Bo Nix breaks down long touchdown run, jokes he needs to run 80-yard sprints

Oregon is finding its groove under first-year coach Dan Lanning, led by the guy taking snaps. Quarterback Bo Nix struggled at first after transferring from Auburn for his final season of college football, but is starting to make the most of his one year out west.

During Saturday’s beatdown of Stanford, Nix got loose for an 80-yard touchdown run, easily the longest of his career. And a play that strengthened a lead that was already huge, putting the Ducks up 38-10 over the Cardinal. After the game, Nix was asked about his spectacular scamper, to which he credited mostly to his blockers and also noted he needs to start doing more sprints in practice to prepare for such long runs.

“Yeah, that was cool. Obviously, it came at a good time in the game and we were kind of stalling and we needed something to happen. And just the way it worked out, they kind of left the middle open and I just took off running. Our guys did a great job blocking down the field and it was just a good situation to get in the end zone right there. So that was a good spark for our offense. Obviously, it was it was fun to have a run like that and I was extremely tired at the end. I gotta run some 80 yard sprints in practice a little bit more.”

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Then Nix was asked whether that play was a designed QB run or if he took matters into his own hands when the pass call broke down.

“It was in the middle. It was kind of one of those things where we talk all the time. If you get back, get set, you kind of see a part like that, you can go ahead and take off and make it kind of like a quarterback draw. That’s what happened. It’s just kind of instinctual. They came up the field and saw the middle and just stood up.”

After Nix broke, how quickly did he look down field and see the end zone, even from 50+ yards out?

“Really, I mean I guess the whole time. Got out there and I saw really nobody. A bunch of guys with their backs to me. And so, like I said, Troy and those guys, I saw in my vision. They made some great blocks. And so once I got out there in the open and kind of had a little crease I was just trying not to get hooked down.”

Heck of a run for Bo Nix and a great performance from Oregon vs. Stanford on Saturday. Ducks are in the thick of the Pac-12 title race.