Alabama vs. Houston

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Alabama’s biggest win1999: Alabama 37, Houston 10by 27 points
2. Upset1970: Alabama 30, Houston 21Alabama had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Alabama’s side (Bryant 3–⁠0 against Lahar). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

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  1960 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 23, 1960

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  1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 14, 1962

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Alabama vs. Tennessee108 meetings, Alabama 61–⁠40–⁠7
• Alabama vs. Mississippi State107 meetings, Alabama 87–⁠17–⁠3
• Alabama vs. LSU89 meetings, Alabama 58–⁠26–⁠5
• Alabama vs. Vanderbilt87 meetings, Alabama 64–⁠19–⁠4
• Houston vs. Rice47 meetings, Houston 35–⁠12
• Houston vs. Tulsa46 meetings, Houston 26–⁠20
• Houston vs. Texas Tech37 meetings, Houston 18–⁠18–⁠1
• Houston vs. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1