As Jonathan Smith makes his Reser Stadium debut as Oregon State's head football coach Saturday, he's a familiar figure to Beaver fans, a key part of OSU's gridiron history.
That wasn't the case on October 24, 1998, when Smith buckled his chinstrap and headed onto the Husky Stadium field.
There were 13 minutes, 30 seconds left in the second quarter. Smith, a redshirt freshman, was coming off the bench to guide an Oregon State offense that trailed Washington 14-7. The 5-foot-10, 186-pound walk-on was about to face a Husky defense that had recorded 13 sacks in each of its previous two games.