Northwestern vs. Oregon State
Northwestern and Oregon State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1957; Northwestern leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Northwestern 3–1, and Northwestern has won the last 3. Share
- Northwestern wins
- 3
- Oregon State wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1957
- Longest streak
- 3 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 3 Northwestern
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 3–1
- Most recent
- 1966
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 7.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Northwestern
- 2–1 Northwestern’s record at home
- At Oregon State
- 0–1 Oregon State’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

1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 6, 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
| Oct 8, 1966 | Northwestern 14, Oregon State 6 | at Oregon State | ||
| Oct 9, 1965 | Northwestern 15, Oregon State 7 | at Northwestern | ||
| Sep 19, 1964 | Northwestern 7, Oregon State 3 | at Northwestern | ||
| Oct 5, 1957 | 9Oregon State 22, Northwestern 13 | at Northwestern |
Every game is listed as played on the field.