, Saturday’s narrow 38-35 win over the […]
With two weeks down and at least four more weeks to go (hopefully), the 11th-ranked Oregon Ducks return to Eugene this weekend for a date with nostalgia in the form of UCLA head coach Chip Kelly and the Bruins. Of course, no Duck fan needs a reminder when it comes to the tremendous levels of […]
So much about what we know and have come to expect with regard to just about everything has been more or less flipped on its head in 2020. Thus, it almost kind of makes sense when you examine the unexpected role reversal of preseason expectations that appears to be taking place between the Oregon offense […]
