{"id":68249,"date":"2019-11-02T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T05:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=68249"},"modified":"2019-11-02T23:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T06:56:50","slug":"oregon-56-usc-24-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=68249","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Overwhelms Trojans, 56-24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Oregon defense left Kenan Christan with nowhere to go. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson
\n(Los Angeles) – Oregon went on a 56-7 run after falling behind 10-0 in the first quarter and went on to rout USC 56-24 Saturday night before 63,011 at United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. <\/p>\n

The Trojans started off fast but were eventually done in by a slew of penalties, mistakes and turnovers and were buried by the third quarter.<\/p>\n

USC drove 77 yards on 16 plays on the opening possession as Kedon Slovis hit Drake London on an eight-yard touchdown pass to finish the march for a 7-0 lead with 9:15 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Oregon’s Justin Herbert was intercepted later in the quarter by Isaiah Pola-Mao and he brought it back to the Oregon eight yard line. The Trojans stalled at the six but Chase McGrath kicked a 24-yard field goal for a 10-0 advantage.<\/p>\n

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Kedon Slovis had a up and down night in the Trojan loss to Oregon (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

Trojans were up 10-0 after one and all was good. Then things began to turn.<\/p>\n

Veron McKinley III picked off Slovis early in the second quarter and returned it to the Oregon 41. The Ducks took advantage of the turnover when Herbert scored on a ten-yard run seven plays later to cut the USC led to 10-7. The drive was aided by two USC penalties of targeting and holding.<\/p>\n

USC, helped along the way by two Oregon unsportmanslike conduct penalties, moved the ball down to the Oregon five -yard but Slovis was hit and fumbled and the Ducks recovered to end the threat.<\/p>\n

Oregon took the lead for good at 14-10 late in the second quarter marching 92 yards on nine plays. Jaylon Redd capped the march with a three-yard run. USC again contributed to the cause with costly penalties.<\/p>\n

On the next possession Brady Breeze stepped in front of a Slovis pass and returned it 32 yards for a pick six for a 21-10 lead with 2:16 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

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Drake London had one of the few bright spots for USC. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

USC put together a nine play, 74 yard drive with Michael Pittman Jr. hauling in a nine-yard touchdown pass from Slovis to make it 21-17. That was the last Trojan score until late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Oregon immediately answered as MyKeal Wright returned the ensuing kick off 102 yards for a touchdown with eight seconds left in the second quarter.
\nOregon took the 28-17 lead into the locker room at halftime.<\/p>\n

Slovis was 24 of 42 for 179 yards, 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions at the half. The Trojans had just 38 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n

Hebert hit Juwan Johnson for a 15-yard touchdown pass to cap the Ducks first drive of the third quarter to increase the lead to 35-17. The Ducks went 80 yards on seven plays.<\/p>\n

Slovis was intercepted for the third time on the next series as Salesian’s own Deommodore Lenoir picked it and returned it to the USC 34.<\/p>\n

Herbert then found Johnson again for a score, this one covered 11 yards to put the Ducks up 42-17 with 6:14 left in the third.<\/p>\n

Early in the fourth quarter the Herbert-Johnson connection clicked again on a 37-yard touchdown pass to put Oregon in cruise control at 49-17.<\/p>\n

Later in the quarter Mycah Pittman had a catch and run on a 35-yard TD pass from Tyler Shough, who had come on for Herbert.<\/p>\n

The Trojans put one more on the board for the final score of the night when Slovis threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Ford.<\/p>\n

Slovis finished the night 32 of 57 for 264 yards and 3 touchdowns but was hurt by the 3 interceptions. Tyler Vaughns had 8 receptions for 75 yards. USC never could get the running game going and finished with just 91 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n

Herbert completed 21 of 26 for 225 and 3 touchdowns. He had 1 interception. The Ducks gained 139 yards rushing.<\/p>\n

Oregon, ranked number 7 overall coming in, improved to 8-1. The Trojans fell to 5-4 with three games remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Los Angeles) – Oregon went on a 56-7 run after falling behind 10-0 in the first quarter and went on to rout USC 56-24 Saturday night before 63,011 at United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[8151,8137],"class_list":["post-68249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-oregon-football","tag-usc-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68261,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249\/revisions\/68261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}