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. Share
- 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
- 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
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

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, 2002 | California 70, Baylor 22 | at California | ||
| Sep 22, 1956 | Baylor 7, California 6 | at California | ||
| Sep 19, 1953 | Baylor 25, California 0 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.