Recap: Duck turnovers do
not factor in the outcome
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The other Williams
Senior wide receiver Demetrius
Williams is Oregon’s all-time leader
with 100-plus receiving yards in a
game, something he has done 10
times. He is also climbing the record
charts with receiving yardage and re
ceptions in a career, where he ranks
fifth in both categories.
Then there is Jaison Williams, a 6
foot-5,237-pound redshirt freshman.
He followed in the shoes of his men
tor and namesake with a breakout
performance against the Huskies,
catching five passes for 55 yards and
one touchdown.
Prior to the game, he had
four catches for 52 yards and
a touchdown.
“Once I got that first... hit, I just
knew from this point on you’ve got
to start ballin,”’ Williams said. “All I
need is Kellen’s (Clemens) trust and
to keep catching the ball and I can do
some good things here.”
Williams caught an eight-yard
touchdown with 23 seconds remain
ing in the first quarter to give Oregon
the lead for good. He also came up
with a 12-yard reception inside the
one-yard line on a third down and
nine. One play later, the elder
Williams caught a touchdown to get
the Ducks on the scoreboard.
“Jaison Williams is gaining confi
dence,” Clemens said. “If you just
look at him physically, he’s got all
the potential in the world. When he
plays with confidence he is
unstoppable.”
Confidence is one of the most im
portant intangibles for a young re
ceiver and that is what both the
quarterback and the receiver have
gained in each other after Saturday’s
performances.
“I can go for negative four (yards)
or I can go for 25,” Williams said.
“As long as I catch the ball I feel like
my confidence will keep going up.”
Dropping the ball
Oregon put the ball on the turf on
each of its first two touches. Wide re
ceiver James Finley caught a two
yard pass on the first play of the
game, but fumbled it at the Oregon
40-yard line. On the ensuing posses
sion, running back Terrence White
head fumbled the handoff from
Clemens on the first play of the sec
ond series. Washington recovered
both and the latter was converted
into a touchdown.
On the flip side, Oregon rover
Patrick Chung intercepted a Wash
ington pass on the first play of the
second half. He returned it 26
yards to the Washington 34-yard
line. Seven plays later, Clemens hit
Whitehead for an 11-yard
touchdown pass to give the Ducks
a 28-7 lead.
The Ducks are plus three on
turnover margin this season, rank
ing fourth-best in the conference
before the game.
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Bellotti said. “We give them the ball
twice right at the beginning of
the game, turning it over twice.
That’s not the way you want to
start out a big game, especially a ri
valry game. I thought our defense
really played well.”
After two Washington punts and
with the score tied at seven, the
Ducks took the lead for good when
the other Williams — freshman wide
out Jaison Williams — caught an
eight-yard strike from Clemens to give
Oregon a 14-7 lead.
Clemens finished a record-setting
day by completing 36 of 48 passes for
425 yards and four touchdowns. The
36 completions marked an Autzen
Stadium record and his four touch
down passes moved him into a tie for
second all time on Oregon’s touch
down list with Bill Musgrave (60).
“Kellen Clemens deserves whatev
er records he earned today, but he
probably owes the offensive line din
ner because they had great protec
tion,” Bellotti said, referring to an of
fensive line that did not allow a sack
for the second consecutive game.
Oregon took a 21-7 lead into the
half after Demetrius Williams hauled
in a 30-yard touchdown pass midway
through the second quarter.
With Clemens guiding the Oregon
offense, the defense held Stanback
and the Huskies in check, allowing
only 79 yards in the first half.
“Oregon is a good team,” Stanback
said. “We knew that coming in.”
The defense continued its domina
tion in the second half, intercepting
Stanback on the first play of the third
quarter, setting up Clemens’ fourth
and final touchdown pass — an 11
yard toss to running back Terrence
Whitehead — to give the Ducks a
commanding 28-7 lead.
Oregon tacked on a Matt Evensen
30-yard field goal and a 17-yard
touchdown run by Jonathan
Stewart to take a 38-7 lead in the
third quarter.
The Huskies managed two touch
downs late in the game before Ore
gon wide receiver Brian Paysinger
added the final touches for the
Ducks with a five-yard touchdown
run to cap the scoring.
For the second consecutive week,
Oregon’s spread offense accumulated
over 500 yards of total offense.
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Oregon wide receiver Demetrius Williams (6) caught five passes for 92 yards and two
touchdowns Saturday during a 45-21 victory over Washington. Williams had to leave the
game with bruised ribs, but is expected to play next Saturday at Arizona.
Clemens accounted for 447 total
yards and Whitehead gained 103
yards combined receiving and rush
ing. With his 59 yards receiving,
Whitehead’s career total is now
1,022, making him just the third
player in Oregon history to
accumulate 1,000 career yards rush
ing and receiving.
“We were in a rhythm,” Clemens
said. “We made great halftime adjust
ments and we have match-up advan
tages all over. We have some guys
that stepped up, and you can’t single
out one guy to take away.”
Louis Rankin rushed for 72 yards,
while Stanback threw for 111 yards
and two touchdowns for the Huskies.
Defensively, four different players
recorded tacldes for losses, including
defensive end Devan Long, who
recorded a game-high four.
Long continually pressured Stan
back and the Washington offense,
accounting for 2.5 sacks, which
moves him to third all-time on Ore
gon’s career sacks list. The Ana
cortes, Wash., native also moved
into a tie for fifth place in career
tackles for a loss with 40.
Freshman Patrick Chung led the
Ducks with a team-high 11 tackles
and one interception.
“We feel great, we were able to get
the job done,” said linebacker Antho
ny Tfucks, who finished with eight to
tal tackles and two tackles for losses.
Washington lost its third straight
conference game. The Ducks are now
bowl-eligible and will turn their sights
to the Arizona Wildcats and next Sat
urday’s showdown in Tlicson, Ariz.
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Notre Dame: Weis pulls out all stops to motivate team
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of people. Irish players always say
they expect to win. But heading into
the game against USC, it was clear they
believed it. Tailback Darius Walker
talked about hoping for a blowout —
this from a team that lost three straight
to USC by 31. Tight end Anthony
Fasano talked about “when” the Irish
beat USC.
Weis also has made believers out of
fans. Five years ago, when Nebraska
came to town, about a third of the sta
dium appeared to be wearing red and
the Nebraska fans chanted “Husker
home game!” It was easy to spot the
Tfojans fans in the stands Saturday,
but the raucous crowd was clearly be
hind the Irish and Weis, flooding the
field at the end when they thought the
Irish had won.
Weis worked the crowd into a fren
zy all week. He encouraged fans, not
so-subtly, to be at Notre Dame Stadi
um on Friday to harass the TYojans at
their walkthrough, and hundreds of
them obliged. He moved the pep rally
to the stadium so 45,000 people could
attend, then brought Joe Montana,
Tim Brown, Chris Zorich and Daniel
“Rudy” Ruettiger back to stir them.
Then he pulled out the famed green
jerseys, the same way Dan Devine did
in inspiring the Irish to a 49-19 victory
over USC on Notre Dame’s way to the
national championship in 1977.
The only thing Weis didn’t pull out
to try to win was Knute Rockne’s “Win
one for the Gipper” speech.
The loss probably cost the Irish a
shot at a national championship, but it
kept a lot of other hopes alive.
Notre Dame still has a chance for a
Bowl Championship Series berth. If the
Irish win the rest of their games, and
they likely will be favored in those
games — probably heavily favored
against everyone except No. 17
Tennessee — they likely will play in a
BCS game.
So people weren’t talking after the
game about how the Irish have tied a
school record by losing four straight
home games or that Weis became the
first rookie Notre Dame coach since
1900 to lose his first two home games.
They were looking at what the Irish
had shown.
“That we can compete with the best
team in the country and that we be
long in the top of the rankings,”
Fasano said.
It’s been a while since many
people outside South Bend
believed that.
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