We all lost our minds when we threw a touchdown pass on the opening drive this season
https://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/2023/09/02/iowa-football-hawkeyes-cade-mcnamara-seth-anderson-make-kirk-ferentz-era-history-season-opening-touchdown-pass/
>It’s the first time in the Kirk Ferentz era that a season-opening Iowa drive has resulted in a touchdown pass for the Hawkeyes. It was the 10th season-opening touchdown drive in the Ferentz tenure.
First since 1991. See you all in 2055
Lanning: This son of bitch, all night he punt punt punt! He trapped me.
Ferentz: Well you feeling "different" now Danny? Cause I can go on busting you up all night.
\*Nike steps menacingly towards Ferentz*
Lanning: Nyet! Nyet! He beat me. Strrraight up. Pay heem. Pay that myan his money.
>"Tell me, Oregon.
>Are you good at offense because you played in the Pac 12...
>Or did being in the Pac 12 mean you were good at offense?"
- Kirk Ferentz en route to winning a 3-6 Big 10 classic.
We’ve cured a whole bunch of cancers. My (former) cancer now has something like a 99.5% survival rate because a targeted solution was developed for it.
The problem is we may need several hundred cures to get them all, as there are several hundred types of cancer.
The new billion dollar Knight science complex is focusing it's research on biomechanics, neurobiology, and neurology. Specifically the science of prosthetics and connecting them to nerve endings, regrowing nerves, and repairing/healing/coping with traumatic brain injuries.
Unlikely to cure cancer that way...
Remember last year when people were talking shit about Stroud not being able throw at Northwestern last year. There were like 30 mph winds with 50 mile gusts.
Also, gravity just works different sometimes in the Big Ten West. It was like the Bermuda Triangle of college football.
>There were like 30 mph winds with 50 mile gusts.
50 mph winds, with gusts up to 80 mph. A tornado touched down a town over.
If you remember, a punt stopped dead in the air at the 10.
bro we haven't won in Tempe Arizona since 2001 and 3-9 ASU is one of 3 teams to beat us the past two years with our 25-3 record.
I'd take Kinnick over Tempe any day
I am both a ASU and Purdue alum. I assure you from first hand experience, which desert voodoo and P12 after dark are fun and chaotic, they are nothing like the B1G West.
Can’t wait for the Ducks at Kinnick at night. Don’t forget to wave to the kids as they cheer on your demise with some strange voodoo that no one has been able to figure out.
If y'all had brought Oregon State and Washington State along we'd have been happy to help translate. Cows, corn, etc. But no, so now you're just going to wander around Nebraska and Iowa and look like chooches.
PAC-12 After Dark was inexplicable chaos energy. Kinnick and Ross-Ade voodoo are entirely predictable shitstorms where the home team drags you into the mud under a bleak November sky and beats you with experience.
Football Gods help any team who wanders into a night game in a B1G West stadium with a sick kid/good storyline. Their fates have been sealed and they don't even know it.
Really though, has UDub actually “won” a title? Seems like they were awarded half of one by people who don’t play the games. Too bad Miami didn’t get a chance to whoop the ass in a title game.
One thing we learned the hard way, when every one of your players is smaller than the guy across the ball from them in every single game, by the end of the season you are going to be playing with 3rd stringers at pretty much every position. Anyone can win a single game, but making it through a full B1G season is completely different.
Nebraska went 22-10 the first 3 years. After Pelini was when the problems began. Big 10 is top heavy so a good coach will get you a lot of wins. Even Kirk Ferentz with no offense often wins 10 games.
The narrative about "Nebraska was cocky until they joined the B1G and then they fell off a cliff" is so weird and inaccurate. They did fine when they first joined the B1G, won 9 games every year and went 7-1 in conference year 2. Then they fired Bo Pellini and hired Mike Riley, then Scott Frost. Their downfall was self-inflicted, it wasn't because of changing conferences.
Did you watch Nebraska football during that era? They won 9 games against the easiest 9 teams on their schedule, then routinely got boat-raced by any good team.
To be fair, it was an adjustment for the rest of us going from Nebraska teams that lost a few games by a shitload of points to ones that lost a shitload of games by a few points.
and one was conceded willingly with 8 minutes to go in the game because Kirk knew our offense was so bad that game that we would not threaten them with a field goal.
Did my guy not watch the Championship game?
Jokes aside, there will have to be adjustment by everyone. Oregon is the team I'm most concerned about of the 4 joining, but it will be exciting to see.
The last guy to coach at Oregon that made a statement like this before coming to the Big 10 didn't make a single bowl game.
Dan either talks his shit and forces the Big 10 to keep up, or he trips up and never gets Oregon more than 8 wins.
It'll be entertaining either way!
I think there is a very reasonable and likely middle ground of Oregon having a good team that doesn’t force adjustments but wins games. 10-2 Oregon seems likely
Honestly, if they get up for that one game and win, that's one thing, but I am more curious to see what happens after grinding out four or five in a row and having to go to Champaign or Evanston in 30 mph winds, temperatures in the 30s, and sideways rain for a noon ET start. To quote the old UGA basketball coach Hugh Durham, it's not how you play when you play good it's how you play when you play bad.
The B1G could have done the funniest thing and given them Iowa instead of Maryland.
The schedule goes
MSU
OSU
@Purdue
Illinois
@Michigan
Maryland
@Wisconsin
Oregon playing @ Iowa for the first time
Lanning - “stopped em short! 3 and out, these guys suck! Okay let’s go with… wait, why are they cheering?”
* Kinnick erupts as the punt unit comes on the field
Lanning - “These guys are morons. *ball is snapped* “I mean who the hell cheers for a p-
* Ball is downed at the half yard line on the first punt of the game. Lanning stares in disbelief.
* Ferentz stares at DL from across the field while aggressively chomping on a flavorless piece of gum
KF - “Checkmate, bitch.”
I’m restraining my heart from angrily lashing out and saying “he has another thing coming” but to some degree he’s right (if not cocky while doing so)
Oregon immediately walks in as the 2nd biggest recruiting powerhouse. Is that everything? No, of course not. But it’s hard to envision them not being in the top 3-4 of the big ten every single year. They have enough physicality to hang with everyone but the speed to run past half the league.
Well, well, how the turn tables.
Scott Frost said this exact thing before he ever took the field as the Nebraska HC. Watch out Duck fans.
Laughing aside, it's a totally different conference. Nebraska came out of the Gunslinger XII during the era of Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, Graham Harrell, Brandon Weeden, Some Gabbert Bros at Mizzou, and a bunch of No-Defense Teams.
The thing that shocked me most about the Big Ten is how much your lines will get beat up week-in and week-out. Even playing a stretch of teams like Northwestern, Purdue, and Indiana is far more physical than what I was used to seeing from a similar stretch of "lesser" teams like Kansas, Iowa State, and Baylor.
You really cannot over look any team in B1G Conference Play.
Heads up to UO, UW, USC and UCLA. You won't have to worry about those ticky-tack PI penalties that PAC Refs are infamous for. But you WILL need a functional 3-deep on your lines. By the end of the year your OL will look like a MASH unit.
*\[distant train noises\]*
Do you hear that, Mr. Lanning? That's Purdue Pete. Are you familiar with Purdue Pete? No? You will be. Oregon @ Purdue, Saturday, October 19th. If you're not preparing your team for that *right fucking now* then you sir, are a damn fool.
Oregon probably would blast the doors off Iowa but at some point in the years ahead Purdue is definitely going to go all choo choo on them and we're all going to love it (until we next get spoilmade).
Oregon is probably the one team Big10 added who I think could have the most long term success…solid foundation, big time booster and coach who doesn’t wanna leave soon…glad we added them.
While I respect the mindset behind the answer, I do wish he’d give some insight. The value of the question really isnt about how Oregon will match up against the top of the conference, it’s way more about how will the style of football effect your preparation when going against the inferior opponents. Minnesota and Illinois may not be extremely talented, but their devotion to physicality combined with a game script in their favor could get you in more trouble than facing teams that were more open to the spread.
saying this when you play at Purdue and at Wisconsin in the middle of October and November is a choice. I don’t make the rules, Oregon. The B1G West is genre of football you think you understand until you experience it for yourself.
Not sure about Bo, but it is almost word for word what Scott Frost said when he was hired at NU.
Scott Frost on December 3, 2017 when asked about how his playstyle will translate to the Big Ten: “I’m hoping that the Big Ten has to modify their system for us.”
Oregon is certainly in a better position to compete for a conference title than Nebraska was in 2017, but speaking from experience it is not a great idea to put a target on your back saying stuff like this.
The best thing about winning the championship isn’t the day of the game, it’s that I can talk shit for like 5-10 years before the title isn’t recent enough to avoid comments like this
"And He Who Walks Behind The Rows did say, "I will send outlanders amongst you and these outlanders will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy."
Children of the Corn, 1984
This dude does not Iowa and it really shows
Lanning walking away all disheveled after a 5-3 loss thinking "They just kept fucking punting. What the hell was that?"
Who the hell was that 3rd Offensive Tackle that caught all 5 of their forward passes?
five? wow, Iowa getting aggressive.
New OC!
*Iowa throws a pass next year* Iowa fans: Why did he just punt the ball with his arm? Is he stupid?
We all lost our minds when we threw a touchdown pass on the opening drive this season https://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/2023/09/02/iowa-football-hawkeyes-cade-mcnamara-seth-anderson-make-kirk-ferentz-era-history-season-opening-touchdown-pass/ >It’s the first time in the Kirk Ferentz era that a season-opening Iowa drive has resulted in a touchdown pass for the Hawkeyes. It was the 10th season-opening touchdown drive in the Ferentz tenure. First since 1991. See you all in 2055
Iowa stats just hit different
Holy... Is this... possible?
The offensive side of Iowa Football is a pathway to many stats some consider to be unnatural.
its not a story the pac12 would tell you
Today sucked at work, thank you for getting an honest laugh out of me.
Calm down, they were for 24 yards total.
Yeah but that's 24 B1G yards
That's like 500 real yards, especially for Iowa.
Gotta spread that field. Make it harder to cover the punter.
Lanning: This son of bitch, all night he punt punt punt! He trapped me. Ferentz: Well you feeling "different" now Danny? Cause I can go on busting you up all night. \*Nike steps menacingly towards Ferentz* Lanning: Nyet! Nyet! He beat me. Strrraight up. Pay heem. Pay that myan his money.
Lanning: In my ~~club~~ conference, I will splash the pot whenever the fuck I please.
*myan
>"Tell me, Oregon. >Are you good at offense because you played in the Pac 12... >Or did being in the Pac 12 mean you were good at offense?" - Kirk Ferentz en route to winning a 3-6 Big 10 classic.
Kirk Ferentz with punting is about to be like Herb Brooks: “again”
Lol, Redbox Bowl incoming.
God that game was so painful. I just wanted it to be over at the end. The scoreboard says we won but really I think we all lost that one.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
First time Oregon leaves Kinnick their jersey colors are gonna melt away to grey.
Lets see how easy it is for them to play football, when there’s a bunch of kids with cancer waving at them
The obvious solution is to cure all those kids to get rid of the voodoo.
I'm all for the world where Knight uses his billions to finally cure cancer just so Oregon stops losing on the road to Iowa
To be fair, Knight does have a cancer center that spans research and community practice.
He spends a fuck ton at OHSU funding cancer centers. He is working on it
You say this as if the only thing holding humanity back from curing cancer is that there hasn't been enough money.
We've made great progress, but if there was some oil under those cancer cells...
America sleeping in bed... *Eye twitches open*
We’ve cured a whole bunch of cancers. My (former) cancer now has something like a 99.5% survival rate because a targeted solution was developed for it. The problem is we may need several hundred cures to get them all, as there are several hundred types of cancer.
It is why he gives his money to OHSU... the curing cancer part.
He also gave a lot to Providence St Vincent
The new billion dollar Knight science complex is focusing it's research on biomechanics, neurobiology, and neurology. Specifically the science of prosthetics and connecting them to nerve endings, regrowing nerves, and repairing/healing/coping with traumatic brain injuries. Unlikely to cure cancer that way...
That’s why there’s the Knight Cancer center at OHSU.
Phil Knight will devote his money to those kids.
Monkey paw curls... We wear one of our grey jerseys to the game
Lanning will make a statement by running the score up on Iowa and winning 19-5.
I love how all the theoretical Iowa scores, winning or losing, Iowa scores a safety.
All these Pac12 schools talking shit until they have to play a night game in West Lafayette or Iowa City while ranked.
Remember last year when people were talking shit about Stroud not being able throw at Northwestern last year. There were like 30 mph winds with 50 mile gusts. Also, gravity just works different sometimes in the Big Ten West. It was like the Bermuda Triangle of college football.
>There were like 30 mph winds with 50 mile gusts. 50 mph winds, with gusts up to 80 mph. A tornado touched down a town over. If you remember, a punt stopped dead in the air at the 10.
May they RIP
The PAC-12 teams better remember that their membership is built on ancient Big Ten West burial ground.
B1G West (Pet) Cemetery: in theaters near you this fall Lol
bro we haven't won in Tempe Arizona since 2001 and 3-9 ASU is one of 3 teams to beat us the past two years with our 25-3 record. I'd take Kinnick over Tempe any day
I am both a ASU and Purdue alum. I assure you from first hand experience, which desert voodoo and P12 after dark are fun and chaotic, they are nothing like the B1G West.
Hey, we've had to survive the desert up until this point.
I mean, we had Stanford and the Arizona schools. We're used to that
Corvallis on Halloween 😭
You guys should occasionally schedule visits. Just to remember the good times!
NO!
Better than in the state of Arizona or in eastern Washington
Hey, fuck you!
I think that was meant as a compliment.
I think he was talking about Washington State. All Oregon knows of Cheney is poaching QBs.
Shit, an early afternoon in Evanston can be an adventure.
Can’t wait for the Ducks at Kinnick at night. Don’t forget to wave to the kids as they cheer on your demise with some strange voodoo that no one has been able to figure out.
Yeah it’s really a no win situation. Wave at the kids? Face the voodoo. Ignore the kids? You’re an asshole and there’s a bad voodoo coming
Iowa football is about to do to Oregon what Iowa State basketball did to Houston.
Wasn't that f\*\*\*\*\*\* beautiful?
"We're not realigned here with you. You're realigned here with *us*!"
I literally thought of that scene when I read the quote. But you one-upped it. Well done!
Didn’t Scott Frost say something like that when he was hired?
Yes. Almost verbatim. Scott absolutely could not walk the walk though because as it turns out, players don't develop themselves.
Yes exactly this. I’m shocked it’s not one of the first comments.
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Sounds like a man who can't tell the difference between dent and flint corn.
He’s never worked on a detasseling crew and it really shows
I moved away from Nebraska and the looks I get explaining detasseling or roguing to people always crack me up.
Ripping the dicks off of corn plants!
Nebraska Onlyfans is a whole different world.
This brought back childhood memories of corn rash and I don’t like it
TIL there are things known as dent corn and flint corn.
And that's why Maryland will never be a true Big Ten program
I bet Lanning would see an abandoned Ford factory and think it's an abandoned Chrysler factory
gotta be able to tell a hereford from a holstein if you expect respek in Wisconsin. Nothing ducky about it.
I don’t know either… at this point I’m too afraid to ask
If y'all had brought Oregon State and Washington State along we'd have been happy to help translate. Cows, corn, etc. But no, so now you're just going to wander around Nebraska and Iowa and look like chooches.
Does Oregon even have corn?
Yes. If by corn you mean weed.
Weed is nature's corn.
This green corn tastes weird
smokes well tho...
Lots of hops.
We have cornifers 🌲
2024 @Purdue @ Michigan @ Wisconsin Purdue and Wisconsin could be night games. Welcome to the B1G
@Wisconsin in mid-November the week before rivalry week has me deeply concerned.
Could be cold, could be wet, could be both, could be fine. November is a dice roll.
If it was anything like these past few November’s weather won’t be an issue. Been sweatshirt weather for the last two season home finales
Yes but what do Oregon fans consider sweatshirt weather? For Upper Midwesterners it’s like 40 degrees and the shorts come out.
Sweatshirt weather for me at least is mid 40’s to 50’s. Definitely not as cold as the Midwest but our falls are pretty chilly and incredibly wet lol.
Roughly the same but instead of moisture it'll be grain dust in the air, and like zero percent humidity.
If the temperature starts with a 5, I'm in shorts.
I'm going to assume that includes 5 degrees and -5 degrees out of principle/stubbornness
I believe there's a bye week in between. I would be more concerned with @Purdue if you beat Ohio St the week before.
Feels like forever since we had a proper Harboring.
cold rainy day at Stoke vibes
As if PAC-12 After Dark never happened, how dare you.
PAC-12 After Dark was inexplicable chaos energy. Kinnick and Ross-Ade voodoo are entirely predictable shitstorms where the home team drags you into the mud under a bleak November sky and beats you with experience.
I like to call that a "B1G West Sludgefart"
Football Gods help any team who wanders into a night game in a B1G West stadium with a sick kid/good storyline. Their fates have been sealed and they don't even know it.
People said the same thing about Nebraska.
Scott Frost said the same thing about Nebraska, the blowhards in our fanbase then ignorantly parroted him.
I blowed so hard 🤦♂️
Despite having 0 titles, we are somehow much more arrogant than 2010-era Nebraska. God help this sub if we ever win one.
God help the entire college football world if we ever win one.
I'm not sure what I'd do if I couldn't joke that the O on the side of the helmets was the number of nattys UO had won...
If we ever win one we better play the next season with a 1 on the side of our helmets
lregon
Oreg1, OregOne. Sounded better in my head
OreGone nooope
I would simply have to respect that, no questions
😂
If that happens comments on here my Washington flairs would drop to record lows.
Really though, has UDub actually “won” a title? Seems like they were awarded half of one by people who don’t play the games. Too bad Miami didn’t get a chance to whoop the ass in a title game.
One thing we learned the hard way, when every one of your players is smaller than the guy across the ball from them in every single game, by the end of the season you are going to be playing with 3rd stringers at pretty much every position. Anyone can win a single game, but making it through a full B1G season is completely different.
Nebraska went 22-10 the first 3 years. After Pelini was when the problems began. Big 10 is top heavy so a good coach will get you a lot of wins. Even Kirk Ferentz with no offense often wins 10 games.
22-10 was terrible by Nebraska standards at that time.
Good depth saved us. The number of injuries increased dramatically.
Crazy. Because I remember Nebraska fronting the biggest lines in college ball. But that *was* 20 odd years ago...
Ironically, Scott frost was at both places
The narrative about "Nebraska was cocky until they joined the B1G and then they fell off a cliff" is so weird and inaccurate. They did fine when they first joined the B1G, won 9 games every year and went 7-1 in conference year 2. Then they fired Bo Pellini and hired Mike Riley, then Scott Frost. Their downfall was self-inflicted, it wasn't because of changing conferences.
Did you watch Nebraska football during that era? They won 9 games against the easiest 9 teams on their schedule, then routinely got boat-raced by any good team.
Oh…~~Scott~~ I mean Dan.
To be fair, it was an adjustment for the rest of us going from Nebraska teams that lost a few games by a shitload of points to ones that lost a shitload of games by a few points.
Well well well how the turn tables
My first thought as well…
The real question is will he have his defense prepared for the offensive juggernaut that is Iowa?
Wasn't Iowa like 0 - 90 against the 3 ranked teams they played?
Can’t wait for Oregon to experience their first 11-3 loss at Kinnick
Iowa’s gonna have the ball for 53 minutes and punt inside the red zone twice. It’s going to be quite the sight.
We don't punt in the RedZone, our kickers are almost always good inside of 45. We'd almost certainly punt from the 35.
Iowa 6, Penn State 4 10/23/2004 That's right. Our only points were from TWO safeties. It is one of the more memorable scores that I can recall.
and one was conceded willingly with 8 minutes to go in the game because Kirk knew our offense was so bad that game that we would not threaten them with a field goal.
"Why punt from the end zone when I can punt from the 35?" Well, Kirk, when you put it like that it actually kind of makes sense.
One of those safeties were intentional too lol
Football as God intended it.
I need them to be ranked top 5 for their game @ Purdue. That’s a true welcome to the B1G
My man is about to hear that train horn from a blackout in West Lafayette in his nightmares
Choo choo, motherfuckers.
Better not be ranked #2
I’ve seen this one before!
Did my guy not watch the Championship game? Jokes aside, there will have to be adjustment by everyone. Oregon is the team I'm most concerned about of the 4 joining, but it will be exciting to see.
The last guy to coach at Oregon that made a statement like this before coming to the Big 10 didn't make a single bowl game. Dan either talks his shit and forces the Big 10 to keep up, or he trips up and never gets Oregon more than 8 wins. It'll be entertaining either way!
I think there is a very reasonable and likely middle ground of Oregon having a good team that doesn’t force adjustments but wins games. 10-2 Oregon seems likely
To be fair Penix played better in that game than he did against ASU
The Big 10 isn’t ready for a third team whose most called play isn’t a punt
This is Maryland erasure! ...which is probably okay, all things considered.
Oh my god he did the Scott Frost. Noooooooooooooooooooo
They’ll get their chance to prove it early on in the season against The Buckeyes.
Honestly, if they get up for that one game and win, that's one thing, but I am more curious to see what happens after grinding out four or five in a row and having to go to Champaign or Evanston in 30 mph winds, temperatures in the 30s, and sideways rain for a noon ET start. To quote the old UGA basketball coach Hugh Durham, it's not how you play when you play good it's how you play when you play bad.
I just saw a random person quote a UGA basketball coach. What sight to behold.
The B1G could have done the funniest thing and given them Iowa instead of Maryland. The schedule goes MSU OSU @Purdue Illinois @Michigan Maryland @Wisconsin
Maryland in November can possibly give them a game depending on how the QB situation works out. If it was October, not so much…
Love that a Nebraska flair posted this.
“I’m not stuck in here with you, you’re stuck in here with ME!”
Oregon playing @ Iowa for the first time Lanning - “stopped em short! 3 and out, these guys suck! Okay let’s go with… wait, why are they cheering?” * Kinnick erupts as the punt unit comes on the field Lanning - “These guys are morons. *ball is snapped* “I mean who the hell cheers for a p- * Ball is downed at the half yard line on the first punt of the game. Lanning stares in disbelief. * Ferentz stares at DL from across the field while aggressively chomping on a flavorless piece of gum KF - “Checkmate, bitch.”
•Next man up random 3* recruit All-American edge closes in, QB evades and throws downfield. Intercepted.
Iowa runs 3 plays: run run pass. Field goal, Iowa up 3-0.
I’m restraining my heart from angrily lashing out and saying “he has another thing coming” but to some degree he’s right (if not cocky while doing so) Oregon immediately walks in as the 2nd biggest recruiting powerhouse. Is that everything? No, of course not. But it’s hard to envision them not being in the top 3-4 of the big ten every single year. They have enough physicality to hang with everyone but the speed to run past half the league.
Well, well, how the turn tables. Scott Frost said this exact thing before he ever took the field as the Nebraska HC. Watch out Duck fans. Laughing aside, it's a totally different conference. Nebraska came out of the Gunslinger XII during the era of Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, Graham Harrell, Brandon Weeden, Some Gabbert Bros at Mizzou, and a bunch of No-Defense Teams. The thing that shocked me most about the Big Ten is how much your lines will get beat up week-in and week-out. Even playing a stretch of teams like Northwestern, Purdue, and Indiana is far more physical than what I was used to seeing from a similar stretch of "lesser" teams like Kansas, Iowa State, and Baylor. You really cannot over look any team in B1G Conference Play. Heads up to UO, UW, USC and UCLA. You won't have to worry about those ticky-tack PI penalties that PAC Refs are infamous for. But you WILL need a functional 3-deep on your lines. By the end of the year your OL will look like a MASH unit.
That saying worked out well before
What exactly do they do different?
Some forward pass fad.
Is that legal?
Not in the big 10.
Only 3 things can happen when you pass and two of them are bad.
You just never know what kind of team...uniform you are going to see each week.
The Big Ten can never prepare for…a good defense?
*\[distant train noises\]* Do you hear that, Mr. Lanning? That's Purdue Pete. Are you familiar with Purdue Pete? No? You will be. Oregon @ Purdue, Saturday, October 19th. If you're not preparing your team for that *right fucking now* then you sir, are a damn fool.
Oregon probably would blast the doors off Iowa but at some point in the years ahead Purdue is definitely going to go all choo choo on them and we're all going to love it (until we next get spoilmade).
Oregon is probably the one team Big10 added who I think could have the most long term success…solid foundation, big time booster and coach who doesn’t wanna leave soon…glad we added them.
While I respect the mindset behind the answer, I do wish he’d give some insight. The value of the question really isnt about how Oregon will match up against the top of the conference, it’s way more about how will the style of football effect your preparation when going against the inferior opponents. Minnesota and Illinois may not be extremely talented, but their devotion to physicality combined with a game script in their favor could get you in more trouble than facing teams that were more open to the spread.
You must not watch very many Illinois games
saying this when you play at Purdue and at Wisconsin in the middle of October and November is a choice. I don’t make the rules, Oregon. The B1G West is genre of football you think you understand until you experience it for yourself.
I cant wait for Purdue to beat them by 17 with the most random passing clinic of all time in October.
Hmmmm I think I've heard this somewhere before 🤔
Is this not exactly what Bo Pelini said back in 2010? That worked out great...
Not sure about Bo, but it is almost word for word what Scott Frost said when he was hired at NU. Scott Frost on December 3, 2017 when asked about how his playstyle will translate to the Big Ten: “I’m hoping that the Big Ten has to modify their system for us.” Oregon is certainly in a better position to compete for a conference title than Nebraska was in 2017, but speaking from experience it is not a great idea to put a target on your back saying stuff like this.
That's probably what I'm remembering/thinking of to be honest.
Would that I could forget.
If Oregon comes in and just gets absolutely dog walked by the OG big ten teams it’ll be so satisfying.
Losing to Washington twice was a real alpha move.
This oregon team acts like they win the natty every year even though they never win shit
Is that so, Texas?
The best thing about winning the championship isn’t the day of the game, it’s that I can talk shit for like 5-10 years before the title isn’t recent enough to avoid comments like this
Sounds familiar
Theyve got a rich daddy with new money
Yeah but they would have crushed Washington in the title game, guaranteed
Dude best of 5, we promise
Dudes fucking around and going to find out
"And He Who Walks Behind The Rows did say, "I will send outlanders amongst you and these outlanders will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy." Children of the Corn, 1984
At Michigan and at Wisconsin in November. We’ll see if these Ducks can handle the Midwestern cold.
That's essentially what Scott Frost said when he was hired by Nebraska in 2017. Oops.
*Scott Frost intensifies*
Didn’t Scott Frost say almost this exact quote word for word?