The Oregon State Beavers have added the Montana Grizzlies to their 2026 football schedule, the school announced Monday.
Oregon State will host Montana at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Ore., on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. The game will mark the 17th overall meeting between the two schools and first since the 1996 season.
Oregon State and Montana first met on the gridiron in 1925. The Beavers currently lead the overall series, 12-2-2, but have dropped two consecutive games in the series, 22-15 in 1990 and 35-14 in 1996.
Montana, a member of the Big Sky Conference, is the fifth game against a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent on Oregon State’s future non-conference schedules. The Beavers are also slated to host Lafayette in 2025, Portland State in 2027, Idaho in 2028, and Sacramento State in 2029.
Oregon State is currently one of two members of the Pac-12 Conference along with Washington State. Five current Mountain West teams — Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Utah State — are slated to join the Pac-12 beginning with the 2026 season.
The Beavers are scheduled to open the 2026 season on the road against the Houston Cougars on Sept. 5 before hosting the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Corvallis on Sept. 12.
Montana now has two of its three non-conference opponents scheduled for the 2026 season. The Grizzlies are also scheduled to host the Utah Tech Trailblazers on Sept. 12 in Missoula, Mont.
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With the Pac-12 most likely going 6 or 5 non conference games, I’d like to see them play at Georgia State (looking at you Tech) and then an old Pac-12 foe, Stanford, since SDSU will come off the non-con schedule, and Stanford hasn’t made much of an attempt to fill their 26 non-con schedule
You can’t be viewed as a conference without 9 teams, the Pac-12 still needs another team to be added, I’ve heard Texas State is the main candidate for it.
20.02.9 Football Bowl Subdivision Conference.
A conference classified as a Football Bowl Subdivision conference shall be composed of at least eight full Football Bowl Subdivision members that satisfy all bowl subdivision requirements. An institution shall be included as one of the eight full Football Bowl Subdivision members only if the institution participates in the conference schedule in at least six men’s and eight women’s conference-sponsored sports, including men’s basketball and football and three women’s team sports, including women’s basketball. A conference-sponsored sport shall be a sport in which regularseason and/or championship opportunities are provided, consistent with the minimum standards identified by the applicable NCAA sport committee for automatic qualification.
I’m surprised the Pac-12 is in no hurry to add another school, there’s only 14 months until 2026, so they gotta try to make moves quickly
They want to get a media deal before expanding again. But it is taking an ominously long time to get said media deal, you´d think they´d have it by now.
I fully support PAC 12 that they are in zero hurry adding another team.
Go Boise State!!!
The rumor is the PAC will announce its new member and media deal in May.
This could be a really entertaining game between an FBS and FCS team. Also Oregon State playing two P4 teams and neither being Oregon is idiotic.
I am a fan of Big Ten nine game conference three OOC schedule however I really want Oregon/Oregon State to still play each other & would be Ducks main OOC game same thing with Iowa/Iowa State.
I hope these non-con additions can work for Oregon State
2026
At Georgia State
2028
Vs Georgia State
2029
Vs USC
2030
At USC
2031
Vs Arizona
2032
At Arizona
Oregon State vs Oregon renewed until 2030 (forget my Stanford comment)