Adams throws for 6 TDs and OR beats USC 48-28

In an unlikely twist of fate, USC still controls its destiny for the Pac-12 championship by virtue of UCLA beating Utah on Saturday. Check out the OR vs. USC prediction and game preview. “They had a great win at Cal yesterday, and I think that carried over to the game here”. “Guys are going to be excited about that and this is going to be a great week of preparation”.

The Odds: OR is a 4.5 point favorite against USC.

“Go Bears!” defensive end DeForest Buckner said.

Vernon Adams Jr. was a big USC fan growing up. (Schneider, from Grant High, is 19 of 20 on field-goal attempts this year and 30 of 32 in his two-year career). In a radio interview this week, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said what’s best to get a team into the playoff is low on the priority list. “We have weapons everywhere. I’m just happy we got this win”. Thinking about this game makes me sad. “There are so many plays and so many opportunities we had today, whether it was a penalty, or a missed assignment, or that we just didn’t make our play”.

USC will have to pound the rock with the double-headed beasts Ronald Jones II and Justin Davis.

Only two teams remain in the hunt to reach the Pac-12 Championship game heading into the final week of the regular season. The Bruins beat Utah on Saturday. There’s a hitch in declaring what must be declared: in that interim Coach Clay Helton, as acceptable as he’s, & in addition to he has handled a troublesome state of affairs, can’t be USC’s coach moving too far forward. Freeman ran for 32 yards, and Adams threw 28 yards to Addison, who led UO with five receptions for 105 yards. Schneider’s 22-yard field goal capped it.

“So we had a kid who we thought had a chance,” Helfrich said of the record-setting 2014 Heisman Trophy victor. “Getting it started with a run to Royce… and a tempo vertical (play) to Bralon”. OR is 7-1 SU when leading after three quarters. It was 38-14.

Stanford, who had four catches for 57 yards, said he and the other receivers have lamented that Adams has only one season at Oregon. The Trojans’ improved play, which included a lopsided upset of previously undefeated Utah, fueled speculation that Helton might be in the running to keep the job beyond this season.

“I was reading the quarterback’s eyes”, Plattenburg said. The U-haul truck must be, still cannot, be backed as much as Heritage Hall just still.

The same could apply to senior quarterback Cody Kessler. Unfortunately, the snap wasn’t there. “I obviously didn’t see (Springs) coming from behind”.

OR pulled back ahead on Adams’ 37-yard scoring pass to Darren Carrington, then padded the lead with a 30-yard TD pass to Kani Benoit.

USC is ensured of winning the Pac-12 South if it defeats OR and UCLA.

And, having Adams chuck the ball sure helped Frost’s unit.

If a healthy Adams could have proved the difference in the MI State and Washington State games, the Ducks would potentially be sitting at 10-1 right now and in the same position as a year ago at this time.

“I didn”™t really know the playbook until I really got into camp,” he said. Adams went into halftime with a stellar 14/17, 313 yard and 4-touchdown performance.

Kessler is first in the Pac-12 in pass efficiency, completing 68.7 percent of his passes for 2,715 yards and 23 TDs, with six interceptions. Kessler hooked up with receiver Darreus Rogers on the next play for a touchdown to tie things up.

OR won in classic Ducks fashion, using a second-quarter avalanche to bury the No. 24 Trojans. Before the injury, Falk had 199 passing yards and a touchdown.

Trainers taped Smith-Schuster’s left ankle on the sideline and he returned. The Trojans opted not to call timeouts and punted.

The Utes were No. 18, the Ducks No. 13.