When the first game on your schedule is a bout with the defending national champions in a “neutral site” game that takes place less than 100 miles from your opponent’s campus, you know you’re in for it.
That’s currently the situation for the Oregon Ducks, who will travel to Atlanta on September 3 to take on the Georgia Bulldogs. As luck would have it, that’s not the only tough game on the slate for the month of September. After a breather of a game vs. Eastern Washington in Week 2, the Ducks will host BYU, a top-25 team, and follow that up with a game against Washington State, an always dangerous player in the Pac-12 North.
Dan Lanning, it’s time to jump into the deep end and see if you can swim.
While the Ducks have a brutal stretch of games to start the season, are they set up with the toughest schedule of any team? That’s a question that 247Sports recently asked to see who has it the toughest. Here’s what was found:
10
Arizona State Sun Devils
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September Schedule
vs. Northern Arizona
at Oklahoma State
vs. Eastern Michigan
vs. Utah
9
BYU Cougars
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
September Schedule
at USF
vs. Baylor
at Oregon
vs. Wyoming
Utah State
8
Iowa State Cyclones
Amy Kontras-USA TODAY Sports
September Schedule
vs. Southeast Missouri
at Iowa
vs. Ohio
vs. Baylor
7
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports
September Schedule
vs. Murray State
vs. Houston
at NC State
vs. Texas
6
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports
September Schedule
vs. Clemson
vs.Western Carolina
vs. Ole Miss
at UCF
5
South Carolina Gamecocks
Jim Dedmon-USA…
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