For better or worse, a truly up and down season of Oregon football has come to an end. Though the Ducks wave goodbye to a COVID-marred 2020 season that was highlighted by a second straight Pac-12 Championship, they will enter 2021 with a bittersweet taste in their mouths following a resounding 34-17 defeat in the […]
We have come to the end of the road. This isn’t a Boyz II Men appreciation post, but it does feel like a fitting way to summarize the end of the 2020 season. With Saturday’s Fiesta Bowl serving as an opportunity for both Oregon and Iowa State to put an exclamation point on their respective […]
And just like that, the end of the 2020 college football season is upon us. Roughly eight weeks ago, the Pac-12 kicked off its conference-only schedule, with Oregon being tabbed as the favorite to lift the league crown for a second straight year under third year head coach Mario Cristobal. And while the route to […]
The road to the 2020 Pac-12 Championship was a treacherous one for the preseason favorite in the conference. Widely tabbed as the best team in the Pac-12 in the build up to the season, the Oregon Ducks endured their fair share of lumps and shortcomings over the past seven weeks that left many to rightfully […]
A topsy-turvy last week within a topsy-turvy 2020 college football season is inching towards completion, as the Oregon Ducks head south to Los Angeles to take on Pac-12 South division champ USC for the rights to the Pac-12 Championship. For Oregon, the route to Friday’s game vs. the Trojans was a circuitous one. Originally scheduled […]
Flock Thoughts is a sporadic series at WFOD that aims to offer opinion and analysis on a collection of timely, newsworthy items surrounding the Oregon football program. Think of it as going to Costco for the samples, but just replace the nice ladies in hairnets and plastic gloves with our thoughts on some of the […]
The biggest game of the season for the Ducks and Huskies is set to be played this Saturday, with the winner being destined for the Pac-12 Championship Game and a chance to earn a conference title in the most wild and crazy season of college football we have ever seen. For Oregon, the opportunity to […]
The trying nature of the 2020 season can’t be understated. For every program that elected to participate and has been able to take the field this season, there have been incredible challenges and obstacles to overcome physically, mentally, and oftentimes logistically. It’s a stark reality that every coach and player has had to face and […]
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 […]
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, […]
