11:32 PM ET
Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. -- Peyton Henry got his redemption kick.
The elder made a 43-yard tract extremity with 51 seconds left, and No. 24 Washington snapped No. 6 Oregon's eight-game winning streak with a 37-34 triumph Saturday, dealing a stroke to the Ducks' chances for a spot successful the College Football Playoff.
In 2018, Henry had a accidental to bushed the Ducks, but his 37-yard field-goal effort connected the last play successful regularisation was wide close and Oregon went connected to triumph 30-27 successful overtime.
"That [miss] is ever successful the backmost of the mind, particularly due to the fact that erstwhile radical deliberation of maine they deliberation of that kick. So hopefully they retrieve maine for this kick," helium said.
Michael Penix Jr. threw a 62-yard scoring walk to Taj Davis to necktie it astatine 34 with 3:07 to spell aft Oregon backmost Bo Nix limped disconnected the tract connected the erstwhile series.
Nix returned aft Henry's tract extremity and got the Ducks (9-2, 6-1, No. 6 CFP) to the Washington 38, but the last thrust fizzled with an amerciable interaction penalty. The Huskies (8-2, 5-2, No. 25 CFP) won successful Eugene for the archetypal clip since 2016.
"I didn't cognize helium missed it present 4 years agone and idiosyncratic was telling me, 'This is simply a redemption tract goal. He's going to marque it,'" Penix said. "And I was like, OK, arsenic agelong arsenic helium makes it, I'm good."
Penix, the nationalist person for passing yards per game, threw for 408 yards and 2 touchdowns arsenic Washington stopped a 13-game losing streak against ranked Oregon teams. The past triumph was successful 2002 erstwhile the Huskies bushed No. 23 Oregon 42-12. Washington was 0-7 against the Ducks erstwhile they're ranked successful the apical 10.
Nix fell aft a 2-yard tally connected third-and-5 connected the Washington 10 and helium limped disconnected the field. Camden Lewis' 26-yard tract extremity finished the thrust to marque it 34-27 with 3:54 left. After Washington's game-tying touchdown Nix was replaced for a bid by backup Ty Thompson.
Nix threw for 280 yards and 2 scores, and ran for 59 yards and different touchdown. The nonaccomplishment snapped a 23-game location winning streak, the third-longest streak successful the federation and a triumph shy of the schoolhouse record.
Oregon manager Dan Lanning said aft the crippled helium was waiting for a further valuation connected Nix's injury, but trainers had determined helium was capable to instrumentality to the crippled for the last series.
"Well, surely not the effect we had hoped for. I deliberation our guys played the full game. They surely didn't discontinue didn't propulsion successful the towel," Lanning said. "You person to springiness Washington credit, they played a implicit crippled and we made much mistakes astatine the extremity of the crippled that wounded us."
The Huskies scored connected their opening bid erstwhile Penix handed disconnected to Wayne Taulapapa, who dashed 13 yards down the mediate for the TD.
The Ducks settled for a 43-yard tract extremity from Lewis connected their archetypal drive. Henry kicked a 30-yarder to marque it 10-3 aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter.
Oregon got to the 1 connected the ensuing thrust but the drawback was fumbled and Washington recovered. The Huskies did not determination the shot and alternatively the Ducks had bully tract presumption up of Nix's 10-yard TD dash, his 14th of the season, to propulsion Oregon wrong 13-10.
After Nix deed Dont'e Thornton with a 46-yard touchdown walk connected Oregon's archetypal thrust of the 2nd fractional for a 17-13 lead, Cameron Davis scored connected a 3-yard tally to enactment the Huskies backmost connected top.
Noah Whittington's 29-yard scoring tally gave Oregon a 24-20 pb midway done the third. It was a back-and-forth duel the remainder of the way.
A 76-yard touchdown walk from Penix to Ja'Lynn Polk gave the Huskies a 27-24 pb successful the 3rd quarter. Nix answered with a 67-yard touchdown walk to Troy Franklin.
Jeffrey Bassa's interception of Penix astatine the extremity enactment to commencement the 4th fourth appeared to displacement the momentum to the Ducks until Nix's untimely injury.
"It's a feeling you can't describe," said Jalen McMillan said, who finished with 122 yards receiving for the Huskies. "It's similar each our hard work, we've been done truthful overmuch arsenic a squad and arsenic a brotherhood. So, this dub means everything to us. We've been moving for this forever."
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