Plenty of Ducks are worthy of the game ball (Justin Herbert, Thomas Graham Jr., Jacob Breeland to name a few), but at the end of the day punter Blake Maimone is most deserving of the pigskin reward.
In a game that featured some spectacular Oregon defense and just enough Oregon offense to put away the Cardinal, Maimone’s golden leg regularly placed Stanford in terrible field condition which ultimately made everything easier for the Ducks. The senior punter had six punts against Stanford; all but one of them resulted in Stanford starting behind their own 13-yard line and two of them had the Cardinal beginning a drive at the eight.