Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning was critical of his team’s penalty kill following Saturday’s 39-18 win over the Maryland Terrapins at Autzen Stadium.

Despite the game effectively being out of reach in the third quarter with time remaining, early mistakes (some of which were controversial to say the least) allowed the Terrapins to hang around a little longer than they probably should have.

“Bad performance for us, we have to go back and look at the film to eliminate that,” Lanning said. “We didn’t play clean, so I don’t know if we were distracted, not focused. I feel like our guys had good energy and enthusiasm, but we put ourselves in some bad spots defensively. We gave them opportunities for first downs.” , hurting ourselves with some pre-snap penalties on offense, so it’s definitely something for us to attack and clean up.

The Ducks committed 12 penalties for 95 yards, both season-highs. The first flag came on the opening drive when Daylen Austin was called for roughing the kicker on 4th and 8 after hitting Maryland punter Bryce McFerson. This extended the Terrapins’ drive and led to points, as Maryland took an early 3–0 lead.

After a three-and-out on their first drive, the Ducks answered with a 14-play, 92-yard touchdown drive, but Oregon still couldn’t avoid penalties. Two false starts were called for the Ducks before Jordan James ended the drive with a three-yard rushing score.

In the second quarter, Maryland was able to put together its best performance thanks to some questionable flags against the Ducks, both coming on crucial downs against Oregon defenseman Tysheem Johnson. He was called for a pair of pass interference penalties that extended the drive on third and fourth down. Both flags were certainly questionable and led to Maryland finding the end zone and making it a 14-10 game with 3:17 left in the first half.

‘I have to watch the movie. Some of them were close,” Lanning said.

Despite the mild controversy, the Ducks quieted the point by taking care of business offensively just before halftime and through most of the second half. Still, the team expects to have to pay the price in practice.

“We do up-downs every day in practice just for penalties, so I know Coach Lanning will definitely hit us with that,” Oregon defenseman Kobe Savage said.

The Ducks will look to remain perfect — record-wise, that is — when they visit the Wisconsin Badgers next Saturday in another Big Ten battle.