This time around, Stanford was the Top 10 team looking to stay alive in the race for the national championship. The Cardinal had bounced back from a Week 1 loss to rise all the way to No. 7 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings.
Oregon was looking to play the spoiler, and it went beyond the usual requirements for the "underdog" in this series.
The Ducks' three losses in the first half of the season doomed them to a unranked state less than a year removed from a run to the national championship game.
It wasn't revenge for the most recent game—Oregon beat down an average Stanford team in Autzen Stadium last season—but the Ducks program still got to give Stanford a taste of its own medicine with a 38-36 upset Saturday.