Fish Duck News Updates

As a transplanted Hawkeye, I’m sure I follow Iowa football more closely than anyone else on FishDuck.com or the Our Beloved Ducks forum. Here are a few things you should know about this year’s Hawkeye football that even Mr. FishDuck took a break from his gaming fun at online sports… Read more »

Ever since Mike Bellotti was able to recruit mega-donor “Uncle” Phil Knight 30 years ago into the Oregon fold, no “outsider” has won the national championship. When I say “outsider,” I mean a program that is either not a traditional blue-blood program, or at least lacking a rich football history.… Read more »

Unfortunately, there’s no getting around it: Our Oregon football program had a lackluster performance against the Badgers over the weekend. Wisconsin’s defense held the Ducks to only 21 points, where Oregon entered as a 31.5-point favorite at home, and this was just a poor showing overall. The Badgers were thin… Read more »

The Duck offense has done fantastic against bad defenses this year and even better against all around bad teams. Oregon’s offense has struggled against teams that have competitive athletes to their own. We saw this at Penn State (yes Penn State, still has some quality athletes), against Indiana, and now… Read more »

While the above title shouts “Ripoff!” of the 1982 Rocky movie with Clubber Lang, it has serious relevance for how Oregon head coach Dan Lanning is preparing his team for its five-game season-finishing run. It is a crucial set of games that will determine whether or not Our Beloved Ducks… Read more »

It’s early, but it’s already worth asking: Does this 2025 Oregon football team have what it takes to make a legitimate postseason run? Just eight weeks in, has this roster and staff shown enough to prove they’re ready for a real shot at the National Championship? Head coach Dan Lanning… Read more »

The B1G. Outside of having three teams ranked in the Top 6, the rest of the conference is mediocre to bad. The conference is currently the very definition of “top-heavy.” Michigan and Illinois are flirting at the bottom of the Top 25, but they have a low ceiling. Even our… Read more »

It is amazing what a week after a tough loss can do, as the Ducks didn’t let Rutgers get close to handing them a second loss. Sure, Rutgers doesn’t sit atop the Big Ten rankings; they aren’t even a ranked team, but they are certainly a better team than Oregon… Read more »

EUGENE, Ore. — Losing raises questions. Just ask The Oregonian reporter James Crepea. But don’t ask Oregon coach Dan Lanning about simulated pressures. Mr. FishDuck wrote about Simulated Pressures in the past, and took a break from checking into online casinos sites not on GamStop to discuss the Hoosier tactics… Read more »

Oregon Consistently Gets Better, A LOT BETTER, After Losses The Facts from 37 months Under Dan Lanning You saw Penn State lose a close game to Oregon this year and then watched the Nittany Lions turtle their next two games, brutal defeats, coach fired, dreams obliterated, season over. In 2024,… Read more »