California vs. Minnesota

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

1. California’s biggest win1951: California 55, Minnesota 14by 41 points
2. Minnesota’s biggest win1987: Minnesota 32, California 23by 9 points

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1951 · The Nome nugget, Oct 8, 1951

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  1952 · Evening star, Oct 5, 1952

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• 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
• Minnesota vs. Wisconsin133 meetings, Minnesota 62–⁠63–⁠8
• Minnesota vs. Iowa118 meetings, Minnesota 62–⁠54–⁠2
• Minnesota vs. Michigan107 meetings, Minnesota 26–⁠78–⁠3
• Minnesota vs. Northwestern99 meetings, Minnesota 56–⁠38–⁠5