Santa Clara vs. Stanford

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

1. Santa Clara’s biggest win1938: Santa Clara 22, Stanford 0by 22 points
2. Stanford’s biggest win1923: Stanford 55, Santa Clara 6by 49 points
3. Upset1927: Santa Clara 13, Stanford 6Santa Clara had a 5% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1929: Santa Clara 13, Stanford 7Santa Clara had a 5% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1936: Santa Clara 13, Stanford 0Santa Clara had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Santa Clara’s side (Shaw 3–⁠0 against Thornhill). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1922 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Oct 15, 1922

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  1927 · Imperial Valley press, California, Nov 14, 1927

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  1928 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 12, 1928

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  1929 · Imperial Valley press, Nov 18, 1929

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 5, 1930

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Santa Clara vs. California22 meetings, Santa Clara 5–⁠17
• Santa Clara vs. Saint Mary’s (CA)18 meetings, Santa Clara 10–⁠7–⁠1
• Santa Clara vs. San José State17 meetings, Santa Clara 4–⁠12–⁠1
• Santa Clara vs. San Francisco17 meetings, Santa Clara 13–⁠3–⁠1
• Stanford vs. California105 meetings, Stanford 54–⁠45–⁠6
• Stanford vs. USC102 meetings, Stanford 33–⁠66–⁠3
• Stanford vs. UCLA95 meetings, Stanford 43–⁠49–⁠3
• Stanford vs. Washington93 meetings, Stanford 43–⁠46–⁠4