Oct 3, 2020: A theme that I kept coming back to in 2019 was that only Oregon can stop Oregon … that is, throughout last year I repeatedly wrote that the Ducks’ talent and coaching was better than every team on their schedule, and only self-inflicted wounds (and dumb luck) would keep them from dominating the scoreboard in every game. In hindsight, there are two games where I think that didn’t hold up and they got a toe-to-toe battle to the finish, but the game against Cal wasn’t one of them.
This was the lowest scoring game of the season for Oregon, fueled by turnovers on each of their first three drives and a number of mental mistakes by the quarterback.