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Oregon defensive back Tysheeem Johnson celebrates a stop as the No. 6 Oregon Ducks take on the No. 16 Oregon State Beavers Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.
Oregon got its revenge Friday night with a rivalry win against Oregon State.
Now the Ducks get their rematch.
It’ll be No. 6 Oregon and No. 4 Washington playing for the final Pac-12 title this Friday in Las Vegas.
The Huskies (11-0, 8-0 Pac-12) locked in their spot in the championship game with a win against the Beavers last week. The Ducks (11-1, 8-1) did the same Friday, beating Oregon State 31-7 in Autzen Stadium and in front of a crowd of 59,987.
The win came a season after the Ducks lost to the Beavers in Corvallis despite a 21-point second half lead, and missed a chance to play in the 2022 Pac-12 championship game.
Next is another shot at redemption. This time against Washington, which beat Oregon 36-33 in Seattle Oct. 14.
It was a loss that could have sent the Ducks into a tailspin. Instead, it became a rallying cry.
“Right after the game in Seattle, that was the first thing that I said, I said to the whole team and especially on the defensive side, I said, ‘We’re going to see that team again, I promise you that. Don’t lay your heads down,’” linebacker Jeffrey Bassa said. “We didn’t see that in the locker room. Guys were ready to go to work and they knew what was at stake. They knew we could control our future and control our destiny.”
The Ducks will be playing in their sixth Pac-12 championship game. The last time a team in the championship game defeated an opponent it had lost to earlier in the season was in 2014, when the Marcus Mariota-led Ducks beat Arizona for the conference crown and eventually played for the national title.
“After what happened at Washington, we’ve practiced really hard,” quarterback Bo Nix…
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Author : The Register-Guard
Publish date : 2023-11-25 08:04:37
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