Oregon-Washington football rivalry
| First meeting | December 1, 1900 Oregon, 43–0 |
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| Latest meeting | October 8, 2016 #5 Washington, 70–21 |
| Next meeting | 2017, in Seattle |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 109 |
| All-time series | Washington leads, 60–45–5 (.564) |
| Largest victory | Washington, 66–0 (1974) |
| Longest win streak | Oregon, 12 (2004–15) |
| Current win streak | Washington, 1 (2016–present) |
The Oregon–Washington football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The respective campuses in Eugene and Seattle are roughly 350 miles (560 km) apart, via Interstate 5.
Like many other adjacent state rivalries in college football, it is sometimes referred to as "The Border War". It is also referred to as "The Cascade Clash," but more commonly it is simply a nameless rivalry. The game, one of the most played rivalries in NCAA Division I FBS history, has been played regularly since 1900.
Although the schools began playing each other in 1900, the rivalry became heated from Oregon's perspective in 1948, when Oregon and California both went undefeated in the Pacific Coast Conference. California was undefeated overall, and Oregon's only loss was at undefeated Michigan, that year's national champions, and the Ducks had seven victories in the PCC to Cal's six. The winner of the PCC, as is today with the Pac-12, played in the Rose Bowl. Oregon, led by quarterback Norm Van Brocklin and halfback John McKay, opted for a playoff game, but California declined. The tiebreaker format the PCC elected to use was that the championship team be elected by the schools. The PCC had ten member schools in 1948, six in the Northwest and four in California, so it was assumed that Oregon would be the team playing in the 1949 Rose Bowl, as even a 5-5 tie vote would be in their favor. Instead California was voted champion of the PCC, because Washington had persuaded Montana, then a member of the PCC, to vote for California, something that has not been forgotten by Oregon fans. (The PCC allowed a second bowl team that season and Oregon went to the Cotton Bowl, but lost 21–13 to hometown SMU in Dallas. California lost to twice-beaten Northwestern by six in the Rose.)
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