What does Oregon get for its difficulties after a reduction last week at home against Stanford? : A road game against a much better variant of this Cardinal.
The Ducks play in No. 11 Utah Saturday in Salt Lake City, Utah, and on newspaper have zero chance to win, or even remain close. So much so that the 14-point spread seems to be an insult to Utah by about ten points.
Oregon (3-7, 1-6 Pac-12) will roll into Utah (8-2, 5-2) with the second-worst rushing defense in the Pac-12 at 255.4 yards allowed per game to face the hottest rushing attack in the seminar.
«Same thing as last week, really,» Oregon defensive coordinator Brady Hoke said. «You’ve got to stop the run. There is little doubt about it.»
Uh oh!
Oregon hasn’t stopped the run . Not even against UC Davis and Virginia in what seems like ions ago. Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey ran wild last week, scoring three touchdowns as the Cardinal, owners of the worst offense in the conference, averaging 340 yards per game, place up 540 yards of total offense on the Ducks.
Utah, averaging 433.7 yards per game is much better on offense than Stanford thanks to this wonderful performances of running back Joe Williams. He»retired» for four games to start the season just to be spoken back into playing. Since his return, Williams has averaged 216 total yards and 156.5 yards rushing per game. He’s gained 939 rushing yards on 7.0 yards per carry.
«He is possibly the most volatile and the fastest of some of the backs we have had here as far as a home run-type back that can go the distance from anywhere on the field,» Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham told colleagues this week.
To make matters worse for Oregon, Williams runs behind a veteran offensive line.
«They’re bodily upfront,» Hoke said. «Very senior-oriented offensive line with three guys up there that have played a great deal of football.»
The Ducks are the opposite with one senior beginning on a young defense that has rotated through 14 defensive linemen this year.
«We had a good week of training , same thing we all did the week before,» Hoke said. «Our guys have come out and fought, and been physical each time we go to the area.»
That intensity has not translated into strong performances on game days. Saturday will probably be no different.

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