| MEET WEEK 2 | |||
| Friday, January 9 | |||
| 6:00pm ET/ 3:00pm PT | West Chester @ Towson | SCORES | FREE |
| 6:00pm ET/ 3:00pm PT | Whitewater @ Oshkosh | SCORES | FREE |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | Alabama @ Clemson | SCORES | ACC+ |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | North Carolina West Virginia Temple @ Florida | SCORES | SEC+ |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | GW LIU UNH @ Maryland | SCORES | BTN+1 BTN+2 |
| 7:00pm ET/ 4:00pm PT | GA @ Eau Claire | SCORES | FREE |
| 7:30pm ET/ 4:30pm PT | C Michigan Fisk @ SEMO | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | NC State @ Auburn | SCORES | SEC+ |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | Washington @ Arizona | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT | Boise St @ So Utah | SCORES | ($) |
| 9:00pm ET/ 6:00pm PT | Oregon St @ BYU | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 9:00pm ET/ 6:00pm PT | Winona St @ Air Force | SCORES | |
| Saturday, January 10 | |||
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | Ithaca @ Brockport | SCORES | |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Oklahoma UCLA Utah LSU | SCORES | ABC |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Georgia @ Ohio St | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Missouri La Crosse Stout @ Nebraska | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | Arkansas @ Minnesota | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | Illinois Iowa St Illinois St @ Iowa | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT | Michigan St Cal Kentucky Michigan | SCORES | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, January 11 | |||
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | N Illinois @ Kent St | SCORES | |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Rutgers W Michigan @ Ball St | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Penn Bridgeport @ Cornell | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT | Cortland @ Ursinus | SCORES | FREE |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | RIC So Conn Springfield @ Brown | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | Yale @ Penn St | SCORES | BTN+ |
| 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT | E Michigan @ BGSU | SCORES | FREE |
| 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT | Wilberforce Greenville Centenary @ Fisk | ||
| 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT | Pitt @ TWU | SCORES | ($) |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Stanford @ Denver | SCORES | ($) |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | San Jose St UC Davis @ Arizona St | SCORES | ESPN+ |
| 4:00pm ET/ 1:00pm PT | Simpson @ Hamline | SCORES | FREE |
| 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT | Alaska @ Sac State | SCORES | ($) |
| 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.
| Result | Most Recent Time |
|---|---|
| LSU beats Oklahoma | 2025 SEC Champs |
| Oklahoma beats LSU | 2025 Sprouts Quad |
| Utah beats Oklahoma | 2024 National Semifinal |
| Oklahoma beats Utah | 2025 National Final |
| UCLA beats Oklahoma | 2018 National Final |
| Oklahoma beats UCLA | 2025 National Final |
| LSU beats Utah | 2025 Sprouts Quad |
| Utah beats LSU | 2025 National Semifinal |
| LSU beats UCLA | 2024 Sprouts Quad |
| UCLA beats LSU | 2025 National Semifinal |
| Utah beats UCLA | 2025 National Semifinal |
| UCLA beats Utah | 2025 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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