Both teams entered with 6-1 records, and the winner likely would win the conference. This win proved that Kelly’s blur offense could dominate even against a roster stacked with future NFL players.
Kelly had taken advantage of a clock rule change prior to the 2008 season to create an offense that could move at warp speed. USC owned the Pac-10 from Pete Carroll’s second season until this game, when first-year head coach Chip Kelly’s Ducks effectively ended the Trojans’ reign by whipping USC, 47-20, on Halloween at Autzen Stadium.Įach of the next three entries has highlighted a game that pushed a bigger chunk of teams to re-evaluate how they play offense. So when did that happen? When did the Ducks catapult themselves into the zeitgeist to the point where they became your favorite team’s favorite team?Īccording to The Athletic, it might have taken place in 2009 against the USC Trojans in what has been named one of the most influential games of the 2000s. They had Nike and the uniforms, but it was still a time before the Oregon O became a status symbol NBA players weren’t wearing Ducks on their shoes yet. Sure, there were the Joey Harrington years, and Dennis Dixon certainly put the Ducks on the map in the late 2000s, but ever after those two quarterbacks found success in Eugene, Oregon was still short of being called a national brand. Do you ever look into Oregon history and try to pinpoint when the new era really took shape?
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