ESPN's 100 days piece is running down storylines for 2026 and I keep seeing Oregon this, Oregon that. But you know what that article doesn't capture? The feeliing of walking into old Sanford Stadium on a late September afternoon in 1985 when the hedges were still young and the whole place just shook. We didn't need fancy graphics or NIL commercials back then. You could feel the history in those concrete steps. That stadium has seen more real football than half these new programs will ever know. The new kids showing up this summer will never understand what it meant to run through that tunnel when Coach Dooley was still roaming the sideline. That is what I will be thinking about when the season finally gets here.