Rice vs. UCLA

Rice and UCLA have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1952; UCLA leads the series 5–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s UCLA 5–⁠0, and UCLA has won the last 5.

Rice wins
0
UCLA wins
5
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1952
Longest streak
5 UCLA
Current streak
5 UCLA
Last 10 meetings
UCLA 5–⁠0
Most recent
2012

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
1960s0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠2
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
20 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Rice
0–⁠2 Rice’s record at home
At UCLA
3–⁠0 UCLA’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. UCLA’s biggest win2005: UCLA 63, Rice 21by 42 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Rice and UCLA, 1952 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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

Johnathan Franklin UCLA15 carries, 214 yards, 3 TD2012 Rushing

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 1952 game

    1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 12, 1952

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Aug 30, 2012UCLA 49, Rice 24at Rice
Sep 9, 2006UCLA 26, Rice 16at UCLA
Sep 10, 2005UCLA 63, Rice 21at UCLA
Oct 8, 19662UCLA 27, Rice 24at Rice
Oct 11, 195211UCLA 20, Rice 0at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.