A year after taking the No. 1 seed on the first 12-team College Football Playoff, the Oregon Ducks are back again in 2025 with expectations of getting into the postseason and competing for a national championship. The new season will bring new challenges for Dan Lanning and his team, with a new-look roster taking shape that returns just four total starters from a year ago.
However, despite the lack of experience, Oregon is as talented as they’ve maybe ever been, and expectations are high going into the new season, which is just over a week away.
When forecasting what’s to come, it’s common to predict what the upcoming CFP will look like. Ahead of the season, Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt predicted his 12-team playoff field, and he had Oregon coming in as a No. 6 seed, hosting the No. 11 Michigan Wolverines at Autzen in the first round.
Klatt Has Penn State as the No. 1 overall seed, meaning they would win the Big Ten Conference, and Ohio State at No. 4, meaning they would lose to the Nittany Lions in the conference title game.
Klatt predicts that Oregon would beat Michigan, but then lose to the Clemson Tigers in the second round. Coincidentally, Klatt has the Tigers going on to win the national championship, which would make it the second year in a row that Oregon would have lost to the eventual champion in the quarterfinals.
Going into the season, there is a belief that Oregon has to go at least 10-2 in order to make the playoff, but a 9-3 record would likely see them all short. With road games against Iowa, Penn State, and Washington, the Ducks will have their work cut out for them to get back into the postseason.
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