Oregon Football Stunned in OT by Unranked Stanford || Oregon was lackluster 

Oregon suffered an early and unserious delay, so much so that the impressive second-half rally was not enough to make the Ducks one of the last unbeaten teams in the country.

Stanford scored a touchdown on the opening drive of overtime and No. 3 Oregon couldn't respond as the Idols were stunned at the PAC12 North football game at Cardinal, 31-24, Saturday afternoon at Stanford Stadium.

"We didn't get the results we wanted," said Oregon coach Mario Cristobal. "There were some bright moments but certainly not enough to overcome some of our mistakes. I appreciated the way we played hard and tried hard but we didn't play with enough discipline today, coaches with enough discipline today. Didn't and in the end, it cost us a game.

Oregon (4-1, 1-1 PAC-12), trailing 17-7 at halftime but going 24-17 with the first 17 points of the second half, seemed to The game is over to play with the Cardinals 1:59, pinning them on their own 13-yard line.

During the game tie-drive, Kevin Thebodox of Oregon was fired for hitting a helmet with a helmet on Mackay, and Brendan Douglas was called in to harass a passerby.

"I have to see it in the movie," Cristobal said of the sentences. Personal mistakes I have seen but obviously, if we are flagging them we are not disciplining enough after the quarterback. I don't see how it happened at all but I have to watch it on film and evaluate it. I know we were killed many times and got entangled in a flag and never got a flag but that is it.

The defense was not the only position group to face untimely penalties. Before the Cardinals' last drive, the Idols had the ball and had to play the first 3 minutes down the Stanford 39 yard line. But a false start from behind pushed the Ducks back 10 yards and two quicks and an incomplete pass gave them just 6 yards.

"We came back strong in the second half and were at the bottom before the ball came out and we made two wrong starts in a row. The excuse is to make up for it," Cristobal said.

The Cardinals scored the first overtime pass from Mackie to John Humphries' 14 yards.

Oregon quarterback Anthony Brown went 3 for 1 in the duck's overtime possession, his last pass being incomplete to Mika Putman, who caught the ball with the sideline but couldn't get both feet inside.

Oregon is now 2-4 against the Cardinals (3-2, 2-1) since 2001 when it was in the top five.

Duck Center Alex Forsyth was without a key starter on the offense who had back pain, and a key safety starter Bennett Williams, who was injured in "a bizarre accident during practice" on Friday.

Aggressive coordinator Joe Moorehead was away from the team Saturday morning after falling ill with an unknown, non-COVID-19 disease.

When these absences were announced during the pregame, it felt like an offensive start for Oregon. That feeling didn't go away until the second half when the ducks overcame their double-digit halftime deficit.

The Ducks took the first lead at touchdown with 9:32 and played on Brown's 5-yard run in the fourth quarter - his second scoring run of the day and a drive that included a 66-yard catch and run by Putman. Oregon 24th to third and 6th.

It was a different story in the first half, which ended with Brown filling the second half with 50 seconds left in the second quarter.

Earthy colored's choice to keep the ball in the game and run straight into the heap for a 1-yard misfortune was one of the very senior's couples of missteps. Brown was halted interestingly recently and made some helpless passes, including a profound ball over collector Devon Williams who made a couple of strides off his safeguard.

Brown tells that I wasn't doing my reading in the first half for any reason. This is BS. It can't be. In games like this, playing against a team like Stanford where they don't make too many mistakes; you can't hurt yourself and hurt me a lot in the first half.

The Cardinals scored their first touchdown after a first-quarter break, as receiver Bryson Tremain beat Oregon cornerback Michael Wright for jump ball in the end zone, which had to be confirmed by an official review.

Behind 10-0, the Ducks finally came on the scoreboard with a 3-yard touchdown run by Brown at 14:34 of the second quarter, capping an eight-play, 55-yard drive that was the fourth-down stop. Started after Defending Oregon

Stanford pushed his lead to 10 points which were run by Isaiah Sanders to play in the half with 8:02.

The Ducks started their half-drive with 4 minutes left and walked 80 yards on 13 plays before turning the ball down on the Stanford 1 yard line. Brown showed that Verdale opened the pitch and there was a clear path in the last zone but instead kept the ball and was knocked back for a 1-yard loss.

"I should have stood it up," Brown said.

It was a different result on Dix's second drive in the third quarter when he faced a similar scenario and instead Verdale went into the final zone from 1 yard on the third and goal, giving Stanford a 17-point lead. -14 cut and start which will become the first of 17 straight points for Oregon.

Oregon kicker Camden Lewis leveled the score at 17-17, followed by a third with a 22-yard field goal.

Verdale, who had 17 carries for 63 yards, dropped out of the game after a 5 yard run at the Stanford 3 yard line at 3:07 in the third quarter. After spending time in the medical tent on the sidelines, he was placed in the locker room and never returned.

"The chief justice is in pain and I'm not sure how long it will last," Cristobal said.

Brown passed 26-14 for 186 yards. He had 12 runs and two touchdowns for 35 yards. Travis Dye led the ducks with 19 yards and 96 yards. He also had four receptions for 39 yards.

Oregon has a week before California hosts Friday night's game on October 15 at Autzen Stadium.

"You have to go beyond that," Brown said. "We have a lot of bonds, a lot of families, to get away from each other after a game like this." We will let it burn, it will fuel us and we will be ready for the next one. "