Kansas at Oklahoma

Saturday, October 20, 1951

No. 19 Oklahoma beat Kansas 33–⁠21. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 25–⁠19–⁠5.

AwayKansas8–⁠2 in 1951
21
Home19Oklahoma8–⁠2 in 1951
33

FinalHigh 81°F, low 51°FAttendance 44,462

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST FAR WEST Illinois 27-Washington 20 Southern Cal 21-California IA Stanford 21-Santa Clara IA Washington State 26 - Oregon State 13 UCLA 41-Oregon 0 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 20 - Texas A & M IA Oklahoma 33-Kansas 21 Rice 28-Southern Methodist 2 MIDWEST Northwestern 16-Navy 7 Michigan 21-Iowa 0 Notre Dame 33-Pittsburgh O Indiana 32-Ohio State 10. SOUTH LSU 7-Georgia 0 Kentucky 35-Villanova 13 Mississippi 25-Tulane 6 Virginia 34-VMI IA Duke 55-VPI 6 Georgia Tech 27-Auburn 2 EAST San Francisco 32-Fordham 26 Penn 28-Columbia 13 Princeton 60-Lafayette 7 Carnegie Tech 39-Allegheny O

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)

Oklahoma 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Oklahoma leads 80–⁠28–⁠6 in 114 meetings, counting the 65 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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