Oregon State Football: How much progress will Beavers make in 2019?
By Dante Pryor
How will the Beavers fare in 2019?
- Week 1: Oklahoma State (Aug. 30)
- Week 2: at Hawaii (Sept. 7)
- Week 3: Cal Poly (Sept. 14)
- Week 4: BYE
- Week 5: Stanford (Sept. 28)
- Week 6: at UCLA (Oct. 5)
- Week 7: Utah (Oct 12)
- Week 8: at Cal (Oct. 19)
- Week 9: BYE
- Week 10: at Arizona (Nov. 2)
- Week 11: Washington (Nov. 8)
- Week 12: Arizona State (Nov. 16)
- Week 13: at Washington State (Nov. 23)
- Week 14: at Oregon (Nov. 30)
For the sake of sounding terribly cliché, the Beavers’ record won’t be a measure of their wins and losses. Statistical improvement and the good old eye test will measure the on field improvement of the Beavers.
For example, a win for the Beavers will be surrendering fewer than 48 sacks this season.
A win will be the number of opponents they hold under 30 points. They were practically blown out of every game last year except for Nevada — a Group of Five team — and a 5-7 USC squad.
Prediction: 2-10, 0-10 Pac-12
Most important, a huge win will be the Beavers looking like they have a Power 5 level defense. Those are key because they might not see many wins on the field this year. Beaver fans better gear up for lots of moral victories.