Alabama vs. California

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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1937 · Evening star, Jan 3, 1938

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Alabama vs. Tennessee108 meetings, Alabama 61–⁠40–⁠7
• Alabama vs. Mississippi State107 meetings, Alabama 87–⁠17–⁠3
• Alabama vs. LSU89 meetings, Alabama 58–⁠26–⁠5
• Alabama vs. Vanderbilt87 meetings, Alabama 64–⁠19–⁠4
• California vs. USC108 meetings, California 31–⁠72–⁠5
• California vs. Stanford105 meetings, California 45–⁠54–⁠6
• California vs. Washington99 meetings, California 41–⁠55–⁠3
• California vs. UCLA95 meetings, California 35–⁠59–⁠1