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A look back at the extensive history between Oregon Ducks and Idaho Vandals

A deep dive into the extensive history between the Oregon Ducks and Idaho Vandals rivalry on the football field.

After what feels like forever, the Oregon Ducks are just days away from kicking off their 2024 football season with a Week 1 matchup against the Idaho Vandals. Throughout the season, one of the ways we will preview Oregon’s weekly matchup is by looking at the history of the series between the Ducks and their given opponent.

Before I began researching for this story, I expected Oregon and Idaho to have a handful of past matchups, but nothing crazy. However, beginning with their first game in 1906, the Ducks and the Vandals have matched up 59 times in total.

Despite the frequency of this matchup, Idaho has had little to no success in its history against Oregon. In the 59 games between these two teams, Idaho has won just three times. Four games have ended in ties, and the Ducks have won 52 times over the Vandals.

The Vandals‘ most recent win over Oregon came 74 years ago in the Ducks’ worst season by win percentage in their 130-year history. The 1950 Ducks were coached by Jim Aiken (in his fourth year with Oregon) and finished 1-9, with their sole win coming against Montana. Idaho beat the Ducks 14-0 that season.

Since that day in 1950, the Ducks have been on a 23-game win streak over the Vandals. The last game between these two teams was 20 years ago when we saw Mike Belloti’s Oregon Ducks handle the Vandals 48-10. Saturday’s game will likely have a similar score, and it will hopefully be an appetizer for a historic season of Oregon football.

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How Dan Lanning’s first two years compare to other Oregon Ducks head coaches

A look at how Oregon Ducks’ head coach Dan Lanning’s resume through two years stacks up against past coaches in Eugene.

The second year of Dan Lanning’s tenure as the head coach of the Oregon Ducks has come to a close. He wrapped up his second year in emphatic fashion with a 45-6 win over the Liberty Flames in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on Monday. With the win, Oregon improved to 12-2 on the season, and Lanning picked up the second bowl game victory of his career.

While it’s impossible to perfectly compare coaches throughout the years because of the constantly changing landscape in the world of college football, what we’ve seen from Lanning so far has been impressive, to say the least, and has him up there with some of the best coaches that Oregon has seen over the last several decades.

Now that we have a two-year sample size to go off of, this felt like a great time to see how Lanning’s accolades from the past two years stack up compared to other coaches of the modern era who have come through the Ducks’ program, potentially look at what it might portend for the future.