This was the report I did NOT want to write.
I did not want to believe that Oregon, thoroughly and completely humiliated two weeks ago in Salt Lake, could come out and repeat their same sorry performance again, and on a much larger stage to boot.
But indeed they did. The Ducks came out flat and uninspired, and Utah destroyed them. Again.
Oregon was outscored 76 to 17 in the two games against the Utes.
Let me repeat that— SEVENTY-SIX to SEVENTEEN.
These two games weren’t just losses— they were potentially program-defining setbacks.
Teams with playoff pretentions don’t get blown out by conference foes once, let alone TWICE in the same season.