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The touchdown was reversed and the ball placed at the Oregon 1-yard line. From there, Auburn ran the clock down to 2 seconds, and Wes Byrum kicked a game-winning 19-yard field goal as time expired, giving Auburn the national championship. [13] [14]
Coming into the game, Auburn had a 5–3 record against Pac-10 teams while Oregon was 4–4 against the SEC. The game was expected be a high-scoring shootout between two high-powered offenses, and while the teams combined for nearly 1,000 yards of total offense, both teams amassed their second-lowest point totals for the 2010 season.
The view from the 50-yard line for the 2010 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California (Alabama vs. Texas). The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of ...
Oregon vs. Auburn in the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. Despite the loss of Masoli, the Ducks dominated their opponents in the 2010 season. On October 17, the team moved up to the No. 1 ranking in both the AP and USA Today Coaches Poll for the first time in school history. [102]
The closest Kelly came to leading Oregon back to the national championship game came in 2012, when he led the Ducks to a 12-1 season and Fiesta Bowl victory.
They earned a berth in the BCS National Championship Game, which they narrowly lost to Auburn on a field goal as time expired. It was the closest that a team from the Pacific Northwest has come to winning a share of the national championship since Washington was crowned national champion by most outlets in 1991.
Simply put, Mario Cristobal blew it. Again. It's clear he'll need to get out of his own way in crunch time if Oregon is ever going to get over the hump and into the national conversation.
Just imagine: If we still had the BCS, this year’s national championship game would have been Oregon vs. Georgia, and the winner would have been accepted as the season’s legitimate champion.