EUGENE — Oregon’s latest rock fight with Wisconsin was, in a word: sloppy.

There are others, perhaps more apropos, but not suitable for print.

A series that saw one-score games in the prior six meetings, including last year’s dramatic UO comeback in Madison, was not supposed to be anything like that though. Yet a 31.5-point spread featuring a top 10 team coming off a historic display of efficiency and a team decimated by injuries that hadn’t scored in two weeks ended in a 21-7 win for the No. 6 Ducks in front of a soaked 58,940 at Autzen Stadium.

Dan Lanning felt it was going to be a possession-style of game, much like the kinds Oregon has waged with the likes of Stanford in the past and Northwestern this season. But this Wisconsin team was down to its third quarterback, without its top

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