Check out this guided tour of the 160,000-square-foot building set to open this summer

The UO will face the University of Wisconsin in one of the nation's premier college bowls

When the Oregon Ducks and Wisconsin Badgers take the field Jan. 1 in Pasadena, the matchup will harken back to more than just the 2012 Rose Bowl game.That’s because the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have more in common than just success on the gridiron. Though the two campuses are roughly 2,000 miles apart, the communities they call home date to the same historic period: Eugene was founded in 1846, the same year Madison, Wisconsin was chartered.

In one of the first Rose Bowls, an upstart team from Eugene became unexpected champions

California sends more students to the UO than any state other than Oregon