The Ducks will go on the road for the first time this season, and they will also face a Big Ten opponent for the first time, when they play Northwestern on Saturday. The Martin stadium match starts at 9 a.m.
Oregon opened the season with a 59-13 victory against the state of Montana and followed it with a 69-3 victory against Oklahoma State, both at the Autzen stadium. With an average score of 64-8, the Ducks are the only FBS team which ranks among the first 10 at the national level both on the score attack and the notation defense.
The Wildcats opened the season with a defeat in Tulane, then rebounded to win at home last week, 42-7 in the west of Illinois. Northwestern won his only previous meeting with Oregon, 14-10, in 1974.
The Saturday’s match will be televised by Fox, with Gus Johnson providing the game by game, analysis of Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft’s touchline reports.
Some scenarios to watch when the game starts …
1 and 1 After winning the title of conference during its first year as members of the League, Oregon begins its quest to win the Big Ten Championship Again on Saturday.
The Ducks were a perfect 9-0 at a conference last season, ending an undefeated regular season. To return to the 2023 season, Oregon has 20 consecutive regular seasonal victories, the longest active sequence in the country.
The Ducks know that they are driven out at this stage.
“In the end, we expect everyone to be the best”, UO coach Dan Lanning said. “This is what we want, because this is how we are going to do our best. … You want a challenge on the part of the teams you can play, otherwise you will lose part of this level of competence because it is not necessary. So, to play at our level – what we want to look like – is really important.
2 It is an anterior start hour that usualWith the match on Saturday at 11 a.m. local time, and 9 a.m. on the west coast.
As a rule, the Ducks are on the training ground around 8:30 a.m. most days of the week. They should therefore be used to getting out of harm, going out on the field and attacking.
“This is what I said to the guys this morning when we were about to go out to practice:” It’s about the same time we play, guys, “said Lanning earlier this week.” Our bodies are used to it. This is something we can do, it’s a little different, and we look forward to this opportunity. “”
3 and 3 A team on Saturday, however, will have had a little more time to prepare. Northwestern had one day more between games That the Ducks, while the Wildcats played on Friday of last week.
In fact, Northwestern is the second UO consecutive opponent with more time to prepare. Oklahoma State played at Stade Autzen last week after a match on Thursday the previous week, a fact that Lanning said that the Ducks had lifted with the conference.
It did not injure the Ducks last week, when they beat the cowboys. They will seek to overcome the problem in the same way this week.
4 There were not many flagrant problems for the Ducks in their dominant victory last week. But that does not mean that there was nothing to clean in practice this week.
This week, penalties were an accent pointAfter Oregon hired six last week – a certain number of them procedural pre -preduces. This could be particularly important against Northwestern, the least penalized team in the regular country since the start of the mandate of head coach David Braun in 2023.
“We are going to repair it,” said Lanning. “It was clear what we can better coach and what we can do better, but we will resolve this.”
5 The place of the Saturday match is A temporary stadium, while the Wildcats finish work on a new field Open for the 2026 season.
Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium contains only 12,000 fans and is located on the banks of Lake Michigan.
“I think the area will always be the same size; this is what you are focusing on,” said Lanning. “It is definitely a different environment, but I trained in some of them. I trained football in high school. I trained FCS football. I played Naia football. I have been in some of these environments, and if you like football, you want to play your best, whatever the crowd or the setting is.
