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Oregon’s Marcus Mariota has first pass intercepted since 2012

Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, shown against Stanford, had his threw his first pass intercepted of the season on Saturday.
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By Chris Dufresne
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One of the most remarkable streaks in college football ended Saturday in Tucson when Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota had a pass intercepted for the first time this season.

Mariota had thrown a Pac-12 Conference record 353 passes without an interception before his perfect pass to Bralon Addison was picked off by Arizona’s Scooby Wright in the first quarter.

It took a sideline circus play to end the streak as the ball bounced off Addison’s chest and was deflected by Shaquille Richardson to Wright.

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Mariota entered the game with 25 touchdowns and no interceptions.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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