California vs. Oklahoma

California and Oklahoma have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1954; 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.

California wins
2
Oklahoma wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
2 Oklahoma
Current streak
2 California
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1998

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1970s0–⁠1
1990s2–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: California 0, Oklahoma 1
Average margin
7.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At California
1–⁠1 California’s record at home
At Oklahoma
1–⁠1 Oklahoma’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of California and Oklahoma, 1954 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Brennan 10 Find Out About Irish Saturday; Iowa Tests Sparians

    1954 · Evening star, Sep 20, 1954

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

Sep 19, 1998California 13, Oklahoma 12at Oklahoma
Sep 20, 1997California 40, Oklahoma 36at California
Sep 18, 19764Oklahoma 28, California 17at Oklahoma
Sep 18, 19542Oklahoma 27, 12California 13at California

Every game is listed as played on the field.