What the Beavers need to do to pick up a win over their first opponent of the year
The Oregon State Beavers begin their 2024 season on Saturday afternoon hosting the Big Sky Conference's Idaho State Bengals. Even though the Beavers are heavily favored, they still need to execute the things they've been working on for the last several weeks to start their season in the win column.
After crunching the numbers, personnel, and other info at our disposal, here's what the Beavers need to do in order ensure the victory over ISU.Multiple players over the course of the last several weeks have cited the running back group as the offensive position group they're most excited about. There's not one "feature back" in the group, but Jam Griffin, Anthony Hankerson, and Salahadin Allah are all expected to shoulder the load.
"It really doesn't matter what opponent is out there because it's going to change week-to-week, but what's not going to change week-to-week is how we prepare our players and what we ask them to do," Heyward noted this week.Gevani McCoy earned the starting job and based in his body of work at the University of Idaho, there's no specific reason to think he's not ready for the job.
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