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Washington State upsets Oregon 45-38 in 2 OTs

Most of the preseason scenarios are still in play as they head into the thick of their conference schedule – including back-to-back games against Oregon and Stanford.

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He expanded on that on Sunday. Oregon built its reputation and its success on overcoming a Washington program that had long held them down.

“You have two choices: You can go downhill from now and give up or you can refocus”.

On the season, the Oregon Ducks average 227.4 yards in passing and 300.4 yards in rushing. I thought we rose up, offense, defense and special teams.”And, truly, every unit had a few superlative performance that contributed to WSUs first win in Autzen Stadium since 2003.

This year, Oregon fans have seen a passing game that ranks towards the bottom of the conference and the country. The Ducks have won 11 consecutive games against the Huskies, who come off an impressive win against USC. “We will see what the team’s identity is when we get back to work on Monday, but I can’t speak for the future right now”.

Petersen said if he had to guess, he thinks Adams will play. “The Utah game in particular, Vernon just couldn’t throw it downfield, and we tried to go with him and have him gut it out like he did in the Michigan State game and we were doing a disservice to the team and to Vernon at that point having him out there in that condition”.

“It’s tough, it’s really tough for me, especially this being my senior year”, Adams told reporters this week. “I know he’s been throwing, and those type of things”, Petersen said. The Washington State defense has given up 28.8 points per game with 421.4 yards per game.

“Just showing what we can do when we rise up as a team together”, quarterback Luke Falk said. “You can have a lot of small victories that nobody else is talking about and it’s hard for them to even pay attention to, but because this is such a game of confidence, it’s nice when it shows up on the scoreboard as well”, Petersen said.

In his place, the Ducks rotated Jeff Lockie, Adams’ backup who was also Marcus Mariota’s backup last season, and sophomore Taylor Alie, a former walk-on. So what I’m saying is that an outright loss in this situation would be nearly unimaginable and all things considered, the line seems pretty low. Most folks hesitantly stuck the Huskies in the middle of the bell curve because there were just too many question marks. The Wildcats amassed 645 yards to 249 for the Beavers (2-3, 0-2).

Freeman scored on a 2-yard run to push the lead to 17-7, but Falk found Marks for a 4-yard touchdown with nine seconds left in the first half to cut the lead to 17-14. That’s obviously not WSU’s M.O., and while those three teams have thrown the ball effectively against OSU, defending it off the running game is a bit different than defending the Air Raid. Playing both quarterbacks was by design, although in the end Oregon did not go with a strictly scripted rotation. It’s especially ironic after instituting a defense meant to be able to contain spreads.

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