Baylor vs. California

Baylor and California have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Baylor leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Baylor 2–⁠1.

Baylor wins
2
California wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
2 Baylor
Current streak
1 California
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 2–⁠1
Most recent
2002

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠0
2000s0–⁠1
Average margin
24.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At California
1–⁠2 California’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and California, 1953 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 1956 game: ROOKIE KICKS WINNING POINT Baylor Shades Bears In Ragged Game, 7-6

    1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 23, 1956

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

Aug 31, 2002California 70, Baylor 22at California
Sep 22, 1956Baylor 7, California 6at California
Sep 19, 1953Baylor 25, California 0at California

Every game is listed as played on the field.