Purdue vs. UCLA
Purdue and UCLA have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1950; UCLA leads the series 4–0–2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s UCLA 4–0, and UCLA has won the last 3. Share
2027 at Purdue. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Purdue wins
- 0
- UCLA wins
- 4
- Ties
- 2
- Earliest on file
- 1950
- Longest streak
- 3 UCLA
- Current streak
- 3 UCLA
- Last 10 meetings
- UCLA 4–0
- Most recent
- 2026
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 0–1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 7.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Purdue
- 0–2–1 Purdue’s record at home
- At UCLA
- 2–0–1 UCLA’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- UCLA’s biggest win2026: UCLA 52, Purdue 38by 14 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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Xavier Townsend Purdue | 6 catches, 162 yards, 2 TD | 2026 Receiving | |
| Samuel Omosigho UCLA | 12 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 for loss | 2026 Defense |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

1950 · Evening star, Oct 29, 1950
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.
On television
| 2026 | BTN | 0.4 million viewers |
Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
Every game
| Sep 19, 2026 | UCLA 52, Purdue 38 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 20, 1980 | UCLA 23, Purdue 14 | at Purdue | ||
| Sep 15, 1979 | UCLA 31, 5Purdue 21 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 24, 1960 | Purdue 27, 8UCLA 27 | at Purdue | ||
| Sep 18, 1959 | UCLA 0, 11Purdue 0 | at UCLA | ||
| Oct 28, 1950 | 18UCLA 20, Purdue 6 | at Purdue |
Every game is listed as played on the field.