Early 2026 Oregon Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Bud Elliott sits down with Matt Prehm of Duck Territory to preview Oregon’s 2026 season. Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/oregon/ (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:45) - Vibe Heading Into 2026 (00:01:50) - Coaching Changes (00:05:00) - Dante Moore (00:07:28) - Wide Receivers (00:10:50) - Offensive Line (00:17:00) - DC Change + Defensive Front (00:24:00) - Linebackers (00:28:10) - Schedule Breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:19.2 | What's going on, y'all, but Elliott here of the Cover 3 college football podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Summer School is back in session. |
| 0:25.0 | That's my man, Matt Duck Territory. |
| 0:26.6 | Again, always crushing it for us. |
| 0:28.4 | And, man, speaking of crushing at Oregon, |
| 0:30.1 | continuing to crush as well, 13 wins last year, |
| 0:33.3 | you know, made a run in the college ball playoff. |
| 0:36.5 | Vives are pretty high around there, right? Oh, yeah, vibes are really high. You know, made a run in the college ball playoff. Vives are pretty high around there, right? |
| 0:39.0 | Oh, yeah, vibes were really high. |
| 0:40.6 | You know, you get Dante Moore to come back to school, which was a really big win for Oregon. |
| 0:47.1 | I mean, NILs changed the game for all schools, and this is an example of it, of a guy basically saying no to top three draft pick money |
| 0:55.7 | and coming back to school and being totally content and understanding they still got a lot |
| 1:00.4 | to work on. |
| 1:01.7 | But Oregon goes in with QB1, QB2, QB3 at worst in college football. |
| 1:07.8 | That's a huge win in of itself. |
| 1:10.3 | And then they're also able to get all four of their |
| 1:14.3 | NFL draft picks along the defensive line to come back. And again, thank you, NIL if you're a |
| 1:20.4 | college athlete. That doesn't happen. And vibes are very high. The expectations are as high as they've been in the landing era. And as high as they've been in a long time at Oregon for what this team can actually do and should accomplish on the football field. So you mentioned Dante Moore. We'll get him in a second. But really, some of the only losses on this team were at the coordinator position. So, you know, Will Stein leaves for Kentucky to be the head coach. Obviously, nobody would begrudge him to head coaching job at a major program. In-house or replacement for him, Drew Marringer. What do you think Lannings saw in Marringer that made, like, because Oregon kind of had their pick of the litter, right? Like people like working for Dan and obviously Oregon is going to have a loaded roster with, you know, they're recruiting and their spend. What did they see in |
| 2:04.1 | Marager? He said, yeah, like, this is the guy. Yeah, so Marringer's been the co-O-C since his arrival, |
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