It's time for Oregon State to call it a season
They're undisciplined. The starting quarterback is on crutches. And their coach
is woefully unaware of his role in where things have gone wrong with the program.
The score Saturday: Stanford 20, Oregon State 17...more
from John Canzano of the Oregonian.
Penalties, kicking game seal Beaver defeat
Going ... Oregon State’s bowl chances. Going .... Alexis Serna’s placekicking
magic. Gone ... quarterback Matt Moore, probably for the season.
Those were the facts of life for the Beavers Saturday as they fell to Stanford
20-17, enacting a sad state of affairs for a record Reser Stadium crowd of 42,960...more
from Kerry Eggers of the Portland Tribune.
OSU suffers costly loss
It has come down to one game for Oregon State. Win the Civil War or look forward
to next season.
The Beavers did not want to be in this predicament, but that's the situation
OSU faces after falling 20-17 to Stanford on Saturday before a record crowd
of 42,960 at Reser Stadium...more
from Gary Horowitz of the Statesman Journal.
Beavers fall just short in key loss to Cardinal
And then they added all that insult to injury.
First the Beavers' quarterback goes down and out with an injured knee...more
from Bob Rodman of the Register Guard.
OSU quickly goes from high to low
Four weeks ago Oregon State’s football team charged up the tunnel and into
their Memorial Stadium locker room on a high, fresh from a 23-20 victory over
California that seemed to set the table for a unexpectedly spectacular season...more
from Brooks Hatch of the Gazette Times.
Beavers come up short
If the Twilight Zone was still in production, a perfect script was played out
on a cold rainy night in the Willamette Valley.
A bizarre set of twists left the Oregon State football team stunned without
any answers, with its postseason hopes swaying in the wind...more
from Clif Kirkpatrick of the Gazette Times.
Beavers hurt by penalties of all kinds
Oregon State’s staggering total of 11 penalties for 123 yards played a
pivotal role in a 20-17 loss to Stanford on Saturday that put a major, major
crimp in the Beavers’ hopes of reaching a bowl game for the fourth season
in a row...more
from Brooks Hatch of the Gazette Times.
Too many misses, mistakes for OSU
Oregon State kicker Alexis Serna already had missed two field goals when he
lined up to try a 52-yarder with time running out Saturday at Reser Stadium
and the bent-on-destruction Beavers trailing Stanford 20-17 in front of a record
crowd of 42,960.
Did OSU even deserve to be in the game?...more
from Paul Buker of the Oregonian.
Gunderson is ready to take over
An emotional Ryan Gunderson already was preparing himself for the Civil War
game against Oregon in the moments after Oregon State's depressing 20-17 loss
to Stanford on Saturday...more
from the Oregonian.
Penalties (123 yards of them) hurt OSU's chances
Left to its own devices Saturday, Stanford probably wouldn't have won at Reser
Stadium.
The Cardinal needed help from Oregon State...more
from Jim Beseda of the Oregonian.
| From a Stanford perspective |
Stanford is alive with win No. 5
The Stanford defense knocked Oregon State's starting quarterback out of the
game in the second quarter. The Beavers hurt their own cause repeatedly with
costly penalties. And OSU's solid-gold placekicker, who had missed just two
kicks all year, missed three in this game...more
from Michelle Smith of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Stanford absorbs the hits, and wins
When a desperation pass in the closing minutes Saturday night deflected off
Oregon State receiver Anthony Wheat-Brown and into teammate Dan Haines' hands
for a first down in Stanford territory, Cardinal Coach Walt Harris simply asked,
``Why now?"...more
from Darren Sabedra of the Mercury News.