Oregon State visits Washington State today, in the 100th renewal of the Northwest Landgrant Rivalry. It's an under-appreciated rivalry, off most college football fans' radar, with this evening's Oregon-Washington side of the northwest state rivalries garnering much more attention.
But over the years, and especially lately, the series has produced something memorable, though not necessarily a pleasant memory for someone, seemingly every year. Record setting games (the Beavers' highest scoring game against a conference opponent ever came at the Cougars' expense in the 66-13 game in 2008), key injuries (it was 3 years ago that Sean Mannion directed a lower scoring than expected 19-6 Beaver win, but suffered the knee injury in the second quarter that would spawn all kinds of extra drama for months to come), and some memorable weather (some of the best and worst the northwest has to offer has been seen on game days between OSU & WSU).