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Igor Olshansky (55) and Steven Moore (4) lead an Oregon defense that hopes to
contain a UCLA offense that put up 625 yards of total offense last week.
Streaking
continued from page 1B
The Ducks’ defense brings it’s
top-rated run stoppers, who allow
79.4 yards per game, to Los Angeles
to battle UCLA’s top-rated run of
fense, which averages 173.2 yards
per contest.
“If you’re going to compete for a
championship, then you've got to
beat the champions,” said UCLA
head coach Bob Toledo, a former
Oregon offensive coordinator. “This
will be a heck of a football game.
Oregon without a doubt is the best
team we have seen. They do a great
job of execution and they find a
way to win.”
Last week in Corvallis, UCLA
redshirt freshman Tyler Ebell
notched 203 rushing yards after
starting tailback Manuel White
went down with an injury that will
also force him to miss at least this
week’s game.
Senior quarterback Cory Paus
passed for a career-high 378 yards as
the Bruins totaled 625 yards in the
43-35 win over Oregon State.” They
have tremendous balance across the
board,” Bellotti said. “Cory Paus is
playing very good football. They can
spread the ball around in terms of
having a lot of able bodies that can
carry the football.”
Paus will look to spread an Ore
gon defense that allowed Arizona’s
Jason Johnson to pass for 302 yards
in Oregon’s 31-14 win in Tucson
last week.
Playing against their first ranked
team of the season, the Ducks are
2.5-point underdogs.
But that is of little concern to the
Oregon players.
“It isn’t our job to worry about
what the media or anyone says,”
Smith said. “Our thing is to put into
play what our coaches call for.”
Oregon’s trip to Los Angeles will
mark a homecoming for most on
the Ducks’ roster. Of the 60 players
on last week’s travel roster, about
two-thirds played high school foot
ball in California.
“It’s a lot better to visit with
friends and family after a victory
than it is after a loss,” Bellotti said.
Not that it’s of extreme impor
tance, but no Oregon player has
been named Pac-10 Player of the
Week this season.
That could easily change Satur
day, along with many other notable
streaks.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Associated Press Top 25
1. Miami (1,849 points)
2. Oklahoma0,707)
3. Texas (1,698)
4. Virginia Tech (1,632)
5. Ohio State (1,552)
6. Georgia (1,485)
7. Oregon (1,390)
8. Notre Dame (1,349)
9. Florida State (1,182)
10. Tennessee (1.132)
11. Iowa State (1,000)
12. Washington State (998)
1 3. Michigan (986)
14. NC State (877)
] 5. Peon State (710)
16. Florida (687)
17. Iowa (582)
18. LSU (569)
19. Kansas State (435)
20. USC (301)
21. Air Force (298)
22. Washington (293)
23. Wisconsin (223)
24. Auburn (222)
25. Mississippi (173)
Others receiving votes:
Alabama (150), UCLA (123),
Colorado (97), California (80)