The lone on-the-field loss was a 17-14 loss to USC last season. In Pac-12 games, the Beavers are 11-1 straight up (SU) and a perfect 12-0 ATS. Since the start of 2021, Oregon State is 17-1 at home, covering all but one game. Washington is currently a 1.5-point ’dog at Oregon State. The last such instance came in 2010 when 11-0 - and eventual national champion - Auburn beat 9-2 Alabama 28-27 as a 4-point ‘dog in Tuscaloosa. Six of the nine losses came by at least 14 points. Since 1978, there have been 11 instances of a top-five team as an underdog away from home against a team with at least two losses. This is the first meeting between two Mountain West teams 8-2 or better since 2018, when 10-2 Fresno State beat 10-2 Boise State 19-16 in the MWC Championship Game. The Ducks did blow out Arizona 49-27 in Tucson last year. 6, 9-1 Oregon lost at 5-5 ASU 31-28 as a 13.5-point favorite.

Four times Oregon left as a loser, three times as a double-digit favorite.

Since 2013, there have been five times a ranked Oregon team has gone to Arizona. That year, 6-1 K-State beat 7-0 Kansas 41-7. This is the first time since 1995 that Kansas and Kansas State meet with each team entering at least four games over. Louisville currently ranges from a pick' em to a 1-point favorite at Miami. Florida State came back to beat Clemson 31-24 earlier this year as a 1-point favorite. Those nine teams went 2-7 against the spread (ATS) and 3-6 outright. Since 2021, there have been nine games in which an AP top-10 team has been favored by a field goal or less against an unranked team. Here are the biggest nuggets that stuck out to me while doing my research:

These little 'bytes,' as I call them, are just nuggets that give you some entertaining talking points to pull from as you watch the football festivities with friends and family or banter with your co-workers at the water cooler. Now it's time to have some fun with my 'Bear Bytes.'

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