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Oregon State and Washington State will play home-and-home football series in 2025

Oregon State and Washington State will play home-and-home football series in 2025

A general view of an Oregon State Beavers helmet during national team practice for the Reese’s Senior Bowl on February 1, 2024 at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Oregon State and Washington State released their 2025 football schedules on Wednesday with a bit of a twist.

To fill the busy schedule, the Beavers and Cougars will play each other twice next season. The first meeting will be at Oregon State on November 1, 2025, and the second meeting will be at Washington State on November 29, 2025, the final game of the regular season.

“We decided to play two games against Washington State to maximize the strength of this schedule, which includes exciting home and away games,” Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes said in a statement.

The Nov. 29 game in Pullman was already scheduled.

For a similar reason, Liberty and New Mexico State played a home-and-home series in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

Things are different for Oregon State and Washington State, the only schools currently part of the Pac-12 ahead of expansion in 2026 with the additions of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State as well Gonzaga becomes a non-football member.

Per the Pac-12/Mountain West agreement, both Oregon State and Washington State will play six games against Mountain West opponents this season. When that contract was not renewed for 2025, the door was opened for this unique planning quirk.

This is only the second time in the history of the two schools that the football programs have met twice in the same season. The last time this happened was in 1945 when the Cougars won the two-game series.