CORVALLIS – A familiar mantra of coach Jonathan Smith’s during the first month of Oregon State’s 2018 season is compete, then improve.
To fans watching Saturday’s 35-14 loss to Arizona, it didn’t appear the Beavers did a whole lot of the latter last week. It wasn’t just outsiders who thought that, either.
“Overall, I wasn’t hugely fired up about our improvement in that game,” Smith said.
Three areas were most notable to Smith.
Oregon State had more penalties than normal, particularly back-to-back flags late in the third quarter to kill the momentum of a 17-play drive.