To outsiders, the game between Oregon and Oregon State is just one of those cutesy little intrastate matchups that occur every year at the end of the college football season. To insiders, it's anything but. Civil War Results Results from the 103 Civil War games between Oregon and Oregon State, with site in parentheses. This state is divided. Families are divided.
Friends are divided.
I guarantee you people are walking around this week with ropes around their necks, with a noose tied around a duck or a beaver. And this year, in the 104th meeting of the two schools, which are barely 40 miles apart, there is a lot more than just bragging rights at stake. If OSU wins and Washington loses to Washington State, the Beavers go. He teases me right now. He's in Corvallis right now teasing me, teasing my teammates, sitting there laughing about everything.