A lot of college football fans are looking past the Oregon Ducks 81-7 win over the Portland State Vikings in Week 1 as anything too impressive because of the level of competition. It’s understandable why that’s the reaction, but what do you want the Ducks to do?
It’s like you coming back from the grocery store with everything on the list purchased, and your significant other gets made because you didn’t come home with a new boat as well.
Dan Lanning and the Ducks could only take care of the task at hand, and that was completely and utterly dominating the Vikings. Check.
Up next, Oregon will have a bigger task in front of them. This weekend, they will travel to Lubbock in order to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders, who are looking to bounce back from a double-overtime loss to the Wyoming Cowboys.
On Monday night in his weekly press conference, Lanning met with media members to look back on Week 1 after watching film from the Ducks’ first game of the year, as well as preview the upcoming game against the Red Raiders. Here are some of the most notable quotes from that press conference: