The 2024 Oregon football schedule will get started sooner than we know it. And, thankfully, the first Oregon football game of the 2024 college football season will be at home in Eugene, Oregon as the Oregon Ducks face off against the Idaho Vandals in Autzen Stadium.

This will mark the start of a new era for Dan Lanning and the Oregon football team as the Ducks embark on their inaugural season with the Big Ten.

The Oregon Ducks vs. Idaho matchup serves as a starting point for the season because, well, it’s quite literally the start of the Ducks’ 2024 campaign. In what many Oregon football fans are hoping will be a big season, this game provides Lanning and his Ducks with the perfect opportunity to set the tone for the season and showcase some substance to back all of the offseason hype that has been building. 

Plus, well, it’s Idaho. The Vandals are going to get a nice little payday to help support their athletics department (which is a good thing for the sport, to be completely and totally honest and supportive of college football as a whole) and the Ducks get a chance to fine tune a few things before getting into more challenging contests (which is a good thing for a team with national title aspirations).

It’s a win-win for all involved. Except, you know, Idaho on the field.

This should be a pretty easygoing game for Lanning and the Oregon football team. There’s honestly no reason why the Ducks take an early, commanding lead and get some of the younger guys on the roster some reps in the second half before winning big. 

But, again, this is just the start.

So, for fans looking to plan their fall around Duck football, start paying attention to everything regarding the 2024 Oregon football schedule. This is the first of seven games that will be played in Autzen Stadium during the regular season this year. There will be tougher contests later down the line (Ohio State, Michigan, and Wisconsin, to name a few).

Bryan Kohberger had identified a single target on the night he allegedly murdered four college students in Idaho, a new book has claimed.

Murder suspect Kohberger was fixated on Madison Mogen when he entered the off-campus house in Moscow on November 13, 2022, according to journalist Howard Blum.

The 29-year-old criminology PhD student is currently awaiting trial for the murders of Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, who were all found stabbed to death.

Officials believe Kohberger was after Mogen because he passed the rooms of two surviving roommates before starting the killing spree, Blum told ABC News.

“If he was just on a killing spree, it would have been natural, instinctive, to go to one of those doors,” he said. “Instead he goes up this narrow staircase and he turns directly into Maddie’s room, and I think Maddie was his target.”

Police linked Kohberger to the murders that rocked the college town through DNA found on a knife sheath, cell phone data, an eyewitness account and his white Hyundai Elantra.

Blum’s book also claims that Kohberger’s family had concerns about his behavior leading up to his arrest six weeks after the murder. His father said he had been “on edge” when he picked him up from school after the killings.

“[Kohberger’s father] has been reading the headlines – he knows that four students were killed 12 miles from his son’s house. He knows what a troubled son he has,” Blum told ABC.

One of Kohberger’s two sisters had also approached their father to voice suspicions about him, but he had brushed off the concerns, unwilling to “confront” the possibility.

Blums’ book, When the Night Comes Calling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders is set to be released on June 25.

It comes after a hearing in the case was set for June 27 where attorneys are expected to discuss dates for the trial and sentencing.

They will also discuss whether the trial should be moved outside the county to seat an impartial jury. The state has been opposed to the move, while the defense is in favor of it.

Kohberger previously declined to enter a plea prompting Judge John Judge to enter his plea as not guilty on his behalf in May 2023. Latah County prosecutors say they intend to seek the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted.

Last month, the defense argued that prosecutors had not handed all the evidence over for them to review and have filed multiple motions to compel the state to do so.

Prosecutors insisted they are doing all they can to share evidence but have been partly delayed by federal rules, due to the FBI’s involvement in the investigation.

Earlier this year, Kohberger’s attorneys also filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges against him, citing a biased grand jury, inadmissible evidence and prosecutorial misconduct. Judge Judge denied the motion.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — This weekend is forecasted to be well above average, almost 100 degrees by Sunday.

Sometimes excessive heat requires alerts.

The National Weather Service Meteorologists’ heat advisories or excessive heat warnings, and it is all based on temperatures in the afternoon as well as overnight temperatures.

This next of weather is 10 to 20 degrees above normal, but the warm temperatures are only going to be during the afternoon hours, which is going to help.

The National Weather Service says you still need to be careful in the heat, even if there are no alerts issued.

“Certainly, during the summer we want everyone to be paying attention to the forecast, keeping an eye on, especially if you are out during the afternoon hours, staying hydrated, wearing light colored clothes, hats, all that kind of stuff if good during those warmer months, even if there is not an alert out right now for your area, or throughout the summer, it’s going to be warm, plenty of sunshine to go around, we just had the summer solstice yesterday, so we are in the warmest and longest days of the year right now,” said Carter McKay, MWS Pocatello Meteorologist.

He says right now, the temperatures are well above average for this time of year, it is normally in the mid 70s to low 80s right now.

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