The expectations surrounding the 2025 Oregon football team were not as high comparatively because the Ducks lost a lot of talent from last season. However, Oregon has remained dominant, primarily due to how seamlessly Dante Moore has fit into the Oregon offense , especially after the previous game against Penn State. The rest of the supporting cast has also shown up in a dominant way for Oregon's offense.
Dante Moore initially hesitated to stay with the Oregon football program behind Dillon Gabriel last season, but Dan Lanning convinced him to stay. Lanning said on the “Bussin' With The Boys” podcast that a massive reason he ended up being okay with sitting for a year was that many quarterbacks who got drafted recently, like Michael Penix Jr., Bo Nix, and Jayden Daniels, were draft