EUGENE — When Oregon quarterback Dante Moore saw Oregon State on the schedule, he didn’t have the same kind of visceral reaction as his teammates.

To be sure, Moore isn’t fond of the in-state rival Beavers. But it’s not because Moore was on the losing end of a game in the series, which had its 129th installment on Saturday at Autzen Stadium.

It’s personal in a different way for Moore, whose final start as a freshman at UCLA came in a loss in Corvallis where he threw three interceptions.

“It was me remembering my 18-year-old self, when I played at Oregon State and I was mentally depressed,” Moore said. “The way things were going and everybody knows the struggles that happened. I used it as fuel to make sure that I never get that feeling ever again.”

Moore said he watched the film of t

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