Craig Strobeck Football Recruiting Visits Saturday’s 44-21 stomping of Utah took the edge off a week filled with uncertainty. Now, back in the driver’s seat for the Pac-12 Championship and a Rose Bowl berth, the Ducks look to make a late recruiting cycle push to add to an already impressive class. Saturday’s matchup saw a few visitors with the firepower …
Oregon Devises an Inside Zone Read “Counter” Play!
From Video How many times after this last game did you hear media sources other than EugeneDailyNews/FishDuck.com declare that, “the Ducks limited Mariota’s running opportunities.” Or “the Inside Zone Read play is bottled up!” How many of them actually know what they are talking about or can prove those assertions? Unfortunately most of them are parroting what they have heard …
BCS Review: I Smell Roses for Oregon, Maybe More?
The team that pulled last week’s big upset against Oregon, was in turn the victim of college football’s Week 12 big upset, as Stanford fell in dramatic fashion to USC, 20-17, on Saturday night. This loss propels Oregon back in the driver’s seat in the Pac-12 North. The Ducks are now the top one-loss team in the nation and, if chaos …
Did Saturday’s Win Reverse Oregon’s 21st-Century Curse?
Craig Strobeck Saturday’s schedule saw a huge win for Oregon, and I’m not talking about what USC did. While the game against Utah may not have been an overly impressive victory – Oregon didn’t score at least 55 against an unranked opponent for the first time all season – it was still one that was sorely needed for Oregon, both for 2013 …
Visitors’ Locker Room: Discouraged Utes Lose Fourth Straight, Fall 44-21 to No. 6 Oregon
Craig Strobeck The Utah Utes have been unpredictable so far this season. Earlier in the year, they lost to UCLA by only seven points, and shocked the Pac-12 when they beat then-No. 5 Stanford. However, Utah has now lost four straight after falling 44-21 to a hungry Oregon Ducks team, moving to 4-6 on the season. The Utes were frustrated after …
Ducks Rebound vs. Utah: Game Notes & Recruiting Analysis
Kevin Cline This has been a year of firsts for Mark Helfrich, and after his first loss as a head coach, Saturday’s game against Utah was another: preparing the Ducks to respond to adversity. And respond Oregon did. It wasn’t much of a surprise that the Duck came out a bit flat, after all, just nine days prior they had …
College Football Nation: Duke does it again and Oregon is back in it
College football was fun today. There were so many entertaining games on all at once I don’t think I kept the TV on the same channel for more than a few minutes at a time. We had the exciting finish down at Auburn, while their rivals Alabama did not look like the N0. 1 team in the nation. FSU …
Tribute to Long-Lost but not Forgotten Backfield Stalwart
The mid-to-late 90’s was arguably the biggest turning point in Oregon Football History. Particularly following the 1994 Rose Bowl season, the successors of Oregon’s run for the roses had to maintain respect to prove Oregon was no “flash in the pan.” An important part of Oregon’s post-Rose Bowl success was its talent in the backfield. From 1995-1999,a talented back made …
Chip Kelly Update: Maybe He Is a Genius After All
from Video The Eagles consolidated their recent gains by knocking off division-leading Green Bay, 27-13. It was a solid win (and their first against a team with a winning record). Nick Foles did not have another Hall-of-Fame-type of game. He started with some tentative play that brought back grim memories of his terrible showing against Dallas, but he steadied himself in …
Dana Altman’s Top 5 Impact Players
Suffering through this last week after the Ducks’ football loss to Stanford has been miserable. There was a silver lining, however, in the form of Oregon’s newly-renovated basketball team. There always seems to be at least one week each year where I can’t read anything about football without getting sick to my stomach. This last week was just that. With Oregon’s basketball …
There Oughta be a Law . . . and in Utah There is One
Good day friends. On this, the week after the world ended, I would like to report that I, for one, handled losing to Stanford and living surrounded by Husky fans, very well. My attorney believes we may even be able to plea down to simple assault. But carry on we must. There’s another game this week, which means another chance …
Did Oregon’s Loss to Stanford Hurt Recruiting? The Answer Here.
Kevin Cline If you ever have the opportunity to watch a big Ducks game in a backwoods South Carolina bar on $1 beer night, I highly recommend doing so. Unless you’re wearing an Oregon jersey and the team happens to get beaten like a rented mule. In that kind of situation, you’d probably meet this guy named Mo (or as …