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THIS YEAR, THE DUCKS ARE THE UNDERDOG. For the last few years, Stanford has been the hurdle on the way to Oregon’s playoff

success. This time the tables are turned.

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The vibe inside Autzen Stadium last Saturday was much different than some of the Ducks’ previous home contests this year. After 777 yards of offense and a formidable performance from its defense, Oregon walked away with its first Pac-12 home win of the season. The win marked the Ducks’ third in a row and also made the program bowl eligible for the 11th consecutive year – a contrast to the place many thought the team would be headed after it opened the season at 3-3.

It is why defensive backs coach John Neal said he’d be lying if he didn’t view the win on Saturday as a milestone.“We got destroyed against Utah,” Neal said after the game . “To be where we are, I’m grateful, I’m relieved.”But Oregon’s next test may truly indicate just where Oregon exactly is. No. 7 Stanford, its quarterback Kevin Hogan

and Heisman candidate Christian McCaffrey pose a threat unlike the Ducks’ defense has faced in a while.But it is a brand of football Oregon is more than familiar with, as the matchup between speed and physicality has

always played a key role in each team’s season. With Oregon’s offense appearing to look the way it is advertised, the matchup expects to be a much tougher test for Stanford’s defense than it would’ve been a month ago.

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In 2013, an undefeated Oregon team went to Stanford and was physically dominated. Stanford running back Tyler Gaffney rushed 45 times, and the Cardinal methodically drove down the field and ate up a majority of the clock while building a 26-0 lead at one point. This Stanford team is similar, and leads the nation in average time of possession, holding the ball for 35 minutes, 16 seconds per game. It is different in that it is far more explosive though.

Hogan has shown the traits of a much improved passer and opposing defenses have yet to find an answer for McCaffrey, who’s average of 246.1 all-purpose yards per game leads the nation. In addition, the matchup between Stanford’s physically imposing tight ends and Oregon’s secondary creates another monstrous challenge. Hogan’s favorite receiver not named McCaffrey, 6-foot-4, 248-pound tight end Austin Hooper, has 22 catches for 356 yards and five touchdowns.

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OREGON DEFENSEOregon’s midseason turnaround is not a mystery. With

Vernon Adams Jr. back and healthy, the Ducks offense has taken off. In its last three games, Oregon is averaging 43.7 points and 573.3 yards of offense per game. The numbers have continued to steadily increase each week as Adams becomes more comfortable. In addition, Adams’ presence through the air has clearly affected the ground game. On Saturday, four running backs combined for 477 yards, with Royce Freeman leading the group with 180.

Stanford’s defense is a different beast than Cal’s, though. The unit is giving up 20.2 points per game and leads the Pac-12 in total defense, allowing 338.7 yards per game.

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Oregon enters Palo Alto, California looking to upset Stanford’s shot at a national title. (Adam Eberhardt)

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The Cardinal are built to run the ball and it has the offensive line to do it. On the season, their line has helped them rank 15th in the nation in rushing yards per game with 227.7. On the other side of the trenches is Oregon’s defensive line, a group that has shown the ability to put pressure on the quarterback. The question is whether they can hold up throughout the contest, a task that will require them to fill the space and free up the linebackers from blocks.

Against Washington State, the second best passing offense in the country, the Stanford secondary turned in a solid game. It held Cougars quarterback Luke Falk to 354 yards and picked him off twice in the win. The Cardinal will be looking for a similar performance against Oregon’s Vernon Adams Jr., who has really come on since returning from his injury. Adams finished the Cal game with 300 yards and four touchdowns. Look for Oregon to try to get him going early with short throws before allowing him to take a shot deep.

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They sure do know how to grow tight ends on The Farm. Hooper is just the latest talent to pass through the Cardinal program at that position. He leads the team with 356 receiving yards and five touchdowns.

Addison is a key part of the Ducks’ offense. This season, he has 42 receptions for 532 yards and six touchdowns. Look for the coaches to get Addison involved with some trick plays against Stanford to try to catch the defense off guard.

One of the stars for Oregon this season has been defensive end DeForest Buckner, who has been unstoppable at times for offensive lines. Playing with a cast on a wrist he injured during the ASU game, Buckner recorded a team-high seven tackles and one sack last weekend. The sack forced the Golden Bears to settle for a field goal. On the season, the senior has 51 tackles and seven sacks.

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OREGONVS.STANFORDThe top two teams in the Pac-12 North are set for a showdown this

Saturday, as Oregon travels south to Palo Alto, California, to face No. 7 Stanford.

The Ducks (6-3, 4-2 Pac-12) come into the game on the heels of a 44-28 victory over California, a game in which they seemed to finally get things back on track. Oregon overcame a slow start and an early turnover to put up 777 total yards of offense — the most in program history.

The Cardinal (8-1, 7-0 Pac-12) have been just as impressive since its week one glitch against Northwestern. Since that early loss, Stanford has gone undefeated, most recently beating Colorado 42-10.

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Stanford, doing pretty much everything the team asks of him. The sophomore Heisman hopeful puts up numbers running the ball, in the passing game and as a return man. He has an explosive first step and a seemingly endless amount of energy. This season, he has already run for 1,207 yards and six touchdowns. He’s showing no signs of slowing down. For the Ducks, it’s less a question of stopping McCaffrey than it is just trying to contain him.

Bralon Addison leads the Ducks in receiving yards this season and will likely make a large impact against Stanford.. (Adam Eberhardt)

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They were well aware of the malicious chatter that can come from the angered pounding of computer keys. As much as members of the Oregon football team — a team that fell to 3-3 after a 45-38 double overtime loss to Washington State — did their best to not pay attention to it, they couldn’t completely ignore the noise on social media.

And there was a lot of it.“It was a different start of the season than the fans

or the media have seen,” Oregon senior offensive tackle Tyler Johnstone said. “Of course you’re going to have a bunch of people asking questions and jumping on the ‘Oregon sucks’ bandwagon, but we keep believing in each other, we keep pushing each other and we silence the noise.”

Since the loss to Washington State, Oregon has won its last three games. Subsequently, the noise on social media has changed its tune. The expectations for the team have changed, also. A return trip to the College Football Playoff is out of the question, but there’s still more on the line for the Ducks this season.

“It’s a matter of, ‘What do we want to be remembered by?’ “ Oregon center Matt Hegarty said. “I think preseason expectations go all over the place. But at a few points in the season things have gone all over the place, so I think we’re trying to solidify what people remember about this 2015 team — and that’s a team that competed and closed out the season the way they were supposed to.”

In recent weeks, fans have been more positive with players on social media. For some players, the back-and-forth nature of fans on sites like Twitter— where fans have an outlet of direct communication with members of the football team — is comical. Players share stories and laugh about it.

Oregon defensive back Arrion Springs remembers the time a fan tweeted at him, saying, “I don’t pay college tuition to watch Arrion Springs play football.” Springs said that same fan apologized to him last week. “So, we’re all good now,” Springs joked.

Oregon receiver Devon Allen has had similar experiences with fans on social media.

“One week, I’m the best football player in football history. The next, they think I should just stick to track,” Allen said. “That’s just how it is sometimes. You can’t really pay attention because people are going to say what they’re going to say. It’s not a big deal.”

With three games left in Oregon’s schedule, the “Oregon sucks” bandwagon that Johnstone mentioned from after the Washington State loss isn’t as full as it used to be. The team is on a positive trajectory and they want the fans to join them.

“I hate to sound disrespectful at all, but I always go back to the quote, ‘The lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of sheep,’ “ Hegarty said. “I’m a really positive guy, so if you’re not moving in that positive direction, then you’re kind of a sheep — and you tune those people out. Anyone that wants to be on board in a positive way, they can jump on board.”

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Oregon’s unusual season has resulted in a mixed, but loud, social media response. (Cole Elsasser)

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STANFORD VS. OREGON: A ROLE REVERSAL

Last year’s home contest with Stanford resulted in a resounding victory for the Ducks. Oregon dominance is far from certain this year. (Emerald Archives)

There’s a familiar tale being weaved in the late season matchup that is Stanford versus Oregon. Down at The Farm on Saturday, a top-10 team — equipped with an explosive Heisman Trophy candidate — looking towards

the College Football Playoff, will face off against an upstart underdog, attempting to ruin any chance of a National Championship appearance for its conference rival.

In 2012, a redshirt freshman quarterback named Kevin Hogan led No. 13 Stanford past undefeated, No. 2 Oregon, 17-14, in a mid-November matchup.

In 2013, it was Marcus Mariota and the No. 2 Oregon Ducks with hopes of a national championship against No. 5 Stanford. The Cardinal derailed those dreams, once again, with a 26-20 victory.

This year, the script is flipped.No. 7 Stanford is 8-1, has a Heisman candidate

in Christian McCaffrey and is eying one of the four coveted spots in the playoff. The Cardinal’s only loss of the season came in week one against Northwestern. Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich called it a “major anomaly,” saying there

was no magic formula to stopping Stanford after watching the film.

The Ducks, at 6-3 after a three-game winning streak, have the chance to do what their counterpart did to them twice over the last three years. Currently, Oregon opens up as an eight-and-a-half-point underdog against Stanford. It’s a role the team will have to adjust to.

“I know the kids are really excited to play this one,” Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost said. “It’s kind of neat that we’re going in as the underdog and the spoiler. And that’s a role our guys aren’t used to playing.”

“A modern day Gladiator fight”There’s one member of Oregon who’s played

the role of underdog against the Cardinal before. Two years ago, Matt Hegarty was in South Bend, Indiana, playing center for Notre Dame. And three weeks after Oregon’s loss to Stanford, Hegarty was down in Palo Alto, as No. 25 Notre Dame took on No. 8 Stanford. The Fighting Irish lost, 27-20.

Like Oregon, the matchup between Notre Dame and Stanford is a yearly routine. Hegarty remembers close games against the Cardinal.

“You’re sore the next day, that’s for sure,” Hegarty said. “They come ready to smack heads.”

Hegarty’s soreness the day after was a testament to Stanford’s simple mentality of trying to “out-physical and out-muscle ” its opponents.

“It’s a modern day Gladiator fight,” Hegarty said.

Though Hegarty’s perspective is limited to what the Stanford defensive line has shown him over the past couple of years, he says their tough mentality can be seen throughout all phases of the Stanford team.

“On offense, they’re going to run it down your throat and they tell you, ‘We’re going to run it right here,’ “ Oregon defensive lineman DeForest Buckner said.

Buckner says he looks at Stanford’s confidence in the run game as a challenge. For a field filled with 22 players, the simplicity of the Cardinal’s offensive game plan, in year’s past, required toughness in one-on-one match-ups.

“It’s mano a mano, you and another guy — sometimes two other guys,” he said. “But yeah, this whole game is pretty much about toughness and pride.

“I’m not going to let another guy say he’s going to kick my behind and run it down our throat.”

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“Wild Caff”One thing Stanford didn’t have in its offensive

arsenal two years ago was a Heisman Trophy offensive weapon, or, as ESPN’s Ivan Maisel calls Cardinal star Christian McCaffrey, something that “had been designed two miles down the road from the Stanford campus, in Elon Musk’s dream factory. Like a Tesla, McCaffrey runs fast, turns at top speed, and doesn’t make a sound.”

On Tuesday, the Stanford athletic department launched a site, promoting its “Wild Caff” for the same award Mariota won a year ago. When you open the site, McCaffrey’s numbers roll up faster than dollars at a gas pump: 2,174 all-purpose yards, 1,207 rushing yards and 325 receiving yards.

Helfrich called McCaffrey phenomenal, lauding McCaffrey’s versatility. Helfrich said McCaffrey’s playmaking ability, along with others on the Stanford offense, adds to an experienced group that Oregon is used to facing up front.

“I think he should take a week off,” Helfrich joked when asked how he plans to stop him. “Keep him healthy for the stretch run.”

“He’s still there, God Almighty”

After Oregon’s 44-28 win over Cal last Saturday, defensive backs coach John Neal acknowledged who his team is going up against this weekend.

“I know it’s Stanford, I know how good they are,” Neal said. “[Kevin] Hogan is still there, he’s 100 years old.

“He’s still there, God Almighty.”While the roles between Stanford and Oregon

may have switched coming into Saturday, the presence of Hogan under center for the Cardinal hasn’t. Hogan, Stanford’s fifth-year senior starting quarterback, is making his fourth start against Oregon after going 2-1 against the Ducks in his previous three games.

“Hogan is a seasoned, senior quarterback in this conference,” Oregon defensive coordinator Don Pellum said. “He’s seen it all.”

In 2012, Hogan, inserted as the Cardinal’s starting quarterback after Josh Nunes was injured a week before, went into Autzen Stadium and beat the undefeated (10-0), No. 2 ranked Ducks, 17-14, in his first career road start.

“Kevin Hogan,” Buckner said, “he always has a great game against us. He can throw when he has time, and he can hurt you with his feet. A lot of

times, guys don’t think that he can hurt you with his feet, but he definitely can.”

At 6-foot-4, 218 pounds, Hogan has cemented himself as a threat to run this season. In a 30-28 victory over Washington State on Oct. 31, Hogan out-rushed McCaffrey, 112 to 107 yards.

“They’re our biggest game, our biggest rival – whatever you want to call it”

Though an underdog in this year’s game against Stanford, with no National Championship in sight this time, Oregon is still playing for something. The Ducks are currently No. 2 in the Pac-12 North behind Stanford.

Oregon needs to win out, and hope Stanford picks up another conference loss, to represent the North in the Pac-12 Championship game.

“They are our game this week, so they’re our biggest game, our biggest rival – whatever you want to call it,” Oregon wide receiver Dwayne Stanford said. “For us to get where we want to go, we have to win out. This is the next step on that ladder.”

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Stanford fans are getting a pretty healthy sense of déjà vu looking at this Saturday’s matchup between the Cardinal and the Ducks.

And not the good kind, either.Stanford is 7-0 in the Pac-12 for the first time since

2011. Stanford is favored against Oregon for the first time since 2011. Stanford is back in the top three in the Pac-12 in scoring offense for the first time since — you guessed it — 2011.

Four years later, Stanford fans still have PTSD-like flashbacks of Darron Thomas threading the needle over and over and over again and LaMichael James showing Cardinal defenders the true meaning of speed in 2011, when the Ducks trashed No. 4 Stanford 53-30 on The Farm and knocked Stanford out of the national title game in a heap of duck feathers, broken spirits and crushed dreams.

But this time around, there will be no such travesty in the walls of Stanford Stadium. The déjà vu stops here.

Make no mistake — Stanford won’t be able to hold Oregon’s rejuvenated offense at bay all afternoon. Oregon will score points — and probably a fair number of points at that.

But the difference on Saturday will be that Stanford’s battle-tested, hard-hitting, high-flying offense will meet little to no resistance from an abysmal Oregon defense that ranks dead-last in the conference in scoring defense and passing defense and has somehow still looked even worse to the eye than it has on paper.

In a game whose final score will probably resemble a basketball tally more than a football one, I trust Stanford’s defense to force the occasional Oregon mistake and get the occasional stop much more than I trust Oregon’s defense to stop Stanford’s offense.

Stanford has a veteran offensive line that likes nothing more than to fling defenders into orbit to pave the way for Stanford’s Heisman candidate running back, tight ends who are open even when they’re not open and freshman Bryce Love and his 4.3 speed when he gets in space.

With that in mind, Stanford can still play old-fashioned, big-boy, run-it-up-your-throat Stanford football when it wants to, but the offense has added a few dimensions from years past — namely, the blazing speed and open-field ability of Christian McCaffrey, Love and wide receiver Michael Rector — and I wouldn’t hesitate to say that this is a more complete, talented offense than anything the team had back in the Andrew Luck days.

I’m confident that even if Oregon’s front seven can stop one element of Stanford’s game, the Cardinal will be able to keep the chains moving by adjusting, whatever it takes. Note that Stanford leads the conference in third-down conversions.

For example, if Oregon takes away the running game — Stanford’s bread and butter— Kevin Hogan still leads the Pac-12 in passing efficiency and has his best matchup of the season against Oregon’s lost secondary. He has also been a great runner for the last few weeks, even on a sprained ankle, to bail

the running game out against Washington State and Colorado when things weren’t looking good.

I just don’t think there’s any winning against Stanford’s offense right now. If Washington and UCLA couldn’t stop the Cardinal, what makes people think that Oregon can?

And on the other side of the ball, while it’s true that Adams makes this offense look like the Oregon blur of old, I don’t think the Ducks’ offense has the surgical precision, the identity or the swagger that the Mariota-led units of old had. Yes, the Ducks put up a school-record 777 yards last week, but that was against Cal, who might as well not even play rush defense.

Meanwhile, Washington and Michigan State — two teams with comparable defenses to Stanford’s that the Ducks faced with Adams — held Oregon to 26 and 28.

Factor in Stanford’s ludicrous time-of-possession advantage, its conference-leading third-down defense and its top-two red zone defense, and it’ll be up to Adams to take full advantage of the few chances he’ll get. And I’m not confident that he’ll be able to do that.

I’m personally of the opinion that rumors of Oregon’s demise have been greatly exaggerated and that the Ducks are still a good team. But the 2015 Stanford Cardinal are an elite team. And at the end of the day, one of those two teams will definitely put up 40 this week. Much to De’Anthony Thomas’ chagrin, I’m doubtful that it’ll be the Quack Attack.

WHY STANFORD WILL BEAT

OREGON

**Editor’s Note: Each week during football season, we feature an essay from the

opponent’s student newspaper on why Oregon will lose. Do-Hyoung Park is a

managing editor at The Stanford Daily.**

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When asked about Stanford’s Kevin Hogan on Tuesday, Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich revealed how ready he is to prepare for a new Cardinal quarterback.

“He can go any time as far as we’re concerned,” Helfrich said.

His colleague, Oregon defensive backs coach John Neal, gave a similar statement after the Ducks’ 44-28 win Saturday.

“He’s 100 years old.” Neal said. “He’s still there. God Almighty.”

This Saturday, Hogan will face Oregon for the fourth time as a starting quarterback. He’s the owner of a 2-1 record against the Ducks, and although the stat sheet won’t indicate it, has mostly dominated Oregon’s defense.

However, Hogan won’t be the scariest threat for Oregon’s defense on Saturday. That honor undoubtedly goes to the guy he’s handed the ball off to this year, Christian McCaffrey. As a sophomore, McCaffrey has emerged as arguably the most versatile threat in all of college football.

He’s averaging 246.1 all-purpose yards per game and is on pace to break the NCAA record for most all-purpose yards in a season. How he’s done that? By averaging 6.1 yards per carry, 11.6 yards per catch and 28.8 yards per kick return.

It comes as no surprise that Stanford started an official Heisman campaign for him Tuesday. Helfrich would like to have no part of him.

“I think he should take the week off,”Helfrich jokingly said. “Keep him healthy for the stretch run.”

McCaffrey is coming off a game last week in which he ran the ball 23 times for 147 yards while also throwing a touchdown pass.

In the latest College Football Playoff rankings, Stanford was listed at No. 7, and one of the main reasons is because of what the sophomore continues to do when he steps on the football field each week.

Oregon hasn’t faced anyone like him. Utah’s Devontae Booker comes close, but still, Booker is not having a season quite like McCaffrey is having.

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