Oklahoma at Kansas

Saturday, November 20, 1948

No. 8 Oklahoma beat Kansas 60–⁠7. It was their 46th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 22–⁠19–⁠5.

Away8Oklahoma10–⁠1 in 1948
60
HomeKansas7–⁠3 in 1948
7

FinalHigh 41°F, low 31°FAttendance 39,000

In the newspapers

  • The Roanoke Rapids daily herald's story: Michigan Tops. Nofre Dame And Army Keep Up

    Roanoke Rapids daily herald, North Carolina, November 23, 1948, page 5 (results column)

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    Michigan Tops. Nofre Dame And Army Keep Up New York, Nov. 23-(P)- Michigan rules the roost in col. lege football for the third straight week by a comfortable margin in the next-to-last As sociated Press poll Of the 1915 season. With 1o5 Of 100 first place votes, the Wolverines polled l. i726 points for a lead of 1O3 over the idle runnerup, Notre Dame. Michiga finished its season Saturday by downing Ohio State, 1873, while Notre Dame still has two more games to play. There were few radical changes in the top 10 after a formful weekend, the only start ling drop being Penn States tumble from sixth to 18th place. Army again held third place, although the Cadets were idle awaiting Saturdays finale with Navy, but North Carolina moved into fourth place, displacing Cal ifornia, by a 200 decision over Duke. The Michigan Notre D Dame-Army California lin eu D had held true for two straight weeks. ed the western Rose Bowl team against twice-beaten Northwest enr, was ranked fifth. Their New Years Day opponents who walloped Illinois, 2o-7, clung to seventh place, one step below Oklahoma. The Oklahoma teams smash ing 60–⁠7 romp over Kansas boosted the Sooners from eighth to sixth place. Southern Methodist also advanced two places. S.M.U. was ranked eighth after a 1875 victory over Baylor. Then came Clemson, ninth as 1t was last week, and Oregon, which finished its campaign with a 100 nod over Oregon State. Oregon advanced from 18th to 10th, becoming the only new member in the top ten. The final poll will be con- Quoted next weekend. The team standings, figured on a 10-9--8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 point basis. First place votes in par entheses). l. Michigan (105) 1,72s 2. Notre Dame (38) 1923 3. Army 1928 4. North Carolina az 1911 5. California (3) e07 8. Oklahoma (l3) 839 z. Northwestern 730 3. Southern Methodist $40 9. Clemson (8) 428 10. Oregon 316

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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Kansas 56% to win. Oklahoma won as Elo’s underdog.

Oklahoma leads 80–⁠28–⁠6 in 114 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Kansas 38, Oklahoma 33
2022Oklahoma 52, Kansas 42
2021Oklahoma 35, Kansas 23
2020Oklahoma 62, Kansas 9
2019Oklahoma 45, Kansas 20
2018Oklahoma 55, Kansas 40

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