No. 6 Oregon routed Oklahoma State 69-3 on Saturday.

Here are 10 takeaways from the game as the Ducks (2-0) prepare to head to Northwestern (1-1) on Saturday (9 a.m. PT, FOX).

1) Adapt or die

When this series was agreed to in Sept. 2018, both programs were in very different places. Oregon was setting the foundation in Mario Cristobal’s first full season and Oklahoma State was coming off three straight 10-win seasons. In the years since, they’ve gone in nearly polar opposite directions.

Oregon won back-to-back Pac-12 championships and been a near perennial New Year’s Six/College Football Playoff team. Oklahoma State had two seven-win seasons, two eight-win years, 12 wins in 2021, 10 wins in 2023 and a bottoming out 3-9 last year.

Mike Gundy took a paycut and reworked buyout, hired a

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