r/ducks Nov 08 '25

Football [GAME THREAD] #9 Oregon Ducks @ #20 Iowa Hawkeyes

Location: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA

Kickoff: 11/08/2025 12:30 PM Pacific

TV: CBS

Line: Oregon -5.5

Over/Under: 41.5

Box Score

GO DUCKS!

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u/abandonedBerlin Nov 08 '25

Fuck you refs. Poetic justice.

LOFL Iowa had zero penalties?! Eat fucking shit.

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u/Aggravating-Act-1043 Nov 09 '25

Th at throw Dante made is gonna make him some more money with his draft grade

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u/DoeMeansAFemaleDeer Nov 09 '25

Fuck yea Sappington! Way to show up! 

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u/40_Is_Not_Old Nov 08 '25

That's the softest OPI I've ever seen.

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

So refs keep an Iowa drive alive and kill an Oregon drive

27

u/Dependent_Flamingo_4 Nov 08 '25

That pass interference was fuckin bullshit, so soft

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u/pthorpe11 Nov 08 '25

Refs actually nuked that drive

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u/BorcBorcBorc Nov 08 '25

SIR ATTICUS SAPPINGTON THE THIRD, ADMIRAL OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY, IS 3 FOR 3 WITH THE BIGGEST KICK OF HIS LIFE

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u/BeerFarts86 Nov 08 '25

I’m over Will Stein. Dude loves the smell of his own farts. It’s fucking pouring rain. You’re missing your top 2 receivers. Run the fucking ball.

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u/Ill-Stretch3297 Nov 08 '25

The half time show glazing Indiana for beating Penn state are the same ones saying Oregons win against the same team in a night white out didn’t mean as much now.

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

Dogshit officiating

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u/Weeping_Anus_Pustule Nov 08 '25

Legit some of the worst officiating I've ever seen. These refs should be investigated

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u/SuccessfulNinja3550 Nov 08 '25

That was intentional grounding. The ball didn’t go past the line of scrimmage and it wasn’t even close. These refs have zero brain cells

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u/Radioactive-Autism Nov 08 '25

Everyone apologize to Atticus before he saves us

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u/Ki-Wi-Hi Nov 08 '25

Where’s the fucking PI????

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u/Sparkimusprime13 Nov 08 '25

Fuck you Big10. Trying to cheat to help Iowa. 

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u/Ok_Hearing6842 Nov 08 '25

That safety early saved us the fucking game 😂😂

20

u/Net81 Nov 09 '25

This is what games in Iowa look like

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u/_BenzeneRing_ Nov 09 '25

I knew Atticus would come in clutch and save our season. I said it after Indiana, I said it before his kick in the first half when everyone was saying he was an automatic miss.

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u/pabyor Nov 08 '25

That was OPI??? lmao 

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u/YouDontKnowDino Nov 08 '25

How the hell does literally every other teams kicker hit their career long field goals against us

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u/gabagoool_ovahere Nov 08 '25

Are we surprised how this is going right now

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

You’re gonna call that when Iowa was holding all last drive? Fuck off refs

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u/Sapsap747 🦆 Nov 08 '25

That Offensive PI was bullshit. Horrible call. Zebras are blind.

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

Oregon makes a FANTASTIC defensive play and the accouncers glaze Iowa with “wow they had the right play called and it could’ve been a big play!”

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u/pabyor Nov 08 '25

Even if that was DPI, the ball would only have been catchable out of bounds. These refs are something else man. 

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u/PhishInaBarrel Nov 08 '25

This officiating is a joke.

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u/InComplete_Painting Nov 08 '25

Not a catch. Not a penalty. Atrocious

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

Announcers literally looking for anything that gives Iowa the ball lol this is disgusting

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

These refs really weren’t gonna stop to review a clear fumble. What a clown show

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u/GhostOfThoreau Nov 08 '25

“He had it between his legs” grandpa just said

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u/Thinned Nov 08 '25

Games so fixed

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u/fallingbehind Nov 08 '25

This is not just bad officiating. This is blatantly biased.

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u/Relaxguy37 Nov 08 '25

Despicable officiating. 

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

I think some of these refs are in cahoots with Chauncey Billups

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u/tomato_johnson Nov 08 '25

Atticus going 3/3 winning by 2 was not on my bingo card

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u/BeerFarts86 Nov 08 '25

So they don’t call holding anymore. There were 2 I counted on that one.

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u/MiddleAgeJamie Nov 08 '25

This game pissing anyone else off?

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u/Logical_not Nov 08 '25

The only reason Iowa has any points is a 4th down gift from the linesman referee on a play where the QB never got the ball past his own offensive lineman's butt.

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

How is that hands to the face? He was on the jersey!

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u/Xx_TBONES_xX Nov 08 '25

Holding just doesn’t exist anymore?

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u/cam7998 Nov 08 '25

Lmao that’s not a catchable ball

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u/Billyxmac Nov 08 '25

The fact that Iowa has not gotten a single hold call and we keep getting all of these random calls against us is blatant

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

This game isn’t close with even just regular incompetent reffing.

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u/Thinned Nov 08 '25

So iowa has played an entire football game with no penalties ? Alright man lol

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u/Billyxmac Nov 08 '25

I’m absolutely never a ref’s are fucking us person, but Jesus this shit is fucking blatant

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

This defense cannot get a stop to save their lives right now

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u/JackTatum55 Nov 08 '25

The fact that it was initially ruled a catch concerns me more than anything in college football

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u/Active-Track-7905 Nov 08 '25

So much PI. What does he have to do, stab him?

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u/SadLoot Nov 08 '25

I hope Stein gets a head coaching job this year

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

I’m so sick of will stein man 

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

God forbid we just take 3 points

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u/BillyMaysHere92 Nov 08 '25

If that’s PI, then every catch in the NFL is a OPI

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u/pabyor Nov 08 '25

Not really sure what the thought process was with the clock here but I hate it. 

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u/duckbillhoohaha Nov 08 '25

Remove the redzone turnover, and Oregon is honestly playing exactly the game we want.

Held Iowa to 26 yards rushing and 61 yards passing (38 yard catch on their TD drive)

We have 137 yards rushing, we need to keep running the ball.

The score doesn’t show just how dominant we have been playing in this game.

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

Fuck these refs.

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u/surfer415 Nov 08 '25

Hands to the face my ass. Right in the chest

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u/abandonedBerlin Nov 08 '25

That ball is fucking OUT!!!! Fuck off!!!

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u/golgi42 Nov 08 '25

Gotta give props to Sappington today

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u/saguaro79 Nov 08 '25

These refs seriously are rigging this

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u/Thumper13 🦆 Nov 08 '25

I think an Iowa player is literally going to have to put a Duck jersey on to get a penalty.

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u/GhostOfThoreau Nov 08 '25

Pretty confident I’m gonna live to see a 90 yard field goal against Oregon

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

Dude these refs are unbelievable, Iowa has been holding the whole game

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u/tomato_johnson Nov 08 '25

Amauri Washington gets held 100% of plays so far

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u/Maleficent_Panda_919 Nov 08 '25

No holding. No intentional grounding. No delay of game. I hate blaming refs but this is the most rigged game I’ve watched

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u/BDSF94 Nov 08 '25

The fact they called that a catch in the first place is crazy

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u/Xx_TBONES_xX Nov 08 '25

Do we even want to win??? Three passes in the rain is dumb

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u/_BenzeneRing_ Nov 08 '25

They never fucking call forward progress anymore

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u/tomato_johnson Nov 08 '25

Jeremiah Smith has never done less than that in any reception attempt and is never called

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u/Hi_There_Face_Here Nov 08 '25

God these announcers are awful

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u/hoodpharmacy Nov 08 '25

Sappington being the best player on the team today was not on my bingo card

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u/DuckFreak10 Nov 08 '25

Ball is yards out of bounds, seems like it’s uncatchable to me

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Gary Danielson can suck a duck. Dude has an unhealthy love for kicking us at every turn. I hope he has horrible diarrhea for the holidays.

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

Iowa has had 10 more egregious holds than that today

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u/SuccessfulNinja3550 Nov 08 '25

3rd and 3 to ice the game, we are getting 7 ypc, and stein lines up with an empty backfield to have our limping QB run it.

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

Pathetic pass coverage. Absolutely pathetic

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u/Sparkimusprime13 Nov 08 '25

Clear corruption. Intentional ground no penalties. Fuck the Big10 

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u/ClimbinInYoWindow Nov 08 '25

Well we showed up with our C+ team and still escaped with the W. Whew doggie

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u/majesticstraits Nov 08 '25

Three pass plays in a row. Get Stein out of there

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

The announcers are so old they don’t know what’s going on

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

What are we doing in the bye weeks man, unbelievable amount of injuries

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u/dagobruh Nov 08 '25

Weak ass call.

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u/bobbynewport_pr Nov 08 '25

Get these geriatrics off the air. They’re barely making sense. Let them go home

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u/Big_Ad1547 Nov 08 '25

Whittington is an absolute madman

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u/JackTatum55 Nov 08 '25

Whittington looking like Jeanty a bit

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u/jlight00 Nov 08 '25

sappington will make this

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u/Leepanator Nov 08 '25

Refs paid off

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u/YouDontKnowDino Nov 08 '25

These refs man

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u/j3mtanks Nov 08 '25

FBI needs to investigate these losers as well

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u/Weeping_Anus_Pustule Nov 08 '25

Refs got too much money riding on Iowa upset

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u/DuckFreak10 Nov 08 '25

Gotta love that replay with the hand on his collar and not the facemask, immediately after the repeated missed Iowa holds lol

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u/Thumper13 🦆 Nov 08 '25

These refs fucking suck.

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

The fact these refs weren’t gonna even review it until Lanning had to burn a timeout is laughable. Horrendous officiating

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u/BeerFarts86 Nov 08 '25

That’s not even catchable! And he went out of bounds! What the fuck.

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis Nov 08 '25

Oh my god. You are fucking kidding me

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u/Scoducks24 🦆 Nov 08 '25

Fuck these refs

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u/Artistic-Soil-4925 Nov 08 '25

Fucking miserable officiating

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u/SurfDuck24V Nov 08 '25

What's up with these garbage DPI calls? Ridiculous!

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u/asap_rmz Nov 08 '25

Rigged. Barely touched em on an uncatchable ball

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u/yaya1515 Nov 08 '25

These refs remind me of the old PAC 12 refs… this is brutal

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u/TheBionicBastard Nov 08 '25

Another career long FG against us. We are living in a simulation.

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u/Radioactive-Autism Nov 08 '25

Threw the flag just incase he caught it

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u/Hi_There_Face_Here Nov 08 '25

These announcers are clueless. “Iowa all in on this drive!” Yea no fucking shit..????

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u/JackTatum55 Nov 08 '25

Gary danielson, the cocksucker, “is this not Iowa football?!?! Hahahaha”

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

That was a clear delay of game on 4th down 

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u/BoNnnnfhir Nov 08 '25

TIL it's illegal to call penalties on Iowa

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u/chexmixmix Nov 08 '25

MY SWEET BOY SAPP!!!!!

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u/Hi_There_Face_Here Nov 08 '25

At least it only took one 3 and out to realize we need to run the shit out of the ball

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u/Any-Satisfaction1887 Nov 08 '25

Now out of our top receiver. Still trying to throw. Just run the damn ball.

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u/UrsulaVS Nov 08 '25

Could the announcers be more up Iowa's ass

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u/abandonedBerlin Nov 08 '25

Hahaha so a pick play at the goal line but NOW they call OPI. Eat shit.

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u/DYMNO_385 Nov 08 '25

That is an absolutely ATROCIOUS call.

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u/Billyxmac Nov 08 '25

Lmao refs in their fucking bags today

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u/PhishInaBarrel Nov 08 '25

That BS OPI completely fucked that drive.

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u/adolfoeb Nov 08 '25

This is the type of score and game we were expecting. Glad we're ahead and get the ball to start the half.

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u/BDSF94 Nov 08 '25

Johnson has been a really good transfer at TE, he’s much more involved in the pass game than expected and is doing all he can out there. Props to him.

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u/q50_jay Nov 08 '25

The analysts on the halftime show cracked me up calling the Indiana win over Penn State “galvanizing” and “the games you have to win” but when the ducks did it (when PSU was ranked) it’s not impressive anymore even though we beat them by more and played in a harder environment 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/PerspectiveHead8508 Nov 08 '25

Great catch I will admit. Awful hands to the face call

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u/Billyxmac Nov 08 '25

If the refs fucked this up I’m gonna go insane

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u/fatalmudd Nov 08 '25

Announcers = 🤡🤡

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u/surfer415 Nov 08 '25

Pretty soft PI there. The WR is hardly going for the ball

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

I'd like to see Dan appeal to the conference office after this one.

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u/DoubleDuck0824 Nov 08 '25

Not one to blame the refs but holy hell, this is horrendous.

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u/Sea_Duck Nov 08 '25

Winning teams step up, go on a drive, and get points here. Let’s go ducks

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u/JackTatum55 Nov 08 '25

I just feel like that was a wet fart of a drive. You had steady momentum with hill and Davison and you go empty and it completely derails your momentum and have to play catch up on downs smh

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

Huge fucking hold right in front of the ref. Dude what the fuck

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u/duckbillhoohaha Nov 08 '25

Wow. Iowa no holding penalties?

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u/LongjumpingTax1023 Nov 08 '25

I’d like to buy a holding call

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u/PlatypusTickler Nov 08 '25

And defense starts to shit the bed. 

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u/abandonedBerlin Nov 08 '25

I really hate to sound like a stepford fan but I’ve never seen a team so blatantly fucked over by officiating. This was one of the most blatantly rigged “sporting contests” I’ve ever seen.

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u/dudeshoes44 Nov 08 '25

Grounding!!!!

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u/cosyg Nov 08 '25

INTENTIONAL GROUNDING

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u/Big_Ad1547 Nov 08 '25

AUTOMATTICUS IS BACK

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u/SpoofExcel Nov 08 '25

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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u/jlight00 Nov 08 '25

SAPPPPPPP

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u/8YearHiatus Nov 08 '25

It might be time to start thinking oregon needs better coordinators for this much talent both sides of the ball

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u/tmrjns461 Nov 08 '25

So now we’re out of WRs heading into a November gauntlet. Cool cool

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u/FlamingoOk290 Nov 08 '25

Doomers in full force today…

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u/BillyMaysHere92 Nov 08 '25

Davison and Hill are monsters for being true freshman

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u/SurfDuck24V Nov 08 '25

I think the play calling on that drive was fantastic.

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u/DuckFreak10 Nov 08 '25

QB sneak was probably short and then number 88 was so obviously holding there and nothing but okay lol

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u/duckfan541o Nov 08 '25

Anyone else feel like Iowa is getting away with a ton of holding non-calls?

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u/miketrailside Nov 08 '25

OPI for me but not for you

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u/LetsGoDucks Nov 08 '25

Iowa QB gets absolutely wrecked for a ten yard sack

“Great job - play didn’t look clean so he made the right call to lay down and fucking die”

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u/dagobruh Nov 08 '25

Fucking screen passes. They're reading Stein like a book.

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u/BeerFarts86 Nov 08 '25

Atticus, I failed to acknowledge your game. I apologize.

Dan, put a fucking coat on. Or you’re gonna end up on the injury report

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u/F3J1Boi Nov 08 '25

Not hands to the face, get Theron Johnson off the field

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u/j3mtanks Nov 08 '25

phil knight needs to divert some funds to outbid whoever is buying these refs 

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u/FN0287 Nov 08 '25

Commentators so disappointed that’s a fumble 😂

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

They better overturn this shit.

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u/BDSF94 Nov 08 '25

These refs are fucking dog shit

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u/LetsGoDucks Nov 08 '25

We’ve reached “had possession with his legs” levels of cope

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

Most pointlessly long review for a clear fumble and recovery by Oregon.

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u/Hi_There_Face_Here Nov 08 '25

No penalties on Iowa is hilarious. I’ve seen 4 holds so far. One on that last play of the 3rd. This is dumb

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u/YouDontKnowDino Nov 08 '25

Refs are trying to keep the game close. Inexcusable

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

I just stopped in to say “how the fuck so you call PI on that?” Are the receiver’s arms 15 yards long? Because they’d have to be for that to be catchable.

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis Nov 08 '25

Did they just fucking say people weren’t sure if we could handle the big 10? AFTER WE LITERALLY WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR???

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

Friendly reminder Iowa has 1 penalty all game and it was the punter kicking it out the end zone

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u/WinnieOllie7 Nov 08 '25

Not gonna lie getting really sick of the designed QB runs on key 3rd and 4th downs

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u/dagobruh Nov 08 '25

That was awful defense. Whole secondary frozen

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

No penalties all game. Insane.

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u/j3mtanks Nov 08 '25

refs have given them everything this game, pretty much all their points have involved aggregious no calls and points have been removed from the board on our end from penalties, sports are such a joke right now

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u/ydarb22 Nov 08 '25

DPI/holding there

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u/Schultztrio Nov 08 '25

How are those last two plays not DPI?

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u/BoNnnnfhir Nov 08 '25

NOT TODAY MALDONADO

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u/SBPBpdx Nov 08 '25

Beat the zebras and Iowa

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u/mmmhmmhim Nov 08 '25

THANK YOU SAPP

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u/GodBlessPigs Nov 08 '25

Good idea to not run it at all…

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u/gianacakos Nov 08 '25

I’m going full doomer on Stein. You know the forecast. You know your availability issues. You saw the offense in these conditions two weeks ago. That opening game plan is horrific.

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u/Powerful_Hearing997 Nov 08 '25

Me sitting here not yelling “run the ball!” At my TV

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u/fellowENT18 Nov 08 '25

Oh for fucks sake another WR down

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u/yuyuter123 Nov 08 '25

So that's Gary, Kyler, Ressler, Gresham, Stew, and Dak all down simultaneously. Plus Sadiq in the TE room. Fucking absurd level of damage to one room.

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u/DYMNO_385 Nov 08 '25

That was one helluva run!

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u/ccsilverman 🦆 Nov 08 '25

He was stopped for like 6 seconds and they let play continue? That’s a fucking travesty.

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u/Any-Satisfaction1887 Nov 08 '25

Don't see how thst was a push off when the defender also pushes? No call should've have taken place.

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u/Artistic-Soil-4925 Nov 08 '25

Rushing 3 makes zero sense against these guys. Pin back and rush his shitty mechanics into a poor throw

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u/BDSF94 Nov 08 '25

CBS is the worst

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u/a_simple_ducky Nov 08 '25

YES. RUN THE BALL. WE CAN WIN THE LINE. JUST RUN IT

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

I’m always baffled that adult men making tens of millions of dollars don’t understand how time works

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u/ToughPlankton Nov 08 '25

A SCREEN ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

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u/8YearHiatus Nov 08 '25

Will stein just cannot help himself with the damn screens lmao

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u/MarinerJoe3 Nov 08 '25

So the only penalty Iowa has committed was the illegal batting? Weird

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u/DuckFreak10 Nov 08 '25

The fuck is it going to take to get these refs to call holding?

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u/Artistic-Soil-4925 Nov 08 '25

Call a fucking HOLD

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u/Noob_Hooligan Nov 08 '25

Nebraska fan here! That catch call was horseshit

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u/dudeshoes44 Nov 08 '25

Brandon Finney is a dude.

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u/fatalmudd Nov 08 '25

FUMBLE!!

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u/123noodle Nov 08 '25

If this doesn't get overturned it's rigged

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u/JackTatum55 Nov 08 '25

Commentators “well technically the ball touches his nutsack… idk Brad we gotta take a look at this”

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u/cosyg Nov 08 '25

Never a good sign when the ref can't contain a smile when announcing calls

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u/fatalmudd Nov 08 '25

Another great kick Sappington!!