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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s1–⁠0
1950s0–⁠1
1960s0–⁠1
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of TCU and UCLA, 1939 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game: Texas Christian Loses, "a 10 0, 10 UCLA For Second Shutout

    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, 1961UCLA 28, TCU 7at UCLA
Sep 27, 195218UCLA 14, 9TCU 0at UCLA
Sep 25, 1942TCU 7, UCLA 6at UCLA
Sep 29, 1939UCLA 6, TCU 2at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.