2011 SEASON REVIEW
aged to date. USC got ahead early on a pair of Matt Barkley touchdown passes, and then led again 21–7. Another Barkley touchdown pass in the third quarter made it 38–14. Still, the Ducks rallied late. They charged back
to make it 38–35. De’Anthony Thomas returned a kickoff 96 yards, while Barner and James each had short touchdown runs. Oregon even drove down the fi eld late in the game to create a fi nal chance to tie, but Maldonado’s 37-yard fi eld-goal try was wide left as time ran out. The loss was disappointing, but with a win over archrival Oregon State on November 26, a trip to today’s game would be assured. The 115th edition of the “Civil War” ended up the
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Washington got as close as one touchdown in the second half before Darron Thomas made a key third-down pass to set up yet another De’Anthony Thomas touchdown run. Kicker Alejandro Maldonado added a 35-yard fi eld goal that gave Oregon its fi nal points. Oregon’s defense racked up six sacks and forced three turnovers. The Ducks ruined the goodbye party for Husky Stadium and set up a showdown game with Pac-12 North rival Stanford. The biggest game of the Pac-12 season to that point matched
No. 3 Stanford against No. 6 Oregon in a game played at Stanford Stadium. Stanford’s Andrew Luck quickly found himself in trouble against a determined Oregon defense. A fi rst-quarter interception of a Luck pass set up an Oregon touchdown. James split the defense for a 58-yard scoring run to make it 15–6. That was one of three touchdown runs for James, who gained 146 yards on the ground. On a fourth-down play, De’Anthony Thomas caught a short pass, and his speed did the rest, resulting in a 41-yard touchdown. The game’s fi nal scoring play was emblematic of the night: Oregon’s Boseko Lokombo snagged a pass by Luck and returned it 40 yards for a touchdown to cap Oregon’s triumph. With the 53–30 win, the Ducks took control of the Pac-12 North and gained the inside track to host today’s game. They just needed one win in their fi nal two games to clinch both. Unfortunately, they didn’t get that win against USC in a game
played a week after the Stanford victory. The Trojans came to Aut- zen Stadium and slowed the Ducks’ offense as only LSU had man-
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same as the previous three versions had—with an Oregon victory. The Ducks started slowly, but by the second quarter had hit their stride and led 28–7 at the half. Darron Thomas was especially good in the game, throwing for 305 yards and four touchdowns.
James ran for 142 yards as he tried to hold onto his position as the nation’s No. 1 runner. The Ducks’ fi repower was just too much for OSU; the fi nal score was 49–21, the 10th time the Ducks had topped 40 points in a game in 2011. A season that started with a bump and hit another bump later
had fi nally led the Ducks to where they had been aiming since last January: a spot in the Pac-12 Championship Game and a shot at the Rose Bowl.
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