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. Share
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
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 0–1 |
- 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
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

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
| 2025 | CBS | 5.4 million viewers |
Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
Every game
| Nov 8, 2025 | 6Oregon 18, Iowa 16 | at Iowa | ||
| Sep 24, 1994 | Oregon 40, Iowa 18 | at Oregon | ||
| Sep 16, 1989 | Oregon 44, 24Iowa 6 | at Iowa | ||
| Oct 29, 1949 | Iowa 34, Oregon 31 | at Iowa |
Every game is listed as played on the field.