Arizona vs. Kansas

Arizona and Kansas have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1936; the series is tied 3–⁠3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s even at 3–⁠3.

Scheduled 2027 at Kansas. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Arizona wins
3
Kansas wins
3
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1936
Longest streak
2 Kansas
Current streak
1 Arizona
Last 10 meetings
even at 3–⁠3
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s1–⁠0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠2
1960s1–⁠1
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
15.4 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Arizona
2–⁠3 Arizona’s record at home
At Kansas
0–⁠1–⁠1 Kansas’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Arizona’s biggest win1965: Arizona 23, Kansas 15by 8 points
  2. Kansas’s biggest win1949: Kansas 46, Arizona 0by 46 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Arizona and Kansas, 1936 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1947 game

    1947 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Dec 1, 1947

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.

On television

2025ESPN20.5 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Nov 8, 2025Arizona 24, Kansas 20at Arizona
Sep 24, 1966Kansas 35, Arizona 13at Arizona
Sep 25, 1965Arizona 23, Kansas 15at Kansas
Nov 26, 1949Kansas 46, Arizona 0at Arizona
Nov 29, 194713Kansas 54, Arizona 28at Arizona
Nov 20, 1937Arizona 9, Kansas 7at Arizona
Oct 31, 1936Kansas 0, Arizona 0at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.