- For the second straight year, Oregon State's opponent in the Super Regional was a Pac-10 co-member. Stanford upset Texas, the nation's #3-seeded team and defending NCAA champion, to reach the Super Regional. The Beavers swept the Cardinal in Corvallis during regular season play and needed only two games to dispatch Stanford in the Super Regional. The OSU pitching corps dominated, allowing Stanford only four total runs in the five games.
- Omaha's Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium has been home to the CWS since 1950. Prior CWS were played at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1947 & 1948) and in Wichita, Kansas (1949) at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
- On its way to the CWS championship, Oregon State survived six elimination games and thus became the first team in CWS history to lose twice and win the title. OSU's back-to-back wins over #2-seeded Rice marked the only time all season the Owls lost consecutive games to the same opponent.
- The 2006 Beavers became only the second team ever to win six games at the CWS. Holy Cross was the first to do so (coincidentally in 1952, the year of OSU's first CWS appearance).
- As of 2006, just two Atlantic Coast Conference schools had ever won the CWS (Miami-FL and Wake Forest). The Pac-10, however, claimed over 20 titles by six conference members (Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon State, Stanford, and USC).
- The last team from a geographically northern locale to win the CWS was Ohio State in 1966. Between the chilly-weather champ in 1966 and the soggy-climate winner in 2006, 36 of the 39 CWS champions were from the sun-rich states of Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. The CWS victor during that span which played its home schedule in the least typically favorable baseball climate is Wichita State (1989).
- Of the 25 players on OSU's 2006 CWS roster, 16 were Oregon high school recruits. Six of the out-of-staters hailed from the Northwest region.
- Prior to Omaha, Oregon State had never faced any of its 2006 CWS opponents on the baseball diamond. The game against Kansas in the Corvallis Regional was a first-time meeting, as well.
- Oregon State's 2006 CWS title was its second NCAA team championship in school history. The Beavers won the cross country title in 1961.
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