Nevada vs. Oregon

Nevada and Oregon have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1947; Oregon leads the series 7–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Oregon 7–⁠1, and Oregon has won the last 7.

Nevada wins
1
Oregon wins
7
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1947
Longest streak
7 Oregon
Current streak
7 Oregon
Last 10 meetings
Oregon 7–⁠1
Most recent
2019

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
1990s0–⁠3
2000s0–⁠2
2010s0–⁠2
Average margin
30.5 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Nevada
0–⁠1 Nevada’s record at home
At Oregon
6–⁠1 Oregon’s record at home

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Nevada’s biggest win1947: Nevada 13, Oregon 6by 7 points
  2. Oregon’s biggest win2019: Oregon 77, Nevada 6by 71 points

Coach against coach

YearsNevadaSeriesOregon
1996–⁠1999Jeff Tisdel0–⁠3Mike Bellotti

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Nevada’s side (Tisdel 0–⁠3 against Bellotti). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nevada and Oregon, 1947 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 The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1947 game: COLLEGE FOOTBALL UNDER WAY

    1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 6, 1947

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 7, 201916Oregon 77, Nevada 6at Oregon
Sep 10, 201113Oregon 69, Nevada 20at Oregon
Sep 6, 2003Oregon 31, Nevada 23at Oregon
Sep 2, 2000Oregon 36, Nevada 7at Oregon
Sep 18, 1999Oregon 72, Nevada 10at Oregon
Sep 13, 1997Oregon 24, Nevada 20at Nevada
Sep 7, 1996Oregon 44, Nevada 30at Oregon
Oct 4, 1947Nevada 13, Oregon 6at Oregon

Every game is listed as played on the field.