EUGENE -- After three losses and 31 total points, Oregon needed touchdowns any way it could get them Saturday, just as it desperately needed a victory, no matter the fashion.
Which is to say that absolutely no one after Oregon's 41-20 win against Utah in Autzen Stadium was quibbling with Charles Nelson's execution on his first career touchdown pass.
That score, which ended in an end-zone bear hug between Nelson and tight end Jacob Breeland, had roots in a conversation Monday night between Nelson and Willie Taggart in a bar, as they prepared to go on stage for their appearance on Oregon's weekly coaches' radio show.