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November 10, 2012 – Stanford Stadium
Game Time: 12:05 p.m. (PT)
Duration: 3:12
Official Attendance: 47,127
No. 16/15 Stanford (8-2, 6-1) 27
No. 13/12 Oregon State (7-2, 5-2) 23
Oregon State Head Coach Mike Riley
On today's game …
“Well, we're disappointed. Obviously, it's a tough loss. We had our opportunities and I think that what we did is we gave up a big play that gave them momentum back when we had, I think, a two score lead. And that was big for them and then, of course, the turnover we had that gave them field position to score the winning points was also big.”
On the first quarter …
“Well, Stanford was good. They made plays. We had two opportunities with the ball and didn't get a first down, and they kept the ball for almost the rest of the time. They had long, sustained drives and did a nice job of executing, and we had a hard time with that at the beginning. That's kind of what happened in the first half; the whole first quarter for sure.”
On Stanford's strategy for handling wide receivers …
“They were mixing some coverages up on them and making it a little bit hard to get the ball down the field to them. But, I think they made a lot out of the balls.”
On punting on second to last possession …
“I thought that maybe we could in some fashion turn the ball up the field after punting the ball, maybe we'll get a better punt than we did and flip the field. And I knew if we could stop them, we'd have plenty of time, which we did. I think we ended up with 3:56 on the clock, which is plenty of time. It all worked out pretty good like that, but then we killed ourselves. We jump offside on second and one, we don't execute on a right or get through on a route – they held us up, and get sacked, and lose the game.”
On Vaz's decision-making …
“I thought he made some good plays, some good decisions, made some good throws. I think that as in every game, there's some plays you'd like to have back.”
On Stanford QB Kevin Hogan …
“He's a good athlete. He hurt us with the bootleg and some scrambles for sure. Impressive. That was a great play he made getting the ball to [Stepfan] Taylor late on a check-down over there – probably the play of the game. We were up two scores and he gets the ball, finds him, but just before he goes down and the guy scores a long touchdown that really changed the momentum at the time.”
