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Oregon Ducks’ 2023 schedule with game-by-game score predictions

The Ducks have a tough schedule going into 2023. Here’s how we expect it all to play out.

The Oregon Ducks found a way to finish the 2022 season on a high note, despite some frustrating bumps along the way. Things started out with a tough loss to the eventual national champions, and Duck fans had to endure brutal defeats from both of their rivals, the Washington Huskies and Oregon State Beavers. Despite all that, Dan Lanning turned in a 10-win season in his first year with the Ducks, and the team closed out the calendar year with a victory over North Carolina in the Holiday Bowl just days after signing a top-10 recruiting class.

All in all, Oregon fans should be incredibly encouraged by what’s to come, and confident that they have the right man leading the program into the future.

Speaking of the future, we wanted to take this time during one of the slower parts of the offseason to look ahead at 2023 and assess what’s to come. We know the schedule that the Ducks will face, which we’ve ranked as one of the tougher slates in the conference. Despite the tough schedule, there is a good mix of both relatively easy games and matchups that could be incredibly tough. 

Let’s break down the entire slate for the Ducks and try to predict what we might see in the end.

Oregon Ducks blogger and podcast host agrees with us: USC got the short end of the stick

Think we’re overreacting to the #Pac12FB schedule? @Ducks_Wire editor and Sco-Ing Long Oregon podcast host @ZacharyCNeel thinks USC fans have a right to be angry.

File this one under “His words, not mine.”

We have stated our case, making the argument that USC was uniquely disadvantaged by the 2023 Pac-12 football schedule. Surely, everyone else in the Pac-12 media ecosystem thinks we’re just whining and bellyaching on our way out the door to the Big Ten.

Or maybe not!

Not so fast, my friend!

Ducks Wire editor Zachary Neel has offered his analysis of every team’s Pac-12 football schedule for 2023. You can read Zach’s incisive, thoughtful piece and judge for yourself. We encourage you to follow Zach and his team at Ducks Wire for complete coverage of Oregon football and Oregon athletics.

Zach, who — full disclosure — invited Trojans Wire onto his new podcast earlier this week, has thought about the claim that USC was given a uniquely bad break by the Pac-12 on its way out the door.

Zach wrestled with the facts. He considered all the angles.

Here’s what he had to say:

“What became clear during that exercise, and in listening to the narrative built over the past week, is that the USC Trojan fans are not happy with how things played out in the schedule-making process.

“I think their anger is justified, as well.”

Zach continues a little later in his piece, noting that USC plays Notre Dame, Utah, Washington and Oregon in a five-week stretch:

“If you compare that stretch of five games for USC to the toughest stretch of games on Oregon’s schedule — Week 7 at Washington, Week 8 vs. Washington State, and Week 9 at Utah — it’s clear which option I’d rather have. On top of that, the Ducks also get to play Utah the week after the Utes play USC, and USC the week after the Trojans play Washington. That’s not nothing.”

His words, not mine.

An Oregon blogger and podcast host agrees with Trojans Wire. It’s not just us. Others outside our USC-centric orbit agree.

Be sure to listen to Zach’s new Oregon podcast, Sco-Ing Long. Continue to follow his work at Ducks Wire all year long.

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10 major takeaways from the full Pac-12 schedule release

The 2023 Pac-12 football schedule is now live. For the Ducks, it starts out relatively light but gets brutal down the stretch in October and November.

At long last, the entire Pac-12 schedule was released on Wednesday morning during an hour-long unveiling show on the Pac-12 Network.

While we have known for a while which teams everyone in the conference would be playing, the schedule release ultimately gave us the order in which the games would be played, and on what dates. We also got a look at when the Pac-12 Championship Game will be held in Las Vegas, and now have the complete slate of bye weeks as well.

To start, we looked at just the Ducks’ schedule, but there are some interesting things to note for most teams in the Pac-12 when it comes to the 2023 games.

Here are my biggest takeaways from the entire Pac-12 schedule release on Wednesday.

Final dates for Oregon Ducks 2023 football schedule released

The Ducks’ full 2023 schedule has finally been released. It’s time to officially break out your calendars and start looking at flights.

One of the most important things for college football fans to do at the start of every offseason is to look at the schedule and start to make future plans. While there are still approximately 9 months between now and your favorite team’s first game of the season, flights are the cheapest now, and you’re going to want to plan around some of the biggest games of the 2023 season, of which there will be many.

The problem for Oregon Duck fans — and all Pac-12 fans, for that matter — is that the dates for conference games had yet to come out. We knew when each team would be playing their non-conference games, and we even knew which in-conference teams each Pac-12 school would be playing. On Monday, columnist John Canzano released some details about the schedule and a few key dates and games, but it isn’t until now that we’ve got the full slate of games for every team.

Here is Oregon’s 2023 full schedule:

Oregon Football Schedule 2021, Analysis

Oregon Ducks 2021 football schedule, analysis, and what Pac-12 teams they miss.

Oregon Ducks 2021 football schedule, analysis, and what Pac-12 teams they miss.

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Oregon Ducks Football Schedule 2021

– 2021 Pac-12 Football Schedule

Sept. 4 Fresno State

Sept. 11 at Ohio State

Sept. 18 Stony Brook

Sept. 25 Arizona

Oct. 2 at Stanford

Oct. 9 OPEN DATE

Oct. 15 Cal

Oct. 23 at UCLA

Oct. 30 Colorado

Nov. 6 at Washington

Nov. 13 Washington State

Nov. 20 at Utah

Nov. 27 Oregon State

Oregon Football Schedule Analysis: Fresno State isn’t a lightweight, but it’s a winnable opener and Stony Brook is a light scrimmage, but the Ducks can be forgiven for not doing more with their non-conference schedule considering they have to travel to Ohio State in what should be one of college football’s biggest games of 2021.

There’s a big break, though, in Pac-12 play with no USC or Arizona State from the South, and without having to play two road games in a row. However, they have to go to Washington, UCLA and Stanford, and having to go to Utah late in the season is nasty.

Pac-12 Conference Teams Missed: Arizona State, USC

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