Here’s the most telling stat of this game: Oregon ran 73 plays in regulation, while Stanford ran just 49. Oregon’s drives were, for the most part, long and methodical ... five of them went for nine plays or more (one was 14). Stanford scored in exactly two ways - huge passing plays, and Oregon screw-ups.
Offense
I recorded 24 successful rushing plays in the game, and there was an interesting wrinkle in the run game: there were three power-blocked read-options out of the pistol, five handoffs after motioning from pistol to an offset back, and seven offset zone reads (i.