California–Santa Barbara Gauchos

California–Santa Barbara has played football since at least 1928 and is 15–⁠30–⁠3 in the 48 games on record. This season, they’re 3–⁠8.

Résumé

Record on file
15–⁠30–⁠3 .344; how we count
Postseason
0–⁠0 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 0 ranked
Elo now
1233
Best season by Elo
1937 rated 1262
Seasons
12 since 1928, 48 games

1971 season 3–⁠8

RosterFull 1971 season

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

California–Santa Barbara’s Elo through 1971: 1272 going into the opener, 1233 after the last game.1225125012751300Elo 1272 going in; lost to Washington 65–7Elo 1261 going in; lost to Tennessee 48–6Elo 1258 going in; beat Pacific 21–7Elo 1300 going in; lost to Cal State Northridge 15–14Elo 1290 going in; lost to San Diego State 27–23Elo 1282 going in; lost to Long Beach State 31–10Elo 1262 going in; lost to Hawai’i 23–14Elo 1246 going in; beat Cal State Los Angeles 26–0Elo 1263 going in; lost to Cal Poly 9–3Elo 1238 going in; beat Santa Clara 28–22Elo 1258 going in; lost to San José State 55–10Final: Elo 1233 after the last game1233
Elo going into each game, then after the last. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

Program strength since 1928

Best seasons ever
California–Santa Barbara end-of-season Elo from 1928 to 1971, best in 1937 at 1262.1300150017001900193019401950196019701937 peak: Elo 1262
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Jack Curtice19696–⁠4

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesUCSB record
Pacific52–⁠3
Every opponent (23)

Every program California–Santa Barbara has played, A to Z, with California–Santa Barbara’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Conferences

  1. PCAA 1969–⁠1971
  • 1969Joined the PCAA from the WCAC. Source

California–Santa Barbara’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
19713–⁠82–⁠31233
19702–⁠91–⁠51158
19696–⁠41–⁠3Jack Curtice1219
19680–⁠2–⁠11190
19671–⁠11217
19480–⁠11193
19460–⁠11199
19390–⁠0–⁠11213
19380–⁠21212
19371–⁠1–⁠11262
19362–⁠01241
19280–⁠11164

No season on file for 1929–⁠35, 1940–⁠45, 1947, 1949–⁠66: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

All 12 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.