In February? Before the Spring practice; Transfer Portal closes and Fall training camp???🙄😂 What will these writers think of next?😵‍💫

Overall the Pac-12 has too many good QB's to think an Oregon team with a highly questionable defense and terrible special teams play last season is now going to win the Conference Championship with only 1 loss.

What happened to the Pac-12 finishing the year with 6 teams ranked in the Top 20 and 2 of those in the Top 10...and now Oregon will have only 1 loss against 4 of those teams???(will only play UCLA if they meet in the Pac-12 Championship Game...which this writer is not predicting).

I added up all the points in these predictions for the regular season not counting the Pac-12 Championship Game and compared them to last season minus the bowl game and...

The offense is predicted to score about 30 points less than last year which is not unreasonable given the loss of Dillingham, Klemm, 4 starters on the OL and a new OC.

The defense is going to allow around 60 fewer points than last year? Based on what???

I think the offense will do fine assuming Nix stays healthy; but Lanning needs improvement in game management and the defense needs SIGNIFICANT improvements(ditto on special teams)...Oregon ranked 9th in the Pac-12 in 3rd down conversions by the opponent as one example.

Oregon State finished last season #1 in Scoring Defense in the Pac-12 with 260 points allowed...257 if you subtract the 3 points Florida scored against them in their bowl game. Oregon allowed 329 points not counting their bowl game...for 5th place.

The writer of this article has Oregon allowing...260 points through 12 games!?! I not sure adding a new Co-DC to go along with Lanning and Lupoi will make that big of difference.

Oregon should be in the mix but so should about 4 or 5 other teams too.

Last edited by DucksReign (2/13/2023 1:47 pm)