Oregon football 2025 schedule: Who do Ducks play next season?
The Oregon football team won the Big Ten championship in 2024. Here’s who Dan Lanning and Ducks will face in the 2025 season.
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- Oregon football is heading to Big Ten media days in Las Vegas after a successful first year in the conference.
- Key questions for the Ducks include who will start at quarterback, how they will build on last year’s success, and how new players are integrating into the team.
Heading into its first year in the Big Ten Conference a year ago, the Oregon football team announced its arrival at Big Ten media days in style, with a giant inflatable duck roaming the White River in Indianapolis while coach Dan Lanning preached a “mighty different” narrative around Oregon’s program.
The Ducks were indeed mighty different in 2024, winning the Big Ten in their first year in the conference and making the College Football Playoff. Now they’ll look to build on that success in their second season, with the first media stop in Las Vegas for Big Ten media days starting July 22.
While there aren’t many bodies of water like the White River in Las Vegas, don’t count out the Ducks busting out all the stops in Sin City. Oregon is sending Lanning along with linebacker Bryce Boettcher, tight end Kenyon Sadiq and outside linebacker Matayo Uiagalelei to speak with media July 23.
Here are three questions for the Oregon Ducks ahead of media days in Las Vegas.
Who starts at quarterback for Oregon football?
Though Lanning will almost certainly deflect and avoid answering the question directly, it has to be asked. For the first time with Lanning as head coach of the Ducks, a quarterback with significant playing experience at the college level isn’t on the roster.
Lanning went out and got Bo Nix in the transfer portal from Auburn when he arrived in Eugene in 2022, and later snagged Dillon Gabriel from Oklahoma to make a run at the College Football Playoff a year ago.
This season, while Dante Moore is the odds-on favorite to win the job by most outlets, Lanning and his staff have embraced an outright open competition at quarterback, with Moore’s leading competitor being third-year slinger Austin Novosad.
Lanning hasn’t said when a starter will be named but emphasized that he feels confident that Oregon can win with anyone currently in the QB room.
“I think we got a group of guys we can win with,” Lanning said on B1G Today June 30. “Obviously there’s a lot of talk about Dante Moore, Austin Novosad, Luke Moga. All those guys have done a great job of learning our system and being a part of it. They got an opportunity to watch a great quarterback in Dillon Gabriel and I think they all learned a considerable amount from him and from their experience here so far.”
What lessons did Oregon football learn in first year of Big Ten play?
Though there were plenty of questions externally about whether the Ducks could handle the wear and tear and grind of the Big Ten, Oregon answered those questions by winning the conference championship last season, including victories over powerhouses Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State in the regular season.
Despite an unblemished regular season, Lanning and the Ducks will be the first to admit there are certainly things to be learned from 2024, including ways to make long travel more efficient and game plan for new opponents.
Early preseason polls indicate the Ducks will likely start the season as a top-10 team and are one of three teams, with Ohio State and Penn State being the others, that will be favored to win the Big Ten.
After being the new kids on the block in 2024, what will the Ducks do now that they have a target on their backs in 2025?
How are new pieces like Dillon Thieneman, Makhi Hughes fitting in for Oregon football?
The Ducks welcomed another impressive transfer portal haul over the offseason as well as one of the best recruiting classes in the country, headlined by transfers like Dillon Thieneman and Makhi Hughes and freshman receiver Dakorien Moore.
Though Oregon fans got a glimpse of what those stars could look like during the Ducks’ spring game, how are they progressing throughout the offseason, especially the freshman class?
Lanning and the Ducks preached during spring ball that while the 2025 Ducks might not have a ton of on-field experience, they have a lot of program experience and plenty of talent to go around. Oregon’s transfer class was heavy in the secondary after losing all of its starters either to the draft or graduation. But the program also replaced leading back Jordan James with Hughes and brought in some help along the offensive line.
That group will be needed to contribute and get the playbook down in short order for the Ducks to compete for another conference crown.
How to watch Big Ten media days
Big Ten Network will broadcast six consecutive hours of live coverage each day, beginning at 10 a.m. PT. Dave Revsine, Ashley Adamson, Rick Pizzo, Jake Butt, Yogi Roth, Gerry DiNardo, Howard Griffith and others will be on-site talent carrying the day’s press conferences and interviewing all 72 attendees in the afternoon.
The Ducks are scheduled to speak July 23, the second day of the three-day event.
Alec Dietz covers University of Oregon football, volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. You may reach him at adietz@registerguard.com and you can follow him on Bluesky and X.
