Oregon’s 84-0 demolition of Portland State should have been a clean, one-sided statement win. Instead, the Ducks walked out of Week 3 with a fresh round of criticism aimed straight at Dan Lanning.
The complaints weren’t about the final score. They were about how Oregon got there. With the game long out of reach, some fans took issue with the Ducks continuing to press the pace late, and social media quickly turned the blowout into a referendum on sportsmanship.
“Oregon was running no-huddle and throwing the ball while up 70 points on Portland State,” @realfbllliason said in an X post. “Absolutely classless. They should be embarrassed.”
“If you are an Oregon fan you should reconsider after watching them tonight, This is flat out disgusting,” X user @GamblerDream wrote. “You are rushing to the line up 77 points - using 10 seconds on a 40 second play - clock?
Is this real life? Dan Lansing (sic) is a sad, sad man.”
The Ducks did have something to feel good about after a rough Week 2 loss to Oklahoma State. Friday night gave them a chance to reset, and they did that in overwhelming fashion, piling up a historic scoring output while holding Portland State to just 103 total yards.
Lanning also got huge production from his quarterbacks. Dante Moore and Dylan Raiola combined for more than 400 passing yards and seven touchdowns, the kind of numbers Oregon will need to keep stacking with USC, Ohio State and Michigan still ahead on the schedule.
Still, the public reaction overshadowed the on-field dominance. Fans labeled the performance “disrespectful” and “classless,” and the blowout quickly became one of the loudest talking points of the night.
Oregon’s biggest win in program history remains the 115-0 rout of Puget Sound in 1910. And as extreme as Friday’s score was, it’s probably a relief for the Ducks that social media wasn’t around for that one.
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