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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- The reviews on UCLA's road show are in, and they are not good.
|  | | UO running back Maurice Morris rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns in Saturday's victory over UCLA. |
Maurice Morris ran for 139 yards and two touchdowns as Oregon
beat UCLA 29-10 on Saturday for its 17th straight home
victory and the Bruins' seventh straight road defeat -- their first this season.
"I don't consider it an upset, just a big win," Morris said.
Oregon (3-1) dominated in almost every category, holding UCLA (No. 8 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 AP) to
minus-9 yards rushing in the Pac-10 opener for both teams. The Bruins failed to win a game on the road last season.
"If you're going to win championships, you've got to win on the
road," UCLA coach Bob Toledo said. "We just didn't perform."
UCLA was coming off a victory over then-No. 3 Michigan, and
opened the season with a win over Alabama -- also No. 3 at the time.
Both Toledo and Oregon coach Mike Bellotti had talked about the
importance of the crowd before the game.
"The atmosphere here was amazing," Oregon quarterback Joey
Harrington said. "Right from the opening kickoff it was electric.
I've been here for four years and it still gave me the chills."
Oregon never trailed, and the best UCLA could do was tie the
game at 10 midway through the third quarter.
Harrington drove the Ducks from their 20 to the UCLA 35-yard line on
the opening series before kicker Josh Frankel put the Bruins deep
in the hole on their 14 with a punt off a fake field goal.
Harrington opened the scoring on the next Oregon series, driving
the Ducks 54 yards in eight plays before shoving his way into the
end zone from a yard out to make 7-0 at 7:22 into the game.
Harrington did not score from the air, but led a balanced
passing attack with 15 completions on 34 attempts, good for 153
yards to seven Oregon receivers. Keenan Howry led with five catches
for 43 yards.
Josh Frankel kicked field foals of 26, 24 and 28 yards for the
Ducks, and missed from 44 and 39.
UCLA did not get on the scoreboard until nearly five minutes
into the third quarter, when Chris Griffith nailed a 46-yard field
goal with room to spare.
Freddie Mitchell scored the only touchdown for the Bruins when
backup quarterback Drew Bennett got into the game long enough to
throw a 54-yard TD pass that was mostly Mitchell on the run after
he broke through the entire Oregon secondary untouched. The
touchdown tied the game at 10 with 6:44 left in the third quarter.
On the previous UCLA series, Mitchell caught what looked to be a
scoring pass in the corner of the end zone, but it was ruled out of
bounds.
"I knew it was a touchdown, you knew it was a touchdown,
everybody does," Mitchell said. "The ref knew it too because he
looked at me like he was sorry."
Ryan McCann started at quarterback for UCLA, fumbling twice and
throwing one interception. He finished with 13 completions in 33
passes for 152 yards, and was sacked three times to end up with
minus 35 yards on the ground.
"It took us awhile to get started, and then we didn't
execute," McCann said.
He fumbled the first snap of the game before it was whistled
down because of a false start, one of five false start penalties
for UCLA in the first half.
McCann's main contribution was a 51-yard quick kick that got the
Bruins out of a deep hole at their own 23 on third-and-25 in the
first quarter following three false-start penalties in a row.
On the previous series, McCann threw the one interception of the
game, overshooting Mitchell. Rashad Bauman plucked it away for
Oregon, returning it 14 yards on a wild scramble across field.
McCann was briefly out of the game when the Bruins made their
other big mistake in the first half. Bennett missed a pitch to
DeShaun Foster and Oregon recovered, then went 50 yards in 12 plays
to score on the 26-yard field goal by Frankel.
In the closing minutes, McCann lost a bad snap and Oregon
recovered on the UCLA 4, setting up Morris' final touchdown.
UCLA was again without starting quarterback Cory Paus, who
separated his shoulder against Alabama, and defensive end Kenyon
Coleman, out for a month with torn knee ligaments.
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Bob Toledo says his team needs to win on the road.
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