– Although the Ducks comfortably defeated Georgia State 61-28 on Saturday, they fell one spot to No. 13 in the latest AP Poll released Sunday. Oregon has the second-highest ranking of one-loss teams, sitting right behind No. 12 Alabama, who lost to No. 4 Ole Miss on Saturday. According to Tyson Alger of The Oregonian/OregonLive.com, the Ducks’ No. 13 ranking is their lowest since Sept. 6, 2011.
– Jeff Lockie played his first collegiate game as a starting quarterback in Saturday’s victory. Lockie started in place of Vernon Adams Jr., who is nursing his broken index finger to his throwing hand. Lockie finished 23-of-31 for 228 yards passing and two touchdowns.
“It felt good to get consistently hit for the first time since I was 17-18 years old,” Lockie said. “That was good – to get hit and get back up. It’s a little different taking hits for a whole game.”
– Ducks freshman running back Ty Griffin made his mark against Georgia State on Saturday with 14 carries for 61 yards and a touchdown. Almost a year after tearing his ACL as a high school senior, Griffin returned to the field.
“The sky is the limit [for Griffin],” Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich said. “He’s a very talented guy and he’s totally scratching the surface of how good he can be.”
– Jerry Allen and Mike Jorgenson called their 322nd Oregon football game together on Saturday. The two have been the Ducks’ radio broadcast team for 27 years, the longest-tenured radio tandem in the Pac-12 currently. Their continuity is due in large part to the chemistry the duo share away from the booth:
“In radio, if you have good chemistry off air, you are 99 percent guaranteed to have good chemistry on air,” said Jay Allen, a host on Rip City Radio 620 AM who worked on Ducks broadcasts for four seasons. “And those two have great chemistry off the air.”
– Oregon women’s soccer defeated Portland State 1-0 on Friday, which was also head coach Kat Mertz’s birthday. True freshman forward Krya Fawcett netted the game’s only goal in the 81st minute, blasting a left-footed shot into the top corner of the far post.
– The No. 15 Oregon men’s golf team begin their fall season on Monday at the Husky Invitational in Cle Elum, Washington. The two-day, 54-hole tournament includes two other top 25 teams: No. 5 USC and No. 19 Washington, the tournament host. Oregon’s play-five, score-four lineup includes Aaron Wise, Thomas Lim, Sulman Raza, Nigel Lett and Andrew Bonner, the transfer redshirt sophomore from Colorado.
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