Oregon video's cinematic recap of the No. 6 Ducks at No. 3 Penn State is out, released Wednesday morning.
The delay hyped up the fan base, but every frame of it and audio snippet were worth waiting for, providing an inside look at the team's process, mindset and intense love of one another.
The Ducks preparation is so detailed and so specific, leading with mental readiness, that they can go into a hostile environment with an incredible mental edge.
They were prepared for "Mo Bamba." They were were prepared for the noise and obscene gestures. They welcomed it.
On Monday Dan Lanning told them, "It's about a thousand cuts. A slow slice. One play at a time."
"Not gonna make it quick and easy. We're gonna play sixty minutes or as long as it takes."
Indeed they did.
With slides developed by South Carolina sports psychologist Cory Shaffer, Lanning compared the game to the Broken Window Theory, defining the game with the metaphor of a building where a window is broken, followed by more broken windows, then trash and graffiti.
"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window. Each time we convert a third down, that's a broken window. What else is it? A tiny cut, a tiny slice."
"And all of the sudden, at the end of the game, Penn State's gonna look around, and their house is broken to (expletive,)"