NDSU @ Oregon Predictions

[Bisonator98]

The way you play the game, 21 points is the ceiling. Oregon will make you drive 13 plays. There won’t be enough clock for more.

The Oregon defense was scratching the surface last year and was great. This year the defense will be elite. The best talent on the defense were first year rotational players. Mykael Wright and Kayvon Thibodeaux are first round talents. Mase Funa at OLB is a 260 wrecking ball. Brandon Dorlus just kept inserting himself in the DL rotation and played his best against UTAH and Wisconsin. I expect all four to take a big leap forward.

How did this great defense give up 31 to Arizona State?

[Rock]

The way you play the game, 21 points is the ceiling. Oregon will make you drive 13 plays. There won’t be enough clock for more.

The Oregon defense was scratching the surface last year and was great. This year the defense will be elite. The best talent on the defense were first year rotational players. Mykael Wright and Kayvon Thibodeaux are first round talents. Mase Funa at OLB is a 260 wrecking ball. Brandon Dorlus just kept inserting himself in the DL rotation and played his best against UTAH and Wisconsin. I expect all four to take a big leap forward.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.


Beep. Boop.

[DuckLurker]

How did this great defense give up 31 to Arizona State?

As good as Lance is, he has not shown the elite arm talent that Daniels showed in that game. He's clearly got discipline but if you saw that ASU game, you would have seen very impressive downfield throwing (they had TD throws of 57 and 81 yards). Nor does Lance have the WR talent to throw to that ASU had in that game. Moreover, ASU put 10 of the points on the board on consecutive drives that started after picking off Herbert. So 24 of those 31 came on long plays or short fields. So that was the bad game by the D. On the flip side, they gave up a total of 50 points to USC, Colorado, CAL, Arizona and OSU. And I suspect Oregon's offense will be quite effective at keeping the D off the field with their superior offensive personnel, which is the real reason Oregon should win this game comfortably.

[DuckLurker]

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.


Beep. Boop.

Agreed, which is why Oregon fans feel so good about the team. They trailed UW by 14 in the 2nd half and won. They trailed Wisconsin late and won. They trailed WSU late and won. Of course that was just last season. The season before they pulled off comebacks against UW and ASU, plus came from way back against Utah and WSU only to fall short. They have shown an ability to take a team's best shot, get off the ground and get the W. How many times did NDSU do that last season?

[EC8CH]

They have shown an ability to take a team's best shot, get off the ground and get the W. How many times did NDSU do that last season?

Every time...

More specifically...

16

[DuckLurker]

Every time...

More specifically...

16

Yeah, against Butler and Deleware and UC Davis and James Madison. To stare straight in the face of that terror and come out alive is truly awe-inspiring.

[Rock]

Agreed, which is why Oregon fans feel so good about the team. They trailed UW by 14 in the 2nd half and won. They trailed Wisconsin late and won. They trailed WSU late and won. Of course that was just last season. The season before they pulled off comebacks against UW and ASU, plus came from way back against Utah and WSU only to fall short. They have shown an ability to take a team's best shot, get off the ground and get the W. How many times did NDSU do that last season?

Ndsu just plays poor teams. They aren’t any good. Oregon is really good and are VERY snappy dressers.

If the game doesn’t become another Covid victim you will see a very boring Oregon kicking tail on an FCS team. NDSU has pretty much already waived the white flag for this one. Hope Oregon takes it easy on them.

Oregon plays behemoths all year long like USC, CAL, Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon State. REAL competition- and they easily conquered them.

And against the SUPER TOUGH teams Oregon was over .500.

Keep pumping up the stats. That will be a big help in this matchup.

You aren’t attempting to convince yourself and others these stats matter, FBS is FAR superior, and this is all true.

It is a champion mindset. There is no real difference between 1st and 2nd place.


Beep. Boop.

[NDSU92]

Yeah, against Butler and Deleware and UC Davis and James Madison. To stare straight in the face of that terror and come out alive is truly awe-inspiring.

Don’t get lippy if you don’t like the answer, you’re the one asking dumb questions lol

[Bisonator98]

We were told 10 pages ago that last year and more specifically the last 7 FBS games we won don't matter so...........yeah we're ducked

[Bisonator98]

As good as Lance is, he has not shown the elite arm talent that Daniels showed in that game. He's clearly got discipline but if you saw that ASU game, you would have seen very impressive downfield throwing (they had TD throws of 57 and 81 yards). Nor does Lance have the WR talent to throw to that ASU had in that game. Moreover, ASU put 10 of the points on the board on consecutive drives that started after picking off Herbert. So 24 of those 31 came on long plays or short fields. So that was the bad game by the D. On the flip side, they gave up a total of 50 points to USC, Colorado, CAL, Arizona and OSU. And I suspect Oregon's offense will be quite effective at keeping the D off the field with their superior offensive personnel, which is the real reason Oregon should win this game comfortably.

So what was the Auburn (27points), Washington (31 pts), Washington St (35pts) ?