Oregon benefitted from an errant Iowa snap on a punt that led to a first-quarter safety and a red-zone fumble by the Hawkeyes\u2019 Kaden Wetjen in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you do what it takes to win a football game?\u201d Fleck asked about the Ducks. \u201cCan you go out and beat a team through the air that you\u2019re going to have to throw for 400 yards? Yes, they can. Can you go into Kinnick [Stadium] and beat Iowa, playing Iowa\u2019s game, and run the ball and get down and dirty. Yep, they sure can. \u2026. They\u2019re as balanced of a team as we\u2019ve seen.”<\/p>\n
Oregon sophomore quarterback Dante Moore has completed 70.5% of his passes for 1,844 yards and 19 touchdowns with five interceptions. He also has rushed 44 times for 177 yards, making defenses think about that dimension of his game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of the most dynamic players in all of college football,\u201d Fleck said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty easy to tell. He\u2019s very, very poised. I mean, you saw that on the last drive against Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Gophers have played once on the West Coast this season, falling 27-14 to California on Sept. 13 in Berkeley, Calif. Fleck said he\u2019s made adjustments to the schedule that the Gophers used in that trip, in terms of dealing with the two-hour time-zone change.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just about, \u2018OK, we lost to Cal, so we\u2019ve got to change everything,\u2019\u201d Fleck said. \u201cYou win, you lose. You\u2019re gonna do what\u2019s best for your football team. You\u2019re gonna look at all the data, and you\u2019re gonna dissect that. \u2026 There are a few tweaks here and there, but it\u2019s not a reactionary tweak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon benefitted from an errant Iowa snap on a punt that led to a first-quarter safety and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-285347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}