Oregon State gets another chance to keep its early-season roll going Monday night, with Eastern Washington coming to Gill Coliseum.
The Beavers are aiming for a 3-0 start, and that would continue a pattern that has held up for four straight seasons. Through two games, Oregon State has already piled up 198 points, its highest two-game total since 1997.
This is also the first season for head coach Justin Joyner, who arrived after winning a national championship as an assistant coach with Michigan last season. He’s doing it with a roster that looks nothing like last year’s group: Oregon State has just one returning player and 12 newcomers on the 2026-27 team.
That lone holdover is Josiah Lake II, the guard who earned All-WCC First Team honors last season. Oregon State spent the previous two campaigns in the WCC before returning to the Pac-12 this year, and the revamped league now includes Gonzaga, Boise State, Washington State, Utah State, Colorado State, Texas State, Fresno State, and San Diego State.
The nonconference slate also includes a home game against former league opponent Arizona State. In all, 22 of Oregon State’s regular-season games will be shown on linear television.
Monday’s game will be televised on the Pac-12 YouTube channel, with radio coverage on the Beaver Sports Radio Network and Mike Parker on the call. Live stats will also be available.
Oregon State also got some summer work in during a foreign tour in Canada, where it opened with a win over Trinity Western before beating the University of Victoria twice.
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The loss to Texas State was ugly enough on its own, but the bigger concern for Oregon State was how thoroughly the defense was carved up in a 42-21 defeat. The Beavers gave up 600 yards of offense, the most they have allowed since 2019, as Texas State controlled the game with balance and tempo behind Brad Jackson and Davian Jackson.
Oregon State did move the ball some, finishing with 356 yards, but the offense never did enough to keep pace after Braden Atkinson threw an interception and later gave way to Maalik Murphy in the fourth quarter. It left the Beavers with more questions than answers after a game that exposed issues on both sides of the ball, and the kind of defensive performance that tends to linger well beyond one September night. [Read more 🡒]
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JaMarcus Shephard did not sugarcoat the performance afterward, acknowledging that the defense has to be better against the run. For Oregon State, the concern is bigger than one bad afternoon, because a game like this can linger if it turns into a pattern. The Beavers now have to show that this was a breakdown they can fix, not a warning sign that opponents will keep targeting. [Read more 🡒]
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Boise State brings an eight-game winning streak into the matchup, with running back Dylan Riley powering the ground game, while Oregon State counters with quarterback Braden Atkinson, who has been one of the nations most productive passers. For the Beavers, it is the kind of road setting that can tell you plenty about where a team stands, even before the final whistle settles the bigger questions hanging over the night. [Read more 🡒]