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.
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Raiola → come → 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.
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Huskers → play → quarter
His first drive ended with Gage Hurych’s 37-yard field goal.
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drive → end → goal
Raiola appeared to find Dakorien Moore with a 4-yard touchdown pass with 33 seconds left but it was overturned upon review.
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it → appear → 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.
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conversion → connect → win
“Everyone was dialed in,” Raiola said about the final drive.
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Raiola → dial → drive
“We just kept preparing until the end and JJ had a cute little toe-drag touchdown to win the game.”
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JJ → keep → 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).
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Colandrea → finish → Cornhuskers
It was the second straight game that Nebraska squandered a lead in the fourth quarter, having lost to Indiana 20-17 last weekend.
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Nebraska → squander → Indiana
“Obviously, we have a pretty devastated football team in there — a bunch of guys that showed up and competed.
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And, for the second week in a row, we just came up short,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said.
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“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.”
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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.
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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.
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Oregon coach Dan Lanning said Thomas understood the decision to pull him in the final quarter.
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“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.
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Let’s do whatever we got to do to win,’” Lanning said.
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The game was scoreless until late in the second quarter when Colandrea found Kwazi Gilmer in the back corner of the end zone.
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Colandrea → find → zone
The two teams punted 13 times and turned the ball over once each in first half.
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teams → punt → 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.
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Oregon struggled for most of the game.
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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.
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drives → fuel → Ducks
The Ducks’ offense had just 91 total yards before Thomas, a former walk-on, was replaced by Raiola.
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You know, there’s certainly nobody in the nation working harder to try to find ways to do that,” Lanning said.
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“I’ll never make excuses.
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We have talented enough players for us to be better than we’ve been.”
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Nebraska: Plays Oct. 31 at Washington.
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Oregon: Visits Illinois next Saturday.
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