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GOING BOWLING
The 2008 Holiday Bowl will mark the 22nd postseason bowl appearance for the Oregon Ducks and 12th in 14 seasons under head coach Mike Bellotti. UO’s record in bowls is 8-13 overall, 5-6 since Bellotti’s first season in 1995. Oregon has a one-game winning streak in the postseason, following last year’s 56-21 victory over South Florida in the Sun Bowl. That win ended a four-game bowl losing skid. Oregon’s first bowl appearance came in the 1917 Rose Bowl, a 14-0 victory over Pennsylvania.

HOLIDAY ROAD
The Ducks are making their third road trip to San Diego to play in the Holiday Bowl. Oregon is 1-1 all-time, having lost 17-14 to Oklahoma in 2005 and defeated Texas, 35-30 in 2000.

TODD DOXEY • 1989-2008
In memory of an outstanding individual, teammate, classmate, football player, brother, son and grandson, the Ducks will honor Todd Lamar Doxey throughout the 2008 season by every player wearing a helmet sticker with his initials, as well as having a different Oregon player wear his No. 29 jersey at each home game. Todd was a victim of a swimming accident on the McKenzie River in Eugene-Springfield on July 13.

SOMEBODY’S COMING HOME WITH 10 WINS
The Holiday Bowl matchup featuring a pair of 9-3 teams means that one of the schools will leave San Diego with a 10-win season - a coveted honor in college football. The Ducks and Cowboys have each won 10 or more games three times during their respective histories. All of Oregon’s double-digit winning years have come during Mike Bellotti’s 14-year tenure as head coach. The Ducks were 10-2 in 2000, 11-1 in 2001 and 10-2 in 2005. Oklahoma State last won 10 games in 1988, when the Pokes were 10-2 under Pat Jones and had a running back named Barry Sanders. That season, current head coach Mike Gundy was the quarterback and led the Cowboys to a 62-14 win over Wyoming in their first and only Holiday Bowl appearance prior to this season. Jones also presided over 10-2 campaigns in 1984 and 1987 with teams that featured Thurman Thomas.

BELLOTTI CLIMBING THE PAC-10 LADDER
With UO’s Nov. 15 win over Arizona, Mike Bellotti recorded his 71st Pac-10 triumph to break a third-place tie with former USC mentor John McKay (1960-75) for all-time conference victories. Former UCLA coach Terry Donahue (1976-95) ranks first in Pac-10 history with 98 wins.

REED NAMED WALTER CAMP ALL-AMERICAN
SR DE Nick Reed has been named to the Walter Camp first-team All-America team. The award, as sponsored by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, is the nation’s oldest college football All-America squad and was announced as part of ESPN’s Home Depot College Football Awards show Dec. 11 from Orlando, Fla. He becomes only the second defensive lineman in school history to claim first-team All-America honors, following defensive tackle Haloti Ngata in 2005, and the Ducks’ 22nd player ever to receive first-team recognition. Reed becomes only the school’s second football player ever to earn first-team All-America acclaim on the field and in the classroom in the same year (Steve Barnett, 1962), as well as only the university’s seventh student-athlete of all time to duplicate the dual feats. Reed also made the Sporting News (second team) and Associated Press (third team) All-America squads.

FOUR DUCKS NAMED ALL-PAC-10
JR CB Jairus Byrd, SR ROV Patrick Chung, SR DE Nick Reed and SR C Max Unger were named to the All-Pacific-10 Conference first team at their respective positions. Chung was also selected as a specialist on special teams. For the three senior captains, the honor was a repeat from 2007. Byrd claimed a first team award for the first time after being named honorable mention his first two seasons. Oregon’s five total first team selections tied Oregon State for the second-most in the conference behind USC’s eight.

SECOND TEAM/HONORABLE MENTION
SR TE Ed Dickson, SR RB Jeremiah Johnson and SR LT Fenuki Tupou all garnered second team All-Pac-10 honors. Tupou was a second team choice in 2007. Ducks receiving honorable mention included JR RB LeGarrette Blount, SR LB Jerome Boyd, SR RG Mark Lewis, SR WR Terence Scott, SR P Josh Syria, JR DE Will Tukuafu and JR FS T.J. Ward. Boyd, Syria and Tukuafu were also HM in 2007.

3-HEADED MONSTER
The Ducks may not have placed a single offensive back on the All-Pac-10 first team, but of the top 10 rushers in the conference, three are Oregon players. Heading into the bowl season, SR RB Jeremiah Johnson ranks fourth with 90.2 yards per game, JR RB LeGarrette Blount is sixth at 77.3 and SO QB Jeremiah Masoli 10th with 55.6. The trio has combined for 35 rushing touchdowns, which is three more than the previous overall team record set last season.

DYNAMIC DUO
SR RB Jeremiah Johnson and JR RB LeGarrette Blount are aiming to become only the second duo in school history to have 1,000 or more yards apiece in the same season. Johnson has already reached the mark with 1,082, and Blount, with 928 yards, is 72 yards away from joining him. The lone pair to accomplish the feat at Oregon did so in 2001, when Maurice Morris (1,049) and Onterrio Smith (1,058) each rushed for more than a grand. Morris entered the Fiesta Bowl that season needing 40 yards to join Smith, who began that day with 1,007.

RECORD RUSHERS
Oregon’s 3,334 yards on the ground in ‘08 is the highest total on record at Oregon, eclipsing last year’s total of 3,272, which was set in 13 games. With three more rushing touchdowns at Oregon State on Nov. 29, the Ducks added to their school record, which now stands at 42 running scores (the previous mark was 32 set in 2007).

THE STREAK GOES ON
SR C Max Unger and SR ROV Patrick Chung have started every game the Ducks have played during their respective careers, a span of 50 games. Unger, who is in his second year as UO’s top snapper, has made 27 of his starts at left tackle.

NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS
Oregon has accumulated a 41-6 non-league slate during the regular season in Mike Bellotti’s 13-plus years at the helm. The Ducks are 28-2 at home and 13-4 on the road. This season, UO was 2-1 against non-Pac-10 competition.

PREPARING TO SCORE
Over the past two seasons, the Ducks have eclipsed the 50-point plateau in 4 of the 5 games that they have had more than a week to prepare for. Most recently, UO came off a bye to dismantle then-No. 17 Oregon State, 65-38 in the Civil War. Earlier this season, the Ducks dismissed Arizona State, 54-20. In 2007, Oregon beat Washington State, 53-7, following a bye and crushed then-No. 23 South Florida, 56-21, in the Sun Bowl thanks in part to 4 weeks of prep. The lone exception to the 50-point rule was a 34-24 setback at Arizona, when the Ducks offense jumped out to an early lead before QB Dennis Dixon suffered a season-ending knee injury in the 1st quarter.

SAN DIEGO HOSTS SACK TITLE BOUT
A pair of late December games at Qualcomm Stadium could determine the 2008 NCAA sacks champion. TCU’s Jerry Hughes, the current leader with 14 (1.17/gm), will play in the Poinsettia Bowl vs. Boise State on Dec. 23, while UO’s Nick Reed (13, 1.08/gm) will play the following Tuesday against Oklahoma State.

DUCKS VS. RANKED TEAMS
Mike Bellotti-coached teams have accumulated a record of 25-24 against Top 25-ranked opponents since 1995. This season, the Ducks have played just two Top 25 teams (then-No.9 USC and then-No. 17 Oregon State), but two other opponents - Boise State and Cal - became ranked the week after beating UO.

DUCKS PELT THE BEAVERS
Oregon’s 65 points against Oregon State in the 112th Civil War were the most ever scored by the Ducks in a conference game. On the flip side, that number was the most ever allowed by OSU against any opponent - conference or otherwise.

EIGHT IS (MORE THAN) ENOUGH
A UO record eight different players scored touchdowns - three rushing, three receiving and two on interception returns - in the regular season finale at Oregon State, breaking the previous mark of seven, which had been equalled earlier this season vs. Utah State.

RECENT RUN OF SUCCESS
In 113 years of Oregon football, the school has accumulated nine or more wins in a season 11 times. Seven of those seasons have occurred in the 14 years that Mike Bellotti has been the Ducks’ head coach.

J.J. AMONG OREGON’S ALL-TIME BEST
•With a career-high 219 yards in the win at Oregon State Nov. 29, SR RB Jeremiah Johnson moved into the Top 10 on Oregon’s career rushing chart and stands eighth with 2,217 yards. He enters his final game as a Duck 20 yards shy of tying Maurice Morris (2000-01) for seventh and is 89 yards behind Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore, 1969-71) for sixth.
•Johnson will shatter a 49-year-old record for career rushing average (per carry) as he begins the Holiday Bowl with a mark of 6.6. Legendary former coach and UO running back John McKay’s mark of 6.1 had stood since 1949.
•J.J. briefly had the 10th longest run from scrimmage in school history with his 79-yard effort against the Beavers, only to bump that off the Top 10 with his 83-yard TD before halftime.
•His 151 carries to reach 1,000 yards this year were the fewest in Oregon history.
•For his career, J.J. has 3,267 all-purpose yards (2,217 rush, 297 rec, 127 pr, 626 kr) in 39 games played.
•In his last opportunity to do so, Johnson picked up the first Pac-10 Player of the Week honor (offense, Week 14) of his career following his performance against Oregon State.

TRIPLE THREAT
It didn’t take true freshman Chris Harper long to show why he was one of the most sought after prep recruits in the country before arriving in Eugene. The Wichita, Kan., product, who began the year as a quarterback, became the first Duck since Joey Harrington in 2000 to pass for (1), rush for (2) and catch (2) touchdowns in the same season.

TOTAL “O”
Four of Oregon’s top seven total offense performances have come since Chip Kelly’s arrival in Eugene last season, including the top two of all-time.
Rk    Yds    Opponent    Yr
1.    694    @Oregon State    2008
2.    688    Utah State    2008
3.    667    @BYU    1989
4.    664    Stanford    1998
5.    661    @Washington    2007
6.    646    @WSU    2004
7.    624    @Michigan    2007

BLOUNT FORCE TOUCHDOWNS
With his 9-yard TD run at Oregon State Nov. 29, JR RB LeGarrette Blount set a new UO single-season standard for rushing touchdowns at 16. He broke Saladin McCullough’s record of 15 set in 1996. Blount’s 16 touchdowns are not only the single-season record for rushing scores but for touchdowns (non-passing) in general. His total of 98 points in 2008 is an Oregon record among non-kickers, breaking the previous mark of 92, set by Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore) in 1969. Overall, he has the fifth highest scoring total in a single season at UO.

MASOLI NEARING RECORD TERRITORY
With 612 rushing yards, SO QB Jeremiah Masoli needs just 32 more to tie Reggie Ogburn’s UO quarterback record of 644 in a single season, set in 1979. Masoli, who has seen action in 11 games (nine starts), including brief appearances against Washington, Utah State and Boise State, surpassed Dennis Dixon’s former second-place mark of 583 yards from a year ago.

FLINT SPARKS KICKING GAME
JR PK Morgan Flint’s 11 consecutive kicks made against Oregon State (3 FGs and 8 PATs) broke the previous single-game mark of nine held by Jared Siegel (at Arizona, 10-6-2001) and Nathan Villegas (vs. Stanford, 9-26-1998). It’s unknown whether or not Flint’s 29 consecutive makes this season are the most by a Duck to start a career, but he’s more than halfway to Siegel’s UO record of 54.

REED REPEATS AS ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA
For the second straight season, SR DE Nick Reed has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first team, as voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA). Reed becomes only the second Duck in history (Ryan Schmid, 2000 & 2001) to earn the distinction twice.

MASOLI EARNS SECOND PAC-10 HONOR
SO QB Jeremiah Masoli was named Pac-10 Player of the Week for Week 12, tying a conference season-high with five touchdowns (three rushing, two passing) and tying the Oregon single-game record for TD runs by a quarterback in the Ducks’ 55-45 win over Arizona. The true sophomore and San Francisco product completed 21-of-26 passes for a career-high 298 yards and no interceptions. He was also the game’s leading rusher, carrying 10 times for 89 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown. The weekly honor is his second, having previously won the award for Week 9, following his performance in UO’s 54-20 win at Arizona State Oct. 25.

DAVIS OUT FOR THE SEASON
SO WR Drew Davis will miss the remainder of the 2008 season after suffering a torn ACL in the win over Stanford Nov. 8. Davis had two catches for 51 yards against the Cardinal, including a career-best 45-yard reception on UO’s opening drive, which resulted in a field goal. In 21 career games, the Denver native has eight catches for 120 yards and a TD. His career average of 15.0 yards per catch is tops among current Ducks. The injury to Davis came less than three weeks after SO RB Remene Alston suffered a broken foot in practice Oct. 20, threatening his availability for the rest of 2008. Despite missing the past three games, Alston still ranks fourth on the team in rushing with 161 yards.

DUCKS COMPLETE PAC-10 HOME SWEEP
The Ducks went unbeaten at home in Pac-10 play (4-0) for the first time since 2000 (4-0). UO’s lone loss at Autzen Stadium came against still unbeaten and No. 9-ranked Boise State (11-0).

JC ALL-STARS
Against Stanford Nov. 8, SO QB Jeremiah Masoli engineered Oregon’s first come-from-behind, game-winning 4th-quarter touchdown drive since Dennis Dixon guided the Ducks to an improbable 34-33 victory over Oklahoma in 2006. Of the 74 yards covered on the drive, 59 came from former junior college standouts. SR WR Terrence Scott (College of the Canyons) made two catches for 28 yards, Masoli (City College of San Francisco) had 28 rushing yards on two carries, and JR RB LeGarrette Blount (East Mississippi Community College) finished the comeback with a 3-yard TD run and also ran for the 2-point conversion.

DUCKS ROLL ANOTHER 300 GAME
Through 12 games this season, the Ducks have rushed for more than 300 yards seven times - most recently while piling up 385 at Oregon State Nov. 29. Twice UO has done so without a single 100-yard rusher (at WSU and at ASU). Oregon leads the Pac-10 and ranks 4th nationally with an average of 277.8 yards per game.

DUCKS IN THE POLLS
At 9-3, 7-2 in the Pac-10, the Ducks are No. 17 in the latest BCS standings, No. 15 in the AP Top 25 and No. 13 in the USA Today (Coaches) poll. Oregon has been ranked in AP and/or USA Today polls 11 weeks so far in 2008. The last time UO was ranked fewer than 11 weeks during a season was 2004 (three times, including the preseason poll).

J-WILL CLOSING IN
SR WR Jaison Williams is closing in on Samie Parker’s (2000-03) Oregon record of 178 pass receptions, but needs seven catches in the Holiday Bowl to tie him. Williams has 33 grabs so far this season, his lowest total since catching 15 balls as a redshirt freshman in 2005.

BYRD NEARING OREGON PICKS MARK
12 games into his junior season, cornerback Jairus Byrd is two interceptions shy of equaling George Shaw’s (1951-54) school record of 18. He leads the Pac-10 this season with four and his total of 16 is the most by a Duck in 54 years. Byrd has had three INTs negated by pass interference penalties this season.

REED IS NEW SACKMASTER
With 3.0 sacks at Oregon State Nov. 29, SR DE Nick Reed became the all-time career sacks leader at Oregon with 29.5, passing Ernest Jones (29.0, 1990-93). Reed currently ranks second in career tackles for loss with 51.0, two behind Saul Patu (1997-00) who has 53.0.

CHUNG AMONG TOP 10 TACKLERS
SR ROV Patrick Chung joined the Top 10 list for career tackles at Oregon after recording nine total tackles at USC Oct. 4. Since then, Chung has vaulted up the list and now ranks fourth with 374.

SCORING THREATS
SR PK Matt Evensen became the sixth player in UO history to amass 200 or more points in a career with his 11-point game at ASU Oct. 25. He now has 204, two points behind Joshua Smith (1995-97) for fifth all-time. SR RB Jeremiah Johnson, who has 182 career points, is eighth.

DUCKS BAG PAIR OF PAC-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARDS
SO QB Jeremiah Masoli won the offensive award and SR PK Matt Evensen the special teams honor when the Pac-10 handed out its Player of the Week accolades for Week 9 of the college football season Oct. 27. Masoli had a game-high 85 rushing yards and a TD, and completed 17 of 26 passes for 147 yards and a score in UO’s 54-20 win at Arizona State. The former City College of San Francisco signal caller was making only his fifth start at the FBS level. Evensen accounted for 11 points (5 PATs, 2 FG), had five touchbacks and kicked a career-long 52-yard FG in the game for his second conference POTW honor of the season (at Purdue, Week 3). Masoli became the first Duck to win the offensive award since Dennis Dixon  vs. ASU in Week 10 last season.

REED NAMED MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICA
SR DE Nick Reed was named to the Midseason All-America Team by CBSSports.com. Reed was the only Pac-10 player to make the midyear list.The three-year starter is tied for sixth nationally in sacks per game (1.14) and tied for 10th in TFLs (1.64). He is the conference leader in both categories.

ROAD WARRIORS
The Ducks went 4-2 (3-2 Pac-10) away from Autzen Stadium this season, giving them a .500 or better road mark for the second straight year (4-2 in ‘07) and sixth time in eight years.

CENTURY MARK PROVES KEY
The Ducks are 18-5 since the start of 2006 (6-1 this season) when they have a 100-yard rusher. While the bulk of those games were courtesy of departed tailback Jonathan Stewart, SR RB Jeremiah Johnson (5), JR RB LeGarrette Blount (4), SO QB Jeremiah Masoli (1) and JR RB Andre Crenshaw (1) also have 100-yard efforts on their resumes. In the 15 other games, UO is 7-8.

ROPER RETURNS
SO QB Justin Roper, who missed nearly 4 weeks after suffering a left knee injury in Oregon’s OT victory at Purdue Sept. 13, returned to practice prior to UO’s Oct. 11 game vs. UCLA. He saw his first game action in six weeks in the 4th quarter at ASU Oct. 25 and went 4-of-4 for 86 yards and a TD. The scoring strike, a 62-yarder to FR WR Chris Harper, was UO’s longest pass play at that point of the season.

BYRD NAMED PAC-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
JR CB Jairus Byrd was named U.S. Bank Pac-10 Player of the Week for defense (Week 7) for his performance in UO’s home win over UCLA Oct. 11. Byrd recorded nine tackles, six solo, intercepted a pass and had three pass breakups. The weekly honor is the first for the former Pac-10 co-Freshman of the Year.

FIRST YEAR FRESHMEN
Thus far in 2008, the Ducks have received contributions from five true freshmen: QB/WR Chris Harper, QB Darron Thomas, WR Garrett Embry and LBs Josh Kaddu and Dewitt Stuckey. Last season, 10 such players saw playing time.

KELLY FACTOR
Since taking over as Oregon’s offensive coordinator prior to the start of the 2007 season, Chip Kelly’s offense has topped 30 points in 19 of 25 outings and has averaged 39.96 points per game. When eclipsing the 30-point plateau, the Ducks have posted a 17-2 record. Oregon is 1-5 when failing to score 30 or more.

RECORD ROMP
Oregon’s 63-14 victory at Washington State Sept. 27 set all-time series marks for points and margin of victory in 86 meetings dating to 1901. UO’s 63 points on the road were the most since a 63-28 win at Arizona in 2001.

HATS OFF
JR RB LeGarrette Blount and SR RB Jeremiah Johnson scored 3 TDs apiece in UO’s win at Washington State Sept. 27. It was the second time Johnson has accomplished the feat in his career (vs. Portland State in 2006).

COMEBACK KIDS
In Oregon’s 32-26 OT win at Purdue, the Ducks had to overcome a 17-point 2nd quarter deficit (20-3). It was UO’s largest comeback since going down 17-0 at home against Fresno State Sept. 17, 2005 before pulling out a 37-34 victory.

GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES
Seven Ducks made their starting debuts in the Aug. 30 opener vs. Washington: SR DT Ra’Shon Harris, SO LG Jordan Holmes, SO RT C.E. Kaiser, SR C Jeff Kendall, SO WLB Spencer Paysinger, SR WR Terence Scott and JR FS T.J. Ward. Other UO players to start for the first time this season are SO QB Jeremiah Masoli, SO CB Talmadge Jackson III, FR LB Eddie Pleasant, SO OT Bo Thran, SO TE Malachi Lewis, and JR PK Morgan Flint.

GREAT SCOTT
SR WR Terence Scott had a breakout performance against UW on Aug. 30, with team highs of six catches and 117 yards, including a 60-yard TD. The former JC transfer, who was forced out of a potential redshirt season a year ago due to injury only to get banged up himself, had 12 of UO’s 28 passing attempts thrown his way.

LEADING BY EXAMPLE
For the second straight year and the second time in Mike Bellotti’s head coaching tenure, the Ducks named season captains at the end of fall camp. SR ROV Patrick Chung, SR RB Jeremiah Johnson , SR DE Nick Reed and SR C Max Unger were selected in a vote by their teammates. Chung and Unger were also captains in 2007. Oregon had used game captains from 1993 to 2006.

OREGON FRESHMEN QUARTERBACKS
Since freshmen first became eligible to play varsity football during the 1972 season, eight Oregon quarterbacks have played at the collegiate level the following year after completing their high school eligibility. And three of them have competed for the Ducks in the past three seasons, including Chris Harper and Darron Thomas in 2008. There was a 23-year break between Nate Costa’s debut in 2006 and the program’s previous true freshman signal caller, Chris Miller in 1983. (Dennis Dixon played for the Ducks as a true freshman in 2004 but he delayed his enrollment to Oregon one term following his final prep season in 2002.) Additional freshman quarterbacks Oregon has employed in their first year following their high school careers include Dana Hill (1982), Mike Owens and Mike Jorgensen (1981) and Dan Daly (1977).

EVENSEN NAMED PAC-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Oregon’s first conference weekly honor of 2008 was awarded to SR PK Matt Evensen, who took home the Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week award for Week 3 (Sept. 15). The Portland, Ore. native was 4-of-4 on FG attempts and converted 2 PATs in the Ducks’ dramatic 32-26 overtime win at Purdue.  He tied the contest at 23-all with a clutch 38-yarder late in the 4th quarter and also booted a 33-yarder on UO’s first possession of OT for the Ducks’ first lead in the game.

STAFF CONTINUITY
For the first time in four seasons, the Ducks’ full-time coaching staff under head coach Mike Bellotti remains intact. Only defensive line coach Michael Gray (4th year), offensive coordinator Chip Kelly (2nd) and wide receivers coach Robin Pflugrad (3rd) have accumulated less than five seasons as an Oregon assistant, although special team coordinator/tight ends coach Tom Osborne is in his second season in his current Oregon tenure after previously coaching the Ducks for six years. Four of the school’s nine assistants have accumulated a minimum of 18 years in Eugene, while Bellotti is in his 20th season at Oregon after first joining the program as offensive coordinator in 1989.

RECORD RETURN
While JR CB Jairus Byrd’s 87-yard punt return for a TD at Purdue Sept. 13 wasn’t an Oregon record (Woodley Lewis went 92 yards against Oregon State in 1949), it was the longest ever by a Boilermaker opponent in Purdue history, which began in 1887.

GAME CHANGING MOMENT
Byrd’s second career touchdown was selected as one of ESPN’s Game Changing Performances presented by Pontiac for Week 3 of the college football season.

O-T
The Ducks have played 11 overtime games - all in the Mike Bellotti era - and have a mark of 7-4 in those contests, the last of which came Sept. 13 of this season at Purdue.

COSTA TO MISS SEASON
SO QB Nate Costa, who was battling for the starting job during Fall Camp before reinjuring his surgically-repaired left knee Aug. 20, underwent surgery to repair damaged cartilage and a partial tear of his ACL on Aug. 27 and will miss the season. Costa, who tore ligaments in the knee last October, also suffered the same injury to the same knee in high school.

JEREMIAH WAS A RAM
Perhaps under the radar due to his late signing last spring, the Ducks appear to have scored quite a coup when City College of San Francisco quarterback Jeremiah Masoli opted to head north to Eugene despite the stout stable of QBs already on the roster. All the athletic signal caller did as a true freshman in 2007 was pass for 3,592 yards, run for 448 yards, amass 41 total touchdowns (11 rush), and lead the Rams to a junior college national title. He completed 61.3 percent of his passes (258-of-421), was a third team All-America and conference offensive player of the year. Pressed into early action against Washington when starter Justin Roper left the game in the 2nd quarter with a concussion, Masoli completed 9-of-17 pass attempts for 126 yards and two touchdowns in his Duck debut.

ANOTHER DICKSON
Despite the departure of quarterback Dennis Dixon, the Ducks aren’t void of players by the same name -- only the spelling has changed. And like the other player with the same name, JR TE Ed Dickson also is a standout of record-setting proportions. Ed set a single-season record for most catches by a tight end in 2007, with his 43 receptions inching past Dante Rosario’s previous school record of 42 catches from 2006. Tight end has been a position that has blazed a path to the NFL for previous Oregon standouts as the program’s last eight players at that post have received the opportunity to play at the next level (and nine of the last 10).

CONSECUTIVE SELLOUTS
On Nov. 15 vs. Stanford, Autzen Stadium hosted a sellout for the 61st consecutive game dating back to the 1999 season. The last game that fell short of a sellout was vs. Nevada (41,374) on Sept. 18, 1999. USC came to Autzen the following week, with the Ducks prevailing in a triple-overtime thriller. Oregon’s crowd of 58,778 for opening game vs. Washington on Aug. 30 was the eighth-largest in school history and most for a season opener.

ON THE DUCK WALK
For the third straight year, Oregon features custom Nike uniforms made up of yellow, green, black and white jerseys and pants, along with helmets in green, white and yellow. The most recent redesign came in 2006 and features a reflective diamond plate design on the shoulder pads and thighs as well as numerals in a custom “Bellotti Bold” font. The current kits are 28% lighter than previous uniforms when dry and 34% lighter under wet conditions. With nearly 400 combinations at their disposal, the Ducks have worn a different one in every game this season. Against Arizona in the home finale, the Ducks wore a special “Lights Out” edition uniform made up of dark green helmets, black jerseys and pants.

RECORD TICKET SALES
Oregon established a record for season-ticket sales for the 11th year in a row. The Ducks had sold 43,954 tickets on a season basis before issuing a limited number of single seat season tickets in June, exceeding the 2007 mark of  43,242 season tickets.