Nevada vs. Santa Clara
Nevada and Santa Clara first met in 1934 and have played 4 times; Santa Clara leads the series 3–1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Santa Clara 3–1, and Santa Clara has won the last 2. Share
- Nevada wins
- 1
- Santa Clara wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1934
- Longest streak
- 2 Santa Clara
- Current streak
- 2 Santa Clara
- Last 10 meetings
- Santa Clara 3–1
- Most recent
- 1950
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 33.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Nevada
- 1–0 Nevada’s record at home
- At Santa Clara
- 1–0 Santa Clara’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–2 Nevada first
- Shutouts
- 3
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
1934 · The Daily Alaska empire, Sep 24, 1934
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
| Oct 22, 1950 | Santa Clara 55, Nevada 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Nov 7, 1948 | Santa Clara 14, 11Nevada 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Oct 5, 1946 | Nevada 33, Santa Clara 7 | at Nevada | ||
| Sep 22, 1934 | Santa Clara 40, Nevada 0 | at Santa Clara |
Every game is listed as played on the field.