One should always expect the unexpected in the first game of any team’s season, but the personnel choices in this game still took me aback. Looking around the league at the other seven teams that played, I did a better job predicting the rotation and gameplans in my North and South predictions articles last week for every other team than Oregon.
Ultimately the outcome was still as I saw it: the Pac-12’s only blowout of the opening weekend. For the entire 4th quarter with the exception of one offensive drive, Oregon had a 21-point lead: first 28-7 then 35-14.