California vs. Iowa
California and Iowa have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1958; Iowa leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Iowa 3–1. Share
- California wins
- 1
- Iowa wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1958
- Longest streak
- 3 Iowa
- Current streak
- 1 California
- Last 10 meetings
- Iowa 3–1
- Most recent
- 1993
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: California 0, Iowa 1
- Average margin
- 27.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 0–1 California’s record at home
- At Iowa
- 1–0 Iowa’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–1 California first
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.
Stars of the series
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1961 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 6, 1961
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
| Dec 31, 1993 | California 37, Iowa 3 | Neutral site | Alamo Bowl | |
| Sep 30, 1961 | Iowa 28, California 7 | at Iowa | ||
| Sep 26, 1959 | 13Iowa 42, California 12 | at California | ||
| Jan 1, 1959 | 4Iowa 38, 17California 12 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.