Game Thread College Football Week 1!

Great win for UCLA. It ain't gonna be easy for the Ducks. Again Brown Jr., fair or not, Has to play great for the Ducks to get to where they want to go.

 

Great picks. Air looks awful, Damn. Not as bad as last year, but not good. I do miss Ubering before, and after the games. I had my best days, moneywise on gameday in the football season. I lived 10 minutes from Autzen. I would drop off, go home watch game, then head back late in 4th. Thought it would be packed though after last year. Thanks Sly.

 

And that scoreboard rocks.

 

Nice!

 

I'd like to see the North side redone to look like the Southside. Bring Capacity to around 75,000. If Coach gets the team to the SEC level he plans for, they will need that extra seating.

 

The U of O Campus is amazing. I remember going to the Olympic Trials in 1980. Then i moved there in '19. Totally blew me away. Even the 2 & a half years i was there, a lot got built. Hayward, Knight Science, & the new dorms across from Hayward.

 

ive got the deciding factor for you. I realized yesterday Cristobal aNd Olshey look alike.

 

They do! #MariOlshey

 

The Fresno State QB (that transferred from WA) looked better than the Fuskies qb.

 

for the first half yesterday, he looked better than the Duck QB too

He had 220 yards passing in the first half, but only 78 in the second half on lousy efficiency. And the Duck running game got rolling in the 2nd half. Those two factors actually point to some good coaching adjustments at halftime. If Cristobal and staff were as bad at coaching as many claim, those adjustments wouldn't have been made

and from what I saw of Fresno, they are a much better team than credited before the game. Well coached and disciplined. They aren't Ohio State though. Unless the Ducks make massive improvements on both sides of the ball, they will get boat-raced next weekend

 

It's always a gamble playing a top 5 team very early in the season.
If the Ducks go into the Shoe and win they will benefit greatly! Even if they play a solid game they stay put. If they get beat? Everyone calls the Pac 12 weak.
If Ohio wins they hold serve. If they lose that game though they will probably not live it down this year.
Big game next weekend for sure. Lots on the line for both teams.

 

if the Ducks had Justin Herbert, as a senior, as the QB, they'd have a great shot at winning. Or Mariotta as a senior. Or Vernon Adams. But with Anthony Brown? He was way too inconsistent yesterday even though he looked much better in the final 33 minutes of the game. He's a good runner, but I can't see OSU respecting the Duck passing game enough to not simply load up the line of scrimmage. And if the Ducks can't generate a running game, they'll be in lots of trouble

 

Actually i was thinking he will need to scramble. College football is all about having a mobile QB. I always though Herbert held them back a bit.

 

what held Herbert back was having 3 different offensive coordinators, 3 different offensive systems, and 3 different head coaches in his first 3 years as starter. Also, one legitimate criticism of Cristobal may be that he has been too stubborn about the Ducks creating an identity as a physical smash-mouth team in the trenches. That may have limited offensive imagination while creating easy to spot tendencies

Herbert sure as hell didn't hold the Chargers back last season

 

Herbert always was considered a good NFL prospect.
College and NFL are different games.
Though i agree there was plenty holding Herbert back as you pointed out.

 

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the Nurkic look-a-like:



same guy admitting he whiffed:



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same guy eating crow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r4Wl2xHBMM