TCU vs. UCLA
TCU and UCLA have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1939; UCLA leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s UCLA 3–1, and UCLA has won the last 2. Share
- TCU wins
- 1
- UCLA wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1939
- Longest streak
- 2 UCLA
- Current streak
- 2 UCLA
- Last 10 meetings
- UCLA 3–1
- Most recent
- 1961
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–1 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: TCU 0, UCLA 1
- Average margin
- 10 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At UCLA
- 3–1 UCLA’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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

1952 · Evening star, Sep 28, 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.
Every game
| Nov 10, 1961 | UCLA 28, TCU 7 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 27, 1952 | 18UCLA 14, 9TCU 0 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 25, 1942 | TCU 7, UCLA 6 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 29, 1939 | UCLA 6, TCU 2 | at UCLA |
Every game is listed as played on the field.