California vs. Oregon State

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. California’s biggest win1979: California 45, Oregon State 0by 45 points
2. Oregon State’s biggest win2012: Oregon State 62, California 14by 48 points
3. Upset1976: Oregon State 10, California 9Oregon State had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1960: California 14, Oregon State 6California had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2007: Oregon State 31, California 28Oregon State had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from California’s side (Allison 3–⁠4 against Stiner). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1917 · Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, Oct 28, 1917

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  1936 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 12, 1936

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  1937 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 4, 1937

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  1939 · The Nome nugget, Alaska, Nov 20, 1939

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  1940 · The Nome nugget, Nov 4, 1940

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• California vs. USC108 meetings, California 31–⁠72–⁠5
• California vs. Stanford105 meetings, California 45–⁠54–⁠6
• California vs. Washington99 meetings, California 41–⁠55–⁠3
• California vs. UCLA95 meetings, California 35–⁠59–⁠1
• Oregon State vs. Oregon109 meetings, Oregon State 46–⁠57–⁠6
• Oregon State vs. Washington State104 meetings, Oregon State 45–⁠56–⁠3
• Oregon State vs. Washington95 meetings, Oregon State 32–⁠61–⁠2
• Oregon State vs. Stanford90 meetings, Oregon State 28–⁠59–⁠3