Oregon topples Penn St. on walk-off INT in 2OT

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Dillon Thieneman intercepted Drew Allar's walk successful the 2nd overtime period, and No. 6 Oregon outlasted No. 3 Penn State 30-24 connected Saturday night, winning the rematch of past season's league title game.

Jamari Johnson ran for a touchdown successful overtime, Dierre Hill Jr. caught a touchdown pass, Jordon Davison ran for different people and Atticus Sappington kicked a tract extremity for the Ducks (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten), who won their FBS-leading 23rd consecutive regular-season game.

"Never mislaid our composure 1 second," Oregon manager Dan Lanning said aft the game. "Highs and debased successful this game. That's a large shot team. Threw immoderate punches; we punched more. And deed a haymaker astatine the end."

Oregon improved to 12-0 successful regular-season Big Ten play and did truthful successful 1 of assemblage football's astir hostile environments; 111,015 fans -- astir of them clad successful each achromatic -- tried to assistance Penn State successful the last minutes.

They astir did so.

Trailing 17-10, Penn State got the shot with 7:07 near to play. An discourtesy that had managed conscionable 189 yards to that constituent drove down the tract wherever Allar hooked up with Devonte Ross for a 7-yard touchdown to unit overtime.

Ross caught a 35-yarder from Allar earlier successful the fourth, but it wasn't capable to support Penn State from falling to 4-21 against AP Top 10 teams since James Franklin became coach.

Kaytron Allen scored the opening touchdown successful overtime earlier Johnson equaled it. Allar was intercepted connected Penn State's adjacent play.

After enduring a sluggish, back-and-forth archetypal half, Oregon took power successful the 3rd quarter.

Led by Moore, the Ducks drove to Penn State's 9 wherever Nittany Lion antiaircraft extremity Chaz Coleman appeared to punch the shot retired of Noah Whittington's grasp. Safety Zakee Wheatley recovered and returned it to midfield earlier a reappraisal overturned the fumble.

The Ducks went up 10-7 connected the adjacent play erstwhile Moore threw an 8-yard walk to Hill, who bulled his mode implicit the extremity enactment with 3:16 near successful the third.

Penn State was booed disconnected the tract aft its adjacent possession -- a three-and-out that featured 2 incompletions and a 1-yard catch.

Oregon took a 14-point pb with its ensuing possession, a 10-play, 75-yard thrust that ended erstwhile Davison burst up the mediate connected fourth-and-1 for an 8-yard touchdown with 12:25 near to play.

The students that beryllium astir the stadium's southbound extremity zone, erupted into "Fire Franklin!" chants.

They changed their tune erstwhile Allar recovered Ross moving wide unfastened to the country of that extremity portion for a 35-yard touchdown walk that chopped Oregon's pb to 17-10.

Allar went backmost to enactment connected Penn State's adjacent possession, steering his discourtesy 62 yards and uncovering Ross with a walk that turned into a 7-yard touchdown and tied it 17-17 with 30 seconds left.

Both teams' defenses starred successful the archetypal half.

Oregon kept Allar from getting into a bushed portion holding Nittany Lion tailbacks Allen and Nicholas Singleton to 18 rushing yards implicit the archetypal 2 quarters. The Nittany Lions punted 3 times, but got a 49-yard tract extremity from Ryan Barker to instrumentality a 3-0 pb with 13:26 near successful the archetypal half.

Meanwhile, Penn State's defence was conscionable arsenic tough. The Nittany Lions forced a punt, a turnover connected downs and a missed tract extremity earlier Sappington nailed a 42-yarder to necktie it 3:42 earlier halftime.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.