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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠0
1970s1–⁠1
2020s1–⁠0
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Minnesota and UCLA, 1961 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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 UCLA13 tackles, 2 sacks, 4.5 for loss2024 Defense

Named most valuable

Sandy Stephens1961

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game: OkIohomo's S Comeback Rated Footballs Best

    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, 2026UCLA at Minnesota upcomingat Minnesota
Oct 12, 2024Minnesota 21, UCLA 17at UCLA
Sep 30, 197818UCLA 17, Minnesota 3at UCLA
Sep 24, 1977Minnesota 27, 18UCLA 13at Minnesota
Jan 1, 19627Minnesota 21, UCLA 3Neutral siteRose Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.