Iowa vs. Oregon

Iowa and Oregon have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1949; Oregon leads the series 3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Oregon 3–⁠1, and Oregon has won the last 3.

Scheduled 2027 at Oregon. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Iowa wins
1
Oregon wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1949
Longest streak
3 Oregon
Current streak
3 Oregon
Last 10 meetings
Oregon 3–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1980s0–⁠1
1990s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
16.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
1–⁠2 Iowa’s record at home
At Oregon
1–⁠0 Oregon’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa and Oregon, 1949 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The St. Paul recorder's story of the 1949 game

    1949 · St. Paul recorder, St. Paul, Minn., Nov 4, 1949

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.

On television

2025CBS5.4 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Nov 8, 20256Oregon 18, Iowa 16at Iowa
Sep 24, 1994Oregon 40, Iowa 18at Oregon
Sep 16, 1989Oregon 44, 24Iowa 6at Iowa
Oct 29, 1949Iowa 34, Oregon 31at Iowa

Every game is listed as played on the field.