For the second time in three weeks, the Oregon Ducks are going to be a featured team on ESPN’s flagship show ‘College GameDay.’
After the No. 14 Utah Utes took care of business and beat the No. 18 USC Trojans with a walk-off field goal, it set up what will likely be the most anticipated matchup of the Week 9 slate.
After both Utah and Oregon won on Saturday to improve to 6-1, you can guess that they will move up slightly in the rankings. My guess is this will be No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 12 Utah, in the final meeting of the two foes for quite a while.
Two weeks ago, the Ducks were one of the featured teams on ‘GameDay’ when the show traveled up to Seattle to feature No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 7 Washington, an instant classic that ended in a 36-33 win for the Huskies.
You can bet that ESPN learned what a lucrative move it was to feature Oregon, as they pulled in a week-high 7.04 million viewers on the ABC telecast.
The Utah-Oregon game is scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff on FOX, but that isn’t stopping ESPN from taking their pregame show to the mountain air in Salt Lake City.
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