California vs. Northwestern
California and Northwestern have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Northwestern leads the series 2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Northwestern 2–1. Share
- California wins
- 1
- Northwestern wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1948
- Longest streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 1 California
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 2–1
- Most recent
- 2014
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: California 0, Northwestern 1; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 9 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 0–1 California’s record at home
- At Northwestern
- 0–1 Northwestern’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 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
Named most valuable
| Frank Aschenbrenner | 1948 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1948 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Jan 3, 1949
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, 2014 | California 31, Northwestern 24 | at Northwestern | ||
| Aug 31, 2013 | 22Northwestern 44, California 30 | at California | ||
| Jan 1, 1949 | 7Northwestern 20, 5California 14 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.