Portland vs. Santa Clara
Portland and Santa Clara first met in 1934 and have played 6 times; Santa Clara leads the series 6–0. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Santa Clara 6–0, and Santa Clara has won the last 6. Share
- Portland wins
- 0
- Santa Clara wins
- 6
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1934
- Longest streak
- 6 Santa Clara
- Current streak
- 6 Santa Clara
- Last 10 meetings
- Santa Clara 6–0
- Most recent
- 1949
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 15.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Portland
- 0–2 Portland’s record at home
- At Santa Clara
- 3–0 Santa Clara’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 Portland first
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Santa Clara’s biggest win1937: Santa Clara 27, Portland 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
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 9, 1949 | Santa Clara 26, Portland 13 | Neutral site | ||
| Oct 12, 1946 | Santa Clara 6, Portland 0 | at Santa Clara | ||
| Oct 17, 1937 | Santa Clara 27, Portland 0 | at Santa Clara | ||
| Oct 4, 1936 | Santa Clara 26, Portland 0 | at Portland | ||
| Nov 23, 1935 | Santa Clara 20, Portland 7 | at Santa Clara | ||
| Dec 1, 1934 | Santa Clara 12, Portland 6 | at Portland |
Every game is listed as played on the field.