1980 Oregon Ducks football team

1980 Oregon Ducks football
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
Record6–3–2 (4–3–1 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorErik Widmark[1] (1st season)
CaptainGame captains
Home stadiumAutzen Stadium
Seasons
← 1979
1981 →
1980 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 16 Washington $ 6 1 0 9 3 0
No. 13 UCLA 5 2 0 9 2 0
No. 11 USC 4 2 1 8 2 1
Arizona State 5 3 0 7 4 0
Oregon 4 3 1 6 3 2
Stanford 3 4 0 6 5 0
Arizona 3 4 0 5 6 0
Washington State 3 4 0 4 7 0
California 3 5 0 3 8 0
Oregon State 0 8 0 0 11 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1980 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), the team was led by head coach Rich Brooks, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. They finished the season with a record of six wins, three losses and two ties (6–3–2 overall, 4–3–1 in the Pac-10).

In their rivalry game with Washington, the Ducks won in Seattle for the first time in 12 years; the win also broke a six-game losing streak to the Huskies. Oregon defeated all three northwest teams in the Pac-10, their first sweep in 26 years.

After the season in December, Brooks' contract was extended through the 1984 season with a salary increase, from under $37,000 to over $46,000.[2][3]

  1. ^ Withers, Bud (September 21, 1980). "Ducks settle the score and then some". Eugene Register-Guard. p. 1B.
  2. ^ "UO gives Brooks two more years". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. December 11, 1980. p. 65.
  3. ^ "Brooks agrees to new contract". Eugene Register-Guard. December 10, 1980. p. 1D.