Matt Moore
2006: With over one year in the program, Matt Moore is expected to be more comfortable in Mike Riley’s offensive system...when he started the opening game of last season he was only the third quarterback to start for OSU in a 76-game span...a good athlete who has recovered from a sprained knee injury that he sustained in the 10th game of last season...a good arm and mobile...spent his first two seasons at UCLA, starting five games, and now has 15 for his career at the college level...enters the season with 3,678 passing yards and 15 touchdowns at the college level...a career completion percentage of .569. 2005: Matt enrolled at Oregon State for winter term of ’05 (January) and had the opportunity to participate in spring football...head coach Mike Riley announced him as the leader on the depth chart after spring practice...finished the season with 2,711 yards passing, the ninth-highest total for a single season at OSU...his .594 completion percentage was third among the 20-best single season yardage performances in school history...injured his right knee in the second quarter of the 10th game (Stanford) of the season and he missed the remainder of the year...his 271.1 yards passing per game was second in the Pac-10, trailing only USC’s Matt Leinart (293.5)...threw for 367 yards in the season opener vs. Portland State, the most ever by a Beaver quarterback in his first start...threw for a career-high 436 yards against Arizona, had 317 yards at Louisville and 311 vs. Arizona State...hooked up with Mike Hass on a 63-yard touchdown strike against Washington State that gave OSU the lead 37-33 after the team trailed 30-13 late in the second quarter...also had two 58-yard pass and catches -- one to Anthony Wheat-Brown in the team’s upset of No. 18 California in Berkeley and the other one week later in his return to the Rose Bowl to Hass. 2004: Moore did not play in 2004 while attending the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California......selected in the 22nd round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft by the Angels in June of ‘04. 2003: Matt started four of the eight games he appeared in at UCLA...threw for 555 yards, two touchdowns and six interceptions as a sophomore, completing 52 of 103 passes...started the season opener vs. Colorado, but suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for the next three games – then had just eight pass attempts over the next three contests...Moore moved back in front of Drew Olson on the depth chart for the Oct. 26 game at the Rose Bowl against Arizona State – he passed for one touchdown on a 14 of 28 190-yard performance in UCLA’s 20-13 win...started the team’s next two games against Stanford and Washington State. 2002: Matt appeared in six games as a true-freshman...became the first Bruin true-freshman quarterback to start since Cade McNown...the Bruins defeated Stanford in Moore’s debut, marking the first time a true-freshman QB in his first game led UCLA to a win...led the team to seven scoring drives against the Cardinal...Moore earned the starting position, after he was slated to redshirt, due to injuries to Cory Paus and Drew Olson in the previous week’s game vs. California...he later would play, but not start, against Arizona, USC, Washington State and New Mexico in the Las Vegas Bowl...in a reserve role he was 7-for-11 for 64 yards and one touchdown in the annual rivalry game vs. USC...for the season he completed 33 of 62 passes for 412 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions. HART: Two-year letterman as a quarterback and defensive back...rated the No. 8 quarterback in the nation and the FarWest Offensive Player of the Year by SuperPrep...PacWest Football.com rated him No. 6 on its quarterback list...Cal-Hi Sports first team All-State...first team All-CIF Southern Section and the Southern Section Division III Offensive Player of the Year...Los Angeles Times All-San Fernando Valley and the region Player of the Year...selected to play in the 2002 North-South Shrine All-Star game...led Hart to a 13-0 record as a senior and the Southern Section title...in the state title game against Valencia he passed for 277 yards and four touchdowns, and rushed for 95 yards and a score in a 42-13 victory...as a senior he threw for 3,334 yards on 234 of 953 (.663) and 33 touchdowns...All-CIF as a junior at safety...also lettered two years in baseball. PERSONAL: Born in CAREER PASSING YARDS Year Att. Comp. Int. Yds PCT TD Long 2005 355 211 19 2,711 .594 11 63 2004 Redshirt 2003 103 52 6 555 .505 2 52 2002 62 33 0 412 .532 2 49 Totals 520 296 25 3,678 .569 15 63 PASSING GAME-BY-GAME (2005) Game Att. Comp. Int Yds TD UCLA 25 14 2 279 2 Stanford# 14 5 1 94 1 Totals 355 211 19 2,711 11 #injured right knee in second quarter. PASSING GAME-BY-GAME (2003/UCLA) Game Att. Comp. Int Yds TD Stanford* 31 19 1 145 0 WSU* 29 11 2 138 1 Totals 103 52 6 555 2 PASSING GAME-BY-GAME (2002/UCLA) Game Att. Comp. Int Yds TD Stanford* 19 7 0 142 1 USC 11 7 0 64 1 WSU 8 4 0 36 0 Totals 62 33 0 412 2 *indicates game started
