The Oregon Ducks are coming off of a loss against Stanford that really disrupted their season and now they have dropped down in the BCS as they take on Utah from Autzen Stadium and the game will be streaming live on Fox Sports 1 and on television starting at 4:00 pm and the game is a huge Pac-12 matchup.
The Ducks were coming into the Stanford game as one of the highest scoring offense in the nation and the Cardinal locked them down on defense by holding them to their lowest total of the season with 20 points and that came late in the game and now they have an 8-1 record and are in second place in the north behind Stanford. The team will play against Arizona next after taking on Utah and that game will be on the road and after that they will finish up with the Oregon State Beavers and that should be an intense matchup even with the Ducks losing to Stanford. Marcus Mariota needs to keep playing well to stay in the Heisman race and he comes in passing for over 2,500 yards this season.
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The Ducks are coming in after their first loss of the season and Mariota has been one of their biggest reasons for the success on offense, as he has over 3,000 combined yards and has passed for 22 touchdowns along with nine on the ground and now he will face off against a team with some solid play in Utah, as they defeated Stanford to give the Cardinal its first loss of the season. The team is ranked third in the nation in scoring with over 50 points per game and the defense is ranked 10th in the scoring defense category, as the team is allowing less than 20 points per game. The team is averaging over 300 yards rushing and that gets them ranked seventh in the nation and they are 21st in the nation in passing yards per game with nearly 300 and the offense has been very impressive. The team has big wins against UCLA and Washington and the team has scored over 40 points per game in every contest apart from the loss against Stanford and now they have the chance to get back on track and the matchup will be at home for the Pac-12 conference game. The matchup has the Oregon Ducks hosting the Utah Utes at Autzen Stadium and the game starts up at 4:00 pm on Fox Sports 1.
