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.

Scheduled 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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1–⁠1
1960s0–⁠0–⁠1
1970s0–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
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

  1. UCLA’s biggest win2026: UCLA 52, Purdue 38by 14 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Purdue and UCLA, 1950 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Purdue6 catches, 162 yards, 2 TD2026 Receiving
Samuel Omosigho UCLA12 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 for loss2026 Defense

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1950 game: UClA Interceptions, Blocked Punt Beat Purdue, 70 10 6

    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

2026BTN0.4 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Sep 19, 2026UCLA 52, Purdue 38at UCLA
Sep 20, 1980UCLA 23, Purdue 14at Purdue
Sep 15, 1979UCLA 31, 5Purdue 21at UCLA
Sep 24, 1960Purdue 27, 8UCLA 27at Purdue
Sep 18, 1959UCLA 0, 11Purdue 0at UCLA
Oct 28, 195018UCLA 20, Purdue 6at Purdue

Every game is listed as played on the field.