Field Level Media
Nov 27, 2021
Anthony Brown passed for 275 yards and two touchdowns, and rushed for another score, and No. 11 Oregon bounced back to defeat in-state rival Oregon State 38-29 Saturday and advance to the Pac-12 championship game for the third straight season.
Brown finished 23-for-28 passing and rushed for 83 yards.
Travis Dye added 138 all-purpose yards, 99 on the ground, and the second of his two touchdowns that came with 3:14 to play sealed Oregon's win. The Ducks (10-2, 7-2 Pac-12) clinched the Pac-12 North Division title, scoring on all four drives in the first half to set the tone for a victorious afternoon at home in Eugene, Ore.
Oregon rebounded from a blowout loss at Utah last week.
Oregon State (7-5, 5-4) could have won the division for Washington State had the Beavers pulled off the upset, but came up short. They rallied with 26 second-half points but failed on three two-point conversion attempts.
Quarterback Chance Nolan completed 25 of 39 passes for 308 yards and two scores, and conference rushing leader B.J. Baylor had a rushing touchdown and 59 yards.
Brown, in his first full season as Oregon's starting quarterback and in his final year of eligibility, threw for a touchdown and ran for another in the first half as the Ducks racked up 307 yard of total offense before halftime. Dye ran 20 yards for a touchdown on fourth-and-1 on the Ducks' opening possession.
Brown hit Devon Williams for a 50-yard touchdown play to make it 14-0. Williams had five catches for 105 yards in the first half.
After both teams exchanged field goals to give Oregon a 17-3 lead, the Ducks' defense forced a punt, and then Brown led his team down the field. He dived and stretched the ball over the goal line for a touchdown with 35 seconds left until halftime, and Oregon led 24-3 at the break.
The Beavers rallied from a 31-9 deficit to make it 31-21 with 8:28 left in the game. After Baylor's four-yard touchdown run, Oregon State recovered an onside kick and scored on Nolan's touchdown pass to Trevon Bradford.
But Dye scored from a yard out to give Oregon a 17-point lead.
--Field Level Media