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Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard
SAN DIEGO - `I just underthrew it a little bit,' Oregon quarterback Brady Leaf said.
`A couple of inches,' UO coach Mike Bellotti guessed.
And so by the margin of that decision and that distance, Oregon is still winless against Oklahoma in six meetings, a loser of three consecutive bowl games, and likely to fall out of the nation's top 10 when the final polls are released next week, all after a final, desperate drive for the winning touchdown Thursday night in the Holiday Bowl ended with a leaping interception by Sooner linebacker Clint Ingram at the 10-yard line.
But while Oregon was left lamenting what might have been if not for its lone turnover, it really wasn't so much that interception with 33 seconds remaining as it was one quarter, a dreadful 15 minutes that followed halftime's extra-long intermission, that left Oregon a 17-14 loser to Oklahoma as a Holiday Bowl record crowd of 65,416 watched in Qualcomm Stadium.
`We've got to play the whole game,' Oregon linebacker Brent Haberly said. `We can't just turn it on at the end.'
In that fateful third quarter, Oklahoma scored both of its touchdowns. The Sooners gained 169 of their 361 total...
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