Pacific vs. Stanford

Pacific and Stanford first met in 1953 and have played 5 times; Stanford leads the series 4–⁠1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Stanford 4–⁠1, and Stanford has won the last 4.

Pacific wins
1
Stanford wins
4
Ties
0
First meeting
1953
Longest streak
4 Stanford
Current streak
4 Stanford
Last 10 meetings
Stanford 4–⁠1
Most recent
1968

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠3
1960s0–⁠1
Average margin
12.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Pacific
0–⁠2 Pacific’s record at home
At Stanford
2–⁠1 Stanford’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Pacific’s biggest win1953: Pacific 25, Stanford 20by 5 points
  2. Stanford’s biggest win1968: Stanford 24, Pacific 0by 24 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Pacific and Stanford, 1953 on1300150017001960197019801990

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1955 game: Stanford Eleven Tops College of Pocific, 33-14

    1955 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 18, 1955

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 16, 1968Stanford 24, Pacific 0at Pacific
Oct 3, 1959Stanford 21, Pacific 6at Stanford
Sep 17, 1955Stanford 33, Pacific 14at Stanford
Sep 17, 1954Stanford 13, Pacific 12at Pacific
Sep 19, 1953Pacific 25, Stanford 20at Stanford

Every game is listed as played on the field.