LAS VEGAS — The sun rose on The Strip. Utah and USC will meet here this evening and play for the Pac-12 Conference football championship, but it was a Cessna Citation X aircraft in Oregon I was keeping an eye on.

The private jet left the airstrip at Mahlon Sweet Field in Eugene shortly after 7 a.m. and headed toward Michigan where five-star University of Oregon quarterback commit Dante Moore lives.

Ducks’ coach Dan Lanning is playing defense.

Meanwhile, Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith woke on Friday in Kansas.