Oregon beat Utah 41-20 on Saturday. Oregon State lost to Stanford 15-14 on Thursday. Halloween is Tuesday.
Going A-Z on it all...
A) Oregon coach Willie Taggart looked and sounded relieved in the post game news conference after beating Utah. Big win? Felt like one. Not because it has national ramifications but because it was a shift of trajectory for the season. I wrote in my column that it was a statement game by the Ducks, and what I mean by that is that the victory announced in a statement, "Pssst... we are not dead.