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Oregon vs. Washington State

Oregon and Washington State have 95 meetings on file, the first in 1916; Oregon leads the series 52–⁠37–⁠6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Oregon 6–⁠4, and Oregon has won the last 5.

Oregon wins
52
Washington State wins
37
Ties
6
Earliest on file
1916
Longest streak
8 Oregon
Current streak
5 Oregon
Last 10 meetings
Oregon 6–⁠4
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠2
1920s1–⁠2–⁠2
1930s3–⁠1
1940s4–⁠3–⁠2
1950s5–⁠5–⁠1
1960s6–⁠3–⁠1
1970s4–⁠6
1980s5–⁠5
1990s6–⁠3
2000s7–⁠3
2010s6–⁠4
2020s4–⁠0
Both ranked
5 meetings: Oregon 1, Washington State 4
Average margin
13.6 points; 32 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Oregon
26–⁠16–⁠3 Oregon’s record at home
At Washington State
21–⁠26–⁠3 Washington State’s record at home
Shutouts
11

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Oregon’s biggest win2008: Oregon 63, Washington State 14by 49 points
  2. Washington State’s biggest win2003: Washington State 55, Oregon 16by 39 points
  3. Upset2015: Washington State 45, Oregon 38Washington State had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2004: Oregon 41, Washington State 38Oregon had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1992: Oregon 34, Washington State 17Oregon had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  6. Ranked showdown2002: Washington State 32, Oregon 21No. 15 Oregon at No. 5 Washington State
  7. Ranked showdown2001: Oregon 24, Washington State 17No. 11 Oregon at No. 14 Washington State
  8. Ranked showdown2003: Washington State 55, Oregon 16No. 21 Washington State at No. 10 Oregon

Coach against coach

YearsOregonSeriesWashington State
1919–⁠1922Shy Huntington1–⁠1–⁠1Gus Welch
1938–⁠1941Tex Oliver2–⁠1–⁠1O.E. Hollingbery
1945–⁠1946Tex Oliver1–⁠1–⁠1Phil Sarboe
1947–⁠1949Jim Aiken3–⁠0Phil Sarboe
1952–⁠1955Len Casanova2–⁠2Alton Kircher
1956–⁠1963Len Casanova6–⁠2–⁠1Jim Sutherland
1964–⁠1966Len Casanova0–⁠2–⁠1Bert Clark
1968–⁠1971Jerry Frei3–⁠1Jim Sweeney
1978–⁠1986Rich Brooks5–⁠4Jim Walden
1989–⁠1994Rich Brooks3–⁠2Mike Price
1995–⁠2002Mike Bellotti5–⁠3Mike Price
2003–⁠2007Mike Bellotti3–⁠2Bill Doba
2009–⁠2011Chip Kelly3–⁠0Paul Wulff
2013–⁠2016Mark Helfrich2–⁠2Mike Leach

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Oregon’s side (Huntington 1–⁠1–⁠1 against Welch). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Oregon and Washington State, 1916 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Luke Falk Washington State50 of 74, 505 yards, 5 TD2015 Passing
Connor Halliday Washington State58 of 89, 557 yards, 4 TD, 4 INT2013 Passing
Connor Halliday Washington State43 of 63, 436 yards, 4 TD2014 Passing
Kellen Clemens Oregon36 of 55, 437 yards, 3 TD2004 Passing
Cam Ward Washington State34 of 48, 438 yards, 1 TD2023 Passing
C.J. Verdell Oregon23 carries, 257 yards, 3 TD2019 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening capital news's story of the 1916 game: OREGON SCORES A VICTORY over PULLMAN ACC|ES Famous Washington State Eleven Goes Down to De- feat Before the Fast Eu- gene Aggregation.

    1916 · Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, Nov 12, 1916

  • The The Lynden tribune. (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current's story of the 1917 game

    1917 · The Lynden tribune. (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, Washington, Oct 25, 1917

  • The Omaha daily bee's story of the 1919 game: Washington State College Defeats Oregon by 10 Score

    1919 · Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, Nov 9, 1919

  • The Capital journal's story of the 1922 game

    1922 · Capital journal, Salem, Or., Nov 13, 1922

  • The Douglas daily dispatch's story of the 1926 game: WASHINGTON STATE DEFEATS OREGON u.

    1926 · Douglas daily dispatch, Arizona, Nov 14, 1926

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

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2018.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Oct 21, 20239Oregon 38, Washington State 24at Oregon
Sep 24, 202215Oregon 44, Washington State 41at Washington State
Nov 13, 20215Oregon 38, Washington State 24at Oregon
Nov 14, 202011Oregon 43, Washington State 29at Washington State
Oct 26, 201911Oregon 37, Washington State 35at Oregon
Oct 20, 201825Washington State 34, 12Oregon 20at Washington State
Oct 7, 201711Washington State 33, Oregon 10at Oregon
Oct 1, 2016Washington State 51, Oregon 33at Washington State
Oct 10, 2015Washington State 45, Oregon 38at Oregon
Sep 20, 20142Oregon 38, Washington State 31at Washington State
Oct 19, 20132Oregon 62, Washington State 38at Oregon
Sep 29, 20122Oregon 51, Washington State 26at Washington State
Oct 29, 20117Oregon 43, Washington State 28at Oregon
Oct 9, 20103Oregon 43, Washington State 23at Washington State
Oct 3, 200916Oregon 52, Washington State 6at Oregon
Sep 27, 2008Oregon 63, Washington State 14at Washington State
Oct 13, 20079Oregon 53, Washington State 7at Oregon
Oct 21, 2006Washington State 34, 16Oregon 23at Washington State
Nov 12, 200511Oregon 34, Washington State 31at Washington State
Oct 9, 2004Oregon 41, Washington State 38at Washington State
Sep 27, 200321Washington State 55, 10Oregon 16at Oregon
Nov 9, 20025Washington State 32, 15Oregon 21at Washington State
Oct 27, 200111Oregon 24, 14Washington State 17at Washington State
Nov 4, 20007Oregon 27, Washington State 24at Washington State
Nov 6, 1999Oregon 52, Washington State 10at Oregon
Oct 10, 199815Oregon 51, Washington State 29at Washington State
Oct 4, 199715Washington State 24, Oregon 13at Oregon
Sep 21, 1996Washington State 55, 25Oregon 44at Washington State
Oct 21, 199512Oregon 26, Washington State 7at Oregon
Oct 8, 199422Washington State 21, Oregon 7at Washington State
Oct 30, 1993Oregon 46, Washington State 23at Oregon
Oct 31, 1992Oregon 34, 19Washington State 17at Washington State
Sep 7, 1991Oregon 40, Washington State 14at Oregon
Oct 7, 198921Washington State 51, 23Oregon 38at Oregon
Sep 17, 1988Oregon 43, Washington State 28at Washington State
Nov 14, 1987Oregon 31, Washington State 17at Washington State
Nov 15, 1986Oregon 27, Washington State 17at Oregon
Aug 31, 1985Oregon 42, Washington State 39at Washington State
Oct 27, 1984Washington State 50, Oregon 41at Oregon
Oct 29, 1983Washington State 24, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 6, 1982Washington State 10, Oregon 3at Oregon
Nov 7, 1981Washington State 39, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 1, 1980Oregon 20, Washington State 10at Oregon
Oct 27, 1979Oregon 37, Washington State 26at Washington State
Oct 28, 1978Oregon 31, Washington State 7at Oregon
Oct 29, 1977Washington State 56, Oregon 20at Washington State
Oct 30, 1976Washington State 23, Oregon 22at Oregon
Nov 1, 1975Oregon 26, Washington State 14at Washington State
Nov 2, 1974Washington State 21, Oregon 16at Oregon
Nov 3, 1973Washington State 21, Oregon 14at Washington State
Oct 14, 1972Washington State 31, Oregon 14at Oregon
Oct 30, 1971Washington State 31, Oregon 21at Washington State
Oct 3, 1970Oregon 28, Washington State 13at Oregon
Oct 4, 1969Oregon 25, Washington State 24at Washington State
Nov 9, 1968Oregon 27, Washington State 13at Oregon
Nov 4, 1967Oregon 17, Washington State 13at Washington State
Nov 5, 1966Washington State 14, Oregon 13at Oregon
Nov 6, 1965Washington State 27, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 7, 1964Oregon 21, Washington State 21at Oregon
Nov 9, 1963Oregon 21, Washington State 7at Washington State
Nov 10, 1962Oregon 28, Washington State 10at Oregon
Nov 11, 1961Washington State 22, Oregon 21at Washington State
Oct 15, 1960Oregon 21, Washington State 12at Oregon
Nov 14, 195914Oregon 7, Washington State 6at Washington State
Oct 3, 1959Oregon 14, Washington State 6at Oregon
Oct 18, 1958Washington State 6, 14Oregon 0at Oregon
Oct 19, 1957Oregon 14, 19Washington State 13at Washington State
Nov 10, 1956Oregon 7, Washington State 7at Oregon
Nov 5, 1955Oregon 35, Washington State 0at Washington State
Nov 13, 1954Oregon 26, Washington State 14at Oregon
Oct 10, 1953Washington State 7, Oregon 0at Washington State
Nov 8, 1952Washington State 19, Oregon 6at Oregon
Oct 27, 195118Washington State 41, Oregon 6at Washington State
Nov 4, 1950Washington State 21, Oregon 13at Oregon
Oct 8, 1949Oregon 21, Washington State 0at Washington State
Oct 23, 1948Oregon 33, Washington State 7at Oregon
Nov 8, 1947Oregon 12, Washington State 6at Washington State
Oct 19, 1946Oregon 0, Washington State 0at Oregon
Nov 10, 1945Washington State 20, Oregon 13at Washington State
Oct 20, 1945Oregon 26, Washington State 13at Oregon
Oct 3, 1942Washington State 7, Oregon 0at Washington State
Nov 1, 1941Washington State 13, Oregon 0at Oregon
Oct 26, 1940Washington State 6, Oregon 6at Washington State
Nov 4, 1939Oregon 38, Washington State 0at Oregon
Sep 24, 1938Oregon 10, Washington State 2at Washington State
Nov 6, 1937Oregon 10, Washington State 6at Oregon
Oct 24, 1936Washington State 3, Oregon 0at Washington State
Nov 13, 1926Washington State 7, Oregon 0at Washington State
Nov 15, 1924Washington State 7, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 3, 1923Washington State 13, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 11, 1922Oregon 13, Washington State 0at Oregon
Nov 5, 1921Washington State 7, Oregon 7at Washington State
Nov 8, 1919Washington State 7, Oregon 0at Oregon
Oct 20, 1917Washington State 26, Oregon 3at Washington State
Nov 11, 1916Oregon 12, Washington State 3at Oregon

Every game is listed as played on the field.