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2002 Oregon Ducks football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4600373 ↗
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The 2002 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by eighth-year head coach Mike Bellotti, the Ducks compiled an overall record of 7–6 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing eight in the Pac-10. Oregon was invited to the Seattle Bowl, where the Ducks lost to Wake Forest. The team played home games at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon.

Before the season

Recruiting

Schedule

Game summaries

Mississippi State

Jason Fife's first start for Oregon.

at UCLA

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 Oregon Ducks football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.