Oregon performed at almost identical efficiency and explosiveness rates in both the passing and rushing offense as they have against the rest of their FBS competition this year, though at a bit lower yards per play in both, in keeping with Washington’s general defensive strategy of keeping the play in front of them.
The designed passing offense had a 62.5% per-play success rate (30 successes vs 18 failures, given the down & distance), getting 7.6 adjusted YPA and about 21% of passes gaining 15+ yards. There weren’t many surprises in the playbook or in UW’s defensive approach. This was this stiffest pass protection test the offensive line faced so far and there were a couple more scrambles than the previous games would have predicted, and more rollout plays called for #10 QB Nix than in previous games as well, but overall pass protection grades remained in single digit error rates across the board.