California vs. Michigan State
California and Michigan State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1957; the series is tied 2–2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2, and California has won the last 2. Share
- California wins
- 2
- Michigan State wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1957
- Longest streak
- 2 Michigan State
- Current streak
- 2 California
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 2008
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 1–1 California’s record at home
- At Michigan State
- 1–1 Michigan State’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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1958 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1958
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 30, 2008 | California 38, Michigan State 31 | at California | ||
| Sep 14, 2002 | California 46, 15Michigan State 22 | at Michigan State | ||
| Sep 27, 1958 | 4Michigan State 32, California 12 | at Michigan State | ||
| Oct 5, 1957 | 2Michigan State 19, California 0 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.