Wow! It was almost an Oregon blowout against a highly ranked Stanford team.

Oregon looked extremely impressive and yet Stanford somehow escaped with the win.

The Oregon QB is legit! He threw for something like only 2 incompletions the whole game until overtime. His runs also were great.

For most of the game, Stanford could not move the ball against Oregon's defense.

At one point, Oregon marched down the field and scored with ease to go up by about 3 touchdowns. The Oregon player kicked the pileon on his way into the end zone. It was ruled as down at the one. On the next play, with first and goal from the one, there was a bad snap and Stanford ran it back for a touchdown. All of the sudden, 5 seconds after it was a 3 score game, it became a 1 score game.

During the end of regulation, Oregon made a key first down in order to be able to run out the clock. However, on the next play Oregon fumbled it and gave the ball back to Stanford, who scored at the end of regulation to tie the game. Stanford then won in overtime.

Cal will face an impressive and angry Oregon team next week.

luckiest win ever

Oregon did not make a key first down at the end or regulation. They had a 2nd and 2, and the running back got hit at the line and was fighting for extra yardage, because he wanted to get the first down and ice the game, when he had the ball stripped from him.

The irony is that Oregon didn't even need to get the first down in order to run nearly all the time off the clock; furd had one TO left, but even had they been forced to burn it they wouldn't have gotten the ball back with more than about 15 seconds left. TO on the third down, hope to stop them and force a punt, Oregon lets another 40 seconds run off the clock, then pooch punts it out of bounds deep in furd territory with only a few seconds left. Instead of making furd go 50 yards in 15 seconds tops with no TOs, furd gets the ball with only about 25 yards to go to get into FG range with 50 seconds left and one TO.

BearsWiin said:

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Oregon did not make a key first down at the end or regulation. They had a 2nd and 2, and the running back got hit at the line and was fighting for extra yardage, because he wanted to get the first down and ice the game, when he had the ball stripped from him.

The irony is that Oregon didn't even need to get the first down in order to run nearly all the time off the clock; furd had one TO left, but even had they been forced to burn it they wouldn't have gotten the ball back with more than about 15 seconds left. TO on the third down, hope to stop them and force a punt, Oregon lets another 40 seconds run off the clock, then pooch punts it out of bounds deep in furd territory with only a few seconds left. Instead of making furd go 50 yards in 15 seconds tops with no TOs, furd gets the ball with only about 25 yards to go to get into FG range with 50 seconds left and one TO.

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Once again Coach Shaw proves to the world his brilliance as a game day coach and mastermind at using the clock to his advantage.
You can't say it was all Good Luck. .....Luck doesn't play on the team anymore.

BearsWiin said:

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Oregon did not make a key first down at the end or regulation. They had a 2nd and 2, and the running back got hit at the line and was fighting for extra yardage, because he wanted to get the first down and ice the game, when he had the ball stripped from him.

The irony is that Oregon didn't even need to get the first down in order to run nearly all the time off the clock; furd had one TO left, but even had they been forced to burn it they wouldn't have gotten the ball back with more than about 15 seconds left. TO on the third down, hope to stop them and force a punt, Oregon lets another 40 seconds run off the clock, then pooch punts it out of bounds deep in furd territory with only a few seconds left. Instead of making furd go 50 yards in 15 seconds tops with no TOs, furd gets the ball with only about 25 yards to go to get into FG range with 50 seconds left and one TO.

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He was talking about before the 2nd and 2. They had made a key first down and could have simply ran down the clock. But they tried to get another first down instead so that they could completely run out the clock

LawoftheBear said:

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Wow! It was almost an Oregon blowout against a highly ranked Stanford team.

Oregon looked extremely impressive and yet Stanford somehow escaped with the win.

The Oregon QB is legit! He threw for something like only 2 incompletions the whole game until overtime. His runs also were great.

For most of the game, Stanford could not move the ball against Oregon's defense.

At one point, Oregon marched down the field and scored with ease to go up by about 3 touchdowns. The Oregon player kicked the pileon on his way into the end zone. It was ruled as down at the one. On the next play, with first and goal from the one, there was a bad snap and Stanford ran it back for a touchdown. All of the sudden, 5 seconds after it was a 3 score game, it became a 1 score game.

During the end of regulation, Oregon made a key first down in order to be able to run out the clock. However, on the next play Oregon fumbled it and gave the ball back to Stanford, who scored at the end of regulation to tie the game. Stanford then won in overtime.

Cal will face an impressive and angry Oregon team next week.

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I have given up trying to psychoanalyse whether a game like yesterday's would motivate a team to get revenge the next game or instead would demoralize a team. The results could go either way for college players.
To me what the game results show is that BOTH teams are tough but more importantly BOTH teams are also vulnerable.

A 35-7 win by either team would have guaranteed at least one definite "L" for Cal. Now either or BOTH could be "W's".
Especially since we play both of them at home.

calgo430 said:

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luckiest win ever

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Fans of a certain team might invoke "The Play".

Oregon is good. I seriously doubt Cal's defense will have more answers to Oregon's offense than Furd. If anything they're a step above Taggert's team last year. Cal looked terrible against them last year before the QB went down. At full strength, I don't see much hope for the Bears to do anything but keep it close and avoid injury.

Furd's offense looks a lot better than last year. Which is scary. Really the whole P12 North looks good, save Oregon State.

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Cal will face an impressive and angry Oregon team next week.

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Lol. Which was more "impressive"? When they blew a 99% win probability? When they snapped the ball over the head of the QB multiple times during the game (one of which gave Stanford a TD)? When they engaged in some of the worst clock management I've ever seen at the end of regulation? Or maybe when Herbert went stone cold in OT?

I think it's every bit as likely we face a demoralized and fragile Oregon team, who has yet to set foot outside of Autzen, as an "angry and impressive" one.

GivemTheAxe said:

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LawoftheBear said:

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Wow! It was almost an Oregon blowout against a highly ranked Stanford team.

Oregon looked extremely impressive and yet Stanford somehow escaped with the win.

The Oregon QB is legit! He threw for something like only 2 incompletions the whole game until overtime. His runs also were great.

For most of the game, Stanford could not move the ball against Oregon's defense.

At one point, Oregon marched down the field and scored with ease to go up by about 3 touchdowns. The Oregon player kicked the pileon on his way into the end zone. It was ruled as down at the one. On the next play, with first and goal from the one, there was a bad snap and Stanford ran it back for a touchdown. All of the sudden, 5 seconds after it was a 3 score game, it became a 1 score game.

During the end of regulation, Oregon made a key first down in order to be able to run out the clock. However, on the next play Oregon fumbled it and gave the ball back to Stanford, who scored at the end of regulation to tie the game. Stanford then won in overtime.

Cal will face an impressive and angry Oregon team next week.

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I have given up trying to psychoanalyse whether a game like yesterday's would motivate a team to get revenge the next game or instead would demoralize a team. The results could go either way for college players.
To me what the game results show is that BOTH teams are tough but more importantly BOTH teams are also vulnerable.

A 35-7 win by either team would have guaranteed at least one definite "L" for Cal. Now either or BOTH could be "W's".
Especially since we play both of them at home.

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The angrier UO is, the more they will lose concentration and the more they will commit PFs - late hits, roughing, etc.There will be missed assignments by them and if we can change up coverages and blitz packages, we might pull it off. Got to get to their qb and hit him, esp when he runs. Maybe spy him.