California vs. Navy
California and Navy have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1947; California leads the series 3–2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s California 3–2. Share
- California wins
- 3
- Navy wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1947
- Longest streak
- 2 California
- Current streak
- 1 Navy
- Last 10 meetings
- California 3–2
- Most recent
- 1996
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 10.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 2–1 California’s record at home
- At Navy
- 0–1 Navy’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 California first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- California’s biggest win1964: California 27, Navy 13by 14 points
- Navy’s biggest win1957: Navy 21, California 6by 15 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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Chris McCoy | 1996 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1947 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1947
1948 · Evening star, Oct 1, 1948
1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1957
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 25, 1996 | Navy 42, California 38 | Neutral site | Aloha Bowl | |
| Oct 17, 1964 | California 27, Navy 13 | at California | ||
| Oct 12, 1957 | Navy 21, California 6 | at California | ||
| Sep 25, 1948 | California 21, Navy 7 | at Navy | ||
| Sep 27, 1947 | California 14, Navy 7 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.