re: So, why was Oregon favored by 9.5 tonight?

Oregon lost the first one by 3 in a true road game against a team with a meaningful home field advantage, and did so while making very dubious decisions in the red zone that cost them 6 points.

In the month and a half that followed, Oregon was demolishing an admittedly pretty mid schedule, while Washington struggle bussed its way through an equally mid schedule.

Washington balling out and beating Oregon a second time isn’t a wild and crazy upset, but the trajectory of both teams sure didn’t look like it was setting up for Washington to square up and outplay Oregon. At least IMO

That all said, they did it