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Friday, December 13, 2002
No. 10 Oregon 56, Arizona State 55 (2 OT)
Associated Press
TEMPE, Ariz. -- In a game as wild as college football gets,
Joey Harrington threw for 434 yards and tied a school record with
six touchdown passes as No. 10 Oregon staged an amazing
fourth-quarter comeback to beat Arizona State 56-55 in overtime
Saturday.
|  | | Michael Callier forced the fumble that led to the Oregon's game-tying TD. |
The Ducks (7-1, 5-0 Pac-10) never led in regulation, but
Harrington threw a pair of touchdown passes in the final 3:21 of
the fourth quarter, the last with 27 seconds to go.
Allan Amundson, playing in place of injured Maurice Morris, ran
1 yard for the Ducks' touchdown on their second overtime
possession.
Arizona State (5-3, 2-3) followed with a 21-yard touchdown pass
from Jeff Krohn to Richard Williams. The Sun Devils set up for a
conversion kick that would have tied it again, but it was a fake.
Krohn, who threw for 432 yards and five touchdowns, rolled right
and threw to Todd Heap, but the tight end couldn't quite catch it.
Arizona State rolled up 667 yards against an Oregon defense that
entered the game leading the Pac-10 and ranked 10th nationally.
The Sun Devils seemed to have sealed the victory when safety
Willie Daniel tackled Oregon tight end Justin Peelle at the 1 on a
pass play on fourth-and-goal from the 9 with 1:22 to play.
Arizona State tried to run out the clock, but Mike Williams, who
had scored on a 59-yard run to put the Sun Devils up 49-35 with
5:47 remaining in regulation, fumbled and Oregon's Jermaine
Hanspard recovered at the Arizona State 17.
On the next play, Harrington threw to Peelle for the touchdown
to tie it at 49 with 27 seconds to go.
Tom Pace, a walk-on in his first collegiate start, gained 158
yards in 33 carries and caught a 69-yard scoring pass for Arizona
State. Oregon's Marshaun Tucker caught 11 passes for 138 yards and
three touchdowns.
Harrington completed 26 of 42 passes, and Krohn was 23-for-54.
Oregon gained 565 yards.
The 49 points were the most scored by Arizona State in two
seasons and the most allowed by Oregon since the Sun Devils beat
the Ducks 52-31 in 1997.
The Ducks rallied to tie four times.
Arizona State broke a 28-28 tie when, on third-and-inches from
the Oregon 2, Krohn tossed a touchdown pass to fullback Steven
Trejo, his first career score, to make it 35-28 with 14:38 to play.
Moments later, on third-and-14, Krohn connected with a wide-open
Richard Williams, who outran the defenders on a 90-yard touchdown
play that make it 42-28 with 11:52 to go. It was the fifth-longest
pass play ever for the Sun Devils, and Arizona State's longest in
15 years.
Harrington's 32-yard touchdown pass to Tucker cut the lead to
49-42 with 3:18 to play, but Arizona State recovered the onside
kick attempt.
The Ducks held, though, and drove down the field only to have
Peelle stopped at the 1.
Harrington fumbled twice in the second quarter when he was hit
by linebacker Adam Archuleta as he went back to pass. The second
fumble came in the end zone, and Eric Fields recovered for a Sun
Devils' touchdown to put Arizona State ahead 21-7 with 6:56 left in
the half.
Oregon came back to tie it at 21 at the break on a pair of
touchdown passes by Harrington in the final 3:34 of the half.
While the Ducks lost Morris with bruised ribs, Arizona State
also had injury problems. Kicker Mike Barth had a sore back. He
could have kicked the game-tying conversion, coach Bruce Snyder
said, but the injury influenced the decision to go for 2.
The Sun Devils sorely missed cornerback Kenny Williams, who went
out with a sprained knee on Harrington's 5-yard touchdown pass to
Tucker that tied it at 21 with 21 seconds left in the first half.
Harrington's six touchdown passes tied the school record set by
Danny O'Neill against Washington State in Oregon's Rose Bowl season
of 1994.
On the first overtime possession, the Ducks' Steve Smith
intercepted Krohn's pass, but Oregon's Josh Frankel missed a
42-yard field-goal try.
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 Maurice Morris busts through the Sun Devil defense for a 17-yard TD run.
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Joey Harrington airs it out to Keenan Howry for a 26-yard TD.
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Jeff Krohn scrambles and finds Tom Pace who takes it 69 yards for a TD.
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Donnie O'Neal and Jeff Krohn connect for a 28-yard TD.
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Adam Archuleta sacks Joey Harrington in the end zone, creating a fumble and TD.
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