The Bruins gave up a season-worst 545 yards to the Ducks offense led by quarterback Bo Nix in a 45-30 setback. UCLA hosts Stanford next.
UCLA scored on all but one of its possessions at Oregon on Saturday, not counting a kneel-down before halftime.
Oregon had 545 yards of total offense — the most UCLA has allowed this year — and scored on its first seven possessions. The Bruins had slowed down Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. and Utah’s Cam Rising, both dual-threat quarterbacks, just enough in the previous two games. But Nix, who threw for 283 yards and five touchdowns in completing 22 of 28 passes and ran for 51 more yards, executed nearly every offensive play to surgical perfection.UCLA remains in Pac-12 championship contention.
Nix and the Ducks turned back the clock for UCLA to last season’s Jerry Azzinaro-led defense that allowed a Pac-12-worst 260.2 passing yards a game. Run or pass, the Ducks saw lots of open space. Oregon had 283 passing yards and 262 rushing yards. Oregon’s offense produced back-breaking drives just when stops might have gotten UCLA back into the game. There was a 10-play, 88-yard touchdown drive right before halftime after UCLA had cut the lead to 24-13 and was going to get the ball first in the second half.Then, after a field goal coming out of halftime made it a two-possession game again, Oregon went on a 15-play touchdown drive that took more than seven minutes.
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