With the benefit of hindsight, this game was a much more comfortable win than it felt watching live. Basically the entire fourth quarter was garbage time, based on the score differential and playstyle of both teams after Oregon’s crucial 4th down stop of Cal at the goalline to start the final frame. Oregon won the turnover differential by +4 (and it probably should have been higher than that), had their best rushing performance of the year, and posted an adjusted yards per passing attempt score 30 times greater than the opponent (12.05 vs 0.4).
Offense
Last week, in reviewing the Stanford game I wrote about Oregon’s run-blockers not often getting to the second level to spring big runs, and in previewing Cal I felt their rush defense had looked pretty stout on film.