The 1948 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1948 college football season. The Ducks competed as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). The team was led by head coach Jim Aiken, in his second year, and played their home games at Hayward Field in Eugene and at Multnomah Field in Portland. Oregon finished the regular season ranked ninth, with nine wins and one loss, and won all seven conference games in the PCC.^[1] They did not play Montana or #4 California; the Golden Bears won all ten games during the regular season.^[1]

Denied a Rose Bowl berth by a conference vote,^[2][3][4] the PCC allowed a second bowl bid this season;^[5] Oregon played SMU in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year's Day.^[6][7][8]

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 18	Santa Barbara*		Hayward Field Eugene, OR	W 55–7	10,000	[9][10]
September 25	at Stanford		Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	W 20–12	32,000	[11]
October 2	at No. 7 Michigan*		Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L 0–14	65,800	[12]
October 9	at Idaho		Neale Stadium Moscow, ID	W 15–8	12,000	[13][14]
October 16	USC		Multnomah Stadium Portland, OR	W 8–7	33,000	[15]
October 23	Washington State		Hayward Field Eugene, OR	W 33–7	19,500	[16]
October 30	Saint Mary's*	No. 14	Hayward Field Eugene, OR (Governors' Trophy Game)	W 14–13	10,000	[17]
November 6	at Washington	No. 16	Husky Stadium (rivalry)	W 13–7	33,000	[18][19]
November 12	at UCLA	No. 15	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 26–7	42,700	[20][21]
November 20	at Oregon State	No. 13	Bell Field Corvallis, OR (Civil War)	W 10–0	22,000	[1]
January 1, 1949	vs. No. 10 SMU	No. 9	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl)	L 13–21	69,000	[6][7][8]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Notable players included quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, center Brad Ecklund, and halfback John McKay.^[6][25][26]