Oregon vs. Nebraska: Ducks Favored for Strong Bounce Back

Why is Oregon-Nebraska a big deal? Dante Moore is still out. Super unfortunate. That really is. But Oregon post-UCLA last week and put forward a disgusting football game. And Dan Lanning is especially because Dan Lanning can't actually be on the hot seat. Right? Just to kind of connect what we were just saying. James Franklin maybe is not fired in a 2014 playoff era because Penn State goes, you know what? we are going to always make, I don't know, but maybe he still is, because we would make it with anybody. I don't know. Nevertheless, in come Nebraska, and you would think, Dylan Rayola revenge game, or whatever game. I don't know. Maybe it's Nebraska revenge. I don't know, right? But it's like Dylan Raiola versus old school. It's like, that's a big thing. And then Dylan Raiola was so bad. So bad. Dave and I talked about it last week before the UCLA game. We're like, guys, I'm not sure you should just blindly say to yourselves, is Raiola, Dante Moore, no drop-off. I think that would be a really dangerous thing to think. And he got benched. We don't know just yet who's going to start for Oregon. By the way, this game is like almost 12 hours away. So we're not going to know for a while. However, I thought I was going to ultimately be like, look, fun game to talk about. I'm not going to bet. This made my card. I played Oregon at six and a half. So we dropped this under a touchdown. So UCLA, Nebraska. UCLA is the better football team. that was 10 with hey we know Raiola starting now it's Raiola or you know it's Brock Thomas we dropped it because of that performance but Rayola still did the things he did against USC I don't think that it is unreasonable that you I actually think it is almost a guarantee no matter what Oregon is going to get better quarterback play this week than last week I think Dan Lanning, off a loss, is still a very, very dangerous head coach and will run it up if the opportunity is provided. I don't think Nebraska are bad. I don't think this is a great spot. All the emotion, a big noon kick at home against Indiana, almost pulled off the upset, and now you've got to go all the way to the Pacific Northwest to play Oregon? I laid six and a half here with the Ducks, Dan. I said it on the show to you last week. Dillon Raiola is a backup quarterback for a reason. He could have gone anywhere in the country, and he's still a backup quarterback. in today's day and age you can be a starter anywhere and he's still a backup for a reason and we saw that last week in that game how bad he played versus UCLA in Nebraska like they played well versus Indiana they played a lot better versus Indiana anyone gave them credit for you got to go now play an angry Oregon team and just it is what it is Oregon was not as good as people thought they were and you lose your starting quarterback Heisman Trophy candidate top 10 draft pick. It's going to hurt. I don't think anybody saw Oregon losing three or four games this season. They still can end the season strong. They still can go to a notable bowl game. I think any notion of Dan Lanning being on the hot seat is just as stupid as Kalen DeBoer being on the hot seat in Alabama. You're not going to get anybody better to run your program that you have right now in-house. They're still going to get a quarterback back, get a little bit of a defense, and by the way, the loss to Oklahoma State aged well. Oklahoma State is number 18 in the country, so that wasn't as bad of a loss as everybody thought it was. Maybe don't go play UCLA and look as bad as you did, but again, get a backup quarterback. I think Oregon is a lot closer to what we thought they were with Dante Moore than what they're showing on the field, and I don't necessarily blame Dan Lanning for that. You're not going to win with a backup quarterback. I do like him today versus Nebraska. I think talent-wise, it's just ridiculously pushed towards Oregon, And in Oregon, they need to win because they failed last week. They looked terrible in doing so. Didn't make my card, but I understand why it's on yours.