After a week 1 loss to Auburn many in the college football world wondered how the Ducks would respond and if Oregon was overhyped being a preseason top 15 team. Well, Oregon answered their critics in a 77-6 blowout win over Nevada which saw the Ducks play a nearly flawless game and fix many of what the analysts wanted to see fixed from week one.

The Ducks will still have one more non-conference game against Montana and then move into the Pac-12 slate that opens in two weeks against Stanford. Oregon will have at least ten more games plus a potential Pac-12 Championship game to prove to the experts and most importantly the College Football Playoff committee that they're one of the best four teams in college football.

If the Ducks don't make the College Football Playoff, they'll still be able to control their destiny by winning the Pac-12 and ensuring the conference's automatic bid to play in the Rose Bowl. The Ducks could also make the Rose Bowl if another Pac-12 team makes the College Football Playoff and the Rose Bowl selects the Ducks, if Oregon is ranked inside the top 12 of the College Football Playoff's rankings.

The Pac-12 conference currently sends the winner of the Pac-12 championship game to the Rose Bowl or College Football playoffs. The Alamo Bowl has the second pick of teams after the Rose Bowl and/or New Year's Six games are decided. The order then goes Holiday Bowl, RedBox Bowl, Sun Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, and finally the Cheez-it bowl. This is the final year of the Pac-12's current bowl arrangement with the Las Vegas Bowl moving ahead of the Redbox Bowl and the Sun Bowl in 2020 and a new bowl, the Los Angeles Bowl will replace the Vegas Bowl matchup against the Mountain West.

After week 12, Duck Territory compiled 12 different Bowl projections with a good number of them projecting the Ducks to make the Rose Bowl, both as Pac-12 champion and as the replacement for Utah, who some have made the College Football Playoff. Here's a look at the current bowl projections for the Oregon Ducks.