Two-plus years had passed since the last time the Oregon football program held a spring football game, and while fans were not permitted inside Autzen Stadium Saturday afternoon due to local COVID-19 restrictions, it felt as if we were one step closer to returning to normalcy following a year that was wholly upended by the […]
Few things in recent memory were as protractedly loathsome across the board as 2020. And while the residuals of the past year linger to this day with COVID protocols remaining in place for most areas of the country, this spring offers a level of hope and optimism that simply did not exist at this time […]
While most of the hay is in the barn as it relates to Oregon’s 2021 recruiting class, there are still a few more last minute finishing touches that Ducks head coach Mario Cristobal and his staff are putting on before their work is complete. One of the last installations to this historic class came Monday, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The last time the Oregon football program scored a victory in Pullman, the year was 2014 and the Ducks were a team that was marching their way toward the inaugural College Football Playoff led by the sublime talents of a soon-to-be Heisman Trophy winner in Marcus Mariota. Much has changed in the six years that […]
In a year in which very little has seemingly gone right or according to plan, Saturday offered up a slice of normalcy for those yearning for it as 2020 mercifully comes to a close. For fans of Oregon football, Saturday marked the beginning of a new era; one that featured a number of familiar faces, […]
Occupying a very small corner within one of the wildest years in modern human history has been a college football offseason and now season that has appropriately reflected our current day and age. The twists and turns have been numerous and well documented over the past several months, as COVID-19 continues to hang like an […]
