Team: No. 5 Oregon
Last week: DNP
This week: vs. UC Davis (Saturday, 2 p.m., Pac-12)
Comment: A colleague believes the college football punditry is collectively underrating the Ducks. They were practically unbeatable, he reminded me, when Vernon Adams was healthy and available last season. My response: Adams won’t be available at all this season; He’s gone. In steps another FCS grad transfer, Dakota Prukop, who has at least one advantage over Adams: Prukop didn’t have to pass an 11th-hour math test to participate in training camp. Perhaps he’ll be as good as Adams. Maybe he’ll be even better. I’m reserving judgment on him and a team that lost a ton of starters and whose defense was just as porous as Arizona’s.
