SportsDirect Inc. staff
Oct 26, 2013
No. 2 Oregon 42, No. 11 UCLA 14: Byron Marshall rushed for 133 yards and three touchdowns as the host Ducks remained unbeaten by dispatching the Bruins in Pac-12 play.
Marcus Mariota passed for 230 yards and one touchdown and De’Anthony Thomas added a rushing score as Oregon (8-0, 5-0) was held below 55 points for only the second time this season. Marshall has topped 100 rushing yards in five consecutive games.
Brett Hundley was intercepted twice and passed for a season-low 64 yards for UCLA (5-2, 2-2). Hundley rushed for a first-quarter touchdown and threw an 11-yard scoring pass to Thomas Duarte late in the first half.
The contest was tied at 14 at halftime before Marshall scored on an 11-yard jaunt with 2:57 left in the third quarter. Hundley was intercepted by Oregon’s Avery Patterson on the first play of the final quarter, leading to Mariota’s 8-yard scoring pass to Bralon Addison with 12:41 remaining.
Marshall added a 3-yard scoring run to make it 35-14 with 8:47 remaining and Thomas Tyner scampered in from the 2 six-plus minutes later.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Thomas returned from an ankle injury and rushed for 31 yards on 10 carries but didn’t play in the second half. … Bruins RB Jordon James (ankle) missed his third consecutive contest. … A 66-yard run by Rodney Hardrick on a fourth-and-14 fake-punt call set up the Ducks’ first touchdown.