I charted Oregon’s first five possessions, after which the Ducks had a 29-point lead with most of the second quarter left to play and the game was effectively over. That only constituted 24 meaningful plays, too few for useful statistical splits, so I’ll present them in the aggregate: Oregon’s per-play success rate was 75% (18 successes vs 6 failures, given the down & distance), with an average of 10.8 adjusted yards per play, and 25% of plays gained explosive yardage. Each of these are well over the championship-caliber thresholds, if sustained all season.
There were two unexpected playcalling factors.