EUGENE — During the height of Oregon football's recent success, predicting a season's outcome was (relatively) easy.
Last season's 4-8 record changed everything — UO's coaching staff and expectations for 2017 included.
How will Oregon fare in coach Willie Taggart's first season? A poll of Pac-12 media projected UO to finish fourth in the Pac-12 North but over the years, those predictions have hardly proven to be locks.
A survey of Pac-12 experts that included former conference coaches Nick Aliotti, Mike Bellotti and Dick Tomey revealed a consensus that Oregon should return to the postseason in Taggart's first season.