Local historian Kip Carlson looks back at the special 1999 football season, a year which ended "the streak."
As 1999 dawned, it seemed it indeed would be a happy new year for Oregon State football.
Just over a month before, the Beavers had wrapped up the 1998 season with a 5-6 record, OSU's best since 1971. Oregon State had been within a handful of plays of securing its first winning season since 1970; the campaign finished on a joyful note as the Beavers beat Oregon 44-41 in double overtime in one of the wildest Civil Wars ever played.