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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
USC, Kedon Slovis can’t rally this time in loss to Oregon in Pac-12 title game [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FBC-OREGON-USC:LA]
LOS ANGELES Every lucky break, every charmed comeback, every fortuitous twist of fate over this strange and extraordinary season had led USC back to this familiar place, with the clock ticking away, its backs against the wall and the ball in Kedon Slovis’ hands.
An entire season of evidence had taught the Trojans to believe. They’d been here so many times before, tap-dancing along the brink of defeat, that they’d learned to take comfort in the tension. In a season that nearly fell apart before it started, in a year that offered so few reasons to keep the faith, USC mounted so many miracle comebacks that it was impossible not to wonder whether it might happen again in the Pac-12 title game, just when it mattered most.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
USC, Kedon Slovis can’t rally this time in loss to Oregon in Pac-12 title game [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FBC-OREGON-USC-1ST-LEDE:LA]
LOS ANGELES Every lucky break, every charmed comeback, every fortuitous twist of fate over this strange and extraordinary season had led USC back to this fraught and familiar place, with the clock ticking away, their backs against the wall, and the ball in Kedon Slovis’ hands.
An entire season of evidence had taught the Trojans to believe. They’d been here so many times before, tap-dancing along the brink of defeat that they’d learned to take comfort in the tension.
What Mario Cristobal said after Oregon Ducks defeat USC in Pac-12 championship
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Mario Cristobal recapped the Ducks’ repeating as conference champs.
Below are live updates from Cristobal’s press conference. A full transcript will follow.
MARIO CRISTOBAL
On winning the Pac-12 Championship:
“We were just talking about it in the locker room, back in March we said whoever handles this pandemic best is going to end up holding up that trophy. I think it starts with that, these guys and we are regimented and we really get after them all day to the point where we’re rough to deal with sometimes but they managed to find way to stay healthy, make it to every single game and sure enough found ourselves here in the Pac-12 Championship and got it done. Tremendous credit goes to these football players.”
Quack-to-Quack PAC-12 Champions! Ducks 31 - Trojans 24
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The Oregon Ducks (4-2) defeated the previously undefeated USC Trojans (5-1) in the 2020 PAC-12 Championship game.
The Duck defense held strong during USC’s final two drives to clinch their second consecutive PAC-12 Championship! Oregon scored 14 quick points by forcing two interceptions from USC quarterback Kedon Slovis and capitalizing off of them with touchdown passes from Anthony Brown Jr. and Tyler Shough to Jaylon Redd and Hunter Kampmoyer, respectively.
All three PAC-12 quarterbacks recorded impressive plays along with awkward mistakes. Shough finished 8-of-15 for just 91 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, Brown was 3-of-4 for 17 yards and two touchdowns, and Slovis threw three picks and two TDS on 28-of-52 passing for 320 yards.