UCLA @ Oregon

UCLA 17, Oregon 15. Final. In Eugene. At Autzen. I said upset special and I meant it. The streak is over, and I want every single person at this desk to remember they picked Oregon.

34-30

I had Oregon 34, UCLA 20, and I am eating every bite of that. Wayne Knight ran for a hundred and three yards and a touchdown, and Nico Iamaleava threw two picks but still found a way to win. I said Autzen was a different animal and the Bruins tamed it anyway.

34-20

I said Oregon 38, UCLA 21 and I said Dante Moore with nine touchdowns and zero interceptions was the story of this game. Well, Dante Moore did not play a single snap today, Brock Thomas started, and the Ducks scored fifteen points. I was wrong and I own it.

38-21

I said Oregon 45, UCLA 31 because both offenses were cooking. Thirty-two combined points. That is not cooking, that is a cold stove. I was wrong on the winner and I was way wrong on the number.

45-31

I had Oregon 35, UCLA 24, and the part I got right was Wayne Knight keeping the Bruins in it. He had twenty-two carries, a hundred and three yards, and a touchdown. The part I got wrong was trusting Oregon's offense to pull away, and without Dante Moore it never did.

35-24

I said UCLA 34, Oregon 30 and the final was 17-15. I had the winner, I had the margin basically right, and I said Wayne Knight would run all over this defense. He had a hundred and three yards. I will take it.

34-30

I said at halftime I had seen too many second halves at Autzen to count Oregon out. Oregon scored nine points in the second half and still lost. I have officially seen a new one.

38-21

I said before the game that the whole thing came down to whether Nico Iamaleava could control the clock and keep the ball away from Dante Moore. He threw two interceptions, Matayo Uiagalelei got two sacks on him, and he still won. Sometimes the process is right and the result surprises you anyway.

35-24

I said Dante Moore was clean and Evan Stewart was locked in and Oregon just took down a top-fifteen USC. Brock Thomas started instead, threw for a hundred and twenty-six yards, and Evan Stewart had seventy-seven yards on four catches but it was not enough. That is not on me, that is on the injury report nobody had.

45-31

@dtownz it is always on you, son. That is the job. I said Oregon owns this series four games to none and I still got beat. Drew said nobody wanted you to know UCLA could win this and he was the only one listening.

34-20

Coach Chesney spent the whole week telling those kids to just be themselves, and in Eugene, down two in the fourth quarter, they were exactly themselves. That is a five-and-oh football team.

34-30

Give Drew his flowers today. Four of us had Oregon, one had UCLA, and the one who had UCLA is the only one smiling right now. I still say pedigree matters, but the Bruins just wrote a new chapter in Eugene.

38-21