Arkansas and Missouri have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1906; officially, Missouri leads 12–4; as played, 13–4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Missouri 9–1, and Missouri has won the last 4. The winner takes home the Battle Line Trophy, played for since 2015. Missouri has held it since the 2022 game. The NCAA vacated Missouri’s win (2016); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
Who holds it comes from the games on file: the winner of the latest regular-season meeting since 2015 (bowl rematches aren’t played for it); a tie leaves it with the holder (the usual rule; the article doesn’t say). The rivalry’s article counts the games for it: Missouri leads, 10–2. From Wikipedia’s list of rivalry games and the rivalry’s article (CC BY-SA). More on the Battle Line Trophy.
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arkansas’s side (Pittman 1–4 against Drinkwitz). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Arkansas MissouriTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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.
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
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.
Photos
View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Missouri side of the 2008 Cotton Bowl game (Missouri vs Arkansas)Cotton Bowl 2007Photo: Adam, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2007 game
Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.Photo: Neff Conner, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2007 game
View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Arkansas side of the 2007 bowl gameCotton Bowl 2007Photo: Adam, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2007 game
Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.Photo: Neff Conner, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2007 game
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).