When the first game on your schedule is a bout with the defending national champions in a “neutral site” game that takes place less than 100 miles from your opponent’s campus, you know you’re in for it.
That’s the situation for the Oregon Ducks, who will travel to Atlanta to take on the Georgia Bulldogs on Sept. 3. As luck would have it, that’s not the only tough game on the slate in September. After a breather against Eastern Washington in Week 2, the Ducks will host BYU, a projected top-25 team, and follow that with a game against Washington State, an always dangerous contender in the Pac-12 North.
Dan Lanning, it’s time to jump into the deep end and see if you can swim.
While the Ducks have a brutal stretch of games to start the season, are they set up with the toughest schedule of any team? That’s a question 247Sports recently asked to see who has it the toughest. Here’s what it found: