Rivalry Week Up Next For No. 9 Ducks

The Matchup
#9 Oregon at Oregon State
Saturday,September 14, 2024
12:30 p.m. PT | FOX
Reser Stadium | Corvallis, Ore.

#9 Oregon Ducks (2-0)
AP/Coaches Rank: 9/6
Head Coach: Dan Lanning (William Jewell College, 2008)
Record at Oregon: 24-5 (3rd Season)
Career Record: Same

Oregon State Beavers (2-0)
AP/Coaches Rank: NR/NR
Head Coach: Trent Bray (Oregon State, 2007)
Record at Oregon State: 2-0 (1st Season)
Career Record: Same

TV: FOX
Play-By-Play: Jason Benetti
Analyst: Brock Huard
Sideline: Allison Williams

Radio - Oregon Sports Network
Local: KUJZ-FM 95.3 (Eugene) | KFXX-AM 1080 (Portland)
Sirius: 133 | XM: 197
Play-by-Play: Jerry Allen
Analyst: Mike Jorgensen
Sideline: Dusty Harrah
Pre-Game Show: Joey McMurry

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New Look, Same Rivalry
Oregon and Oregon State will meet for the 128th time on Saturday, though the storied rivalry will have a different feel this season. The Ducks and Beavers will play as nonconference opponents for the first time since 1963, and will play in the month of September for the first time in the rivalry's history. This is the earliest in the season the Ducks and the Beavers have met each other, and the first time in a month other than November or December since Oct. 13, 1945. Oregon owns a 68-49-10 lead in the all-time series and has won 13 of the last 16 meetings after a dominant 31-7 victory last year in Eugene.

A Win Would...
» Be Oregon's 14th in the last 17 meetings with OSU and would extend UO's all-time lead to 69-49-10.
» Be Oregon's first over OSU in Corvallis since 2018.
» Make the Ducks 3-0 for the second year in a row and fourth time since 2020.

Ducks Outlast Broncos In Autzen
A game full of wild momentum changes saw the pendulum swing in Oregon's favor in the end last week, as the Ducks beat Boise State with a field goal as time expired, 37-34. Oregon defeated Boise State for the first time in program history (fourth meeting), and extended the nation's longest active nonconference home winning streak to 34 games. After a 59-yard touchdown pass from Dillon Gabriel to Traeshon Holden tied the game early in the third quarter, an 85-yard punt return touchdown by Tez Johnson gave Oregon a 27-20 lead entering the fourth. Boise State responded with back-to-back touchdowns to regain the lead, but the Ducks' special teams again came up huge with a 100-yard kickoff return by Noah Whittington that resulted in touchdown after Jayden Limar recovered a fumble in the end zone. The Ducks' defense came up with a couple huge stops in the fourth quarter to set the stage for kicker Atticus Sappington, who drilled a 25-yard field goal as time expired to push the Ducks to a 2-0 start to the season.

» Johnson's punt return touchdown earned him Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week honors.
» Johnson recorded Oregon's first punt return TD since Ugo Amadi ran one back 56 yards vs. UCLA on Nov. 3, 2018.
» The kick return touchdown was Oregon's first since a 98-yard return by Mykael Wright vs. Oregon State on Nov. 30, 2019.
» First time since Oct. 20, 2001, vs. Stanford that UO had a punt return and kickoff return TD in the same game.
» First time since Sept. 28, 2013, vs. California that Oregon had two special team TDs in a game (both punt return TDs).
» Sappington delivered Oregon's first game-winning field goal since Camden Lewis walked off Washington State on Oct. 26, 2019

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Storied Rivalry
This is the 128th all-time meeting between the Ducks and Beavers, moving it into a tie for the second-most played rivalry in the FBS. Oregon owns a 68-49-10 lead in the series and has won 13 of the last 16 meetings, though Oregon State has won each of the last two games played in Corvallis.

Most Played Rivalries in the FBS

Rk	Games	Series
1.	132	Minnesota-Wisconsin
2.	128*	Oregon-Oregon State
	128*	Cincinnati-Miami (Ohio)
	128	Auburn-Georgia
	128	North Carolina-Virginia
6.	126	California-Stanford
	126	Indiana-Purdue
8.	124	Army-Navy
9.	121	Kansas-Kansas State
10.	120	Missouri-Kansas (last played in 2011)

* Including this week's games

Last Time vs. Oregon State
The Ducks booked their ticket to the 2023 Pac-12 Championship Game with a dominant 31-7 win over No. 16 Oregon State last season in Eugene, completing an undefeated (7-0) year at Autzen Stadium and reaching 11 wins in the regular season for just the fourth time in program history. Head coach Dan Lanning said he thought it was a "complete game" after the Ducks racked up 480 total yards while holding OSU to just 273, including only 53 rushing yards. Quarterback Bo Nix completed 33-of-40 passes for 367 yards and two touchdowns while also rushing for 31 yards and a score, and the receiving duo of Tez Johnson (11 catches, 137 yards) and Troy Franklin (9 catches, 128 yards, TD) combined for 265 yards on 20 receptions.

Numbers To Know
1 - Tez Johnson scored the first punt return TD of his career last week, and the first by a Duck since Ugo Amadi on Nov. 3, 2018.
2 - With 13 in his career, Terrance Ferguson is just two touchdown catches away from the UO record for TDs by a tight end.
3 - Oregon is one of three FBS teams (Central Michigan, Tulsa) to return both a punt and kickoff for a TD this season.
18 - Oregon leads the nation with 18 passes defended after racking up 12 PBUs last week, the program's most in a game since 2018.
19 - The Ducks have the most receptions by tight ends in the nation entering Week 3 with 19, led by 10 from Terrance Ferguson.
41 - Dillon Gabriel's 41 completions vs. Idaho in Week 1 are the most by any FBS quarterback in a game this season.
41.8 - The Ducks are holding opposing QBs to just a 41.8% completion rate, the fifth-lowest rate in the nation.
49 - Oregon held Idaho to just 49 rushing yards in Week 1, the fewest since Colorado ran for 40 against the Ducks last season (Sept. 23).
69 - Ross James' career-long 69-yard punt vs. Boise State is tied for the fifth-longest punt in the FBS this season.
84.3 - Dillon Gabriel ranks third nationally with an 84.3 completion percentage, and is tied for third with 59 completions.
85.7 - Dillon Gabriel's 85.7 completion percentage last week vs. Boise State was the second-best in UO single-game history.
86 - Tez In his last 11 games going back to 2023, Johnson has racked up 86 receptions for 1,059 yards and eight touchdowns.
128 - This is the 128th all-time meeting between Oregon and Oregon State, tied for the second most-played rivalry in the FBS.