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. Share
- 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
- 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
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

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, 1998 | California 13, Oklahoma 12 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Sep 20, 1997 | California 40, Oklahoma 36 | at California | ||
| Sep 18, 1976 | 4Oklahoma 28, California 17 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Sep 18, 1954 | 2Oklahoma 27, 12California 13 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.