UO release - The Oregon football team met with local media Monday, two days before opening practice for the 2025 season.  By: Rob Moseley - EUGENE, Ore. — If there was any summer break for members of the Oregon football program, it's just about over.  The Ducks will open preseason practices Wednesday, looking to "double down" on last season's success, in the words of head coach Dan Lanning. That means building on a 2024 season that began with 13 straight wins, and ended with the UO football program in the College Football Playoff.  Such success is not easily attained. And certainly not by taking things easy in preseason camp. When the Ducks hit the field for practice Wednesday, they'll need to be in regular-season mode already.  "Our goal with fall camp," Lanning said Monday in a press conference with local media, "is how can we create the same anxiety you have on game day?"  Overcome those anxieties in August, and the Ducks will be well-positioned to overcome the challenges their season will present come fall — and potentially beyond. And really, that work is already well underway, from spring practice and summer strength and conditioning.  When practice begins Wednesday and the Ducks walk out to the field, they'll look the part of a championship contender based on their offseason work with strength coach Wilson Love.  "As far as production over summer workouts, I think we've seen as much from a measurable standpoint as we have since we got here," Lanning said. "Coach Love and his staff did a great job."  There's some hay in the barn already, to use one of Lanning's favorite aphorisms. But the work is never truly done.  "Excited to see what questions we're able to answer this fall camp," the UO coach said. "I know guys are excited to work."  Lanning and several dozen players met with local media Monday to begin trying to answer some of the lingering questions surrounding the Ducks this preseason.