the time. Aftermath Oregon State players celebrated, shouting "You can blame this one on your media" as they returned to the locker room. The Seattle media did not appear to ask Kragthorpe questions after the game. The loss had the effect of knocking the Huskies out of the Rose Bowl, which was won by conference champion UCLA. The Bruins lost their final game of the regular season to rival USC and finished with a conference record of 6–2, which would have been the same record of the 5–3 Huskies, had they handled Oregon State (or rival Washington State; both losses were in Seattle by the same score). Having defeated UCLA at Husky Stadium in late September, Washington owned the tie-breaker and would have played in Pasadena with a 6–2 record. They finished the regular season at 6–5 overall, then defeated Colorado in the Freedom Bowl in Anaheim on December 30. Oregon State did not win any more games for the rest of the season and ended at ninth place in the Pac-10. Their next win over the Huskies was in 2001 and the next win in Husky Stadium came in 2004. While some sports historians believe that the shocking 1921 defeat of mighty Harvard College by unheralded Centre College of Danville, Kentucky, constitutes the greatest upset in collegiate football history, the 1985 Oregon State defeat of 38-point favorite Washington constituted at the time the greatest outright loss of a Las Vegas favorite in American college football history. See also 2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game, the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A/FBS history 2006 Insight Bowl, the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A/FBS postseason history 2007 Stanford vs. USC football game Footnotes Further reading George P. Edmonston, Jr. "Up Close and Personal: Greatest Games in the History of OSU Football (Part 2)," OSU Alumni Association. Brad Fuqua, "Oregon State Has Pulled Off Its Own Upsets Over the Years," Corvallis Gazette-Times, Sept. 6, 2013. 1985 Pacific-10 Conference football season vs. Washington 1985 vs. Oregon State 1985 October 1985 sports events in the United States 1985 in sports in Washington (state) 1980s in Seattle