Week 8 Matchup Oregon State Offense vs. Washington Defense

Oregon State Offense vs Washington Defense

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The Oregon State offense (#77) is not having the best of luck, in addition to having a tough year beforehand. Darrell Garretson going out for the rest of the year with an ankle injury us just trouble following trouble with a visit to Washington on the docket. Oregon State hung pretty well with a human overrated Utah team at home after knocking off Cal. So the Beavers had to be feeling good until the injury news hit. Now it is only going to get worse since they still have to play the Huskies. They have played a pretty tough schedule of defenses so far, but Washington is going to be a step up from Utah.

Oregon State is actually pretty good at Drive Efficiency. They are also pretty good on 3rd down and at preventing D-plus Plays. This team isn't getting great per play metrics, but they are more consistent than you would expect.

Oregon State struggles mightily at Negative Drives, Explosive Drives, and Play Efficiency. They go 3 and out pretty often, they don't get big plays, and they have trouble imposing their will on plays that fall in between.

Washington's defense (#13) is having the kind of year you expected of them. The model really needed to see them play somebody after their non-conference schedule that would have made Glenn Mason blush. Washington really played well against Oregon, though Oregon helped them out by pulling Dakota Prukop as their way of fixing the Oregon defense. Washington showed they have another level though than they had displayed against Arizona, of course Brandon Dawkins can only play for one team. Them's the rules.

Washington is excellent at Play Efficiency, they are very very good at Drive Efficiency and Negative Drives, and they are pretty good at Explosive Drives. This is a team that doesn't have a lot of weaknesses. They got good pressure on Stanford's "meh" O-line with their front four, but Dawkins exposed a weakness on this defense when he blew through all three levels and showed that the Washington secondary might not have another gear.

Washington isn't great at D-plus Plays or 3rd down when you weight by their Strength of Schedule, but it seems like small beer compared to how great they are overall.

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