Beavers Stay Home, Host Fresno State At Reser Stadium

GAME 2: OREGON STATE VS. FRESNO STATE
Sept. 6, 2025 • Corvallis, Ore. • Reser Stadium • 12:30 p.m. PT • The CW

TV/Radio/Internet
Television: The CW
Play-By-Play: Ted Robinson
Analyst: Ryan Leaf
Sideline: Nigel Burton
OSU Radio: Beaver Sports Network, Varsity Network (Oregon State)
Play-By-Play: Mike Parker
Analyst: Jim Wilson
Sideline: Ron Callan
Pre-Game: Steve Preece
OSU on SiriusXM Radio: 383
OSU on SiriusXM App/Internet: 973
Live Stats: OSUBeavers.com

Game Notes
• Oregon State plays at Reser Stadium for the second time in as many weeks Saturday when the Beavers host Fresno State. Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m. PT.
• The game will air live on the CW with Ted Robinson (play-by-play), Ryan Leaf (analyst) and Nigel Burton (sideline reporter) calling the action.
• The game will air live on the Beaver Sports Radio Network. For a list of affiliates, turn to page two of these notes.
• Every game this season can be heard live on the Varsity Network, a free application available via computer browsers, smartphones and tablets. After downloading the application, search for Oregon State.
• The meeting is the 15th all-time between the teams; Fresno State holds a slight 8-6 advantage. It's the eighth all-time in Corvallis with the Beavers holding a 5-2 record at home.

Oregon State By The Numbers
3 - Career 100-yard receiving efforts for Trent Walker, who totaled nine receptions for 136 yards against the Golden Bears.
3 - Consecutive victories over Fresno State in Corvallis, with wins coming in 2002, 1999 and 1992.
5 - Tackles for Trent Bray in the 2002 matchup against Fresno State. The Beavers' 59-19 win was the last time the Bulldogs came to Corvallis.
7 - Beavers who made their first career starts in the season opener against California.
14 - Pass breakups in the OSU career of Skyler Thomas after recording two against California.
53 - Yard field goal make for Caleb Ojeda against California. It was his first ever collegiate attempt and tied for the 10th-longest in the program's history.
95 - Career receptions for Walker, who also surpassed 1,000 career yards and enters Saturday with 1,103.

Against Fresno State
• Fresno State has a slight advantage in the all-time series, 8-6, with the last meeting a 35-32 win by the Beavers in 2022 in California.
• The Beavers have had a 100-yard rusher in six of the 14 previous matchups, including Deshaun Fenwick who tallied 102 yards in the 2022 meeting. Steven Jackson, whose son Skylar is on the team's 2025 roster, ran for 227 yards in 2002 and 128 in 2003.
• The meeting is the first in Corvallis since 2002 when the Beavers were 59-19 winners. Head Coach Trent Bray, then a linebacker for OSU, tallied five tackles in the victory.
• Pat McCann, the Beavers' wide receivers coach, served as an assistant coach at Fresno State from 2022-24. He saw two 1,000-yard receivers during his tenure in California.
• Oregon State's Director of Football Operations, Mike McHugh, held the same role in two different stints at Fresno State. He was there for the 2013 season and then also from 2018-23.
• Current Beavers Skyler Thomas, Dylan Black and Tyler Morano all played in the 2022 matchup. None of the three, however, recorded an offensive or defensive statistic.

News, Notes And More
• Twitter.com/BeaverFootball is still the program's main Twitter handle, but the Twitter.com/BeaverFBNews account was created prior to the 2019 season.
• Follow @BeaverFBNews for news, pre-game and in-game notes and more. The handle will post in-game news and scoring information as it happens.

In The Booth
• Coaches in the press box this season include offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Ryan Gunderson and co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Rod Chance.
• The two are joined by graduate assistants Trevon Bradford (offense), Adam Klein (offense) and Nick Pickett (defense). They are joined by special teams quality control analyst Daniel Akey.

On This Date
• Oregon State is playing on September 6 for just the fifth time in the program's history.
• The Beavers are 2-2 on the date, last defeating Hawai'i, 38-30, in Honolulu in 2014.

Bray Adds Defensive Coordinator Title
• Oregon State head coach Trent Bray is in his second season leading the program. The former Oregon State linebacker added the defensive coordinator title in the offseason.
• Bray is in his 11th season with the program, and took over as the team's defensive coordinator over the last four games of the 2021 season. He served as DC in both 2022 and 2023.
• Rod Chance, who coaches the secondary, will serve as Co-Defensive Coordinator.

Not Since '19
• The Beavers returned both their leading rusher (Anthony Hankerson, 1,082 yards) and leading receiver (Trent Walker, 901 yards) from last season.
• It's the first time since 2019 that the Beavers have had both their leading rusher and receiver return in the same season. Jermar Jefferson and Isaiah Hodgins both returned that season.
• How rare is this? It is just the eighth time the team's leaders have returned since 2001, which also included 2016, 2015, 2012, 2010, 2007 and 2003.

Game Two
• The Beavers have won the second game of a season in 12 of the last 16 years dating back to 2009. Oregon State has won its second game of the season for four years straight.
• Since 2009, the Beavers have started the year with a 1-1 record six times, 2-0 six times and 0-2 four times. Oregon State was last 1-1 in 2021 after losing to Purdue to open the year before a 45-27 win over Hawai'i.

Behind Center
• Maalik Murphy became the seventh different opening-day starter at quarterback for the Beavers, all since 2019. A look back at his numbers in comparison to the previous six starters:
2025: Maalik Murphy - 21-33, 244 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT vs. California (L)
2024: Gevani McCoy - 9-10, 114 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT vs. Idaho State (W)
2023: DJ Uiagalelei - 20-25, 239 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT at San Jose State (W)
2022: Chance Nolan - 14-23, 251 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT vs. Boise State (W)
2021: Sam Noyer - 10-21, 94 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT at Purdue (L)
2020: Tristan Gebbia - 34-48, 329 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT vs. Washington State (L)
2019: Jake Luton - 23-42, 251 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT vs. Oklahoma State (L)

Murphy Over 200
• Maalik Murphy's 244 yards passing against Cal marked his sixth consecutive game over the 200-yard plateau, the first five coming while at Duke.
• Murphy has surpassed 200 yards 13 times.
• His rushing score against the Golden Bears, meanwhile, marked the third of his career.
• Murphy finished with 15 yards rushing, marking the first time in game he finished with positive yardage. He also had a career-long 11-yard rush, surpassing his previous long of 8 yards against SMU last season.

Ojeda Nailed It
• Caleb Ojeda's first career field goal attempt came in the second quarter against California and he nailed it from 53 yards out. That tied him for the 10th-longest by a Beaver, equaling Kieron Walford (1979 vs. Stanford), Jim Nielsen (1985 vs. Grambling) and Alexis Serna (2006 vs. USC).
• Ojeda's 53-yarder is one of 15 of 50 or more yards at the FBS level this season.

Schedule Notables
• The Beavers are slated to play five games against opponents they've never met before. Those opponents include Appalachian State and Tulsa away from home, Wake Forest, Lafayette and Sam Houston at Reser Stadium.
• Oregon State and Washington State are due to meet twice in the same season for the first time. The meetings will be the 109th and 110th matchups between the teams.
• Oregon State's trek to Appalachian State is set to be the fifth-longest by mileage in program history. It trails: 2,880 miles to Philadelphia (Villanova in 1962, Temple in 2002), 2,859 miles to Durham, N.C. (1942 Rose Bowl versus Duke) and 2,798 miles to Syracuse, N.Y. (1963, 1965, 1974 and 1976). The trip to Appalachian State is 2,704 miles from Corvallis per Google Maps.
• The Beavers are not slated to play in California for the first time since the 2020 Covid-19 shortened season. The last time OSU did not play in California in a regularly scheduled season? Try 1966 when the Beavers played road games at Michigan, Iowa, Arizona State and Washington State.
• OSU is playing at Texas Tech for the first time since 1959.
• The Beavers' game at App State is the team's first in the Eastern Time Zone since opening the 2021 season at Purdue.
• Oregon State plays Houston for the fourth time but the Cougars are making just their second trip to Corvallis and their first since 1960.
• OSU is hosting Fresno State for the first time since 2002. The Bulldogs have visited Corvallis seven times previously.
• OSU is playing at least one game on a Friday for the fourth year in a row. The last at home was in 2023 against Utah, a 21-7 Beavers win.
• The Beavers are ending the regular season with a pair of road games for the first time since 2019 at Washington State and Oregon.
• OSU's last home game is slated for Nov. 8, the earliest end to a Beavers' home slate since the 1993 team lost to Washington, 28-21, on Nov. 6.
• Oregon State's first bye is slated for after the team's eighth game. Only Akron and Eastern Michigan have later byes, both after their ninth games.
• The Beavers are also one of 10 teams with their second bye immediately before their final regiular season game (Eastern Michigan, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Memphis, Boston College, Purdue, Indiana, Texas Tech and West Virginia).

Rush, Rush
• Oregon State is 25-6 since 2021 when rushing for at least 175 yards. Conversely, the Beavers are 5-16 when rushing for less than 175 yards.

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Players Mentioned

Dylan Black

Anthony Hankerson

Gevani McCoy

Tyler Morano

Maalik Murphy

Caleb Ojeda

Skyler Thomas

Trent Walker