EUGENE — Nevada isn’t going to harp on its 77-6 loss at Oregon, but it intends to remember it.

The Ducks handed the Wolf Pack their worst loss since 1920 and sophomore defensive tackle Dom Peterson, who had four tackles and Nevada’s only sack of the game, felt his team quit in the second half of the onslaught.

“They (Oregon) had to prove – I guess they lost to Auburn – I guess they had to prove to people that they’re still a championship-contending team," Peterson said. “I’m just mad that it was us. I feel like we could’ve done way better. I personally think we gave up at half, which is something I’ve never seen from our team, ever, from last year to now. I was more disappointed than anything in the fact that we gave up because I know we could do better.”

Peterson took exception to Oregon’s celebrating throughout the fourth quarter, when the Ducks ran the ball 13 times to just five passes and added two more scores.

“What happened (Saturday), it was crazy,” Peterson said. “I don’t like that feeling, that’s why it’s hard for me to explain, I don’t like that feeling of losing. I don’t like being on that side of the stick. Definitely defending Mackay (Stadium this week), we’re not letting that happen again. Guys need to get a little bit more fire in them now because it happened, it’s over with now but still keep it in the back of your head – don’t just forget about it. Yeah, we’re forgetting about it but it needs to stay there. You need to remember how they was doing us in the fourth quarter, how they was dancing us and acting like clowns out there. It’s something I’ll never forget and now I don’t want nobody to ever do us like that, especially not at Mackay.”

Meanwhile, Nevada coach Jay Norvell was complimentary of Oregon, saying the Ducks secondary will be the best the Wolf Pack face and the size, speed and depth of UO’s roster was impressive.

Though Norvell said he didn’t like his team having its “nose rubbed in it” by way of an outcome, he didn’t feel Oregon ran the score up by continuing to be aggressive when its backups were in the game.

Norvell, who played defensive back at Iowa from 1982-85, felt some of his team’s younger players were wide-eyed playing in front of the 50,920 at Autzen Stadium, though he didn’t personally find it that intimidating.

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“Sometimes when you’re a little bit older you forget what it’s like to be 18, 19 years old and go and play in an environment like Autzen Stadium,” Norvell said. "It was a really good learning experience for a lot of our young players. We played about a quarter-and-a-half of competitive football and from there we made too many mistakes to give ourselves even a chance to be in the game. ... We just have to worry about the things we can control. That’s the greatest learning experience about playing at a place like Autzen.

“I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up playing at Ohio State and Michigan, over 100,000 people. I played in the Coliseum, I played at the Rose Bowl, over 100,000 people, Autzen stadium seats 50,000? It’s not the most intimidating atmosphere in football, but if you’ve never done it before you make it a little bit bigger than it is. That’s kind of what happened to some of our kids – and not all of them. We had a lot of guys playing hard and a lot of guys that were competing. But we had a handful that – they can’t come out of the stands and play and you have to learn that as a player. That’s part of the experience of college football and playing in those kind of venues. We want the kind of team that learns from that and the next time we get in that kind of situation we handle it a lot more mature and a lot better. It’s also a great example of when you play a very, very talented team like Oregon it doesn’t take much for you to get off the tracks.”