Mannion leads Oregon St. to upset of No. 19 UCLA
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 13 years, 2 months AGO
<p>Oregon State safety Ryan Murphy, right, breaks up a pass intended for UCLA wide receiver Shaquelle Evans during the first half Saturday at Pasadena, Calif.</p>
Sean Mannion passed for a career-high 379 yards and two touchdowns, Oregon State put the clamps on No. 19 UCLA's offense, and the Beavers defeated the Bruins 27-20 on Saturday at Pasadena, Calif.
The victory was the 74th at Oregon State for coach Mike Riley, matching the school record set by Lon Stiner, the Beavers' coach from 1933-48. Riley is in his 12th year with Oregon State.
Mannion, a third-year sophomore, completed 24 of 35 passes with one interception and has passed for 200 or more yards in 13 straight games.
Oregon State's Markus Wheaton had nine receptions for 150 yards and has caught at least one pass in 25 consecutive games. Brandin Cooks had six catches for 175 yards, and Storm Woods rushed for 96 yards on 21 carries for the Beavers.
The Bruins (3-1, 0-1 Pac-12) scored 15 touchdowns and averaged 622.0 yards to rank second nationally in total offense in their previous three games. But the Beavers (2-0, 1-0) held them to 444 yards and two TDs.
UCLA's Johnathan Franklin, the country's leading rusher with a 180.3-yard average, was held to 45 yards on 12 carries. He averaged 8.2 yards per carry previously this year. Redshirt freshman Brett Hundley completed 27 of 42 passes for 372 yards and a touchdown.
No. 3 Oregon 49, No. 22 Arizona 0: At Eugene, Ore., redshirt freshman Marcus Mariota threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, including a 55-yard scoring pass to freshman Bralon Addison late in the third quarter, and Oregon routed Arizona.
Billed as an offensive juggernaut between the Pac-12's fastest scoring teams, Oregon didn't find its stride until the second half - and Arizona never did - and the Ducks (4-0, 1-0) got their seventh straight conference-opening victory.
Arizona (3-1, 0-1) couldn't find the end zone and quarterback Matt Scott, a fifth-year senior who spent the last two season's behind Nick Foles, passed for 210 yards but was intercepted three times - one resulting in an Oregon touchdown.
No. 13 Southern California 27, California 9: At Los Angeles, Matt Barkley passed for 192 yards and threw two touchdown passes to Marqise Lee, and Southern California bounced back from its first defeat with a victory over California.
Lee had 11 catches for 94 yards, and Silas Redd rushed for 158 yards and a score as the Trojans (3-1, 1-1 Pac-12) grinded out their ninth consecutive win over the Golden Bears (1-3, 0-1) in the schools' 100th meeting.
A week after the preseason No. 1 team got shut out in the second half of a 21-14 loss at Stanford, USC drained the suspense from this matchup with a methodical 75-yard drive that consumed more than half of the fourth quarter, capped by Lee's 3-yard TD catch with 5:56 to play.
Arizona State 37, Utah 7: At Tempe, Ariz., former Eagle High star Taylor Kelly threw for a career-high 326 yards and three touchdowns and Arizona State bounced back from its first loss under new coach Todd Graham with a rout over Utah.
Coming off a mistake-filled road loss to Missouri, the Sun Devils (3-1, 1-0 Pac-12) used their don't-let-em-rest offense and a smothering defense to run past Utah (2-2, 0-1) on a hot night in the desert.