Arkansas vs. Oklahoma
Arkansas and Oklahoma have 13 meetings on file, the first in 1903; Oklahoma leads the series 8–4–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Oklahoma 7–2, and Oklahoma has won the last 2. Share
2027 at Oklahoma. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Arkansas wins
- 4
- Oklahoma wins
- 8
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1903
- Longest streak
- 3 Oklahoma
- Current streak
- 2 Oklahoma
- Last 10 meetings
- Oklahoma 7–2
- Most recent
- 2001
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 1–4–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–1 |
- Both ranked
- 2 meetings: Arkansas 1, Oklahoma 1; 2 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 21.5 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Arkansas
- 3–2 Arkansas’s record at home
- At Oklahoma
- 4–0–1 Oklahoma’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–2 Arkansas first
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Arkansas’s biggest win1977: Arkansas 31, Oklahoma 6by 25 points
- Oklahoma’s biggest win1918: Oklahoma 103, Arkansas 0by 103 points
- Ranked showdown1977: Arkansas 31, Oklahoma 6No. 2 Oklahoma at No. 6 Arkansas
- Ranked showdown1986: Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8No. 9 Arkansas at No. 3 Oklahoma
Both programs through the years
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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Quentin Griffin Oklahoma | 2001 |
| Roy Williams Oklahoma | 2001 |
| Spencer Tillman Oklahoma | 1986 |
| Dante Jones Oklahoma | 1986 |
| Roland Sales Arkansas | 1977 |
| Reggie Freeman Arkansas | 1977 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1908 · The weekly chieftain, Vinita, Craig County, Okla., Nov 6, 1908
1916 · The Sentinel=record, Nov 26, 1916
1917 · Pine Bluff daily graphic, Nov 18, 1917
1919 · New-York tribune, Nov 16, 1919
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
| Jan 1, 2002 | 10Oklahoma 10, Arkansas 3 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1987 | 3Oklahoma 42, 9Arkansas 8 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Jan 2, 1978 | 6Arkansas 31, 2Oklahoma 6 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Oct 9, 1926 | Oklahoma 13, Arkansas 6 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Nov 15, 1919 | Arkansas 7, Oklahoma 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 19, 1918 | Oklahoma 103, Arkansas 0 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Nov 17, 1917 | Oklahoma 0, Arkansas 0 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Nov 23, 1916 | Oklahoma 14, Arkansas 13 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 14, 1915 | Oklahoma 24, Arkansas 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 21, 1914 | Oklahoma 35, Arkansas 7 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Oct 23, 1909 | Arkansas 21, Oklahoma 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 31, 1908 | Oklahoma 27, Arkansas 5 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Nov 21, 1903 | Arkansas 12, Oklahoma 0 | at Arkansas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.