Fourth-Best Start in Program History

Oregon State is now 40-8-1, the fourth-best 49-game start in program history behind 2017's 45-4 start and the 41-8 starts in 2005 and 2013. It is impossible to catch the 2017 season. Oregon State can surpass the 2017 season by playing in a 63rd game. The 63-game record is 2013's 51-12 record. Oregon State would have to go 11-3 over the next 14 to surpass that mark.  The 2005 team started 45-9. Oregon State would have to win the next 5 games (winning the next five against USC and UCLA) to surpass that mark. The Beavers' second-best regular season record is 2005's 41-9 record. 2018 Oregon State would thus become the second-winningest team in school history with a win on Friday. The best 55-game regular season record is 2013's 45-10 record. The Beavers would need to go 5-1 over their final 6 to surpass that record.

Best 49-game starts in program history:

45-4 2017 (lost in College World Series Semifinal to LSU).
41-8 2005 (0-2 in College World Series) and 2013 (lost in College World Series Semifinal to Mississippi State).
40-8-1 2018 (?).
40-9 2014 (lost Corvallis Regional Championship Game).
37-12 2011 (lost Nashville Super Regional).
36-12-1 1997 (Oregon State won out, but Washington won the North by two games).
36-13 1986 (Oregon State finished third in the six-team Stillwater Regional), 2006 (National Champions), and 2007 (National Champions).

Boyd's World is saying that Oregon State will be a top 8 team in RPI, if they go 4-2 (or better) down the stretch. That would put the Beavers at 44-10-1 (this has gone up a game in the past five days), a half-game back of their second-best 55-game start in program history. Hopefully, the Beavers can at least hit that mark.