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Nall carries Oregon State to Civil War victory
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Ryan Nall
was 10 years old the last time
the Beavers beat the Ducks in
the Civil War rivalry game.
So that made Saturday’s
34-24 Oregon State victory all
the more sweet for the soph-
omore tailback, who finished
with 155 yards rushing and
four touchdowns. The win
snapped an eight-game losing
streak for the Beavers in the
long-running series.
“To be a part of our first
win in such a long time, it’s
truly an amazing feeling,”
said Nall, an Oregon native. “I
can’t believe it.”
Marcus McMaryion threw
for 101 yards and another
score as the Beavers finished
their second season under
coach Gary Andersen at 4-8
overall and 3-6 in the Pac-12.
Afterward, fans stormed
the field at Reser Stadium
and someone hoisted up Nall
in victory.
“All of the sudden I’m in
the air,” he said. “I was just
taking in that moment. It was
amazing.”
Oregon (4-8, 2-7) will end
its disappointing season in the
basement of the Pac-12 North,
a dramatic fall for a team that
just two seasons ago played
in the first College Football
Playoff championship game.
True freshman Justin
Herbert, starting in his seventh
game after taking over for
graduate transfer Dakota
Prukop, threw for 180 yards
and a touchdown for the
Ducks, who won’t play in the
postseason for the first time
since 2004. Royce Freeman,
who had seen mention as a
Oregon
Oregon State
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preseason Heisman candidate,
ran for 106 yards.
Afterward, Ducks coach
Mark Helfrich was asked
about his job security.
“Nobody’s job is safe in
college football,” he said.
“That’s just the nature of the
beast.”
Oregon was boosted
going into the Civil War by
a 30-28 upset of then-No. 11
Utah last weekend, a win that
momentarily silenced talk
about Helfrich’s future. The
victory was sealed by Justin
Herbert’s touchdown pass to
Darren Carrington with two
seconds left.
The
Beavers
had
momentum, too, coming
off a 42-17 victory over
Arizona at Reser Stadium
last Saturday night.
Oregon State opened the
scoring on Nall’s 12-yard
touchdown run. The Ducks
answered on the next series
with Tony Brooks-James’
3-yard TD run, then pulled
ahead on receiver Jalen
Brown’s reverse pass to
Carrington for a 33-yard
touchdown.
The
Beavers
pulled
even at 14 on McMaryion’s
6-yard pass to Ricky Ortiz.
McMaryion was pressed into
duty as a starter for the Beavers
earlier this season after both
Darell Garretson and backup
Conor Blount were injured.
The Ducks were efficient
to start the second half, taking
the lead on Herbert’s 23-yard
touchdown pass to Charles
Nelson. Aidan Schneider’s
46-yard field goal extended
the lead for the Ducks.
But then the rain started
coming down hard and the
Beavers turned almost exclu-
sively to running the ball,
at one point running on 21
straight plays.
Nall scored on a 14-yard
run to narrow it for the
Beavers, then added a 6-yard
touchdown with 9:40 left in
the game. His fourth, a 2-yard
dash, came with just under two
minutes to go. Nall finished the
season with 14 touchdowns
despite being hampered by a
foot injury.
It was his fourth game
this season with 100 or more
yards.
“Ryan is a workhorse,”
Andersen said. “You keep
pounding the ball, good things
are going to happen.”
Herbert appeared to
connect with Johnny Mundt
in the end zone with 41
seconds to go, but Mundt
dropped the ball, ending the
Ducks’ last chance.
“We knew we were going
to win,” Beavers safety Devin
Chappell said.
“Definitely,” added corner-
back Treston Decoud.
It was the first sellout at
Reser Stadium since the 2014
Civil War.
PLAYERS WEIGH IN:
Freeman said the Ducks
player want to see Helfrich
return, and they believe he
can return the team to national
prominence.
“He’s done a lot of great
things here,” Freeman said.
“A lot of positivity coming
from him, and the players
feed off that.”
Beavers make more progress Disappointing season provides
few bright spots for Ducks
in Andersen’s second year
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — With
a victory — finally — over
rival Oregon in the Civil
War, the Oregon State
Beavers took a meaningful
step in their evolution under
coach Gary Andersen.
The Beavers finished
4-8 overall, a two-game
improvement over last
season, and won three Pac-12
games after going winless in
the conference last year.
But perhaps the most
positive indicator of where
the Beavers are going came
when they snapped an eight-
game losing streak to the
Ducks. Already out of post-
season contention — it was
essentially Oregon State’s
bowl game — the team was
both tough and persistent.
“This is a big, big state-
ment for us to be able to get
ourselves back in a position
to grow as a football team
and football program,”
Andersen said.
The Beavers rallied from
a 24-14 third-quarter deficit
with three straight touch-
down runs from sophomore
tailback Ryan Nall, appropri-
ately nicknamed “Wrecking
Nall,” to win it 34-24 .
Nall finished the game
with four touchdowns, most
for a Beaver since Jacquizz
Rodgers ran for three and
caught
another
against
Washington in 2010. Steven
Jackson had the last game with
four rushing TDs in 2003.
Nall, a native Oregonian
who played at Portland’s
Central Catholic High School,
was named the Pac-12 offen-
sive player of the week for the
effort. He finished the season
with 951 yards rushing and 13
touchdowns on the ground,
and also caught a pair of TD
passes. He had four 100-yard
rushing games.
It was the second straight
victory for Oregon State,
which also beat Arizona
42-17 at home a week before
the season finale. It was the
first time since 2013 that the
Beavers had won consecu-
tive conference games.
For senior left tackle Sean
Harlow, it was the perfect
way to end his college career.
“That one has a little extra
something special to it,”
Harlow said after the Civil
War win. “To be able to get
one last one, a home game
in our place against them of
all people, and to run the ball
physically and force our will
on them all game — there’s
nothing better.”
And they did it despite
numerous key injuries.
The Beavers lost starting
quarterback Darell Garretson
midway through the season
to a broken ankle. Backup
Conor Blount injured his
knee in the same game —
essentially thrusting soph-
omore Marcus McMaryion
into the starting role for the
Beavers’ final six games.
McMaryion threw for
1,286 yards and 10 touch-
downs, but also threw five
interceptions. Five of those
touchdown passes came in
the victory over Arizona.
Sophomore
receiver
Seth Collins, arguably the
most dynamic player on the
Beavers’ offense, missed
the final two games with a
serious illness that put him
in the hospital for nearly
two weeks. The nature of
the illness was not disclosed
because of privacy rules.
Collins, the Beavers’
former quarterback, had 36
catches for 418 yards and
a touchdown this season
before falling ill. He was
named an honorary captain
for the Civil War.
Beavers’ H-back Noah
Togiai was lost early this
season with a knee injury,
while outside linebacker
Bright Ugwoegbu, the team’s
top pass rusher, was lost late
in the season to an ankle
injury. In all, the Beavers lost
15 players to season-ending
injuries this year.
“They got knocked down a
lot but the battled and got back
up and all of a sudden you have
some good things happen to
you, it’s absolutely got to help
your growth and your program
and it should help recruiting,
too,” Andersen said.
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — Oregon’s
run as one of the nation’s elite
teams came crashing to a halt
this season.
Now the question is, was
the year just an anomaly?
The Ducks, who just two
seasons ago were playing
in the first College Football
Playoff championship game,
wrapped up a season to forget
with a 34-24 loss to the Oregon
State Beavers in the 120th
Civil War. The loss snapped
an eight-game winning streak
in the series.
It was one of many streaks
that would fall this season.
Oregon finished 4-8 overall
and at the bottom of the
Pac-12 North standings at
2-7 — snapping a run of nine
straight winning seasons in
conference play.
The final loss meant that
Oregon wouldn’t be making
a postseason appearance for
the first time since 2004. The
Ducks had finished every
season ranked in the AP Top
25 since 2007.
It also threw coach Mark
Helfrich’s future with the
team in doubt, as well as the
direction of the program. Just
moments after the Ducks
left the field at Oregon State,
Helfrich was asked about his
job security.
“Nobody’s job is safe in
college football,” he said.
“That’s just the nature of
the beast.”
Oregon hasn’t fired a head
coach since 1976 when Don
Read was let go after three
seasons.
At the final media avail-
ability of the season, the
morning after the Civil War
loss, Helfrich said he had
called athletic director Rob
Mullens to inquire about his
status. The two were going to
meet this week.
Helfrich tried to be posi-
tive, but conceded it was out
of his control.
“We needed to win more
games this year and I get that,”
he said. “There are a lot of
factors involved there but all
that stuff is up for debate and
determination by people that
aren’t me. I think we’ve got
a great team coming back, a
very talented team coming
back, and that’s exciting.”
The Ducks started the
season with promise, ranked
No. 24 in the preseason AP
poll. For the second straight
season, Oregon brought in an
experienced graduate transfer at
quarterback — this time Dakota
Prukop from Montana State.
The Ducks also hired a
new defensive coordinator,
former Michigan coach
Brady Hoke, who installed
a 4-3 scheme. Matt Lubick
was promoted from within
to replace departed offensive
coordinator Scott Frost, and
David Yost was named quar-
terbacks coach.
The defense appeared
shaky but the Ducks nonethe-
less won their first two games,
against UC Davis and Virginia.
A 35-32 loss at Nebraska
started a five-game slide — the
longest for the Ducks in 20
years — which finally ended
at home with a 54-35 victory
over Arizona State on Oct. 29.
While mired in the losing
streak, the Ducks benched
Prukop in favor of freshman
Justin Herbert, who in the end
was one of the few bright spots
in an otherwise dismal season.
Herbert’s first start was
a daunting one, against No.
5 Washington. The Huskies
routed the Ducks 70-21 to snap
a 12-game losing streak in the
series. But Herbert would go
on to finish the season ranked
fourth on Oregon’s all-time
list for completion percentage
at 63.5 percent. He threw for
1,936 yards and 19 touch-
downs with four interceptions
in nine appearances.
Junior Royce Freeman,
mentioned as a Heisman
Trophy hopeful at the start
of the season, rushed for 945
yards and nine touchdowns
but was slowed by injury. A
possible NFL draft prospect,
Freeman said after the Civil
War that he had not made a
decision on whether to return
for another college season.
Oregon didn’t lead the
Pac-12 in rushing for the first
time in 10 seasons.
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