Oregon’s new indoor practice facility is already impossible to ignore.
The Ducks’ massive project, known as “2.Mo,” is rising next to Autzen Stadium, and fans heading in for Oregon’s top-25 matchup with unbeaten UCLA will get a clear look at just how much construction has changed the skyline. The building is expected to be unlike anything else in college football, both in scale and design.
At 170,000 square feet, the facility is set to be longer, wider and taller than any comparable indoor practice space in the sport. Its highest point will reach nearly 100 feet.
The curved roofline is now easy to spot, with steel arches giving the structure its signature shape. Sections of roof covering and exterior walls are also starting to close in about half of the building.
The look is as deliberate as the size. The exterior shell uses Northwest timber in a curved form inspired by the Oregon “O.” The roof’s center will feature tinted polymer panels supported by a steel cable system, designed to bring in natural light without glare and help insulate against heat.
Oregon officially broke ground on the project in February 2025, and the building has advanced quickly since then. The University says the expected finish date is 2027. The Ducks also got their first practice on the new turf during fall football camp, giving players an early taste of the developing complex.
The facility arrives at a time when Oregon continues to pour resources into the arms race for recruits and transfer talent. This weekend’s visitor list for the UCLA game includes five-star quarterback WIll Mencl and five-star EDGE Kameron McGee, another sign of how the new space is already being used as part of the Ducks’ pitch.
Dan Lanning has made no secret of what he thinks the project can do for the program.
“I think ultimately it gets everybody anxious and excited when it is done. Every day you drive up here, and you see it, you're like, ‘I can't wait to be using that thing.’
There's modifications this year, just like there was last year. We do have some temporary fields that we're able to use now out there.
They're not full fields," Lanning said.
“When that's all done, it's going to completely change the program from a standpoint of I think it'll be one of one. I don't think anybody in the nation will have anything quite compares to what we'll have there, and that certainly helps in recruiting," said Lanning. "That certainly helps in development, and that's the goal with that entire facility is to make the best options possible for our players.”
The Ducks’ commitment stands out even more because the Hatfield Dowlin Complex was completed and opened in 2013. Oregon is already pushing beyond a facility that was relatively new by college football standards, showing how aggressively the program is trying to stay ahead.
The project is being funded through private philanthropy, and once it’s finished, it will also open up more access for Oregon’s other teams at the Moshofsky Center, where football currently practices indoors.
With the renderings becoming real and the steel frame now impossible to miss, Oregon’s next major facility is moving from idea to landmark.
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