Although the scoreboard doesn’t reflect it, in every measure of fundamental strength this was a wire-to-wire domination: Oregon’s combined per-play success rate was 61.2%, they controlled field position, and they won almost every statistical category by a wide margin. Once Oregon stopped shooting themselves in the foot with turnovers, the natural outcome one would expect from the game conditions asserted itself.
Offense
Oregon’s rushing efficiency was its best all season, 20 successful plays vs 10 failed ones. In designed rushes they averaged 5.0 YPC and had seven runs of 10 yards or longer. This was in large part due to a dominant inside power rushing game - as I noted on Friday previewing Cal, their defense is particularly vulnerable to power-blocked runs up the middle, and sure enough, Oregon had 14 successful vs just 3 unsuccessful inside power runs.