The Quack Report: 187 of September's 444 Google clicks came on one Saturday, Sep 5, 2026, the opener at Autzen

AStart from the personIts mascot: Espeon

How a lifelong fan ends up building the site

I need to get something out of the way. SURPRISE: I am way too emotional about Oregon Ducks football. This has been true for my entire life. It will not be changing.

I grew up on it. Saturday afternoons in the fall were non-negotiable. The entire weekend is focused on the game. Pregaming for the full day. Watching ESPN until midnight just to MAYBE see a clip of the game I just watched live. College gameday every chance we got. Constant drives from Portland.

SO. MANY. MEMORIES. USC 2009 Halloween night. Stanford comeback. Being in AZ to watch Cam and Auburn beat us in the Natty. List goes on and on.

The Mariota years wrecked me

You come out a person who checks spring practice reports in March like they contain classified intelligence. You come out a person who has opinions about defensive line rotation depth. You come out a person who builds entire websites about it.

That’s what being a Duck is. You know the glory is real because the pain is real. You can’t separate them.

From my post introducing the site, published March 16, 2026.

From one schedule page to a full site

There’s no version of my life where I don’t eventually build a website about this.

I build websites. That’s my job. I think about how information should be organized so people can actually find what they’re looking for. I cannot turn this off. It runs in the background constantly.

It started as “I’ll just make a schedule page.” My post on March 16, 2026 put it plainly: It is 109 pages now. It is not done. On 2026-10-11, the live sitemap listed 158 URLs, with 12 games on the 2026 schedule and 28 player profiles.

The schedule, the roster and depth chart, injuries, recruiting and the program's history, all in one place. If you check spring practice reports in March like a normal person, this site is for you.

On thequackreport.com

• 2026 schedule/schedule/
• Roster and depth chart/roster/
• Injury report/injuries/
• Pokémon lineup/pokemon-lineup/
• Autzen Stadium/autzen/
• Visitor's guide/visitors-guide/
• Recruiting/recruiting/
• Season archive/seasons/
• Rivalries/rivalries/

Counted on thequackreport.com, 2026-10-11: homepage cards, main menu and sitemap.

Did anyone come? Yes, on game days

Google clicks rose every month from April to September 2026. Bing clicks rose every month from April to September 2026 except June. September 2026 was the best month on both engines, with 444 Google clicks and 1K Bing clicks.

How much of September 2026 came from one Saturday? 187 of September's 444 Google clicks came on Sat, Sept 5, the opener against Boise State at Autzen. On 18 of September's 30 days, Google sent fewer than 10 clicks.

How I measured it. Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, daily totals summed by month, pulled 2026-10-20 and 2026-10-19. The 2026 season started in September. These numbers can't separate the season from anything changed on the site.

I grade my score calls in public

Every game page also carries my score call before kickoff, and after the game the site grades it in public. I set one rule on September 6, 2026 for anything fans can join in on: it has to be worth reading even when nobody else plays along. My own graded call passes that test with zero participants. When I change a pick, the page keeps the original next to it.

As of October 11, 2026, five games in, I had picked 3 of 5 winners and no exact scores. Add up how far off both team scores were, and I missed by 23.8 points a game. The worst: I called Oregon 52, Oklahoma State 10, at very high confidence, and Oklahoma State won 39 to 31. The UCLA page shows a revision: I moved the call from Oregon 41, UCLA 14 to Oregon 28, UCLA 13 on September 27, and UCLA still won, 17 to 15.

How I measured it. I reran the site's own grading function over its 12 published calls and its game log, last updated October 11, 2026, when five games had results. The live homepage showed the same line on October 13: "3 for 5 on winners, 23.8 points off a game."

Then I built a game

Google traffic follows game days. Steady readership between games does not show up in this data yet.

The Pokémon Lineup lets a fan pair real Oregon Ducks with Pokémon partners, get a team score, and send the link to a friend to see if they can top it. It went live in October 2026, in the middle of the season.

Build a lineup

It never rains at Autzen Stadium.