It's not your ball unless you recover. You didn't. I think it should have been a penalty against Oregon, but it wasn't your ball.
It was an illegal kick. They purposely tried to make it "look" ok by batting it forward and hoping they could get away with it. Guess what? They did.
It should have been kicked again. *Then* we would have had the *opportunity* for it to be our ball. The way we had been playing, it would have been.