Minnesota vs. UCLA
Minnesota and UCLA have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1961; Minnesota leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Minnesota 3–1. Share
- Minnesota wins
- 3
- UCLA wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1961
- Longest streak
- 2 Minnesota
- Current streak
- 1 Minnesota
- Last 10 meetings
- Minnesota 3–1
- Most recent
- 2024
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 12.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Minnesota
- 1–0 Minnesota’s record at home
- At UCLA
- 1–1 UCLA’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Minnesota 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
Biggest days
| Carson Schwesinger UCLA | 13 tackles, 2 sacks, 4.5 for loss | 2024 Defense |
Named most valuable
| Sandy Stephens | 1961 |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1961 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Jan 4, 1962
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
| Nov 7, 2026 | UCLA at Minnesota upcoming | at Minnesota | ||
| Oct 12, 2024 | Minnesota 21, UCLA 17 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 30, 1978 | 18UCLA 17, Minnesota 3 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 24, 1977 | Minnesota 27, 18UCLA 13 | at Minnesota | ||
| Jan 1, 1962 | 7Minnesota 21, UCLA 3 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.