Our Oregon Ducks football program is currently favored (along with Notre Dame) to go undefeated through the regular season. The College Football Playoff is certainly a different story, though that sort of praise from the media early in the offseason places a massive target on the Ducks’ backs to be the proverbial “team to beat” in 2024.
While this doesn’t necessarily rank Oregon as the best team in America, it does put into perspective what kind of schedule we have ahead, how much confidence the media has placed in this program’s culture, and what type of expectation elite roster construction combined with Dan Lanning’s leadership can inspire. Even Mr. FishDuck took time from his study of trustworthy betting sites not on GamStop for UK at https://nongamstopcasinos.net/gb/non-gamstop-betting-sites/ for his lofty predictions.
Steven A. on our FishDuck Forum posted about these odds a week ago, and I wanted to make sure we revisited and discussed a bit more in-depth how great of an impact some of these transfers like Dillon Gabriel, Jabbar Muhammad, and Evan Stewart have made for the Ducks so early in the summer. Even just being ranked ahead of Georgia or Ohio State, for example, speaks volumes to what Lanning has accomplished so quickly in Eugene. Sure, they both have their fair share of tough matchups on the schedule, but our Ducks do too. This is no slight to any of the best SEC or BIG 10 programs. Oregon is simply in prime position to make a deep run in the expanded College Football Playoff, and we have every reason to be as excited as ever to watch Duck football in 2024.
In hindsight, The Fiesta Bowl was just the beginning. Lanning has these Ducks headed on the path to the promised land – Photo Via Tom Corno
Now, does this translate straight to victories TODAY? Absolutely not. However, it’s GREAT for recruiting, and offers validation of all the efforts Lanning and his staff have put into crafting a top-tier competitor so early in their composition of this program’s culture.
So just for today, can you see our Ducks going undefeated over Washington, Ohio State, Michigan, and the rest of the 2024 regular season schedule? Which game do you have circled on the calendar ahead of the season? Who has the biggest chance to upset the Ducks this year that we might not have on our radar just yet? Let us know in the FishDuck Forum with decorum.
Go Ducks!
Alex Heining
Los Angeles, California
Top Photo By: Steven Chan
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Alex Heining is an Oregon alumni from the graduate class of 2021. After studying sports business and media studies, he has moved into the field of digital marketing as a copywriter and content manager in the Los Angeles area. Still, he loves his Ducks and goes to local high school games all over the Los Angeles and Orange County area to check out new recruits of the future (and a SoFi game or two with the pros). On any given Saturday, expect to find him doing martial arts, playing the guitar, or screaming at the tv over a missed holding penalty.
