Florida vs. UCLA
Florida and UCLA have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1931; UCLA leads the series 3–2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s UCLA 3–2. Share
- Florida wins
- 2
- UCLA wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1931
- Longest streak
- 1 UCLA
- Current streak
- 1 UCLA
- Last 10 meetings
- UCLA 3–2
- Most recent
- 1987
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 7.4 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Florida
- 1–1 Florida’s record at home
- At UCLA
- 1–1 UCLA’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 Florida first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Florida’s biggest win1932: Florida 12, UCLA 2by 10 points
- UCLA’s biggest win1931: UCLA 13, Florida 0by 13 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
| Troy Aikman UCLA | 1987 |
| Emmitt Smith Florida | 1987 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1941 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Dec 21, 1941
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, 1987 | 10UCLA 20, Florida 16 | Neutral site | Aloha Bowl | |
| Oct 10, 1958 | Florida 21, UCLA 14 | at UCLA | ||
| Dec 20, 1941 | UCLA 30, Florida 27 | at Florida | ||
| Dec 17, 1932 | Florida 12, UCLA 2 | at Florida | ||
| Nov 26, 1931 | UCLA 13, Florida 0 | at UCLA |
Every game is listed as played on the field.