Two weeks ago Bruce Feldman of The Athletic and Fox Big Noon Kickoff put two Ducks on the Freaks List, and today he's predicting they'll lose to Penn State, Iowa and Washington and miss the playoffs.
Only two Big Ten teams make his bracket, Penn State as the three-seed and Ohio State as the five-seed. It's beyond illogical.
Even if Oregon misses, the likelihood of Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and Michigan all missing as well is low. Someone has to benefit from the supposed mediocrity of the defending Big Ten Champions. Feldman terms the Ducks as "this year's Florida State," the team most likely to drop out of the Top Ten.