No. 6 Oregon beat Washington 26-14 on Saturday at Husky Stadium.

Here are 10 takeaways from the game as the Ducks (11-1, 8-1 Big Ten) prepare for the College Football Playoff.

1) Exorcising demons

Oregon was supposed to win. Washington was no match, didn’t have the talent to hang and didn’t coach aggressively enough to make up the difference.

However, the Ducks still faced the pressure of needing to win, on the road, or face the possibility of the next month being about the Holiday Bowl. As Dan Lanning said postgame, there’s the teams that get to keep playing in “the real one” and those that don’t.

Given Lanning’s first two years in this rivalry, another loss given the talent gap and what was on the line would have been devastating. This wasn’t a bad Washington team, but not a parti

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