Good Luck Ducks, Week 9: Into the ZonaZoo

The Ducks head into the desert for some Pac-12 After Dark action. 

After blowing a huge opportunity last week by completely failing to show up in the first half against the Cougars, the Ducks try to regroup this week as they head way down south to Arizona. The Wildcats have been disappointing this season so far, with their only conference wins coming against the lifeless Oregon State Beavers and an up-and-down Cal team.

Oregon's big O-line injury seems to have hurt even worse than expected, but with a week's worth of practice to right the ship, they hope to avoid the major missteps (pre-snap penalties, especially) of last week's first half debacle. A big game from Justin Herbert (who else?) would help things tremendously on the other side of the ball.

Some links:

• The ZonaZoo is currently accepting members for a fee. I don't remember having to do any of that stuff when I was in school.
• The Herbert Heisman Watch is dead, folks. All of the attention has turned to whether or not he comes back next season (please come back!)
• Know Your Opponent: It is Homecoming, and a night game... it's gonna be lit?
• The Unis!: All white with black helmets. Switching it up a bit this week after all.

Going old school this week with a throwback to 1995. There's a whole playlist.

Game time is 7:30 PM PDT on ESPN. Clay Matvick, Don Orlovsky and Paul Carcaterra are on the call.