The two-point conversion failed, and OR led 20-7.
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“Especially with the preseason rankings and current rankings, we have an underdog feel, and I love that, and the guys love that”, quarterback Dakota Prukop said. “It’s probably the best I’ve seen out of them”.
Just like the second quarter, OR dominated the bulk of the fourth quarter.
North Dakota State isn’t just another Football Championship Subdivision team, though.
” OR has played for two national titles in the past six seasons”.
Nebraska finished with 430 total yards. Against an over matched Virginia Cavalier team, the offense looked anemic in the second half, and the defense was pedestrian for most of the game. Nebraska has limited its first two opponents to an average of just 81 yards per game and only 2.8 yards per carry.
“As an offense we preach: if we get the chance to end the game with the ball in our hands, we have to do it”.
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Kentucky 62, New Mexico St. 42 – At Lexington, Ky., Benjamin Snell Jr. ran for four touchdowns and Stephen Johnson added three TD passes to lead Kentucky to a win over New Mexico State.
Prukop had a 22-yard run, a 46-yard run and Darren Carrington made a clutch 14-yard catch over the middle on a third-and-12 to set up the go-ahead score. I had turned some other stuff down a few years before, but we just chose to do it. Yeah, to an extent.
“Tommy played out of his mind”, Westerkamp said. His strike over the middle to Jordan Westerkamp to keep the winning drive alive on a fourth-and-9 play was what this team has come to expect from Armstrong. The Huskers had two takeaways without a turnover against Fresno State and six takeaways and one turnover against Wyoming.
Hornibrook took over for Bart Houston late in the third quarter with Wisconsin stuck in an offensive malaise.
He moved into the Top 20 in Pac-12 history for rushing yards on Saturday.
Conner Manning threw for a career-high 269 yards and a score.
LINCOLN, Neb. – Tommy Armstrong Jr. scored on a 34-yard quarterback draw with 3:30 left, the Nebraska defense held on Oregon’s final series and the Cornhuskers beat the No. 22 Ducks. OR hurt itself with a holding penalty to put the Ducks behind the sticks, and Freedom Akinmoladun came up with a big play when he hit Prukop in the pocket to force a fumble on 3rd-and-20.
OR took an early lead on a 20-yard touchdown run by Tony Brooks-James with 8:19 left in the first quarter to cap a 10-play, 65-yard drive. Devine Ozigbo also ran for 95 yards.
Trailing 32-28 at the Nebraska 48-yard line with just over three-and-a-half minutes to go, Nebraska coach Mike Riley had a decision to make. He was on the sideline with a towel on his head in the second quarter.
Kani Benoit followed with a 41-yard touchdown run on 4th-and-2 from the NU 41 to cut Nebraska’s lead to 28-26, after another failed two-point conversion attempt by the Ducks.
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Nebraska certainly took note when Oregon’s Royce Freeman got his season rolling last weekend with over 200 yards rushing.
