With the exception of a couple botched plays at extraordinarily inopportune moments, Oregon’s offense performed nominally for this season. Excluding the final drives of both halves, overall the Ducks had about a 73.5% per-play success rate given the down & distance and about 23% of plays were explosive, including two of the longest passing plays of the year.
Oregon’s first two drives were fairly run-pass balanced, but by Oregon’s third possession, the Ducks had gone to a heavily run-based attack with some big play-action shots. Three factors went into this decision: first, the Huskies’ defense simply wasn’t stopping the run; second, their pass rush gave Oregon’s tackles more trouble than any other team this year (including Georgia’s); third, by the fourth quarter when they were up by four points they wanted to bleed almost the entire clock and finish with a touchdown that would have put them up by two scores and allowed them to run out the rest of it (which probably would have worked if not for a bad snap wasting a redzone down followed by #10 QB Nix getting hurt running the ball).