Statistical Recap: OSU/UNLV

by Jake Bertalotto on Sep 14, 2009 10:00 AM PDT in Football Comment 11 comments

Oregon State snuck out of Las Vegas with a win on Saturday night, clinching the victory with a 33-yard Justin Kahut field goal after 14 unanswered UNLV points in the fourth quarter.

First, some miscellaneous game notes via Oregon State:

· Attendance for the game was 25,967.
· The 8 p.m. start is the latest currently on OSU's schedule for 2009.
· Captains for OSU at the start of the game were Lyle Moevao, Keaton Kristick, Stephen Paea and Dwight Roberson. OSU won the coin toss and elected to defer.
· The game was the 20th straight game that the Beavers had a game televised, which is a school record. It dates back to Nov. 3, 2007 at USC.
· The Beavers started the game with three safeties ... Cameron Collins got the first start of his career.
· The Beavers won their 29th game in their last 41 contests, the second-best mark in the Pac-10 behind only USC.
· The Beavers improved to 27-3 in their last 63 games when committing less than turnovers than their opponents.
· Head coach Mike Riley improved to 57-42 at Oregon State.
· Redshirt freshman Jordan Bishop made the first reception of his career on a first quarter grab.
· Sophomore safety Lance Mitchell created the first turnovers of his career ... first an interception and first forced fumble.
· Sophomore defensive end Kevin Frahm turned in the first quarterback sack of his career.
· Sophomore tailback Jacquizz Rodgers got loose twice recording career-long runs on two occasions. First he had a 45-yard run in the first half ... he then beat that on the first drive of the second half going 47 yards.
· Jacquizz Rodgers went over 100 yards rushing for the ninth time in his career and the second week in a row.

Linescore:

Final - 9.12.2009	1	2	3	4	Total
Oregon St. Beavers	0	6	14	3	23
UNLV Rebels	0	0	7	14	21

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Scoring Summary:

2nd 01:04 OSU - Camp, Brady 1 yd pass from Canfield, Sean (Kahut, Justin kick failed)
13 plays, 70 yards, TOP 5:51, OSU 6 - LV 0
3rd 13:07 OSU - Rodgers, Jacquizz 2 yd run (Kahut, Justin kick)
5 plays, 60 yards, TOP 1:53, OSU 13 - LV 0
10:42 LV - ANTHONY, R. 19 yd pass from CLAYTON, Omar (WATSON, Kyle kick)
5 plays, 36 yards, TOP 2:14, OSU 13 - LV 7
07:17 OSU - Rodgers, James 4 yd pass from Canfield, Sean (Kahut, Justin kick)
7 plays, 75 yards, TOP 3:21, OSU 20 - LV 7
4th 10:53 LV - ANTHONY, R. 13 yd pass from CLAUSEN, Mike (WATSON, Kyle kick)
7 plays, 66 yards, TOP 2:44, OSU 20 - LV 14
04:16 LV - PAYNE, Phillip 10 yd pass from CLAUSEN, Mike (WATSON, Kyle kick)
6 plays, 51 yards, TOP 2:40, OSU 20 - LV 21
00:07 OSU - Kahut, Justin 33 yd field goal
12 plays, 64 yards, TOP 4:09, OSU 23 - LV 21

Rushing:

Jacquizz Rodgers 26-166 1 TD, 6.4 ypc

Jovan Stevenson 2-28

James Rodgers 3-16

Sean Canfield 4- -26

Team: 186 yards

Passing:

Sean Canfield: 25-31, 198 yards, 2 TD

Receiving

Jacquizz Rodgers: 10-65

James Rodgers: 6-48, 1 TD

Jordan Bishop: 5-43

Casey Kjos: 1-15

Brady Camp: 1-1, 1 TD

Team: 198 yards

Drive Chart:

[Complete stats at OSUBeavers.com]

So what we have here is a good day for the Rodgers brothers, and another solid start for Sean Canfield. The coaches did open the playbook more than they did against Portland State in terms of spreading the ball around with passes to Bishop, Kjos, and Camp, but the Beavers were still Rodgers-dimensional. But why not be? A heavy dose of James and Jacquizz was obviously working, especially down the stretch in the second half. But the Beavers did show that they can rely on other players under pressure. Adeniji and Bishop both had key grabs on the final drive, and Jacquizz burrowed his way into Rebel territory on his longest reception of the game to set Kahut's field goal at 33 yards.

I mentioned this earlier today, but I felt that the Beavers were really conservative in their play-calling, especially in the passing game. You'll see that other than Jacquizz, who was mostly making short receptions and picking up tough yards after the catch, the Beavers leading receiver was James Rodgers with 48 yards. He almost had twice as many yards after the first play of the Portland State game. Canfield's longest completion was a 21-yarder to Jordan Bishop.

We can question play-calling all we want, but with 382 offensive yards and a 5.8 yard-per-play average, it's tough to complain about coaching decisions made on Saturday night.

But that's just me. What's your take?

--Jake (jake.buildingthedam@gmail.com)

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Quizz had a couple moves that were just insane and if I’m not mistaken he even broke a few long ones off. I love seeing this new dimension of his game developing. We just need to keep improving and moving forward—this is such a big week.

by ArbyOSU on Sep 14, 2009 10:13 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I loved the drive in the opening of the second half. That was freaking sweet.

As far as the offense goes, I don’t need 100+ receiving yards for any single player. I’d rather have it spread around and have overall production. I mean, Mike Hass set a single game receiving record at Boise State… in a loss. Just win, baby.

by ArbyOSU on Sep 14, 2009 10:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Quizz’s run in the start of 3

by ArbyOSU on Sep 14, 2009 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The spin move on the 1st run was awesome

And so was the chest thumping after the run. It’s time he showed some cockiness!

Hi, my name's Connor and I am addicted to College Football

by ConnorOSU on Sep 14, 2009 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Continuing this conversation with myself...

I also thought the carries by Stevenson looked good. He looks physically like a WR but maybe he’ll grow into more of a RB? Good to know we can spell Quizz for at least a few carries a game… even if it was only TWO. Jeez, Riley, put the kid in more.

by ArbyOSU on Sep 14, 2009 10:51 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

you say something?

-RVM

by rvm on Sep 14, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was cringing at some of the hits the Brothers were taking. And what was with the flag on a stiff arm???

I think our offense is getting up to speed. Defensively, I get concerned about 1 sack in two games. Have to pressure a spread team into bad decisions.

Would love to scream my head off at this game, but I’ll be home with some frozen peas for some post-op football (take a guess at what I’ll be recovering from).

GO BEAVS!

"Orange isn't the only color in the world....but it should be. -TIG

by vawterbosu on Sep 14, 2009 1:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Appendectomy?

;)

by sangdorange on Sep 14, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The only problem I had with play calling

I think we should have gone down field a little bit more. I think it would of kept the UNLV defense on their heels and we would of gotten more yards on the ground. Other than that though, I thought our play calling was pretty good.

Hi, my name's Connor and I am addicted to College Football

by ConnorOSU on Sep 14, 2009 5:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I assumed we didn't do this because of the wind.

Anyone else have other ideas as to why the Beavers didn’t really look deep, after throwing an 87-yard bomb on the first play of the PSU game?

--JB--
www.buildingthedam.com

by Jake Bertalotto on Sep 15, 2009 6:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well the wind was with us some of the time too, but

UNLV never went deep either so maybe it was a factor.

I also think since this was the first full game they would play Riley wanted to get Quizz and James a lot of touches, especially Quizz. Riley is not that afraid to open it up at times, but he really does like to establish the running game and I think part of it was “okay, I want to see the offense establish themselves with the running, Quizz has got us where we are and he will get us where we are going.” So it seemed like he wanted to establish in Quizz’s and the offense’s mind that yes he will be the to go guy.

BUT I also think the receiver situation was (still is) in question so the coordinators were not totally sure what they were bringing and it takes a good deal of confidence and game experience to start going deep with young guys.

I’m sure there were other reasons, like match ups they saw with UNLV’s D, etc.

My assumption, without any logical backing, is that we will see a bit more of the playbook this upcoming Saturday.

-RVM

by rvm on Sep 15, 2009 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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