Undefeated Oregon has Excelled in Big 10 Debut Season

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00:00I've been Lacey Guy that begins with number one, Oregon, the only undefeated FBS team

00:08in the sport this year, a perfect 13 and oh, in its first year in the Big Ten, a conference

00:15championship that had eluded them in the Pac-12 in the past few seasons, Joe, you were one

00:21of the people that I know most optimistic about Oregon in its first year in the Big

00:26Ten conference and the Ducks proved you right. A lot of people have made a lot of the difficult

00:32path that Oregon has despite being the number one overall seed in the college football playoff

00:38field. How do you think Oregon is getting ready for the CFP? I think very well. I think

00:43Dan Lanning again from a preparation standpoint, similar to Kirby Smart, not the same success

00:48obviously with no national championships and no college football playoff wins to this point.

00:54But just in terms of the games, the games that they lose, they're still prepared and

00:58the big matchups I've seen Dan Lanning to me elevate his offense and his team from a

01:04whole perspective. And that's why I still buy in to Oregon big picture. I still think

01:08they have value at plus 350, maybe to Kevin's point, not as dominant as some of the better

01:13defenses that we've seen in their respective conferences. But I still think from an offensive

01:18perspective, they are so balanced in that veteran leadership of what Dylan Gabriel brings

01:24and the ability for Dan Lanning to coach up that talent. Right. We haven't seen the significant

01:29drop off. Dillingham moves on from Oregon to Arizona State. Bo Nix still elevates. Now

01:34Dylan Gabriel plug and play type of player. So until that changes, I still believe they're

01:40the front runners right now until you knock the Kings out. Stop. They're not the Kings.

01:45I'm not. Every time you find a way, they're not the Kings. They're undefeated, Kev. Great.

01:50I mean, all right. Great. But you know what? I'm glad you said that. You know what? We've

01:54not actually been able to address it. You've got to keep the hold on. Hold on is for a

02:03few years. I would look at you and go, the Big Ten's not that good. Right. And the second

02:10Oregon shows up, run the table. That's not great. It's not because you could try and

02:17make the comment to the SEC, except the Kings are that conference. Real Kings who've actually

02:24won something. Dump Texas on their head. Both times, Texas did play in the conference championship

02:29on a percent. Listen, making it is one thing. Oregon went 13 and 0 year one in the big.

02:35The whole bit on the Pac-12 for a long time was they can't even get a seat at the table.

02:41The Pac-12 pulled up to the Big Ten said, oh, this is comfortable. It's not even as

02:45cold as they told us it was going to be. I'm like, you want to go a step further? Ohio

02:52State and Penn State. One of them loses. It's real bad. If by some chance they both lose.

03:01I think they should remove Oregon and give them by the Bama and let Bama play in the

03:05Rose Bowl. No, because I'm like, but you still can't take away from the success that they

03:10have had. I mean, we have justified the one thing I would say about Oregon in comparison

03:15to some of the other Big Ten teams, certainly Indiana, Penn State entering this matchup

03:19against SMU, failing to step up on occasion when not expected to win. Oregon did so at

03:25home against Ohio State, catching a few points. Oregon did so in a big way in the Big Ten

03:31title game in a shootout against Penn State. Oregon's quality of win, a single loss really

03:37cannot be argued against here, at least in my estimation. Four wins against teams currently

03:42ranked in the CFP top 25, the same as Georgia. Georgia's argument would be, well, our four

03:48are playing in the college football playoff where the Ducks would say we only have three.

03:52Penn State, Ohio State and Boise State. What's interesting, though, and this is a tough thing

03:57to do because it's not like we get like a million out of conference heavyweight battles,

04:01right? But Oregon's of those of the trio, the one out of conference was Boise did not

04:07cover. Forget didn't cover. They're supposed to be a gazillion levels above Boise State.

04:13The game was in Eugene and it was a three point final. Yeah.

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