2026 Week 2 — Schedule & Links

MEET WEEK 2
Friday, January 9
6:00pm ET/
3:00pm PT
West Chester
@ Towson
SCORESFREE
6:00pm ET/
3:00pm PT
Whitewater
@ Oshkosh
SCORESFREE
7:00pm ET/
4:00pm PT
Alabama
@ Clemson
SCORESACC+
7:00pm ET/
4:00pm PT
North Carolina
West Virginia
Temple
@ Florida
SCORESSEC+
7:00pm ET/
4:00pm PT
GW
LIU
UNH
@ Maryland
SCORESBTN+1
BTN+2
7:00pm ET/
4:00pm PT
GA
@ Eau Claire
SCORESFREE
7:30pm ET/
4:30pm PT
C Michigan
Fisk
@ SEMO
SCORESESPN+
8:00pm ET/
5:00pm PT
NC State
@ Auburn
SCORESSEC+
8:00pm ET/
5:00pm PT
Washington
@ Arizona
SCORESESPN+
8:30pm ET/
5:30pm PT
Boise St
@ So Utah
SCORES($)
9:00pm ET/
6:00pm PT
Oregon St
@ BYU
SCORESESPN+
9:00pm ET/
6:00pm PT
Winona St
@ Air Force
SCORES
Saturday, January 10
2:00pm ET/
11:00am PT
Ithaca
@ Brockport
SCORES
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
Oklahoma
UCLA
Utah
LSU
SCORESABC
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
Georgia
@ Ohio St
SCORESBTN+
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
Missouri
La Crosse
Stout
@ Nebraska
SCORESBTN+
5:00pm ET/
2:00pm PT
Arkansas
@ Minnesota
SCORESBTN+
5:00pm ET/
2:00pm PT
Illinois
Iowa St
Illinois St
@ Iowa
SCORESBTN+
8:00pm ET/
5:00pm PT
Michigan St
Cal
Kentucky
Michigan
SCORESESPN2
Sunday, January 11
1:00pm ET/
10:00am PT
N Illinois
@ Kent St
SCORES
1:00pm ET/
10:00am PT
Rutgers
W Michigan
@ Ball St
SCORESESPN+
1:00pm ET/
10:00am PT
Penn
Bridgeport
@ Cornell
SCORESESPN+
1:00pm ET/
10:00am PT
Cortland
@ Ursinus
SCORESFREE
2:00pm ET/
11:00am PT
RIC
So Conn
Springfield
@ Brown
SCORESESPN+
2:00pm ET/
11:00am PT
Yale
@ Penn St
SCORESBTN+
2:00pm ET/
11:00am PT
E Michigan
@ BGSU
SCORESFREE
3:00pm ET/
12:00pm PT
Wilberforce
Greenville
Centenary
@ Fisk
3:00pm ET/
12:00pm PT
Pitt
@ TWU
SCORES($)
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
Stanford
@ Denver
SCORES($)
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
San Jose St
UC Davis
@ Arizona St
SCORESESPN+
4:00pm ET/
1:00pm PT
Simpson
@ Hamline
SCORESFREE
5:00pm ET/
2:00pm PT
Alaska
@ Sac State
SCORES($)
Monday, January 12
9:00pm ET/
6:00pm PT
So Utah
BYU
Utah State
@ Utah
ESPN+

That’s Our History

Oklahoma v UCLA v Utah v LSU

On Saturday, we swing by Sprouts to pick up a quad meet or two. The afternoon session on Big Girl ABC features last season’s #1, #2, #4, and #5 teams (sorry Misssourriiiiii), all of whom have predictably back-and-forth records against each other. What with being good and all.

This list shows the most recent time each team defeated the other teams when going directly against each other at the same meet and session.

ResultMost Recent Time
LSU beats Oklahoma2025 SEC Champs
Oklahoma beats LSU2025 Sprouts Quad
Utah beats Oklahoma2024 National Semifinal
Oklahoma beats Utah2025 National Final
UCLA beats Oklahoma2018 National Final
Oklahoma beats UCLA2025 National Final
LSU beats Utah2025 Sprouts Quad
Utah beats LSU2025 National Semifinal
LSU beats UCLA2024 Sprouts Quad
UCLA beats LSU2025 National Semifinal
Utah beats UCLA2025 National Semifinal
UCLA beats Utah2025 National Final

All of the possible win/loss combinations have happened at least once in the last two seasons, with one outlier: UCLA beats Oklahoma. That hasn’t happened since UCLA won the championship in 2018 and brings up the surprising head-to-head history between Oklahoma and UCLA.

Oklahoma has just one regular season loss against UCLA over the entirety of college gymnastics as a concept (12-1) and owns a 21-9-1 overall record when adding in regionals and nationals sessions in which they appeared together.

UCLA v Oklahoma Full Head-to-Head

2025 Nationals — Oklahoma 198.0125-197.6125
2024 Sprouts Quad — Oklahoma 197.900-197.100
2024 Denver Quad — Oklahoma 198.325-196.550
2023 Mean Girls — Oklahoma 197.925-197.275
2023 Semifinal — Oklahoma 198.1625-197.9125
2020 Collegiate Challenge — Oklahoma 197.350 – 196.575
2019 @ Oklahoma — Oklahoma 197.775-197.575
2019 Nationals — Oklahoma 198.3375-197.5375
2018 @ UCLA — Oklahoma 198.050-197.950
2018 Nationals — UCLA – 198.075-198.0375
2017 @ Oklahoma — Oklahoma 198.025-196.825
2017 Semifinal — Oklahoma 197.725-197.500
2017 Nationals — Oklahoma 198.3875-197.2625
2016 @ UCLA — Oklahoma 197.950-197.200
2016 Semifinal — Oklahoma 197.7875-196.700
2016 Nationals — Oklahoma 197.675-196.825
2013 @ Oklahoma — Oklahoma 198.375-197.200
2013 Semifinal — TIE 197.200-197.200
2013 Nationals — Oklahoma 197.375-197.100
2012 @ UCLA — UCLA – 197.525-196.475
2012 Semifinal — UCLA – 197.400-196.925
2011 Semifinal — Oklahoma – 196.775-196.500
2011 Nationals — UCLA 197.375-197.250
2010 Semifinal — UCLA – 196.875-196.550
2010 Nationals — UCLA – 197.725-197.250
2003 @ UCLA — Oklahoma – 197.475-196.725
2001 Semifinals — UCLA 197.625-193.875
2000 Regionals — UCLA 197.025-193.000
1989 Nationals — UCLA – 192.600-187.050
1987 Utah Quad — Oklahoma 187.30-186.10
1985 Hawaii Meet — Oklahoma 175.50-174.10

That Oklahoma would have an edge in recent history isn’t shocking (15-1 over the last decade) given all the championships, but the lopsided nature of the overall record is somewhat surprising because, in the grand scheme, UCLA has been good for a lot longer than Oklahoma has. So what was the deal before that?

Part of the deal was that, during many of UCLA’s best years, Oklahoma wasn’t really in the picture. The two teams only had six ever meetings before 2010, though the most interesting result in that period was Oklahoma’s upset win on senior day at UCLA in 2003, when UCLA was on its way to another national championship while Oklahoma was ranked 14th with an RQS in the 195s—yet won by a ton.

For UCLA, that was one of those “everyone’s just going to cry and hurt” senior days. Kristen Maloney was out for the year, Jamie Dantzscher and Onnie Willis were out for that meet, Alyssa Beckerman had been sent to the Gobi, and Jeanette Antolin was supposed to have the week off but instead had to come win the all-around. UCLA counted a fall on bars and everyone got a 9.6 on vault, while Oklahoma had Kasie Tamayo and Brazilian elite Patricia Aoki and the one millisecond of Ukrainian elite Karina Agafonova (who had missed the beginning of the season because she couldn’t get her student visa in time), with a roster and performance that really emphasized the whole “what could have been, if only…” nature of the Nunno years at OU.

UCLA’s lone regular season win against Oklahoma, however, also came on a senior day full of tears in 2012. That was when Tauny Frattone stuck her Omelianchik for a senior-day 10.000 everyone had been hyping, but Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs bounced on two passes so only got a senior-day career 10 from one judge, while Oklahoma had a front 2/1 fall and four sub-9.8s on floor. It was a different time. Then, you had to have a very strong internet opinion about whether Oklahoma’s floor routines actually had enough skill content to warrant being ranked #1, or if everyone was just mesmerized by KJ’s choreography. You know, unlike now.


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