Northwestern vs. UCLA

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Northwestern’s biggest win1948: Northwestern 19, UCLA 0by 19 points
2. UCLA’s biggest win1969: UCLA 36, Northwestern 0by 36 points
3. Upset1948: Northwestern 19, UCLA 0Northwestern had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 6, 1947

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  1948 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 27, 1948

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Northwestern vs. Illinois119 meetings, Northwestern 55–⁠59–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Wisconsin103 meetings, Northwestern 37–⁠62–⁠4
• Northwestern vs. Minnesota99 meetings, Northwestern 38–⁠56–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Purdue90 meetings, Northwestern 36–⁠53–⁠1
• UCLA vs. Stanford95 meetings, UCLA 49–⁠43–⁠3
• UCLA vs. California95 meetings, UCLA 59–⁠35–⁠1
• UCLA vs. USC95 meetings, UCLA 34–⁠54–⁠7
• UCLA vs. Washington78 meetings, UCLA 42–⁠34–⁠2