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Heading into Saturday’s game, Oregon’s rushing attack didn’t look like it did in 2023. Through two games the Ducks had run for 216 total yards and 2 touchdowns on the ground. For a run-first but not run-heavy team, those numbers don’t seem typical. The Ducks were having success running the ball against Idaho and Boise State, but not on a down-to-down basis. The run game was efficient but not particularly effective, and certainly not explosive. And when the Ducks can’t move the chains on the ground, it’s historically spelled problems in the passing game. That changed in a big way on Saturday, a…

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