Pacific vs. Santa Clara
Pacific and Santa Clara have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1932; Pacific leads the series 7–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Pacific 7–3, and Pacific has won the last 4. Share
- Pacific wins
- 7
- Santa Clara wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1932
- Longest streak
- 4 Pacific
- Current streak
- 4 Pacific
- Last 10 meetings
- Pacific 7–3
- Most recent
- 1973
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 3–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–0 |
- Average margin
- 19.9 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Pacific
- 6–2 Pacific’s record at home
- At Santa Clara
- 1–1 Santa Clara’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Pacific’s biggest win1973: Pacific 44, Santa Clara 6by 38 points
- Santa Clara’s biggest win1932: Santa Clara 27, Pacific 0by 27 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.
From the newspapers
1932 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 7, 1932
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 27, 1973 | Pacific 44, Santa Clara 6 | at Pacific | ||
| Oct 17, 1970 | Pacific 47, Santa Clara 23 | at Pacific | ||
| Nov 15, 1969 | Pacific 40, Santa Clara 15 | at Santa Clara | ||
| Oct 12, 1968 | Pacific 30, Santa Clara 22 | at Pacific | ||
| Nov 7, 1964 | Santa Clara 14, Pacific 6 | at Pacific | ||
| Sep 29, 1962 | Pacific 28, Santa Clara 6 | at Pacific | ||
| Nov 8, 1952 | Pacific 27, Santa Clara 0 | at Pacific | ||
| Nov 4, 1950 | Pacific 33, Santa Clara 14 | at Pacific | ||
| Oct 18, 1947 | Santa Clara 21, Pacific 20 | at Pacific | ||
| Nov 5, 1932 | Santa Clara 27, Pacific 0 | at Santa Clara |
Every game is listed as played on the field.