Texas A&M vs. UCLA

Texas A&M and UCLA have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1940; the series is tied 3–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s even at 3–⁠3.

Texas A&M wins
3
UCLA wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1940
Longest streak
2 Texas A&M
Current streak
1 UCLA
Last 10 meetings
even at 3–⁠3
Most recent
2017

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1950s1–⁠1
1990s0–⁠1
2010s1–⁠1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Texas A&M 0, UCLA 1
Average margin
8.2 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Texas A&M
1–⁠0 Texas A&M’s record at home
At UCLA
2–⁠2 UCLA’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Texas A&M first
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Texas A&M’s biggest win2016: Texas A&M 31, UCLA 24by 7 points
  2. UCLA’s biggest win1955: UCLA 21, Texas A&M 0by 21 points
  3. Ranked showdown1997: UCLA 29, Texas A&M 23No. 20 Texas A&M at No. 5 UCLA

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Texas A&M and UCLA, 1940 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Josh Rosen UCLA35 of 59, 491 yards, 4 TD2017 Passing
Trayveon Williams Texas A&M22 carries, 203 yards, 2 TD2017 Rushing

Named most valuable

Cade McNown UCLA1997
Dat Nguyen Texas A&M1997

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Three Touchdown Passes Win For Texas Aggies Over UCLA

    1951 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 22, 1951

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

Sep 3, 2017UCLA 45, Texas A&M 44at UCLA
Sep 3, 2016Texas A&M 31, 16UCLA 24at Texas A&M
Jan 1, 19985UCLA 29, 20Texas A&M 23Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Sep 16, 1955UCLA 21, Texas A&M 0at UCLA
Sep 21, 1951Texas A&M 21, UCLA 14at UCLA
Oct 12, 1940Texas A&M 7, UCLA 0at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.