1990 Oregon State Beavers football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
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{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1990
| team = Oregon State Beavers
| sport = football
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| conference = Pacific-10 Conference
| short_conf = Pac-10
| record = 1–10
| conf_record = 1–6
| head_coach = Dave Kragthorpe
| hc_year = 6th
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| stadium = Parker Stadium
}}
{{1990 Pacific-10 Conference football standings}}
The 1990 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Beavers ended the season with one win and ten losses. 1990 was Oregon State's 20th consecutive losing season. The Beavers scored 152 points and allowed 371 points. The team was led by head coach Dave Kragthorpe. The season is most memorable for the 35–21 win over Arizona. According to David Rothman, this was the greatest upset in all of college football between 1985 and 1998. The probability of Oregon State winning was 7.4%.{{cite web|title=Title Unknown |url=http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/upsets.txt |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119080715/http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/upsets.txt |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=February 28, 2012 }}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
| rankyear = 1990
| poll = AP
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 1
| time = 1:30 pm
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| opponent = Montana
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
| tv =
| score = 15–22
| attend = 25,201
| source = {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregonian-montana-upends-beavers/162450517/|work=The Sunday Oregonian|title=Montana upends Beavers|date=September 2, 1990|accessdate=January 6, 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}
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|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 8
| time = 11:00 am
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| away = y
| opponent = Kansas
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Lawrence, KS
| tv =
| score = 12–38
| attend = 28,500
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 15
| time = 1:30 pm
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| opponent = UNLV
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
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| score = 20–45
| attend = 17,272
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 22
| time = 12:30 pm
| w/l = l
| away = y
| opponent = Stanford
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| tv =
| score = 3–37
| attend = 45,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 29
| time = 11:00 am
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| away = y
| opponent = Nebraska
| opprank = 8
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Lincoln, NE
| tv =
| score = 7–31
| attend = 76,061
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 13
| time = 1:30 pm
| w/l = w
| opponent = Arizona
| opprank = 21
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
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| score = 35–21
| attend = 21,653
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 20
| time = 1:30 pm
| w/l = l
| opponent = Washington State
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
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| score = 24–55
| attend = 27,245
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 27
| time = 3:30 pm
| w/l = l
| away = y
| opponent = UCLA
| site_stadium = Rose Bowl
| site_cityst = Pasadena, CA
| tv =
| score = 17–26
| attend = 42,427
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 3
| time = 6:00 pm
| w/l = l
| away = y
| opponent = Arizona State
| site_stadium = Sun Devil Stadium
| site_cityst = Tempe, AZ
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| score = 9–34
| attend = 56,325
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 10
| time = 3:30 pm
| w/l = l
| opponent = USC
| opprank = 23
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
| tv = Prime
| score = 7–56
| attend = 18,795
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 17
| time = 1:30 pm
| w/l = l
| opponent = Oregon
| site_stadium = Parker Stadium
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
| gamename = Civil War
| tv =
| score = 3–6
| attend = 35,962
}}
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References
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