In the Week 4 game against the Colorado Buffaloes, we didn’t expect to see as many young depth players as we did for the Oregon Ducks in what turned out to be a 42-6 blowout.
In turn, we probably didn’t see as many young players as we expected to on Saturday in a 42-6 blowout win over the Stanford Cardinal.
The Ducks started very slowly in this game, punting on their first two offensive possessions and falling behind 6-0. Of course, they turned it around quickly and scored 42 unanswered points. But in a world where we look at the usage report to see how many young players saw some action, there were quite a bit fewer than had the Ducks produced an earlier blowout.
Regardless, there are some good notes to take away from the snap counts in Week 5. Here are our snap count takeaways for the Ducks in their win vs. Stanford: