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10/18 02:56 CDT Raiola's 4-yard touchdown pass with 28 seconds left gives
Oregon a 17-14 win over Nebraska
Raiola's 4-yard touchdown pass with 28 seconds left gives Oregon a 17-14 win
over Nebraska
By OWEN MURRAY
Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) --- Dylan Raiola came off the bench and threw a 4-yard
touchdown pass to Jamari Johnson with 28 seconds left to give Oregon a
come-from-behind 17-14 victory over Nebraska on Saturday night.
Raiola, who played two seasons for Nebraska before coming to Oregon in the
offseason, came into the game in the fourth quarter with the Huskers up 14-6.
His first drive ended with Gage Hurych's 37-yard field goal.
Raiola appeared to find Dakorien Moore with a 4-yard touchdown pass with 33
seconds left but it was overturned upon review. He then connected with Johnson
in the back of the end zone and the 2-point conversion was good to give Oregon
(4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) the win.
"Everyone was dialed in," Raiola said about the final drive. "We just kept
preparing until the end and JJ had a cute little toe-drag touchdown to win the
game."
Anthony Colandrea finished 18 of 33 for 164 yards and a score, and ran for 33
yards and another touchdown for the Cornhuskers (5-2, 2-2 Big Ten). It was the
second straight game that Nebraska squandered a lead in the fourth quarter,
having lost to Indiana 20-17 last weekend.
"Obviously, we have a pretty devastated football team in there --- a bunch of
guys that showed up and competed. And, for the second week in a row, we just
came up short," Nebraska coach Matt Ruhle said. "I thought it was one of the
finer defensive performances I've been around, with short fields and not much
help, and in the end it just kind of wore out."
Raiola was 11 of 18 for 59 yards in the fourth quarter. Third-string
quarterback Brock Thomas started the game for the Ducks but was largely
ineffective, going 9 of 20 for 54 yards and an interception.
Dante Moore, the Ducks' starting quarterback, remained unavailable because of a
concussion he sustained in Oregon's 41-27 victory over USC on Sept. 26.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning said Thomas understood the decision to pull him in the
final quarter.
"I just think that shows so much remarkable courage from a guy like that to be
in that situation, and it's got to be disappointing that moment to know, `Hey,
I'm good with it. Let's do whatever we got to do to win,'" Lanning said.
The game was scoreless until late in the second quarter when Colandrea found
Kwazi Gilmer in the back corner of the end zone. The two teams punted 13 times
and turned the ball over once each in first half.
Colandrea dove for the pylon at the end of a 6-yard scramble at the end of the
third quarter to make it 14-6.
Oregon struggled for most of the game. Three second-half drives --- one fueled
by an accidental kneel down on a low snap to Nebraska punter Archie Wilson ---
resulted in a trio of field goals for the Ducks.
The Ducks' offense had just 91 total yards before Thomas, a former walk-on, was
replaced by Raiola.
"It wasn't good enough in the first half. You know, there's certainly nobody in
the nation working harder to try to find ways to do that," Lanning said. "I'll
never make excuses. We have talented enough players for us to be better than
we've been."
Up Next
Nebraska: Plays Oct. 31 at Washington.
Oregon: Visits Illinois next Saturday.
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