same sliders that saw Jennings carve me for 413 in the Holiday Bowl. I was as surprised about the result as y'all. When they were driving the field after the half I thought here we go lolNo Father's Son
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same sliders that saw Jennings carve me for 413 in the Holiday Bowl. I was as surprised about the result as y'all. When they were driving the field after the half I thought here we go lol-
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2027 Week Four Preview - Oregon State (3-0) @ BYU (2-2)
Ricky McKinley // Dam Daily • Published: September 24th, 2027
Beaver Nation may be riding high after the massacre at Autzen last week, but the Beavers themselves will need to refocus quickly as they prepare to face off with another Heisman contender in BYU's Bear Bachmeier. BYU had a brutal opening schedule, Weber State aside, but were able to prevail over the Arizona State Sun Devils to pull back to .500 and now turn their attention to spoiling the Beavers' perfect start.
After we take a quick look at how our Beavs stack up against the Cougars we'll take it to another "Leon's Lowdown" where the defensive coordinator talks about what the win against Oregon meant, the strains of facing yet another Heisman contender, and the growing expectations in Corvallis.
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Oregon State Beavers (3-0) | Description | BYU Cougars (2-2) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77 Overall // 76 Offense // 79 Defense | Team Rating | 79 Overall // 79 Offense // 81 Defense Jonathan Smith (56-54) | Head Coach | Timmy Chang (8-9) Pro Style | Offensive Scheme | Run and Shoot 3-3-5 | Defensive Scheme | 4-2-5
Oregon State Beavers | Description | BYU Cougars --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-17 | Combined Record | 23-13 N/A | Week Zero | @ Cal (2-1) L 42-36 Portland State (FCS) W 44-0 | Week One | Weber State W 52-17 New Mexico (1-2) W 40-14 | Week Two | Texas Tech (3-1) L 38-25 Oregon (1-2) W 30-0 | Week Three | @ Arizona State (1-2) W 41-38
Oregon State Beavers BYU Cougars --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N/A | Injuries | N/A
Oregon State Beavers BYU Cougars --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SO(RS) AJ Maddox (78) | QB | JR Bear Bachmeier (90) SR Salahadin Allah (85) | HB | SR Sione Moa (86) SR(RS) David Wells Jr (83) | WR | SO(RS) Lamason Waller III (86) SR(RS) Zachary Card (85) | WR | SR Cody Hagen (85) SO MLB Manu Hasty (89) | DEF | SR FS Faletau Satuala (91) SR(RS) LB Jalen Smith (82) | DEF | SR(RS) DE Tausili Akana (84) SR(RS) DE Kelze Howard (82) | DEF | SR(RS) Siale Esera (84) SR(RS) CB Kodi DeCambra (85) | DEF | SR CB Therrian Alexander III (82)
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Leon's Lowdown
RM: "Before we get to this week's matchup against the Cougars, I want to talk about the win over Oregon a bit, Coach. You've spoken to me before about the respect you had for Dan Lanning after meeting him on the field as a coach for Montana State. How surreal is it to walk into that stadium two years later and win, handily I might add?"
AL: "Yeah, Ricky, I have a lot of respect for Coach Lanning. The first time we met he'd just finished thrashing my defense for 59 points, but instead of focusing on his success he made sure to acknowledge the effort my defense put in and let me know he expected to see me again in the future. That meant a lot to me as an up-and-coming coach. To be able to flip the script on my return to Autzen was surreal and something Lanning and I talked about on the field after the game, just how quickly things can change and thanking him for the encouragement. He joked and told me now he wished we hadn't met so soon."
RM: "One more question about Lanning. You were pretty critical of his team's mentality in the post-game presser. Did you give Lanning a warning the shots were coming?"
AL: laughs "I did, Ricky. We talked a bit about life and circumstance, things outside of the game. Then I let him know: 'I respect the hell out of you, Coach, and I'll always be grateful for the encouragement. But just so you know, I'm going to talk my talk when I get the mic.' He told me he expected nothing less, but reminded me—we're going to play them again next year, so whatever I say now I'd better be ready to back up next time."
RM: "Love it, respecting the other side while still being true to the rivalry. Shifting gears to this week, how much of a challenge is it for you as the defensive coordinator to have to gameplan for another Heisman contending quarterback in back-to-back games?"
AL: "Honestly? It's exciting. This is what we do it for, to challenge the best and see who comes out on top. The challenge is they are both very different players. Sampson likes to use his athleticism to get him into a groove, once we took that away early in the game, he had a hard time finding a rhythm in the passing game. Bear is the opposite, he's a gunslinger back there. He loves standing in the pocket and making you pay, even with bodies collapsing around him. So we've got to stay sound in coverage and make them earn every yard, because even if we hit him—which we plan to do a lot—he's still going to be looking to make plays. He doesn't lead the country in passing yardage for nothing."
RM: "I'm getting one more question in here, Coach, since the first two were on the same subject. Despite the win over Oregon, the Beavers are still unranked and didn't garner any additional votes in the latest AP Poll. Is that something your team uses as motivation when they go up against these blue blood programs, looking to prove the voters wrong?"
AL: "We play for the guys next to us and the logo on our chest, first and foremost. If you start basing your performance on the opinion of others, that's where you start falling apart. Extra motivation never hurt anyone, however, and you better believe our guys know where we're ranked. But it's not the only motivating factor for us, just some more fuel on the already flaming bonfire."
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Bear Bachenmeier is an entirely different animal than Elijah Sampson and this matchup is going to test the cohesion of the secondary. Even with Sampson's struggles last game, you can say that was more on the front seven making Sampson panic than the secondary shutting them down. This is going to be the biggest test of the season for the Beavers' secondary.
My gut says the letdown is going to be real; it's only human. Is the letdown going to be enough to let a pedestrian BYU squad, Heisman contender aside, sneak past the Beavers?
I don't think so, but it will be close. I think we need one of Coach Leon's patented 4th-down stands to save the win. 24 Oregon State, 21 BYU is my prediction.
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Cougars Maul Beavers Behind Bear's Heisman Caliber Outing
Ricky McKinley // Dam Daily • Published: September 25th, 2027
The final score of the BYU Cougars' 37-21 victory at LaVell Edwards Stadium did not reflect how competitive the contest was, until it suddenly wasn't. The Beavers' vaunted defense kept Heisman contender Bear Bachmeier off-balance for much of the first half, bending at times, but never breaking as they stifled the Cougs into a 9-3 halftime lead.
The second half saw a stark contrast after BYU caught the Beavers' defense creeping towards the line on an RPO, and Bear made them pay. Bachmeier sold the RPO handoff long enough for both Wokomah and Ayers to bite on the run, leaving Cody Hagen streaking up the seam uncovered for the 73-yard touchdown. And from there, the levees broke.
The Beavers had managed to hold Bear and the BYU Cougars to 126 passing yards and only one 3rd-down conversion in the 1st half, but saw those numbers balloon to 212 second-half passing yardage and two third-down conversions, in only four attempts, as the Cougars poured 28 second-half points onto the Beavers.
Trailing 23-6 just before the 4th quarter, Coach Jonathan Smith had seen enough of AJ Maddox—who has yet to toss a touchdown pass in an Oregon State uniform—and brought in last year's starter Kallen Gutridge. While the raw numbers don't inspire confidence, going 15/31 for 160 yards, his two touchdowns stood out for an offense that had stalled and begged the question: is this a different game if Coach Smith makes the switch sooner?
By the time Gutridge came in from relief, the Cougars had 23 points and had controlled the ball for 70% of the game, leaving the Beavers' defense visibly gassed as the Cougars kept the pedal down.
It's a question that needs to be addressed, but before we dig deeper into the sudden quarterback controversy, let's take it to Armando Leon at the post-game presser to find out what, if anything, he felt the Beavers could have done to slow the Cougars' mauling.
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Question One - Gideon Porter (The Universe): "Coach Leon, your defense did a great job of limiting the explosiveness of the BYU offense in the first half, but looked a step behind in the pivotal second as the Cougars pulled away through the aerial assault led by Bear Bachmeier. What adjustments did the Cougars make that caught your defense off guard and in retrospect, what should you have done differently?"
Armando Leon: "Yeah, Gideon, they came out of the second half with the clear intent of getting Bear in a rhythm and hats off to them, they took advantage of some mental lapses by our defense. Why we're crashing the line on an RPO instead of staying home and letting the front seven do their job, I do not know. We covered the RPO extensively over the last two weeks, both Oregon and now BYU love to use them in a variety of ways, and the talking point was always to stay home and worry about your assignment. Too many times in the second half, we crashed and left our assignment, and it bit us in the ass.
"It's easy to sit here and second-guess our game plan in the heat of the moment and I won't speak to things we should have done differently; that won't do us any favors. We'll watch the tape as a team, diagnose where we went wrong, and make plans to be better in the future. But sitting here and second-guessing every decision isn't going to do us any good. The game was lost and congratulations to BYU, they played a helluva game."
Question Two: Jedidiah Brent (Provo Tribune): "To double down on Gideon's question, Coach, but after the game against Oregon last week you bristled when asked if the Ducks targeted your secondary as the weakness of this unit. Yet, here we are a week later talking about the secondary's mental lapses. What are you going to need to address in the secondary going forward to keep teams from negating your explosive pass-rush and carving you up through the air?"
Armando Leon: "I think it's easy to take aim at the secondary after getting torched, but you take away the one big play from Hagen on the clear misplay and Bear is at just 250 yards. If you told me a week ago we'd keep another Heisman contender under 300 yards, I'd be happy. So I think calling the secondary the Achilles heel of the defense is low-hanging fruit at this point. I haven't looked at the national rankings yet, but even with today's performance I'm willing to bet our unit ranks in the top 25 of the country."
Question Three: Olivia LeRusso (Oregonlive): "I know you don't coach the offense, Coach Leon, but what do you have to say about Kallen Gutridge's performance in relief? And do you think the game could have turned out differently if the switch had been made earlier?"
Armando Leon: "You're right, Olivia, I don't. Kallen played a helluva fourth quarter trying to will us back in the game. If we hadn't given up four second-half touchdowns, we could have had a shot. That's on us; we gave up the points. I won't sit here and second-guess Coach Smith or Coach Dahlen's decisions to stick with their guy. They run the offense; my job is to keep it close enough for them to have a shot at winning the game. My unit didn't do that tonight, and I own it."
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Coach Leon won't say it, but I will. The Oregon State Beavers had ZERO touchdown passes going into this game, despite being 3-0, and Kallen Gutridge had two in a single quarter of work. His 160 yards in the quarter was more than Maddox had against Portland State. I've given AJ his time, waited patiently, but this isn't working.
He hasn't won us ANY games this season, the defense has, special teams has, and Salahadin Allah has. When Allah was finally bottled up, Maddox folded like a deck of cards. We can't expect the defense to play nearly 45 minutes on the field and not be gassed by the second half.
I will say, once the defense gave up the long touchdown out of the half it looked like their spirit was broken. With how terribly Maddox was playing, they knew anything more than a field goal and the game was already out of reach. They simply can't fold like that. If they keep the same intensity and let the touchdown be an abnormality, Gutridge has something to work with.
Neither Coach Smith nor Coach Dahlen commented on who would start next week in Oxford, but I think the answer is clear.
We need someone who is going to move the ball, not play scared. Maddox isn't looking to win games, he's looking not to lose them. Kallen Gutridge didn't have the best stats last year, but he did do one thing. Win. Ten times to be exact.
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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
| Oregon State | 0 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 21 |
| BYU | 3 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 37 |
| Q | Team | Time | Play | Oregon State | BYU |
| 1st | BYU | 2:06 | Mitchell Thomson, 34 Yd FG | 0 | 3 |
| 2nd | BYU | 6:40 | Mitchell Tomson, 44 Yd FG | 0 | 6 |
| 2nd | Oregon State | 2:09 | Logan McCreery, 40 Yd FG | 3 | 6 |
| 2nd | BYU | 0:00 | Mitchell Thomson, 34 Yd FG | 3 | 9 |
| 3rd | BYU | 9:19 | Cody Hagen, 73 Yd Pass From Bear Bachmeier | 3 | 16 |
| 3rd | Oregon State | 6:20 | Logan McCreery, 27 Yd FG | 6 | 16 |
| 3rd | BYU | 2:46 | Cody Hagen, 4 Yd Pass From Bear Bachmeier | 6 | 23 |
| 4th | BYU | 6:35 | Lamason Waller III, 30 Yd Pass From Bear Bachmeier | 6 | 30 |
| 4th | BYU | 4:46 | Sione Moa, 3 Yd Run | 6 | 37 |
| 4th | Oregon State | 2:22 | Zachary Card, 3 Yd Pass From Kallen Gutridge | 13 | 37 |
| 4th | Oregon State | 0:11 | Jackson Bowers, 6 Yd Pass From Kallen Gutridge(2PT) | 21 | 37 |
Oregon State BYU Passing | Stats Passing | Stats ----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------- AJ Maddox | 10/23, 110 Yds Bear Bachmeier | 23/35, 338 Yds, 3 TD Kallen Gutridge | 15/31, 160 Yds, 2 TD Rushing | Stats Rushing | Stats ----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------- Salahadin Allah | 12 Att, 37 Yds Sione Moa | 14 Att, 49 Yds, TD AJ Maddox | 6 Att, -6 Yds Bear Bachmeier | 9 Att, 1 Yd Receiving | Stats Receiving | Stats ----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------- Jackson Bowers | 8 Rec, 81 Yds, TD Lamason Waller III | 8 Rec, 109 Yds, TD Zachary Card | 7 Rec, 78 Yds, TD Cody Hagen | 7 Rec, 125 Yds, 2 TD David Wells Jr | 4 Rec, 43 Yds Jojo Phillips | 5 Rec, 57 Yds Defensive | Stats Defensive | Stats ----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------- CB Kodi DeCambra | 6 Tkl, TFL, Sack DE Tausili Akana | 4 Tkl, 2 TFL, 0.5 Sack MLB Manu Hasty | 6 Tkl, 3 TFL, 0.5 Sack DT Uche Ilofa | 3 Tkl, 2 TFL, 2 Sacks DE Shamar Meikle | 4 Tkl, 2 TFL, Sack CB Marcus McKenzie | 9 Tkl, TFL, 0.5 Sack
Pac-12 Week Four Results
22 Ohio (2-3) @ Texas State (1-3) 19
31 FCS @ Colorado State (3-1) 38
10 FCS @ Boies State (3-1) 66
16 Utah State (2-1) @ Coastal Carolina (3-0) 41
10 Fresno State (1-3) @ #15 Washington (3-1) 45
21 Washington State (1-3) @ Illinois (3-1) 35
Notable Week Four Results
43 #19 Ole Miss (3-0) @ #24 Tennessee (2-2) 33
31 #8 Missouri (3-1) @ #8 Florida (4-0) 35
29 Kentucky (4-0) @ #17 Texas A&M (3-1) 28
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