#4 Oregon

Eugene, OR

Autzen Stadium

October 12, 2024

Oregon 32 - Ohio State 31 (ESPN Recap)

I rank this as the best game I’ve ever seen live. #2 vs #3. 7 lead changes and the margin never wider than 8 points. Top 5 loudest game. Some whacky plays, a game-winning lead change under 2-minutes, and the outcome undecided until the final play of the game which featured clock mismanagement and play

that led to a NCAA rule change referred to as the “Duck Rule.” (https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41832824/ncaa-issues-interpretation-restore-12-man-penalty). While my last two games attended are coincidentally repeat venues where the Ducks were one of the teams, this was a treat of a repeat from 12 years ago. I now want to repeat TAMU and Michigan in the future to get the full experience.

The last time an AP top-3 matchup was decided by a point came in 1991. The game averaged 10.2 million viewers and peaked at 13.4m in the final minutes.

Jeremiah Smith, Emeka Egbuka, Evan Stewart, and Tez Johnson are outstanding WRs that combined for 33 catches for 417 yards and 1 TD each.

The game summary:

Ohio St opened with the ball and drove down the field for a TD, but on the drive, threw an interception that was not reviewed and instead called a catch (Oregon should have challenged). Oregon answered with a TD and botched the hold of the XP leading to 7-6 end Q1. Buckeyes scored quickly to go up 8, then Oregon scored quickly and were stopped on 2-pt conversion. The Ducks stole a possession on a

very nicely executed front row blast of an onsides kick after a penalty on the Ducks TD and turned that into a FG for their first lead. Oregon’s WR3 was straight ejected from the game for spitting on the face of an OSU DB. Each team scored three more times, trading back and forth, before the final 10 seconds in which Oregon took an intentional 12-men on the field penalty, giving up 5 years for 4 seconds. And then Will Howard scrambled up the middle with 6 seconds left and did not leave time to complete his slide and call Ohio St’s final timeout in order to set up a potential game winning FG. Field rush ensued with lots of happy Oregonians.

So much content from the annual business school trip with Evan, Stephen, and Erik. Oregon is a very beautiful, walkable, and dice-throwing friendly campus. We found our way onto the parkour public art installations, took pictures with mascots on motorcycles, found a legit poker room and cleaned up for a session, each took 3 rounds of BP at an indoor batting cage, and did our typical arcade/cornhole/card

games/sweater/CC roulette weekend.

No service pre-game or during game made friend rendezvous tough, but it didn’t stop me from running into Nate from the Rose Bowl twice!

The crew made it on the background of a Rece Davis selfie video on Friday on the GameDay set, with a loud “Go Pokes” at the beginning and me in the pink shirt at the end (https://x.com/recedavis/status/1844849136102965345)

#Skattebo #MrBrightsideDrink #Shout

Awarded on 12/13/24:

September 22, 2012 Oregon 49 – Arizona 0 (ESPN Recap)

https://goducks.com/news/2012/9/23/205691746.aspx?path=football

Flew up to Oregon for the first time in my life to attend a Ducks game with Mister Duck himself, Tony W. I really like Oregon, and I love Portland, which reminds me of my hometown. Met Kayla M who was pretty cool too.

Autzen was rocking with the “Oooooooooooh!” chants on every, single, defensive, snap. I could not hear anything and had no voice by the end of this one and it wasn’t a competitive game with the #3 Ducks demolishing and embarrassing Rich Rod’s #22 Arizona squad 49-0. Even included the unnecessary successful 2-point conversions I have come to love about this Chip Kelly squad.

Marcus Mariota is a stud who can do everything. Kenjon Barner and De’Anthony Thomas can fly, and Bralon Addison looked like a track star. Kiko Alonso was the hype on the defensive side of the ball for Oregon and he picked a ball off.

The most memorable part of this game was the first ten minutes. We were sitting on the 25-yard line and ALL of the plays for the first ten minutes took place within our immediate centered view.

Oregon started with the ball on their own 35 and went for it on 4th and 6 from the 39 and got stopped to open up the game.

Arizona ran 10 plays to the 11 yard line going in, and then also turned it over on downs.

Oregon gained nothing and lost a fumble three plays later on their own 12 yard line. Arizona ran two plays for a loss and then threw an interception. Oregon took over on their own 12 yard line and put together an 88-yard, 2:45 TD drive, scoring with 5:42 left in Q1.

It was the craziest opening sequence of any game I have every been to. Essentially four turnovers inside the 20 to open the game.