Pacific vs. UCLA

Pacific and UCLA first met in 1943 and have played 5 times; UCLA leads the series 4–⁠1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s UCLA 4–⁠1, and UCLA has won the last 4.

Pacific wins
1
UCLA wins
4
Ties
0
First meeting
1943
Longest streak
4 UCLA
Current streak
4 UCLA
Last 10 meetings
UCLA 4–⁠1
Most recent
1957

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠2
1950s0–⁠2
Average margin
32.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Pacific
0–⁠2 Pacific’s record at home
At UCLA
2–⁠1 UCLA’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Pacific’s biggest win1943: Pacific 19, UCLA 7by 12 points
  2. UCLA’s biggest win1945: UCLA 50, Pacific 0by 50 points
  3. Upset1943: Pacific 19, UCLA 7Pacific had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Pacific and UCLA, 1943 on13001500170019501960197019801990

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 The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1945 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 6, 1945

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, 1957UCLA 21, Pacific 0at Pacific
Nov 5, 1955UCLA 34, Pacific 0at Pacific
Oct 5, 1945UCLA 50, Pacific 0at UCLA
Nov 18, 1944UCLA 54, Pacific 7at UCLA
Oct 2, 1943Pacific 19, UCLA 7at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.