The 45 points.
The 25 unanswered points.
The 559 total yards passing.
Numbers tend to stick out after a loss, especially after a loss of the magnitude that has followed Oregon football around for almost a week.
Gone is the possibility of a perfect season, and, most likely, the chances of a bid to play in the Fiesta Bowl for the national championship.
But while the offense exploded and the defense toiled against Arizona State, no one player can be blamed, the Ducks said. No one unit can be derided.
Because football is a team game, and for a win, everyone must act accordingly.
“We lost as a team, offensively and defensively,” junior running back Onterrio Smith said. “Everybody admitted to their mistakes, to everything that was done out there. The blown coverages, the missed pass protections, the fumbles. Everybody admitted to that. We just take that and bring it into practice and try to reenergize.”

Junior quarterback Jason Fife threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns on 21-of-32 passing. Smith extended his streak of 100-yard games to seven with 172 yards on 27 attempts.
But it all didn’t matter. It all came crashing down when, with 1:35 left in the game, Sun Devil Brett Hudson picked off a Fife pass.
All that, though, may not have mattered if the Oregon defense had successfully held the Sun Devils to less than 35 points in the second half.
“I think the defense did their job when they had to,” Fife said. “Sure, they had (559) yards passing put up against them, but when it came down to it, they held them to a field goal with about two minutes left for the offense to do their job. So when it came down to it, they did their job, but I just don’t think we finished very well.”
Oregon, through its first seven games of the season, had become a group that, despite shortcomings in any one area, has gelled. The lines between defense and offense are only drawn by the positions each player plays.
“It’s very easy for people to want to place blame,” Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti said. “But in a team game, it falls on the team.”
Fife had nothing but kind words for the defense that was victimized last week, especially with Arizona State’s Andrew Walter having a career day against it.
“Wow, he’s being pretty efficient right now,” Fife said when asked about Walter’s play. “Because there were a couple of times where he had some guys open, but there were some times when he was making a play. He was just making a play. Steven Moore had some good coverages, Keith Lewis was on guys, and it was just a matter of we were a step behind them, or it was just the fact they made a play. It’s tough.”
After throwing for 209 yards passing and 10 points in the first half, Arizona State exploded for 350 yards passing and 35 points in the second stanza, including a streak where the Sun Devils scored 25 straight.
Shaun McDonald ended the day with 204 yards, while Derek Hagan had 95 and Justin Taplin 80.
Arizona State’s longest pass play, a 67 yarder to McDonald near the end of the third quarter, pulled the Sun Devils to within three and paved the way for the upset.
After the game, there wasn’t much to say. The Oregon offense had done its job, but the defense was hurting.
“There’s not really much you can say,” senior wide receiver Keenan Howry said. “The defense wasn’t feeling too great at the time, but just tell them to keep their head up and there’s going to be better days ahead.”
The Ducks hope those better days are soon to come.