Friday, January 3, 2025

Dead Ducks

Henderson for the holidays: TreVeyon Henderson gallops through the Ducks defense.

 College Football Playoff Quarterfinals:

Ohio State 41, Oregon 21

The Rose Bowl turned into a slaughterhouse with the main course being roast duck. The numbers were astounding with OSU up 34-7 at halftime - not to mention Jeremiah Smith (Team JD) posting video game numbers of 187 and 2 touchdowns in basically just the first two quarters.

All told, Smith hit the hallowed 30-point mark for highest fantasy score of the game.

The Duck's "non-consensual" O face.
In fact, OSU - despite taking its foot off 
the gas in the second half - cranked out 500 total yards to 276 for Oregon, while shutting the Ducks down to -23 rushing yards for the game including a comical -0.8 yards per rushing attempt.

In the meantime OSU QB Will Howard (Team Greg) conducted the symphony of destruction (Megadeath TM), passing for 319 yards and 3 TDs while TreVeyon Henderson (Team Greg) scored twice with 114 total yards.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog: Smith snags a pass for OSU
But garbage time can produce box score heroes too - so a tip of the cap to Oregon WR Traeshon Holden (Team Chip).

He posted Buckeye-esque numbers and tied for the second-highest fantasy score of the game with 23 points.







Scoring

OSU WR Jeremiah Smith (JD) 30 points


OSU RB TreVeyon Henderson (Greg) 23

Oregon WR Traeshon Holden (Chip) 23 

OSU QB Will Howard (Greg) 22.5

Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel (JD) 16.5

OSU WR Emeka Egbuka (Chip) 13

OSU RB Quinshon Jenkins (Greg) 8

Oregon TE Terrance Ferguson (Greg) 7

Oregon WR Tez Johnson (JD) 3

Oregon RB Jordan James (Greg) 2

Notes: And the latest bad-luck running back injury curse claimed another victim - Oregon's Jordan James (Greg). 

The Ducks' star RB went out injured early in the first half, joining an esteemed list including Dylan Sampson (JD) of Tenn. and Phil Mafah (JD) of Clemson.

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