The Oregon Ducks will be going bowling in late December and playing a Power Five opponent.

On Sunday morning the Oregon Ducks were selected to play in the Redbox bowl game, located in Santa Clara, California. Their opponent will be Big Ten foe Michigan State. The Ducks and the Spartans will meet on December 31st with the game kicking off at Noon at Levi Stadium.

This will be the seventh matchup against the two teams in program history with the home team winning all previous meetings.

In the 2014 meeting, with ESPN's College Gameday in town for a meeting of two Top-10 nationally ranked teams, the Ducks beat the Spartans 46-27 behind a 318 yard, 3 touchdown passing performance by eventual Heisman winner Marcus Mariota.

The following season the Ducks fell short on the final drive of the game, losing to the Spartans 31-28.

Earlier in 2018, the Ducks and Spartans announced a future home and home series for 2029 and 2030. Oregon will head to East Lansing to face the Spartans on September 8th, 2029 with Michigan State heading to Autzen in the 2030 season on September 7th.

The Ducks finished fourth in the Pac-12 North Division during the 208 season. The Pac-12's Champion Washington finished first, with Washington State and Stanford ahead of the Ducks as well. The Pac-12 South Champion was Utah but finished with a 9-4 record.

Oregon opened the year with a three-game winning streak at home, with blowout wins against non-conference opponents Bowling Green, Portland State, and San Jose State.

ESPN College GameDay came to Eugene for Oregon's Pac-12 opener at home on Sept. 22nd against No. 7 Stanford. The Ducks looked poised for a blowout win through three quarters but gave the game away late and fell 38-31 in overtime.

The following weekend the Ducks won their first road Pac-12 football game since November of 2016 when they beat California 42-24. At home after a bye week, the Ducks upset No. 7 Washington 30-27 in overtime at home and were 5-1 on the year.

The back half of the 2018 season was as up and down as one could see from a football team. The Ducks saw blowout wins and blowout losses.

Oregon fell 34-20 at Washington State the weekend after Washington. The next week, Oregon went on the road for the second straight week and were blown out for the second straight week 44-15.

Oregon returned home for the first week of November and got bowl eligible with a 42-21 victory over former Oregon head coach Chip Kelly and his current team UCLA.

Facing Utah without their starting running back and quarterback, the Ducks lost 32-25 and fell to 6-4 on the year.

Oregon closed out the season strong with back-to-back wins. Oregon beat Arizona State on seniro day 31-29, and then beat Oregon State at Oregon State for the 122nd edition of the Civil War 55-15.