Oregon Brings Down Detmer and BYU : Ducks: They sack the Cougar quarterback five times and intercept five of his passes in a 32-16 upset.

The banner paraded around Autzen Stadium read “Ty Died In Eugene.”

That said it all.

Fourth-ranked Brigham Young’s lofty hopes for an unbeaten season and a shot at the national championship came crashing to earth with a 32-16 loss to Oregon on Saturday.

After a victory over Miami in the second game of the season, Brigham Young had visions of repeating its national title march of 1984. Oregon was seen as perhaps the last major challenge on a generally soft schedule.

It was a challenge the Cougars couldn’t meet.

Ty Detmer, BYU’s star quarterback, had five passes intercepted and was sacked on five occasions, once for a safety, as the Ducks took an early lead and never relinquished it.

“They played a great defensive game,” Detmer said. “They came out and got after us.”

Daryle Smith tied an Oregon school record with three interceptions.

“Some people don’t even know how to pronounce Oregon,” Smith said. “They do now.”

BYU finished with minus 47 yards rushing and 12 of its 19 rushing attempts resulted in losses.

Bill Musgrave passed for three touchdowns and ran for a fourth for Oregon (3-1), which rebounded from a tough 22-17 loss at Arizona last week. In that game, Musgrave was stopped inside the Arizona one-yard line on the final play.

“It was just a heartbreaker last weekend. That was about the toughest game I can remember playing,” he said. “But hearts do get mended, and this win really has mended my heart.”

Brigham Young (4-1) was within 12-10 early in the third quarter, but Musgrave directed three consecutive touchdown drives and the Cougars were never closer than 16 points again.

Musgrave completed 23 of 37 passes for 286 yards to become the all-time Oregon leader in passing yardage. He had one pass intercepted.

Detmer was 33 of 57 for 442 yards.

When the teams met last year, the two quarterbacks combined for an NCAA record 959 yards passing in BYU’s 45-41 victory.

Musgrave didn’t get his passing arm revved up until the second half, when he completed 13 of 20 for 167 yards.

The Oregon quarterback threw 12 yards to Michael McClellan for one score, hit a wide-open Jeff Thomason for 30 yards and another score, then ran three yards on an option to boost the lead to 32-10 with 12:38 left.

Detmer connected with Micah Matsuzaki on a 69-yard touchdown play to slice the lead to 32-16. The two-point conversion pass failed.

Steve Kemp intercepted two passes for Oregon and three of the Ducks’ pickoffs came in the end zone.

“They mixed up their coverages well and kept good pressure on Ty,” BYU Coach LaVell Edwards said. “We kind of got out of sync and didn’t so some things as well as I hoped we would.”