Saturday Morning allows Oregon to turn the page as the Ducks face off against the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater. Week 1 of the season wasn't the cleanest showing from the Ducks, but Oregon left with a victory and plenty of lessons to grow from. The Ducks could've easily scheduled a game that Oregon would've won by 40+ points, but there's no value in that.
Turning the page to Week 2, Oregon will look to play a cleaner game en route to the first Power 4 victory of the season. Dan Lanning and the staff know what the team needs to do to start pushing toward reaching their potential, and those adjustments will hopefully start to show themselves in Week 2.
Dan Lanning addresses biggest concern with Oregon's Week 1 performance
On Saturday Morning, ESPN's College GameDay connected with Dan Lanning live on the field from Stillwater before the game. Dan Lanning raised $550,000 for the Sam Day Foundation hitting the crossbar from the 15-yard line while also fielding questions from the College GameDay cast.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning hit the crossbar and @PatMcAfeeShow is donating $500K to a cancer charity of Lanning's choice and Coach is donating $50K of his own 👏 pic.twitter.com/7pI9xOid6K
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 12, 2026
During Dan Lanning's appearance on College GameDay, legendary head coach Nick Saban asked the Oregon Ducks head coach what the top concern that the team needed to make progress on to reach its full potential.
"Self-inflicted wounds, coach. Ultimately, last week we had 10 penalties; we gotta eliminate those. We've got to be a team that does their job consistently every single play. We eliminate self-inflicted wounds, making decisions in the special teams game, not getting penalties; those are the things that are going to lead us to success."Dan Lanning
The main fixes for the Ducks should be rather easy to overcome, as Oregon set itself back plenty in the season opener. Not muffing a punt is an easy place to start, and given that the defender clearly interfered with Evan Stewart, that should be an easy mistake to cut out. The other big mistake was all the penalties the Ducks took, especially the 15-yard personal fouls. The Ducks' penalties gifted Boise State 90 yards while Boise State committed just 3 penalties worth 25 yards.
Dan Lanning and the coaching staff almost certainly drilled the team about the self-inflicted mistakes from the season opener, and it'll be a point of emphasis moving forward. We'll get to see on Saturday if the mistakes have been fixed or if the Ducks continue to be their worst enemy.
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