Santa Clara, Calif. • Nothing that Utah’s Tyler Huntley did on fourth and 19 could have altered his team’s outcome Friday night vs. Oregon. All the Utes accomplished on their last offensive play of the Pac-12 championship game was subjecting their quarterback to another sack and finalizing their futility with a nice, round number.
With the yardage of five sacks subtracted, that’s how much of the Levi Stadium’s field Utah officially covered in the fourth quarter of a 37-15 loss to Oregon.
Oregon is a College Football Playoff-level team. The Ducks (11-2) cost themselves that opportunity in two ways by scheduling Auburn in August and by also losing to Arizona State in mid-November.