California vs. Missouri
California and Missouri have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1952; California leads the series 4–2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s California 4–2, and California has won the last 2. Share
- California wins
- 4
- Missouri wins
- 2
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1952
- Longest streak
- 2 California
- Current streak
- 2 California
- Last 10 meetings
- California 4–2
- Most recent
- 1985
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 1–1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 7.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 2–1 California’s record at home
- At Missouri
- 1–2–1 Missouri’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- California’s biggest win1952: California 28, Missouri 14by 14 points
- Missouri’s biggest win1962: Missouri 21, California 10by 11 points
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
1952 · Evening star, Sep 28, 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.
Every game
| Oct 5, 1985 | California 39, Missouri 32 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 24, 1977 | California 28, Missouri 21 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 30, 1972 | Missouri 34, California 27 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 19, 1964 | California 21, Missouri 14 | at California | ||
| Sep 22, 1962 | Missouri 21, California 10 | at California | ||
| Oct 7, 1961 | Missouri 14, California 14 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 27, 1952 | 8California 28, Missouri 14 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.