American college football season
The 2018 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season . The team was led by first-year head coach Mario Cristobal who took over for Willie Taggart who departed for Florida State . Oregon played their games at Autzen Stadium and competed as members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference .
Coming off a 7–6 season under Taggart in 2017 , Oregon began the year ranked 24th in the preseason AP Poll . After sweeping their non-conference slate, they fell to then-No. 7 Stanford in overtime. The team bounced back with wins over No. 24 California and No. 7 Washington and rose to 12th in the polls before losing three of their next four games. The Ducks finished the regular season in fourth in the Pac-12 North Division with a conference record of 5–4. They were invited to the Redbox Bowl , where they defeated Michigan State to end the year at 9–4 overall.
The Oregon offense was led by junior quarterback Justin Herbert , who finished in second the Pac-12 Conference with 31 total touchdowns (29 passing and 2 rushing).[ 1] C. J. Verdell finished with 1,018 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns. Defensively, the team was led by defensive end Jalen Jelks , who was named first-team all-conference.
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The 2018 Pac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California . Mario Cristobal (HC), Justin Herbert (QB) & Jalen Jelks (DL) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Ducks predicted to finish in third place at Pac-12 North division.[ 16]
Media poll (North) Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 Washington 249 (40) 2 Stanford 198 (2) 3 Oregon 178 (2) 4 California 108 5 Washington State 98 6 Oregon State 45
Date Time Opponent Rank Site TV Result Attendance September 1 5:00 p.m. Bowling Green * No. 24 P12N W 58–2450,112 September 8 11:00 a.m. Portland State * No. 23 P12N W 62–1447,210 September 15 2:00 p.m. San Jose State * No. 20 P12N W 35–2250,049 September 22 5:00 p.m. No. 7 Stanford No. 20 ABC L 31–38 OT 58,453 September 29 7:30 p.m. at No. 24 California No. 19 FS1 W 42–2443,448 October 13 12:30 p.m. No. 7 Washington No. 17 ABC/ESPN2 W 30–27 OT 58,691 October 20 4:30 p.m. at No. 25 Washington State No. 12 FOX L 20–3433,152 October 27 7:30 p.m. at Arizona No. 19 ESPN L 15–4442,845 November 3 4:30 p.m. UCLA FOX W 42–2156,114 November 10 2:30 p.m. at Utah P12N L 25–3246,275 November 17 7:30 p.m. Arizona State P12N W 31–2950,485 1:00 p.m. at Oregon State FS1 W 55–1539,776 12:00 p.m. vs. Michigan State * FOX W 7–630,212 *Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Pacific time
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1 2 3 4 Total Falcons 10 7 7 0 24 No. 24 Ducks 7 30 14 7 58
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1 2 3 4 Total Vikings 0 7 0 7 14 No. 23 Ducks 14 21 14 13 62
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1 2 3 4 Total Spartans 0 6 6 10 22 No. 20 Ducks 14 7 7 7 35
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1 2 3 4 OT Total No. 7 Cardinal 0 7 14 10 7 38 No. 20 Ducks 7 17 0 7 0 31
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1 2 3 4 Total No. 19 Ducks 7 21 7 7 42 No. 24 Golden Bears 3 7 7 7 24
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1 2 3 4 OT Total No. 7 Huskies 10 7 7 0 3 27 No. 17 Ducks 10 7 7 0 6 30
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At Washington State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 12 Ducks 0 0 17 3 20 No. 25 Cougars 7 20 0 7 34
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1 2 3 4 Total No. 19 Ducks 0 8 0 7 15 Wildcats 10 13 14 7 44
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1 2 3 4 Total Bruins 0 7 7 7 21 Ducks 14 7 7 14 42
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1 2 3 4 Total Ducks 0 7 10 8 25 Utes 10 9 3 10 32
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1 2 3 4 Total Sun Devils 3 10 3 13 29 Ducks 7 21 0 3 31
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1 2 3 4 Total Ducks 14 7 13 21 55 Beavers 0 3 6 6 15
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[ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Spartans 0 0 6 0 6 Ducks 0 0 0 7 7
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Ranking movementsLegend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking Week Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Final AP 24 23 20 20 19 18 17 12 19 RV — — — RV RV RV RV Coaches RV RV 23 19 20 18 17 11 21 RV — — — RV RV RV RV CFP Not released — — — — — — — Not released
Players drafted into the NFL [ edit ] The Ducks had four players selected in the 2019 NFL Draft.[ 22]
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