In the wake of Thursday's announcement from the Pac-12 Conference that the 2020 football season would begin Nov. 6, Oregon football coach Mario Cristobal held a virtual team meeting with the defending Rose Bowl champion Ducks.
The excitement oozed through computer and mobile device screens.
"It's on," Cristobal said Friday in a video conference call with local media. "The intensity is cranked up; you could feel it in the Zoom team meeting when play was announced. The Ducks are getting ready to get after it."
Preseason camp begins on Friday, Oct. 9, four weeks out from the opening weekend of play.