 The Beavers' opponent was the Michigan Aggies, who had pummeled the Michigan Wolverines 24–0 in Ann Arbor the week before.Coupled with a train ride spanning two-thirds of the country without the ability to practice, the odds of a Beaver victory seemed slim at best.Roscoe Fawcett of Portland's "Morning Oregonian" set the odds at around zero, when he wrote, "One thing is very certain, and that is the Corvallis boys are due for a trimming...and a bad one!"