Oregon successfully rushed on 31 plays vs 9 failures prior to garbage time, and every word I write hereafter will be superfluous, because there isn’t a team in the history of college football to run that much and that effectively without winning the game. But, dear reader, for posterity’s sake we shall continue.
This game reversed the trend in the second half of the season where Oregon had been rushing with an offset RB on a slim majority of plays; on Friday, they ran out of the pistol 80% of the time, with slightly higher effectiveness on both a per-play basis and a yardage basis:
- Offset Rush - 6 success vs 2 failure (75%)
- Pistol Rush - 25 success vs 6 failure (81%)
The offensive line used the same lineup as last week, again with backup #71 RG Capra rotating in for starter #75 RG Warmack on every third drive.