Nix has been behind receivers all evening so far. Even on completed passes, WRs are having to reach back. Now it really costs them.
This has all the makings of a game the Ducks should have won but didn’t. All the wrong things happening at the wrong time.
this game, so far, has been a microcosm of the season: the Duck D can't get off the field enough....and the Ducks have control of games and one bad play turns into a magnified disaster still though, it's the defense never being able to make one critical play
Best throw Nix makes all game and it comes back for a penalty. Glad they got a TD on a pass that was again behind the receiver.
If that guy had come in and made a 58 yard field goal, I would have been quite annoyed. That would have been on the coaches for that illegal substitution which not only gave them 5 yards but gave them an extra play since clock started on the snap after a penalty. Although I also think NC made a mistake spiking when they had 8 seconds left. That would have been time to get a longer out of bounds play to try to put them in FG range..
well, after a dismal 1st half the Duck defense came out inspired in the 2nd half. They held the 14 best offense in FBS that came in averaging 474 yards/game to 322 yards * for the first 53 minutes of the game it looked like Mario came back and was calling the plays. There was only one pass that traveled more than 8 years downfield. Then, on the last two drives it was back to the Oregon offense we saw all year; TD's on both drives....wacky stuff * after looking shaky many times during the year, Trikweze Bridges looked like a lock-down CB this game. Made up for the loss of Gonzalez * he didn't register a lot of tackles but Oregon native Keith Brown played well enough that Sewell wasn't missed; and he was better in pass coverage than Sewell * speaking of Oregon natives, very fitting that the last reception of Chase Cota's college career was a game-winning TD
normally, I'd be rooting for Pac-12 teams to win bowl games but I will never root for the stinking huskies. And I won't root for USC & UCLA after the slimy way they fucked over the Pac-12. So I guess it's "Go Utah!"
