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Wyoming Cowboy Football Postgame Notes Following a 49-13 loss to Oregon on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. Team Notes: • Saturday’s game marked the second meeting between the two schools and the first in Laramie. • The Last time a PAC-12 team visited Laramie was the Oregon State Beavers in 1993. • The Cowboys are now 0-2 all-time against the Ducks. • The Cowboys suffered their first regular-season loss in War Memorial Stadium since a 26-7 loss to Colorado State on Nov. 7, 2015, snapping an eight-game regular season home winning streak. • Wyoming moves to 2-5 all-time against teams from the state of Oregon. • The Cowboys scored all 13 of their points off turnovers in Saturday’s game. Offensive Notes: • Junior quarterback Josh Allen found the endzone on a 10-yard rush with 3:48 remaining in the first quarter, his first rushing touchdown of the season and the eighth of his career. • Allen had eight rushes for 25 yards in the game, marking a season-high for rushing yards. • After recovering a muffed punt, the Cowboys struck quickly on a 5-play, 25-yard touchdown drive that took just 1:31 off the clock. All 25 yards were gained on the ground. • Sophomore running back Milo Hall busted the longest rush of his career, a 14-yarder, in the first quarter. Hall rushed for a career-high 43 yards on 11 carries. • Freshman running back Trey Woods entered the game in the second quarter and gained 14 yards on his first carry. On his first carry against Gardner-Webb, Woods gained 13 yards. Woods recorded career bests of 11 carries and 42 yards during the game. • The Cowboys had a season-high 117 rushing yards. Three Cowboys had at least eight rushing attempts. • Sophomore wide receiver Austin Conway completed a pass to quarterback Josh Allen in the first half, giving Conway the second pass completion of his career and giving Allen his second career reception. The same duo connected on a four-yard touchdown last season against Nevada. • Conway had four catches for 27 yards on Saturday, bringing his season totals to 23 receptions for 213 yards. • Senior quarterback Nick Smith entered the game in the fourth quarter, his first appearance since the 2015 season. Defensive Notes:. • After the Cowboys recovered a muffed punt with 5:19 remaining in the first quarter and quickly scored, junior defensive end Carl Granderson had a strip-sack on Oregon’s ensuing drive to give Wyoming the ball at the Oregon 21-yard line. All in all, Wyoming recovered two fumbles inside Oregon’s 25-yard line within just 2:19 of each other. • Granderson now has at least one sack in six of his last nine games dating back to the 2016 season opener. He recorded three tackles for loss during the game, giving him 4.5 TFL for the season. • Sophomore linebacker Cassh Maluia recorded eight tackles in the first half, giving him a new single-game career high. He finished the game with eight tackles and a career-high five solo stops. • Junior safety Andrew Wingard recorded 14 tackles, his first double-digit tackle game of the season and the 15th of his career. He also had 2.5 tackles for loss, including a sack. He now has 3.0 sacks in his career. • Sophomore linebacker Logan Wilson registered 11 tackles, including eight solo stops and two tackles for loss. It was the second double-digit tackle game of his career. • Junior linebacker Adam Pilapil recorded career highs of eight total tackles and six solo stops. • Senior linebacker Jalen Ortiz matched a career high with six tackles. • Senior cornerback Rico Gafford grabbed his second interception of the season and the fourth of his career during the third quarter. He has caused three turnovers during the 2017 season. Special Teams Notes: • Sophomore kicker Cooper Rothe connected on field goals of 42 and 30 yards during the game and is now 5-of-6 on the season. He has made two field goals of 40+ yards this season. • Freshman punter Tim Zaleski punted nine times for 328 yards, including the longest punt of his young career, a 44-yarder. Zaleski downed the ball inside the Oregon 20-yard line four times. • Senior fullback Drew Van Maanen recovered a muffed punt in the first quarter, giving the Cowboys the ball at the Oregon 25-yard line with 5:19 left in the quarter.
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Wyoming Cowboy Football Postgame Quotes Following 49-13 loss to Oregon on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. Head Coach Craig Bohl Quotes From Head Coach Craig Bohl “I thought Oregon played well. Their quarterback played extremely well. Early in the game, we did a good job against (Royce) Freeman who is an NFL back, but as the game went along our guys began to get a little tired.” “The thing I’m most disappointed in is I thought we lacked some discipline, which is noted by the unsportsmanlike penalties that we had. In the bigger picture, we weren’t executing like we needed to. Also, we came up against a football team that got hot as the game went along. The quarterback (Justin Herbert) certainly is one of the better quarterbacks that I’ve seen.” “When you play a team that goes fast, one of the best things you can do is stay on the field offensively. We talked about how important it was going to be to control the football to give ourselves a chance to win. That never really came about whether we had problems establishing the line of scrimmage or creating running lanes.” “Oregon did a good job closing down on our receivers. We never really came up with any catches when the ball was contested or the ball wasn’t exactly where it needed to be.” “As the game went along the pressure continued to build, and it wasn’t a good scenario. What I told the team afterwards is that we all own the loss, bounce back and not let one team beat us twice. We need to look at what we are doing, make adjustments in practice and have a positive attitude going in to Hawai’i next week.” Coach Bohl On Josh Allen “He took some heavy shots tonight. There are things we all need to learn how to get better at, lick our wounds and get healed up.” Quotes from Safety Andrew Wingard “Oregon has a great offense. Obviously, a team isn’t going to run everything that we prepared for in practice and there were some things we hadn’t seen before on tape. Other than that, we had to execute. Not being able to get off the field on third down and not being able to stop the run game were huge. It was tough. They have good running backs. We will have to go look at the film and be able to bounce back. I would definitely trade in those tackles for a win.” Wingard Talking About Royce Freeman “He is a big guy, probably the biggest one I’ve ever faced since I’ve been at Wyoming. He’s a good player and been one of the main guys in the nation since his freshman year. He’s tough to bring down, but it’s fun to play against a guy like that.” Andrew Wingard on the Oregon Passing Game “The most impressive part was the quarterback. He knew every spot we weren’t rolling to so on the third downs he knew where we were soft and they converted. It was impressive by them, but disappointing on our part. It was a really good test to play against an offense like that.”
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Oregon Ducks Postgame Notes Following a 49-13 win over Wyoming on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. With his three scoring totes on the day, SR RB Royce Freeman tied LaMichael James (2009-11) for first at UO and second in Pac-12 history in career rushing touchdowns with 53. He finished with a career-best 30 carries for 157 yards, passing James for the most rushing attempts at UO with 785. Freeman’s 100-yard rushing effort was his sixth straight and 25th career. He added a career-long 50-yard reception to finish with 207 all-purpose yards, passing Derek Loville (5,223 from 1986-89) and De’Anthony Thomas (5,345 from 201113) for third in UO history with 5,365 career all-purpose yards. Freeman now has nine rushing touchdowns in three games this season, matching his total from all of 2016. SR RB Kani Benoit had two rushing touchdowns, giving him six for the season. Benoit had eight carries for 48 yards and has scored at least one TD in all three games on the year. Oregon’s defense allowed 183 yards of total offense and limited Wyoming to 66 passing yards for the game. It was the first time the Ducks held an opponent under 100 passing yards since limiting Texas to 56 yards in the 2013 Alamo Bowl. All 13 of Wyoming points came following Oregon turnovers. The Ducks marked their third straight game with exactly 42 points at halftime. It’s the first time in school history that Oregon has scored 42 or more points in any half of three consecutive games. SO LB Troy Dye made a season-low four tackles, but still impacted the game with a tackle for loss, a pass breakup and hit the arm of Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen, which resulted in an interception. SR DL Scott Pagano, a graduate transfer from Clemson, made his Oregon debut on the Ducks’ third defensive series of the game. FR NG Jordon Scott made his first career start and SO WR Brenden Schooler made his first start on offense as a Duck. Schooler started 10 games at safety in 2016. SO QB Justin Herbert has now passed for at least one touchdown in all 10 starts of his career and has accounted for a TD in 11 straight games. He had 251 passing yards on 18 of 29 attempts with one touchdown and one interception. Herbert rushed for a touchdown for the first time this season and third time in his career. JR WR Taj Griffin made his season debut and caught a 20-yard touchdown pass, the third receiving TD of his career. Griffin added 35 rushing yards on six attempts. SR CB Arrion Springs recorded the second sack of his career. SR LB A.J. Hotchkins had the first interception of his career. Oregon is off to a 3-0 start for the first time since the 2014 season, which also included a win against Wyoming, 48-14, at Autzen Stadium. Oregon’s 14 first-quarter points were its fewest this season after scoring 21 vs. both Southern Utah and Nebraska. The Ducks have won 16 consecutive games against non-Power 5 conference opponents The game marked UO’s first on the road against a current Mountain West opponent since Sept. 3, 2009 at Boise State (19-8 loss). The Ducks improved to 2-0 all-time against the Cowboys.
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Oregon Ducks Postgame Quotes Following 49-13 win over Wyoming on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. Head Coach Willie Taggart On the defensive performance: “Big time, I think we held them to less than 200 hundred yards, and defensively whenever you can do that, that’s big time. Our guys do a great job getting after the quarterback. That’s something we knew we had to do. It was great to get (Josh) Allen down a couple times.” On gaining confidence in forcing turnovers: “It’s something our coaches stress in practice all the time. Whenever they get one in practice, the team calls them out. The guys take pride in them and I hear them on the sideline. They’re going after the ball and that’s great to see. I think the pass rush helped with that.” On what was learned about the team this week: “We’ve got a good football team and we’re still not as good as we could be. Like I told them after the game, it’s great when you can win, but there’s much more we could improve on. We need to get better and get ready for Pac-12 play.” On first half offense: “We just execute. Guys are doing their job and are locked in. We pound out first downs, but we don’t do it as well in the second half. It’s always one guy who makes a mistake and hurts the entire drive. We have to get to where we’re just as locked in as we are in the first half. That’s what happened in the second half, bad technique. One time we missed a block on first down and then we were backed up. On the interception, the receiver didn’t continue his run and he’s stopping. That got tipped and intercepted, so it’s being consistent and trusting your technique.” On third-down efficiency: “Well last week in the second half we weren’t good on third down, in the first half we were. This game I guess we did that well, and again it’s just executing. We called the plays and our guys knew exactly what we were doing. We got some good blocks down field and whenever you can get a hand on somebody, Royce [Freeman] can do the rest.”
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Wyoming Cowboy Football Postgame Quotes Following 49-13 loss to Oregon on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. Head Coach Craig Bohl Quotes From Head Coach Craig Bohl “I thought Oregon played well. Their quarterback played extremely well. Early in the game, we did a good job against (Royce) Freeman who is an NFL back, but as the game went along our guys began to get a little tired.” “The thing I’m most disappointed in is I thought we lacked some discipline, which is noted by the unsportsmanlike penalties that we had. In the bigger picture, we weren’t executing like we needed to. Also, we came up against a football team that got hot as the game went along. The quarterback (Justin Herbert) certainly is one of the better quarterbacks that I’ve seen.” “When you play a team that goes fast, one of the best things you can do is stay on the field offensively. We talked about how important it was going to be to control the football to give ourselves a chance to win. That never really came about whether we had problems establishing the line of scrimmage or creating running lanes.” “Oregon did a good job closing down on our receivers. We never really came up with any catches when the ball was contested or the ball wasn’t exactly where it needed to be.” “As the game went along the pressure continued to build, and it wasn’t a good scenario. What I told the team afterwards is that we all own the loss, bounce back and not let one team beat us twice. We need to look at what we are doing, make adjustments in practice and have a positive attitude going in to Hawai’i next week.” Coach Bohl On Josh Allen “He took some heavy shots tonight. There are things we all need to learn how to get better at, lick our wounds and get healed up.” Quotes from Safety Andrew Wingard “Oregon has a great offense. Obviously, a team isn’t going to run everything that we prepared for in practice and there were some things we hadn’t seen before on tape. Other than that, we had to execute. Not being able to get off the field on third down and not being able to stop the run game were huge. It was tough. They have good running backs. We will have to go look at the film and be able to bounce back. I would definitely trade in those tackles for a win.” Wingard Talking About Royce Freeman “He is a big guy, probably the biggest one I’ve ever faced since I’ve been at Wyoming. He’s a good player and been one of the main guys in the nation since his freshman year. He’s tough to bring down, but it’s fun to play against a guy like that.” Andrew Wingard on the Oregon Passing Game “The most impressive part was the quarterback. He knew every spot we weren’t rolling to so on the third downs he knew where we were soft and they converted. It was impressive by them, but disappointing on our part. It was a really good test to play against an offense like that.”
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Oregon Ducks Postgame Notes Following a 49-13 win over Wyoming on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. With his three scoring totes on the day, SR RB Royce Freeman tied LaMichael James (2009-11) for first at UO and second in Pac-12 history in career rushing touchdowns with 53. He finished with a career-best 30 carries for 157 yards, passing James for the most rushing attempts at UO with 785. Freeman’s 100-yard rushing effort was his sixth straight and 25th career. He added a career-long 50-yard reception to finish with 207 all-purpose yards, passing Derek Loville (5,223 from 1986-89) and De’Anthony Thomas (5,345 from 201113) for third in UO history with 5,365 career all-purpose yards. Freeman now has nine rushing touchdowns in three games this season, matching his total from all of 2016. SR RB Kani Benoit had two rushing touchdowns, giving him six for the season. Benoit had eight carries for 48 yards and has scored at least one TD in all three games on the year. Oregon’s defense allowed 183 yards of total offense and limited Wyoming to 66 passing yards for the game. It was the first time the Ducks held an opponent under 100 passing yards since limiting Texas to 56 yards in the 2013 Alamo Bowl. All 13 of Wyoming points came following Oregon turnovers. The Ducks marked their third straight game with exactly 42 points at halftime. It’s the first time in school history that Oregon has scored 42 or more points in any half of three consecutive games. SO LB Troy Dye made a season-low four tackles, but still impacted the game with a tackle for loss, a pass breakup and hit the arm of Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen, which resulted in an interception. SR DL Scott Pagano, a graduate transfer from Clemson, made his Oregon debut on the Ducks’ third defensive series of the game. FR NG Jordon Scott made his first career start and SO WR Brenden Schooler made his first start on offense as a Duck. Schooler started 10 games at safety in 2016. SO QB Justin Herbert has now passed for at least one touchdown in all 10 starts of his career and has accounted for a TD in 11 straight games. He had 251 passing yards on 18 of 29 attempts with one touchdown and one interception. Herbert rushed for a touchdown for the first time this season and third time in his career. JR WR Taj Griffin made his season debut and caught a 20-yard touchdown pass, the third receiving TD of his career. Griffin added 35 rushing yards on six attempts. SR CB Arrion Springs recorded the second sack of his career. SR LB A.J. Hotchkins had the first interception of his career. Oregon is off to a 3-0 start for the first time since the 2014 season, which also included a win against Wyoming, 48-14, at Autzen Stadium. Oregon’s 14 first-quarter points were its fewest this season after scoring 21 vs. both Southern Utah and Nebraska. The Ducks have won 16 consecutive games against non-Power 5 conference opponents The game marked UO’s first on the road against a current Mountain West opponent since Sept. 3, 2009 at Boise State (19-8 loss). The Ducks improved to 2-0 all-time against the Cowboys.
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Oregon Ducks Postgame Quotes Following 49-13 win over Wyoming on Sept. 16, 2017, on Jonah Field in War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo. Head Coach Willie Taggart On the defensive performance: “Big time, I think we held them to less than 200 hundred yards, and defensively whenever you can do that, that’s big time. Our guys do a great job getting after the quarterback. That’s something we knew we had to do. It was great to get (Josh) Allen down a couple times.” On gaining confidence in forcing turnovers: “It’s something our coaches stress in practice all the time. Whenever they get one in practice, the team calls them out. The guys take pride in them and I hear them on the sideline. They’re going after the ball and that’s great to see. I think the pass rush helped with that.” On what was learned about the team this week: “We’ve got a good football team and we’re still not as good as we could be. Like I told them after the game, it’s great when you can win, but there’s much more we could improve on. We need to get better and get ready for Pac-12 play.” On first half offense: “We just execute. Guys are doing their job and are locked in. We pound out first downs, but we don’t do it as well in the second half. It’s always one guy who makes a mistake and hurts the entire drive. We have to get to where we’re just as locked in as we are in the first half. That’s what happened in the second half, bad technique. One time we missed a block on first down and then we were backed up. On the interception, the receiver didn’t continue his run and he’s stopping. That got tipped and intercepted, so it’s being consistent and trusting your technique.” On third-down efficiency: “Well last week in the second half we weren’t good on third down, in the first half we were. This game I guess we did that well, and again it’s just executing. We called the plays and our guys knew exactly what we were doing. We got some good blocks down field and whenever you can get a hand on somebody, Royce [Freeman] can do the rest.”
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