Air Force vs. UCLA

Air Force and UCLA have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1957; UCLA leads the series 6–⁠4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s UCLA 5–⁠4.

Air Force wins
4
UCLA wins
6
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1957
Longest streak
3 Air Force
Current streak
1 UCLA
Last 10 meetings
UCLA 5–⁠4
Most recent
1976

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠1
1960s3–⁠4
1970s0–⁠1–⁠1
Average margin
18.6 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Air Force
1–⁠1–⁠1 Air Force’s record at home
At UCLA
4–⁠3 UCLA’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Air Force first
Shutouts
3

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Air Force’s biggest win1963: Air Force 48, UCLA 21by 27 points
  2. UCLA’s biggest win1957: UCLA 47, Air Force 0by 47 points

Coach against coach

YearsAir ForceSeriesUCLA
1959–⁠1964Ben Martin4–⁠2Bill Barnes

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Air Force’s side (Martin 4–⁠2 against Barnes). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Air Force and UCLA, 1957 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1957 game

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 25, 1957

  • The Evening star's story of the 1960 game: KiInler PAGES UCLA Over Falcons, 22-O

    1960 · Evening star, Nov 13, 1960

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 25, 19765UCLA 40, Air Force 7at UCLA
Sep 27, 1975Air Force 20, 10UCLA 20at Air Force
Oct 29, 19663UCLA 38, Air Force 13at UCLA
Oct 30, 1965UCLA 10, Air Force 0at Air Force
Nov 7, 1964Air Force 24, UCLA 15at UCLA
Nov 9, 1963Air Force 48, UCLA 21at Air Force
Nov 10, 1962Air Force 17, UCLA 11at UCLA
Sep 23, 1961UCLA 19, Air Force 6Neutral site
Nov 12, 196011UCLA 22, Air Force 0at UCLA
Oct 23, 1959Air Force 20, UCLA 7at UCLA
Sep 20, 1957UCLA 47, Air Force 0at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.