1979 Oregon State Beavers football team

1979 Oregon State Beavers football
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
Record1–10 (1–7 Pac-10)
Head coach
Home stadiumParker Stadium
1979 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 2 USC $ 6 0 111 0 1
No. 11 Washington 5 2 09 3 0
Arizona 4 3 06 5 1
Oregon 4 3 06 5 0
California 5 4 06 6 0
Stanford 3 3 15 5 1
Arizona State * 3 4 06 6 0
UCLA 3 4 05 6 0
Washington State 2 6 03 8 0
Oregon State 1 7 01 10 0
  • $ Conference champion
  • * – Arizona State later forfeited 5 wins (3 in conference) due to NCAA sanctions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1979 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Craig Fertig, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 1–10 record with a mark of 1–7 in conference play placing last out of ten teams in the Pac-10, and were outscored 396 to 147. The team played its five home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis.

Fertig was fired in October, in the second year of a three-year contract at $33,696 per year. He coached through the end of the season, and lost the finale to Oregon 24–3 in the Civil War, the Beavers' fifth straight loss to the Ducks.