Kansas vs. Oregon State

Kansas and Oregon State have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1957; Kansas leads the series 4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Kansas 4–⁠2, and Kansas has won the last 4.

Kansas wins
4
Oregon State wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1957
Longest streak
4 Kansas
Current streak
4 Kansas
Last 10 meetings
Kansas 4–⁠2
Most recent
1992

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠2
1970s2–⁠0
1990s2–⁠0
Average margin
21.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
2–⁠1 Kansas’s record at home
At Oregon State
1–⁠2 Oregon State’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1992: Kansas 49, Oregon State 20by 29 points
  2. Oregon State’s biggest win1957: Oregon State 34, Kansas 6by 28 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and Oregon State, 1957 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1957 game: Linemen Given Credit For Two Big Surprises

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1957

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

Sep 5, 1992Kansas 49, Oregon State 20at Oregon State
Sep 8, 1990Kansas 38, Oregon State 12at Kansas
Sep 4, 1976Kansas 28, Oregon State 16at Oregon State
Sep 27, 1975Kansas 20, Oregon State 0at Kansas
Sep 27, 1958Oregon State 12, Kansas 0at Oregon State
Sep 28, 19579Oregon State 34, Kansas 6at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.