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As one of the most exciting players to watch in college football, the media has been following De’Anthony Thomas ever since his awe inspiring Rose Bowl performance. To add to last week’s Sport Illustrated Magazine cover, this week De’Anthony Thomas was interviewed on ESPN’s College Gameday. The interview highlights Thomas’ rise from the Snoop Youth Football League, [...]

Rusty Ryan makes early comparisons to prior quarterbacks with early projections going forward.

Rusty Ryan looks at the PAC-12 North, the mirror image of the PAC-12 South.

The Oregon football uniforms were intentionally leaked today by Oregon and a few other people. Rusty Ryan has compiled photos and gives his own analysis.

  College football is almost here! We’ve braved the barren sports landscape of summer, admittedly made a little easier by the Olympics but they don’t play football so they’re not much help. And we are so, so close to being able to gorge ourselves on four TV’s, a laptop or two, and an iPad all [...]

Over at Addicted To Quack I wrote the offensive position preview on running backs.  

  De’Anthony Thomas has been on many people’s lists of Heisman hopefuls with a realistic shot.  As much of a Duck fan as I am, and as excited I am about De’Anthony Thomas coming in to this next season, I just don’t see Thomas being able to get enough stats and have enough of an [...]

Bovada has added some players to their list of Heisman contenders. They now have everyone from Matt Barkley to AJ McCarron to Marquess Wilson to Robbie Rouse. The list has been upgraded from the 25 that was posted in January. Let’s take a look at some.

  Today Ted Miller of the PAC-12 blog on ESPN wrote that Oregon is in “good” shape for the next season in terms of the wide receiver position.  I was expecting a “we’ll see” after the performance last year. The receivers were key in the Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin, but it was a frustrating [...]

Rusty Ryan wrote his viewing guide for the spring game. He breaks it down by position and who to watch.

It’s a two man race for starting quarterback. Rusty Ryan looks at the future direction of the offense and the characteristics of the two competitors.

You bet Rusty Ryan keeps a diary. We ripped out a few pages without him knowing so now you can enjoy his memories of the Rose Bowl game. Tears of joy will fall. You’ve been warned.

Chip Kelly went with the bread and butter against Wisconsin with some wrinkles on offense. Rusty Ryan looks at the gameplan and the significant plays on offense that we had barely seen this season.

Oregon dominated Oregon State in the Civil War and Rusty Ryan looks at Darron Thomas, the tight ends, receivers, and De’Anthony Thomas

Rusty Ryan looks at how Oregon beat the scrape technique and what plays worked well.